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More investors are expected to switch some of their conventional bond allocation to social bonds, Bram Bos tells Ahren Lester

The European Council has publicly moved towards agreeing to include mandatory environmental, social and governance (ESG) disclosures for all labelled sustainable bonds into EU bond prospectus rules,...

Denmark intends use green bonds to raise 15% of its total debt issuance in 2023, including through a new 10-year green bond to be launched in the second half of the year, a central banker has said as she hailed the pricing benefits of issuing green bonds.

The Climate Bonds Initiative's blueprint is intended to provide a practical tool for financial markets to intensify their focus on adaptation and resilience investments, writes Ahren Lester

European high yield green bond issues have been "too opportunistic" to date, with transparency about how the proceeds will be used raising significant questions about the sustainability impact of the emerging asset class.

The Climate Bonds Initiative (CBI) will publish a blueprint for its "ground-breaking" climate resilience taxonomy next week, as it looks to catalyse interest and investment in adaptation and resilience projects.

Varma is preparing to move some of its passive allocations for high-yield corporate issuers to a climate-themed exchange-traded fund (ETF), possibly one that tracks an EU Paris-aligned benchmark (PAB).

In response to a recent Environmental Finance webinar on sustainable finance standards, we have hand-picked a selection of the audience questions for the panel to answer.

The conversion of historic bonds to 'green' format is "problematic" for the market, as it represents an "extreme case" of lack of additionality, according to Nomura.