22 May 2025

Comment: Gloom engulfs Wall Street's green bond bankers

Analysis

21 May 2025

Sustainability, according to Roberts, Popes and Monks

Sustainability does not need to be reinvented - there are plenty of inspirational words and solutions, writes Marcio Viegas
20 May 2025

The EU's Clean Industrial Deal: A gamechanger for Europe?

Can the bloc's industrial strategy persuade investors to back European cleantech, Michael Hurley asks
19 May 2025

How mining companies can foster a productive relationship with Indigenous Peoples on nature

The metals and mining sector is heavily exposed to the material financial risks that can arise from mismanagement of environmental and social issues, writes Meryl Richards
16 May 2025

Why investors must lead on seafood traceability

Seafood remains one of the least transparent sectors in the food industry, and as result one of the most exposed to illegal practices and human rights abuses, writes Max Boucher

News

  • Greenwashing risk scaring off competitors, says Impax, as it records £11.9bn AUM fall

    22 May 2025

  • Issuance-level sustainable bond ratings can 'highlight refinancing risk'

    22 May 2025

  • Webinar: Issuance-level ratings to boost credibility of sustainable bond market

    22 May 2025

  • BSI aims to restore confidence in nature-based carbon credits

    22 May 2025

  • Exclusive: KfW publishes 'best practice' clean transport impact methodology

    22 May 2025

  • Microsoft agrees 'world's largest' biochar deal

    21 May 2025

  • Sustainable debt round-up: KfW, Western Australian Treasury Corporation, Cinven and more

    21 May 2025

  • Latvian water firm launches 'European Green Bond' debut

    21 May 2025

  • Cambridge Associates 'wouldn't recommend' biodiversity credits

    21 May 2025

  • Sustainability bonds 'key instrument' to resolving just transition challenges

    21 May 2025

  • Asset manager progress on ESG 'stagnating', ShareAction finds

    21 May 2025

  • Business case for sustainable agriculture is currently 'challenging'

    20 May 2025

  • Sustainable sukuk 'powerful enabler' for transition

    20 May 2025

  • Could a company issue a debt-for-nature swap?

    20 May 2025

  • UK, EU agree to work towards ETS linkage

    19 May 2025

  • Pakistan makes 'strong step forward' with debut sovereign green sukuk

    19 May 2025

  • Article 6.4 standards confirmed

    19 May 2025

  • ESG backlash 'good for the market'

    16 May 2025

  • BNPP quits impact network GIIN following strategic review

    16 May 2025

  • Middle Eastern sustainable bond market 'building strong momentum'

    16 May 2025

  • Masdar secures largest green bond orderbook

    16 May 2025

Awards

Sustainable Company Awards 2025

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  2. How mining companies can foster a productive relationship with Indigenous Peoples on nature
  3. Asset manager progress on ESG 'stagnating', ShareAction finds
  4. BNPP quits impact network GIIN following strategic review
  5. Pakistan makes 'strong step forward' with debut sovereign green sukuk
  6. CSRD compliance 'will only get harder' with Omnibus changes, says DZ Bank head
  7. UK, EU agree to work towards ETS linkage
  8. The EU's Clean Industrial Deal: A gamechanger for Europe?
  9. Business case for sustainable agriculture is currently 'challenging'
  10. Could a company issue a debt-for-nature swap?

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Focus on Asia Pacific

More on Asia Pacific
25 April 2025

Asia Pacific sustainable bond growth to focus on 'smaller, untapped' markets

S&P Global Ratings is expecting a record year for Asia Pacific sustainable bonds in 2025, but Bertrand Jabouley tells Ahren Lester the growth drivers are changing
26 June 2025, 9:15 AM

Sustainable Debt Asia 2025

The original event for GSSS bond issuers and investors

  • Pakistan makes 'strong step forward' with debut sovereign green sukuk

  • Two Nepalese banks inaugurate local green bond market

  • New Forests acquires Laos timber company

  • Pakistan readies sovereign green sukuk and 'Panda' bond

  • GPIF sustainability policy an 'important signal' for Asia-Pacific transition

  • New Agriculture launches agricultural landscapes strategy

  • Schroders sets path for Apple to address Scope 3 emissions with new fund

  • Climate adaptation investment hampered by 'fragmented' solutions

Environmental Finance Sustainable Debt Awards 2025

Environmental Finance's Sustainable Debt Awards 2025

Environmental Finance Sustainable Debt Awards celebrate the leading green, social, sustainable and sustainability-linked bond and loan deals and recognise market innovations. The winners have been revealed.

Supporting Japan's transition

Osamu Morishita, head of the sustainability promotion department at Mizuho Securities, reflects on the outlook for sustainability in the Japanese market for 2025.

Taking a global view of the climate transition

The climate transition is progressing unevenly, from company to company and region to region. S&P Global Ratings' Christa Clapp and Alexandra Dimitrijevic explain how investors can get a consistent picture

Personality of the year: Bodo Winkler-Viti, Berlin Hyp

Berlin Hyp funding and investor relations head Bodo Winkler-Viti has secured the 'Personality of the year' award at the Environmental Finance Sustainable Debt Awards 2025 for his role as a "true pioneer" in sustainable debt markets for a decade.

Upcoming conferences and webinars 2025

28 May 2025, 3:00 PM BST

Flood risk in financial markets: Using geospatial data for informed decision making

Fathom, in partnership with Environmental Finance, has brought together experts from organisations across financial services in this state-of-the-market webinar on flood risk.
26 June 2025, 9:15 AM

Sustainable Debt Asia 2025

The original event for GSSS bond issuers and investors
18 September 2025, 8:30 AM

Sustainable Debt Americas 2025

The original event for GSSS bond issuers and investors
13 October 2025, 8:45 AM

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Regional share of issuance over time

The past five years have seen the regional making of sustainable bond issuance shift in the face of global dynamics. In 2020 supranational issuance surged in response to the Covid-19 pandemic, yet receded as Asian issuance grew and European issuance dominated while North American issuance fluctuated between 2020 and 2025.

However Q1 2025 has seen a large drop off in the share of both North American and Asian issuance in the face of economic uncertainty, and in the US particularly – political backlash to sustainable financing. Conversely the share of supranational issuance has returned to similar levels as in 2020, with a quarter of the market compared to 26% in 2020. Meanwhile Middle Eastern issuance, which accounted for only 0.66% of the sustainable bond market in 2020 now accounts for 2.2% in the first quarter of 2025.

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