14 March 2025

The EU Omnibus' rocky road

Analysis

13 March 2025

Protecting forests: laissez-faire, or work them?

A debate around how best to manage land may be missing the forest for the trees, writes Christoph Butz
12 March 2025

The Omnibus is welcome - but the EU must go further and fully align with ISSB

We need regulatory rollback - despite it running counter to the ESG data industry's prevailing narrative, writes Kentaro Kawamori
11 March 2025

One year on: Biodiversity Net Gain

One year on, England and Wales' Biodiversity Net Gain market continues to expand - despite uncertainty about its future. Genevieve Redgrave reports
10 March 2025

'Article 9' becomes headwind for sustainable bond funds

Declining investor demand for 'Article 9' funds helped slow the growth of European sustainable bond fund market, reports Ahren Lester
07 March 2025

Sustainable bond funds assets hit record $46bn in 2024

Sustainable bond fund assets edged higher, to a record $46 billion in 2024. Managers are optimistic of further growth in 2025. Ahren Lester reports

News

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  • LatAm sustainable bond issuance subdued in 2025, says S&P

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  • Biodiversity fund managers remain bullish on prospects for 2025

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  • France boosts 2025 green bond issuance plan to €15bn

    14 March 2025

  • People Moves, 14 March: Circularity Capital; Actis; Credit Agricole ... and more

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  • Lawmakers propose bill that would block CSDDD for US companies

    13 March 2025

  • EFRAG mulls pivot from financial institution standards to guidance after Omnibus

    13 March 2025

  • 'Green enabling' guidance offers chance to 'redefine sustainable bond landscape'

    13 March 2025

  • EIOPA says Omnibus means it needs to delay insurers' sustainability risk standards

    13 March 2025

  • AI and technology 'reshaping' nature finance, says UNEP FI

    12 March 2025

  • Green bonds 'reliable signal' of 'significant' emissions reduction

    12 March 2025

  • Sustainable debt round-up: EIB, Saudi Arabia, Arevon ... and more

    12 March 2025

  • Nature's integration into decarbonisation plans to be 'prominent' at COP30, says Moody's

    12 March 2025

  • About 2,700 companies subject to California climate risk rule, Ceres estimates

    12 March 2025

  • UK's sustainability rules no barrier to investment in defence, FCA says

    11 March 2025

  • EU Platform identifies core elements of a transition plan

    11 March 2025

  • Nature investing survey launched

    11 March 2025

  • Glass Lewis to acquire Swedish data platform Esgaia

    11 March 2025

  • EU warned against undermining taxonomy as advisers unveil transition monitoring tool

    11 March 2025

  • Amundi: 'Exciting' plans as ground-breaking EM green bond fund winds down

    10 March 2025

  • Standard Chartered raises €1bn from 'milestone' social bond debut

    10 March 2025

  • UK should harness 'underestimated' £77bn impact market for policy priorities

    10 March 2025

  • Carney says carbon tax will be cut as he assumes top office in Canada

    10 March 2025

  • Massive 'Kellanova bond' offers Mars investors 'significant impact potential'

    07 March 2025

  • People Moves, 7 March: Sustainalytics; Rebalance Earth; Puro.earth ... and more

    07 March 2025

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Sustainable Bonds Insight 2025

Sustainable Bonds Insight 2025

The free-to-download report features infographics and data on the main trends in the green, social, sustainability, and sustainability-linked (GSSS) bond markets in 2024 and includes exclusive insight and infographics from Environmental Finance Data.

Sustainable finance in a changing world

Despite political headwinds, sustainable bond issuance is set to be supported by strong fundamentals, innovative applications and strong investor demand, say Trevor Allen, Agnès Gourc, Chaoni Huang, Franck Rizzoli and Frederic Zorzi of BNP Paribas

2025: A tough challenge for the sustainable bond market?

Marcus Pratsch, head of sustainable bonds & finance at DZ BANK, considers the outlook for sustainable bonds in 2025 and some of the main themes for the year ahead.

Financing the transition: banks turn to new tools

How banks put their transition plans into practice is attracting growing scrutiny as they seek to tap new transition financing instruments. Federico Pezzolato, Camille Roux and Masaki Kadowaki explain how ISS-Corporate is assessing their transition approaches and related issuance

Resilience, innovation and reinvention: the sustainable bond market in 2025

While overall market growth remains elusive, issuers and policymakers are continuing to innovate in 2025. Moody's Ratings' Adriana Cruz Felix, Matthew Kuchtyak and Swami Venkataraman analyse the market

EU Green Bonds: navigating a new market

Antoine Corbin and Saga Rad of Sustainable Fitch dig into the details of the EU Green Bond Regulation, and what it means for issuers and investors

A new standard for the green bond market

The EU Green Bond Regulation introduces a new benchmark for green bond issuance, with implications for sustainable finance markets around the world, say Florence Devevey, Patrice Cochelin and Christa Clapp of S&P Global Ratings

Environmental Market Rankings 2025

Environmental Market Rankings 2025

Environmental Finance is delighted to announce the Environmental Market Rankings winners for 2025

AI tipped to power RECs market in Trump era

Energy-hungry data centres could sustain US markets for green certificates, according to the winners of Environmental Finance's Market Rankings. Michael Hurley reports

A year of policy and politics for compliance carbon markets

Policy shifts and political upheaval created a challenging environment for compliance carbon markets in 2024, but winners of this year's Environmental Market Rankings remain upbeat. Rob Langston reports

Leveraging carbon pricing for long-term value creation

Michael Berends, CEO of ClearBlue Markets, considers recent trends in compliance carbon markets and how the company is helping clients to navigate the patchwork of programmes and systems.

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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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