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  • From COP to coop

    01 November 2024

    While COP16 is important, it is also worth paying attention to a bond issue from a UK chicken producer, write Ulf Erlandsson and Trisha Hutchinson

  • A tale of two triple-tranche sustainable bonds

    07 August 2024

    After two innovative sustainability-focused triple-tranche bond deals from Ahold Delhaize and EDF in recent months, the Anthropocene Fixed Income Institute (AFII) argues the Dutch-Belgian supermarket chain ...

  • 'Probably the most beautiful bond we have ever seen'

    23 July 2024

    The Anthropocene Fixed Income Institute (AFII) has argued that sovereign issuers should develop a sustainability-linked bond (SLB) in twin-bond format, arguing this would "probably be the most beautiful bond we have ever seen".

  • Investors urged to vote against Sembcorp coal plant deal

    07 November 2022

    The financial engineering behind Sembcorp's proposed sale of two coal-fired plants means the transaction is a "quick and dirty solution" to decarbonisation, and highlights the weaknesses of some sustainability-linked bond (SLB) structures, a think-tank has argued.

  • ECB 'tilts' bond programme towards greener companies

    04 July 2022

    The European Central Bank (ECB) will favour greener companies for its corporate bond programme from October, it has said.

  • AFII: Sell Euro carbon-intensive bonds ahead of ECB sell-off

    10 June 2022

    Investors have been urged to sell their euro-denominated corporate bond holdings in carbon-intensive firms ahead of an expected wind-down of the €340 billion ($364 billion) ...

  • NZAOA, AFII launch net-zero fixed income collaboration

    26 May 2022

  • Should sustainable bond underwriters stop financing fossil fuels?

    13 May 2022

    Is it time for banks to end support of fossil fuel bonds in order to secure lead manager mandates for sustainable bond transactions?

  • 2022 Environmental Finance Bond Awards winners revealed

    31 March 2022

    The winners have been announced for the 2022 Environmental Finance Bond Awards, which celebrate the leading green, social, sustainability and sustainability-linked (GSSS) bond and loan deals in 2021 and recognise significant market participants.

  • Short selling has a role in the road to net zero

    20 October 2021

    There are very strong arguments as to why short selling can and should be credited in terms of carbon accounting and real climate impact, argues Ulf Erlandsson