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Clean coal axed from China's green bond guidelines
11 December 2018China will axe 'clean coal' from its green bond guidelines, in a move that will see its definition of green align more closely with the Climate Bond Standards and the consensus of opinions in the West.
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Sustainability bonds' potential to help meet smart cities investment challenge
22 October 2018The sustainability bond market, including bonds linked to the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), has a key role to play in helping to fund ‘smart cities’, an HSBC report said.
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Actiam New Member of the ICMA Executive Committee
19 June 2018The International Capital Markets Association (ICMA) announced Foppe-Jan van der Meij of Actiam as its new member of the Executive Committee of the Green Bond Principles (GBP) at the annual meeting on 14 June 2018.
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ICMA issues guide to link SDGs to green bond market
15 June 2018A guide to help issuers and investors understand how green, social and sustainability bonds contribute to the UN's Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) has been produced by the International Capital Market Association (ICMA).
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ICMA calls for 'Chinese walls' in second opinion providers
14 June 2018Green bond external assessment providers should have separate business units to advise on the creation of green bond frameworks and to assess the frameworks, according to the secretariat of the Green Bond Principles (GBPs).
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Members of EU Technical Expert Group on Sustainable Finance announced
13 June 2018The European Commission has announced the members of its Technical Expert Group on Sustainable Finance.
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Skeleton EU sustainability taxonomy unveiled
24 May 2018The European Commission today revealed the first concrete proposals under its ground-breaking sustainable finance action plan, including the bare bones of a taxonomy, which will underpin much of the development to come.
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Opinion - ICMA's René Karsenti
16 April 2018The future of finance is green, says ICMA president René Karsenti.
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People moves: ICMA, JP Morgan and BIG
09 February 2018The International Finance Corporation's (IFC) Esohe Denise Odaro has taken a secondment at the International Capital Markets Association (ICMA), where she is director in the Green Bond Principles/Social Bond Principles (GBP/SBP) secretariat.
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GGFC launches green finance policy directory
07 December 2017The Global Green Finance Council (GGFC) has introduced a reference guide to green finance initiatives, as sustainable finance continues to rise up the agenda.