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Fish farmer SalMar readies second green bond
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Financials lull expected to end euro sustainable bond 'comeback'
21 January 2025A decline in issuance by financials during 2025 is expected to result in contraction of the euro-denominated sustainable bond market, ending a "comeback" year in 2024 when it returned to growth.
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'Practical' Rwanda sustainable bond approach amid taxonomy roll-out
20 January 2025The Rwanda Capital Market Authority (CMA) is taking an "impactful" but "practical" approach to developing its sustainable bond guidelines, as the East African country continues to develop its green finance taxonomy.
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'Milestone' year ahead for floundering sustainability-linked bonds
20 January 2025The next 18 months will be a critical period for the sustainability-linked bond (SLB) market with a flurry of target observation dates, after the performance-based instrument recorded another dramatic fall in annual issuance in 2024.
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Carrefour SLB six-times oversubscribed
20 January 2025 -
IFC raises $2bn from largest social bond
16 January 2025The International Finance Corporation (IFC) has issued its largest ever social bond, with the $2 billion deal also attracting the largest ever orderbook for the instrument from the development finance institution.
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China plans debut sovereign green bond in 2025
16 January 2025China is planning to issue its inaugural sovereign green bond in 2025 which would leave only a handful of G20 countries yet to issue a sustainable bond.
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NIB 'very keen' on SLLBs as work continues on debut deal
16 January 2025Nordic Investment Bank (NIB) is still working towards entering the nascent sustainability-linked loan bond (SLLB) market, as the long-standing sustainable finance focuses attention...
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Sustainable debt round-up: Bpifrance, Hungary, Telefonica ... and more
15 January 2025
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Annual issuance of sustainable bonds
Preliminary figures from 2024 show annual sustainable bond issuance above $1 trillion for the first time since 2021. After a decline in annual issuance to $970 billion in 2022, recovering to just shy of $1 trillion in 2023, the sustainable bond market continues its incremental growth, although is still some way from reaching the all time high of 2021 which saw $1.15 trillion in sustainable bond issuance.
For more in-depth analysis of the trends in the sustainable bond market in 2024 look out for Environmental Finance’s Sustainable Bonds Insight Guide 2025 coming in February 2025.
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