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Japan targets SLL market integrity concerns in latest sustainable finance updates
03 December 2024The Japanese government has updated its green and sustainability-linked bond and loan guidance to better reflect the updated international market principles and try and address two "major concerns" around the sustainability-linked loan (SLL) market in the country.
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Barbados signs 'blue' sustainability-linked loan in debt-for-nature swap
02 December 2024Barbados has signed a sustainability-linked loan (SLL) as part of a $300 million debt-for-nature swap which will generate interest cost savings used to finance water-related climate resilience projects in the Caribbean country.
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India sovereign green bond demand weak amid 'greenium' push
02 December 2024India rejected the majority of the bids for its latest sovereign green bond deal after investors resisted accepting a 'greenium' on the issuance.
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US investors still 'actively seeking green bonds'
29 November 2024As the US green bond market continues to struggle, investors must fix sustainable bond demand 'communication break', participants tell Ahren Lester
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Only a fifth of SLBs 'aligned' with CBI methodology
29 November 2024Climate Bonds Initiative (CBI) said just 18% of all sustainability-linked bonds (SLBs) issued to date are aligned with the methodology published by the influential not-for-profit.
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BNP Paribas: We need more Asian banks to issue transition bonds
28 November 2024The market needs more Asian banks to issue transition bonds, to both test investor confidence in the instrument as well as help rapidly scale access to transition finance in hard-to-abate sectors, according to BNP Paribas.
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Japan expects a 'circle of friends' to issue sovereign transition bonds soon
27 November 2024The head of the Japanese debt agency hopes a "circle of friends" will issue sovereign transition bonds in the near future, amid "many enquiries" following its ground-breaking deal earlier this year.
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Mitigation needs work for COP30 after 'basically no outcome' at COP29
27 November 2024After a 'mitigation-lite' COP29 event, the Swedish COP negotiator said the next climate summit needs to focus on getting a "clear mechanism" in place to deliver the ground-breaking deal to transition away from fossil fuels agreed at COP28.
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SLBs linked to donations or carbon credit investments are 'promising'
25 November 2024Sustainability-linked bonds (SLBs) which use the financial penalties for missing targets to make donations or purchase carbon credits should be looked at more closely by the market,...
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EU sustainability 'omnibus' regulations 'like a bad omelette'
25 November 2024The EU plans to combine a trio of major sustainable finance-related disclosure rules into a combined 'omnibus' regulation risks just consolidating rather than correcting problems with the existing regulations, a senior sustainable finance executive in Asia told Environmental Finance.
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Sustainable Debt EMEA 2025 conference round-up
03 April 2025As the curtain falls on the 13th annual Environmental Finance Sustainable Debt EMEA event, Ahren Lester looks back on another successful event where market participants again revealed the ambition of the market and the innovative actions being taken to deliver on its promise
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Sovereign debt engagement 'not comparable' with corporates, says Aegon AM
03 April 2025Engagement with sovereign sustainable debt issuers is still "not comparable" with corporate issuers, Aegon Asset Management told attendees at an Environmental Finance conference, highlighting particular difficulties over reputational risk.
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EDF 'open' to exploring debt for nature swaps
03 April 2025French energy giant EDF is 'open' to exploring a debt for nature swap transaction if the concept becomes available for corporate issuers, an Environmental Finance conference has heard.
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Two-year delay to CSRD reporting approved, in 'step toward full exemption'
03 April 2025EU lawmakers have approved a two-year delay to corporate sustainability reporting for companies that were set to comply from next year, in a vote one observer said was the first step...
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EU Green Bond Standard set to fuel debate on overhauling DNSH, says Mirova
03 April 2025The first deals aligned with the EU Green Bond Standard (GBS) suggest the regulation will fuel the debate on overhauling the EU's criteria to ensure investments 'do no significant harm' (DNSH) to sustainability objectives, Environmental Finance's Sustainable Debt EMEA conference heard.