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First EU green bond of 2025 attracts €69bn orderbook
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'SLB issuers should use SBTi-validated targets', says LuxSE
12 February 2025Sustainability-linked bond (SLB) issuers have been encouraged by Luxembourg Stock Exchange (LuxSE) to use science-based targets to enhance the "credibility" of the issuances, ...
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SLBs: 'Flight to quality' amid complexity challenge could be a positive
12 February 2025The underappreciated complexity of the sustainability-linked bond (SLB) has played a major role in the issuance decline in recent years, but...
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ING: CSRD struggles feeding 'exceptionally high' sleeping SLL activity
12 February 2025ING saw an "exceptionally high" number of 'sleeping' sustainability-linked loans (SLLs) in 2024, as corporates struggled to deal with the forthcoming EU Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive (CSRD) requirements.
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'Sovereigns should use ASCOR for SLBs'
12 February 2025The assessment framework could help bring credibility to the nascent market. Ahren Lester reports
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'Big four' SPO providers becomes 'big five' in 2024
10 February 2025Japan-focused Rating and Investment Information (R&I) secured more than a 10% share of the sustainable finance second-party opinion market in 2024, joining the global 'big four' US providers led by Sustainalytics and S&P Global.
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South Korea readies sovereign green bond market return in 2026
06 February 2025South Korea is planning to issue a green bond in 2026 following investor engagement, according to a senior government official - five years after the sovereign was last active in the market.
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'SLBs can be the right tool for impact investing' urge investors
06 February 2025Sustainability-linked bonds (SLBs) have the potential to be valuable impact investing tools and regulations in Europe could be building the right "home" for the performance-based instrument,...
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KEPCO drops sustainable bond label from US dollar issuance
05 February 2025South Korean utility firm Korea Electric Power Corporation (KEPCO) has launched its first US dollar-denominated bond transaction without a sustainable bond label in years,...
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Fannie Mae joins IBRD in exclusive $200bn sustainable bond club
05 February 2025US government-owned mortgage provider Fannie Mae has raised more than $200 billion from sustainable bonds, becoming only the second issuer to cross this milestone.
- Blended finance in fragile contexts: Ukraine as a test case
- 'World first' carbon credit standard launched
- Sustainable Bonds Insight 2025
- EU countries agree to 'stop the clock' on CSRD reporting
- Axa IM 'downgrades' and 'may reduce exposure to' companies that weakened climate targets
- Trade associations launch 'refreshed' sustainable loan principles
- Taxonomy cuts to 'significantly damage' sustainable investment market, warn EU advisers
- Reliance on taxonomy would be ill-advised in overhauled SFDR, ICMA tells EU
- ASCOR: Growth, refinements to continue after 'strong' 2024
- UK government releases 'world-leading' nature finance standards
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Persefoni to launch carbon footprinting tool after raising $23m
28 March 2025 -
Why nature can't wait for capital
28 March 2025It's time to bring high-integrity carbon projects to the forefront, and leave behind approaches that prioritise carbon accounting over genuine nature restoration, writes Tim Ferraro
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Indian muni issuers still 'missing green bond potential'
28 March 2025Indian municipal issuers are still missing the opportunity to issue green bonds with only a "small" proportion of the debt raised for potentially green-eligible projects being labelled as such,...
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Axa IM 'downgrades' and 'may reduce exposure to' companies that weakened climate targets
28 March 2025European fund management giant Axa Investment Managers has "downgraded" companies that weakened their decarbonisation targets and is considering selling some of its holdings in these companies due to perceived increased risk, a sustainability head said.
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SEC ends defence of climate rule in 'backward step for investors'
28 March 2025The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has ended defence of its own climate disclosure rule, signalling a major blow to hopes it could be saved from legal challenges.