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  • CBI: China must up its green debt standards

    28 January 2022

    China needs to improve the standards of its expanding sustainable debt market to enable the country to reach its goal of carbon neutrality by 2060, the non-profit Climate Bonds Initiative (CBI) has said.

  • EU climate criteria adopted in 'important milestone'

    09 December 2021

    The first set of climate criteria for the EU taxonomy has been passed into law and will come into force on 1 January.

  • COP climate finance commitments are 'flimflam, but good flimflam'

    10 November 2021

    The string of headline-grabbing climate finance commitments announced at the COP26 UN climate summit are "flimflam...

  • Lyxor launches corporate green bond ETF

    15 September 2021

    Lyxor Asset Management has launched a €50 million global corporate green bond exchange-traded fund (ETF)...

  • GAM launches sustainable bond strategy focused on banks

    08 September 2021

    Swiss asset manager GAM Investments has launched a labelled sustainable bond strategy focused on investing...

  • EU Green Bond Standard will struggle to become global 'gold standard', says Fitch

    03 September 2021

    The EU Green Bond Standard (GBS) could struggle to become the global 'gold standard' without clearer alignment of international 'green' taxonomies

  • Latest EU Taxonomy proposals still 'need to be fleshed out'

    06 August 2021

    A document that proposes how to broaden the EU's taxonomy of green activities beyond climate change is a 'first draft' that is expected to evolve and expand following feedback from the market, writes Thomas Cox

  • News round-up: WTW, Foresight, JLEN, S&P and Lombard Odier

    04 May 2021

  • WTW to launch low-carbon transition accreditation framework

    04 May 2021

  • 'Greenium' for majority of green bond issues in late 2020, says CBI

    15 March 2021