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'Greenwashing' is the 'Loch Ness monster' of the green bond market

A veteran green bond market participant said 'greenwashing' was not really present in the green bond market despite substantial hand-wringing around the topic.

A giant - and growing - onion

Eila Kreivi reflects on the learnings - and the tears - after decades of working in sustainable finance

People Moves, 16 February: EIB, Osmosis, Macquarie, Eurosif, Mirova ... and more

EU opens applications for new sustainable finance expert group

The European Commission has launched a call for applications to join the Platform on Sustainable Finance ahead of a new mandate for the expert group starting in 2023.

EU expert group launch 'call to action' to improve taxonomy usability

The Platform for Sustainable Finance (PSF) has published a pair of reports on the data, usability and application of 'minimum safeguards' requirements of the EU Taxonomy, which its chair described as a "call to action" for the European Commission on "improving usability" for the landmark 'green' legislation.

Mandatory EU GBS not the way to go - EIB

Proposals to make an EU green bond standard mandatory would be counter-productive, according to the European Investment Bank (EIB)'s head of capital markets.

People Moves 19 November: ING, EIB, CIX and more

Eila Kreivi to take new advisory role at EIB

No one-size-fits-all approach for financing climate transition, says Morgan Stanley

Ahead of Environmental Finance's ESG in Fixed Income Europe 2020 virtual conference next week, speakers reflect on the balance between purity and pragmatism when financing climate transition strategies

EIB's latest climate action bond is 'first to align with EU Taxonomy'

The European Investment Bank (EIB) claims it has become the first green bond issuer to align its issuance framework with the proposed EU Sustainability Taxonomy.