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Climate Bonds Standard extension to SLBs to 'fire integrity'

The Climate Bonds Initiative (CBI) is to extend its Climate Bonds Standard and certification scheme to cover sustainability-linked bonds (SLBs), in a move the organisation said would "fire ambition and integrity" in the market.

Sovereign sustainability-linked debt initiative launched

A World Bank and Asian Development Bank (ADB)-backed initiative to "catalyse" sovereign sustainability-linked debt issuance has been launched to provide technical support to increase the volume, quality and impact of such issuances.

China green bond principles 'important' but imperfect

Publication of the China GBPs has potential wide-ranging implications for the green bond market, but they remain a work in progress. Ahren Lester reports

China Green Bond Principles will 'ensure place in global market'

China has published its own green bond principles (GBP) broadly based on the standard administered by the International Capital Market Association (ICMA)...

Climate resilience taxonomy is CBI's 'next big project'

Climate Bonds Initiative (CBI) is preparing a 'climate resilience taxonomy' after it updated its green bond methodology and published its social and sustainability bond methodology.

CBI tightens green bond criteria and readies social expansion

The Climate Bonds Initiative (CBI) said it was planning to launch a social and sustainability bond methodology this year after it tightened its green bond methodology...

Green debt quadruples in Hong Kong

A burning issue

Incinerating waste to produce energy has no place in a green bond framework, argue Prashant Vaze and Dominic Hogg

A quarter of green bonds secure 'greenium' in late 2021, says CBI

A quarter of green bonds issued in the second half of 2021 secured a 'greenium' in the primary markets, according to the Climate Bonds Initiative (CBI).

Emerging markets investors 'set to benefit' from G7 risk mitigation work

Work by rich nations to implement new risk off-take strategies could be set to benefit investors searching for yield in emerging market climate-themed investments, Environmental Finance's ESG in Fixed Income event heard.