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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 -
People Moves, 16 May: PRI, Lightrock, New Forests, Acumen ... and more
16 May 2025 -
Don't ascribe 'undue precision' to 'nature positive', conference hears
16 May 2025 -
'We are at the early stages of a complete revolution in data'
16 May 2025 -
'Journey more important than destination' for private markets investors
15 May 2025 -
Two Nepalese banks inaugurate local green bond market
15 May 2025 -
UK 'Local Climate Bonds' secure £16m in backing, plans to scale up
15 May 2025 -
Sveafastigheter publishes debut green bond framework
15 May 2025 -
CSRD compliance 'will only get harder' with Omnibus changes, says DZ Bank head
15 May 2025 -
Canadian 'competitiveness' push can benefit from transition plan work, says pension head
15 May 2025 -
Adaptation becoming more prominent in green economy, LSEG report finds
15 May 2025 -
Sustainability Data America 2025 conference round-up
15 May 2025 -
SDG data remains 'tricky', conference hears
14 May 2025 -
ESG needs to go on 'weightloss journey', says investor
14 May 2025 -
Anti-ESG politics should largely be 'blocked out', conference hears
14 May 2025 -
KfW sails past $100bn green bond milestone amid upsized 2025 plans
14 May 2025
- Global partnerships can make AI our climate co-pilot
- Bezos Earth Fund: We need 'an operating system for valuing nature'
- Anti-ESG politics should largely be 'blocked out', conference hears
- Canadian 'competitiveness' push can benefit from transition plan work, says pension head
- German Chancellor calls for 'complete repeal' of EU CSDDD
- Bridges exits UK wind power maintenance business
- Incofin closes water private equity fund at €61m
- Adaptation becoming more prominent in green economy, LSEG report finds
- SocGen: Blue bonds push is a 'positive move'
- ESG needs to go on 'weightloss journey', says investor
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16 May 2025
UK launches EM investment taskforce
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15 May 2025
Triodos, STOXX launch developed markets impact index
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15 May 2025
BNPP and Rabobank join wildfire satellite technology funding round
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15 May 2025
Bridges exits UK wind power maintenance business
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14 May 2025
Republican plan to gut IRA threatens private investment in US, Ceres warns
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14 May 2025
Octopus Energy launches clean energy fund
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14 May 2025
AXA IM adopts FCA 'Improver' label for fixed income duo
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13 May 2025
Canadian financial institutions back initiative for 'credible transition plans'

Average coupon of sustainable bonds by quarter
2024 was a story of two halves for sustainable bond coupon rates. The first half of the year saw coupons edge up to an average of 5.06% in Q2 - the highest they have been during five year period looked at in the below chart. After the second quarter there was a sharp decline in average coupon rates to 4.13% in Q3, falling further to 4% in Q4. Even with the decline in the second half of the year, average coupons for full year 2024 were the highest they have been over this five-year period.
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