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  • Combining sustainability-linked and green bonds would be 'more impactful'

    09 February 2021

    Tying 'use-of-proceeds' green bonds with their emerging 'sustainability-linked' cousins could make green paper "more impactful and more intentional", and market participants are beginning to float the idea more widely.

  • Bank of China transition bond a 'missed opportunity'

    12 January 2021

    The Bank of China transition bond was ground-breaking in its claims to align with the newly launched transition finance recommendations, reports Ahren Lester, but experts judged the transaction as failing to live up to its promise and ambition

  • ESG in Fixed Income Europe 2020 conference: Day one round up

    12 November 2020

    The annual conference is being held virtually this year and attracted over 600 delegates on its first day

  • Jupiter AM: a transition bond label is unnecessary

    12 November 2020

    ESG in Fixed Income Europe 2020 conference: The 'transition' bond label is an unnecessary departure from the green bond model honed over recent years, attendees of Environmental Finance's virtual conference heard.

  • A fifth of Barclays investors back fossil fuel financing phase out

    07 May 2020

    More than a fifth of investors in Barclays backed a shareholder resolution urging the FTSE 100-listed lender to outline a plan to phase out its financing for fossil fuel firms.

  • M&G and EOS support Barclays fossil fuel funding resolution

    01 May 2020

    M&G Investments and EOS have confirmed they will support a shareholder resolution calling on Barclays to phase out its funding for fossil fuel firms, but Norway's sovereign wealth fund will not be supporting it.

  • Barclays' new targets won't cause pension funds to drop climate resolution

    29 April 2020

    Two UK local government pension funds announced they will vote in favour of Barclays' proposed net-zero emissions ambition resolution, but will still back a climate resolution pressuring the lender to strengthen its commitments.

  • Major shareholder Jupiter supports Barclays fossil fuel funding resolution

    03 March 2020

    Jupiter Asset Management has joined the swelling ranks of investors supporting a shareholder resolution calling on Barclays to phase out its funding for fossil fuel firms.

  • People Moves: Lazard Asset Management, BlackRock, Pensions Infrastructure Platform, PGGM, Carbon Market Institute and St. James's Place

    01 February 2019

  • Wanted: UK green bond issuers

    24 July 2017

    As the green bond market continues to break records and investors call for more supply, Hamza Ali asks why there hasn't been more issuance out of the UK