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S&P: US REIT green bond issuance plummets in 2023
21 February 2024Green bond issuance by US real estate investment trusts (REITs) plummeted to just 3.6% of the market in 2023, down from around 18% in both 2022 and 2021.
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'Big four' sustainable finance SPO providers emerge in 2023
20 February 2024Sustainalytics, S&P Global Ratings, ISS and Moody's have emerged as the 'big four' second-party opinion (SPO) providers in the sustainable finance market in 2023, but the race for market share has tightened as the sector matures and consolidates.
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'Big opportunities' for US sustainable bonds in 2024
20 February 2024Although surprised by the scale of the US sustainable bond contraction in 2023, CA-CIB's Romina Reversi tells Ahren Lester that opportunities abound in 2024
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ICMA encourages 'early adoption' of transition plans as it unveils framework
19 February 2024The International Capital Market Association (ICMA) has encouraged the "early adoption" of transition plans by companies, publishing a report which identifies three types of transition and provides an integrated transition plan framework.
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Eskhata Bank secures first green bond in Tajikistan
19 February 2024Eskhata Bank has raised the equivalent of $10 million in local currency from its debut green bond, which is the first sustainable bond issued in Tajikistan.
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Emerging markets to increasingly tap sustainable bond market in 2024, says S&P
16 February 2024Emerging markets could increasingly access the labelled bond market in 2024, S&P Global Ratings predicted, despite moderate growth being forecast for the market as a whole.
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Goldman Sachs launches €10m green bond ETF
16 February 2024Goldman Sachs Asset Management (GSAM) has launched its first dedicated green bond exchange traded-fund (ETF), adding the first passively managed product to its green bond fund range.
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State Street and JP Morgan leave CA100+
16 February 2024The world's biggest climate engagement initiative suffered a blow after two of its biggest signatories walked away.
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'Reasonable' greenium for landmark Japan transition bond
15 February 2024Japan's ground-breaking climate transition bond (CTB) secured a "reasonable" greenium, and it is preparing to return to the market at the end of March with a two-year bond to complement the existing five-year deal.
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'Milestone' Japanese transition bond three-times oversubscribed
14 February 2024Japan has raised JPY800 billion ($5.3 billion) from its debut 'climate transition' bond (CTB), with the ground-breaking deal almost three-times oversubscribed.