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• Sustainable Debt EMEA returns to London next week

  27 March 2025

  Environmental Finance's 13th annual Sustainable Debt EMEA conference returns to London on 3 April.

• Slovenia launches 'pioneering' sovereign SLB framework and eyes June debut

  21 March 2025

  Slovenia has published its "landmark" sustainability-linked bond (SLB) framework as it prepares to become the first European sovereign to issue the performance-based instrument.

• Webinar: COP29 a missed opportunity to support private sector transition planning

  22 November 2024

  A lack of progress on negotiations at COP29 is undermining hopes that countries could support the creation of an international framework that would support private sector transition planning, a webinar hosted by the IFC and Environmental Finance heard.

• Judging the credibility of transition plans, part two

  29 July 2024

  Investors preparing for a wave of transition plan disclosures face a complicated task to determine 'what good looks like', Michael Hurley writes

• ICMA working on detailed 'green enabling' project checklist after guidance

  26 June 2024

  The International Capital Market Association (ICMA)-administered Principles is working on a "detailed checklist" to help issuers and investors use its newly released 'green enabling' project guidance.

• Emerging markets sustainable bond issuance still faces challenges

  18 April 2024

  Momentum is building in sustainable bond issuance in several emerging markets, but a range of obstacles to attracting capital still need to be overcome, attendees at the Environmental Finance Sustainable Debt EMEA conference heard.

• Scope 3 'make or break' for the SLB market, says BNP Paribas

  14 July 2023

  Scope 3 emissions could "make or break" the sustainability-linked bond (SLBs) market, a sustainable finance head at BNP Paribas has told Environmental Finance.

• ICMA Principles: Transition and sustainability-linked bond updates expected

  16 June 2023

  The International Capital Market Association (ICMA)-administered sustainable bond principles are expected to update their transition finance handbook and expand sustainability-linked bond guidance at its annual general meeting next week.

• Amundi: 'Hot' SLB market set for growth

  21 June 2021

  The sustainability-linked bond (SLB) market is set for strong growth and diversification of issuer types, Amundi has said.

• Green Bond Standard 'may lead to fewer issuances'

  18 November 2020

  The introduction of the EU's Green Bond Standard may have the unintended effect of actually reducing the rate of corporate issuances, a panel discussion at Environmental Finance's ESG in Fixed Income Europe 2020 conference heard.