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ESG Data Guide 2025 launched

The free-to-use guide is an easily searchable portal that helps investors and other market players navigate the ever-expanding market of data products.

Sustainable Fitch: EM bonds perform best on impact metrics

Sustainability bonds from emerging market issuers outperform their developer market counterparts on impact performance, despite disclosing less information, research from Sustainable Fitch found.

Latvian water firm launches 'European Green Bond' debut

Latvian water utility firm Rīgas ūdens has launched a €60 million ($68 million) green bond programme using the recently introduced European Green Bond (EuGB) label.

Sustainable Fitch: Social-themed debt resilient despite broader labelled bond decline

Sustainable Debt EMEA returns to London next week

Environmental Finance's 13th annual Sustainable Debt EMEA conference returns to London on 3 April.

Sustainable Fitch: Majority of sustainable finance frameworks 'excellent'

Sustainable Fitch said that the majority of the use-of-proceeds (UoP) sustainable finance frameworks it assessed over the last year were judged 'Excellent,' but there remains room for improvement, including around increasing the level of specificity on social projects.

'Big four' SPO providers becomes 'big five' in 2024

Japan-focused Rating and Investment Information (R&I) secured more than a 10% share of the sustainable finance second-party opinion market in 2024, joining the global 'big four' US providers led by Sustainalytics and S&P Global.

Signatories to Japan ESG data code of conduct rise to 28

'Milestone' year ahead for floundering sustainability-linked bonds

The next 18 months will be a critical period for the sustainability-linked bond (SLB) market with a flurry of target observation dates, after the performance-based instrument recorded another dramatic fall in annual issuance in 2024.

Climate adaptation 'needs more guidance' for sustainable bonds

Adapation-focused sustainable bonds are expected to accelerate in 2025, but Sustainable Fitch argues more guidance is needed for it to fully emerge front of stage. Ahren Lester reports