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Sustainable Bonds Insight 2023 published

After jumping to become a trillion-dollar market in 2021, challenges wrought by geopolitical conflict and inflation brought the more than a decade long growth of sustainable bond issuance to an abrupt end in 2022.

HSBC: Biodiversity investing in its 'infancy'

Biodiversity-related investing is "in its infancy" with only a "limited" number of relevant investment products available to investors, an executive at HSBC Asset Management has said.

Expect more 'social' talk from US bond fund managers in 2023, says Impax AM

Impax Asset Management (Impax AM) said US bond fund managers are expected to focus more on 'social' finance in 2023, after the US government-owned mortgage agencies launched 'social scores' for their huge mortgage-backed securities programmes.

Octopus targets £30m for early-stage impact

NextEnergy Capital raises £595m for UK solar fund

Scope 3 reporting in Australia needed to 'even the playing field', RIAA says

An Australian investor group has called for the introduction of mandatory disclosures of Scope 3 emissions, to "even out" the competition the country is facing with other markets on sustainability.

Asia-focused ESG technology on the rise

Technology built in and for local markets can provide valuable benefits, argues Darian McBain. Genevieve Redgrave reports

Zamo Capital makes social impact investment in UK housing

Minimum standards for ESG benchmarks would face 'strong pushback', PwC says

The creation of mandatory minimum standards for all environmental, social and governance (ESG) indexes in the EU would likely face "strong pushback", PwC has warned in a report to the European Commission.

Emirate of Sharjah issues first Gulf state sovereign sustainability bond

The Emirate of Sharjah has raised $1 billion from the first sovereign sustainable bond from a Gulf state country and first sustainability bond from a Middle Eastern nation, with the deal more than twice oversubscribed.