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  • Green Bond Principles sets up three new workstreams

    03 March 2020

    The Green and Social Bond Principles has established a workstream to explore whether to review its guidelines for external reviewers.

  • Sustainability-linked bonds 'could outgrow green bond market', says ICMA's Pfaff

    14 February 2020

    The nascent sustainability-linked bond market could outgrow the green bond market, according to the International Capital Market Association, which administers the Green Bond Principles.

  • People Moves, 10 January: New York Commons, Willis Towers Watson, Rathbone, IHS Markit, Canada Post, Bamboo Capital, ICMA

    10 January 2020

  • Moody's upsizes its 2019 green bond prediction to more than $200bn

    08 August 2019

    Moody's predicts green bond issuance to exceed $200 billion this year, following a record-breaking second quarter and first half of the year. It had earlier predicted the market to hit $200 billion in 2019.

  • Annual costs for impact reporting 'typically in €10k-€25k range'

    04 July 2019

    A survey of green bond issuers and investors sheds light on how they approach impact reporting, says Björn Bergstrand

  • ESMA urges EU Commission to increase sustainability regulation

    14 June 2019

    The European Commission has been urged by an EU supervisory authority to introduce regulation, rather than non-binding guidelines, in areas such as requiring sustainability-related disclosures and accreditation of green bond second opinion providers.

  • Pimco, AfDB, Iberdrola and ING elected to GBP executive committee

    13 June 2019

    US investment management giant Pimco and Dutch bank ING are among four institutions to have been elected to the executive committee of the Green Bond Principles (GBPs) and Social Bond Principles (SBPs).

  • GBPs map 'green' project eligibility against other taxonomies

    13 June 2019

    A mapping of how the influential Green Bond Principles' (GBPs) judgment of "greenness" corresponds with that of other standards and taxonomies has been published.

  • 79% of green bonds report post-issuance

    06 March 2019

    79% of the green bond market, according to value, is reporting on its use of proceeds (UoP) and impact, according to NGO Climate Bonds Initiative (CBI).

  • Governance quality could drive green bond outperformance, says Nomura

    21 December 2018

    Green bonds have consistently outperformed non-green bonds in the secondary market, according to a study by Nomura Asset Management.