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Financial innovation in the agri-food sector

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Nature finance: building on lessons learnt from climate

The challenge is how to finance nature effectively, without repeating the pitfalls of early climate finance, writes Daniel Hanna
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Orange bonds receive green light in Asia

Gender equality-focused sustainable bonds secured strong endorsement from a wide range of market participants in Asia as recognition of their key climate transition role matures. Ahren Lester writes
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The eight themes shaping ESG data

The ESG data ecosystem continues to evolve rapidly. Peter Cripps explores the themes driving its development
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Nature data: welcome to the jungle

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ESG Data Guide 2025

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Sustainable Investment Awards 2025

Sustainable Investment Awards 2025

Sustainable Investment Awards are global and seek to recognise asset managers, analysts and data providers incorporating ESG across all asset classes. The winners have been announced.

Clarifying the investment gap and risk exposure

Bridging the sustainable and transition financing gap impacts sovereigns and companies alike. Rahul Ghosh, managing director and global head of sustainable finance at Moody's Ratings, tells Environmental Finance how greater transparency can help.

The role of stock exchanges in sustainable finance

After winning Stock Exchange of the year in Environmental Finance's Sustainable Investment Awards, Claire Dorrian, head of sustainable finance at London Stock Exchange, explains how it is innovating to help build on its strong track record.

Taking a sector-specific microscope to climate transition planning

The Transition Pathway Initiative Centre's new Net Zero Standards Assessment Framework takes a sector-specific approach to extractive companies' transition plans. Seyed Alireza Modirzadeh explains

Why forests are the next frontier in climate investment

Investors increasingly understand the role sustainable forestry can play in the path to a net zero economy, argues Andrew Boutwell, Senior Managing Director and Head of Investment Management at Forest Investment Associates.

ESG data leader in APAC

After LSEG was named ESG data provider for Asia in Environmental Finance's Sustainable Investment Awards 2025, Norman Chia, Global Head Product, Sustainable Finance, LSEG, says the region's adoption of sustainable finance is advancing at pace.

Focus on Asia Pacific

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Sustainable Debt Asia Conference 2025 Round-up

The event in Singapore heard how the region is taking a practical approach to the transition, writes Ahren Lester
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Orange bonds receive green light in Asia

Gender equality-focused sustainable bonds secured strong endorsement from a wide range of market participants in Asia as recognition of their key climate transition role matures. Ahren Lester writes

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  • Japan hoping asset owners loosen mandates to invest in transition debt

  • Japan mulled delayed phase-in of ISSB after EU's Omnibus

  • Manulife: 'We are watching the interesting SLLB instrument closely'

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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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