The IFC's Interim Managing Director and Executive Vice President talks to Environmental Finance on the 10th anniversary of its green bond programme
ESG ratings should only be used as a first step when it comes to assessing issuers, a panel at Environmental Finance's ESG and Fixed Income 2020 conference heard. Ahren Lester reports
Managing a pensions investment portfolio in line with environmental and social impact considerations can be part of trustees' fiduciary duty, Michael Hurley reports
Is impact finance the evolution of ESG investing? We delve deeper in to how impact finance provides investors with exposure to activities that offer targeted, measurable and positive benefit to environment and society.
Institutional investors are under pressure to align their strategies with a maximum global temperature increase of 1.5 degrees C targeted by the Paris Agreement. We examine how they can approach this while respecting other investment constraints.
We are looking for an exceptional candidate to head our globally recognised Climate Bond Certification Scheme.
Climate Bonds is looking for a dynamic individual with well-developed interpersonal and engagement skills to fill the newly created role of Partner and Relationship Manager (PRM).
RMI's Center for Climate-Aligned Finance is seeking an Associate or Senior Associate, as well as a manager to join its growing team.
RMI's Center for Climate-Aligned Finance is seeking an Associate or Senior Associate to join its growing team.
The EF Bond Database is the most comprehensive source of information on the labelled green, social and sustainability bond markets. The database is updated daily, is fully searchable and allows the export of Excel ready tables.
An extra section has now been added to the Bond Database to accommodate Green Loans and Sustainability-Linked Loans. For more information go to subs@bonddata.org
After a significant surge in Covid-19 bonds in April in response to the pandemic the volume of Covid-19 bonds has gradually tapered off, however the value of coronabonds has spiked again in October and November as the European Union issued two record breaking bonds under its EU Sure program worth EUR17 billlion and EUR14 billion.
Between march and 18 November 2020 over $100 billion worth of social and sustainability bonds were issued with a response to Covid-19 as part of its use of proceeds. This accounts for nearly a quarter of the value of green, social, sustainability and sustainability-linked bonds issued during this same period.
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'Green' hydrogen promises many benefits to help decarbonise our economies, but it may need EU carbon prices to be five times higher by 2030. Ahren Lester reports.
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Environmental Finance's ESG in Fixed Income Europe 2020 virtual conference ended after two days of panels, speed networking sessions, and discussion groups.
Is a transition bond label still needed now that the Sustainability-Linked Bond Principles have been published?
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The Partnership for Carbon Accounting Financials (PCAF) has launched a methodology which intends to enable banks to measure and disclose the emissions associated with their financed activities.
The UK government is continuing to consider a controversial carbon…
A Mark Carney-initiated taskforce focused on rapidly scaling…
The AUD60 billion ($42 billion) Retail Employees Superannuation…
