16 April 2025

UK removes zombie renewables projects to attract international capital

Analysis

18 April 2025

Better data can help capital flow to emerging markets

Data and transparency are pivotal drivers of private finance mobilisation and development, writes Gary Forster
16 April 2025

'Proxy voting is not dead'

This AGM season will reveal shareholders' climate resolve, writes Michael Hurley
15 April 2025

Nature based solutions: The opportunity for renewable energy investors

Embedding nature based solutions alongside renewables can unlock additional revenues from ecosystem services, write Hing Kin Lee and Valeria Ramos
14 April 2025

Sustainable Debt awards - 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.

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  • Food investors to face insecurity and commercial loss, says First Sentier MUFG

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  • Nature projects will always have a degree of 'guesstimating'

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

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  • Financial institutions 'not planning to reduce fossil fuel investments'

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  • Franklin Templeton launches two ESG-focused ETFs

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  • New Agriculture launches agricultural landscapes strategy

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Gulf Transition and Sustainable Finance 2025

30 April 2025, 8:45 AM UAE, Abu Dhabi

Gulf Transition & Sustainable Finance 2025

The original event for GSSS bond issuers and investors
16 April 2025

'Proxy voting is not dead'

This AGM season will reveal shareholders' climate resolve, writes Michael Hurley

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The conference starts on 30 April 2025 at 8.45AM GST.

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

  • NZBA ditches requirement to target 1.5°C alignment to give banks more 'flexibility'

  • Climate policy pendulum may bring near-term relief but longer-term pain, S&P says

  • Investor hesitation to back climate proposals leads shareholders to shelve resolutions

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.

Blended Finance 2025 – Highlights from the conference

Blended Finance - Environmental Finance & OECD conference 2025

Environmental Finance has increased its coverage of development finance and launched a new Blended Finance channel.
31 March 2025

Mobilising private finance to address the biodiversity crisis

Evidence of private sector momentum in scaling biodiversity funding is increasing, but not fast enough, write Frank Rijsberman, Juan Casado Asensio and Dominique Blaquier

  • Natural Capital Investment Americas: early bird ends tomorrow

  • Climate adaptation investment hampered by 'fragmented' solutions

  • 'Squeeze more juice out of the orange' for blended finance, urges Convergence

  • 'Innovative' Cambodian green project bond issued

  • Thematic video: GSSS Bonds

  • Thematic video: Local Currency

  • Conference Highlights

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

Making a market in sustainable finance

The London Stock Exchange's Sustainable Bond Market is set to celebrate its 10th anniversary in June. Kelly Gregory and Baylie Thompson review recent highlights and innovations, and look forward to its next milestones

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

Upcoming Events 2025

30 April 2025, 8:45 AM UAE, Abu Dhabi

Gulf Transition & Sustainable Finance 2025

The original event for GSSS bond issuers and investors
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Natural Capital Investment Americas 2025

Exploring the integral role that Natural Capital investment can play in building climate resilience
14 May 2025, 8:45 AM ET, New York

Sustainability Data America 2025

Discussing the continued growth of the sustainability data industry and understanding the key factors shaping its future
26 June 2025, 10:00 AM

Sustainable Debt Asia 2025

The original event for GSSS bond issuers and investors

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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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