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  • Investors welcome High Seas Treaty progress

    11 June 2025

    As a treaty to protect international waters moves towards ratification at the UN, investors have told Environmental Finance that this will provide clarity and momentum in the nascent marine investment theme.

  • People moves, 6 June 2025: NN, GFI, GIIN, T Rowe Price...and more

    06 June 2025
  • Blue bond label more digestible 'amid ESG backlash', says T Rowe Price

    02 May 2025

    The 'blue' label could help issuers avoid the wider ESG pushback that afflicts other types of labelled bonds, T. Rowe Price has told an Environmental Finance conference.

  • T Rowe Price, TPG Rise back $405m funding for US energy storage business

    14 October 2024
  • Blue bond label important despite 'colour fatigue', says IFC

    30 September 2024

    Despite potential 'colour fatigue' its important to differentiate blue products, the International Finance Corporation (IFC) and T. Rowe Price have said, calling for more investors to move into the market.

  • World Bank issues landmark Amazon reforestation-linked bond

    14 August 2024

    The World Bank has raised $225 million from its biggest ever outcomes-based bond that links its coupon payments to verified carbon removal credits generated by reforestation projects in the Amazon rainforest in Brazil.

  • Investors tell Japan to remedy inconsistencies with ISSB standards

    02 August 2024

    Some of the world's largest investors have advised Japan to address inconsistencies between its draft disclosure standards and those of the International Sustainability Standards Board (ISSB).

  • T Rowe Price elected to Principles ExCom

    25 June 2024

    T Rowe Price has been elected to the executive committee (ExCom) of the Principles, which are widely used as best practice guidelines for the sustainable bond market.

  • World Bank issues $100m plastic waste reduction-linked bond

    26 January 2024

    The World Bank has raised $100 million from a ground-breaking outcomes-based bond that links its coupon payments to verified plastic and carbon credits generated by projects in Ghana and Indonesia.

  • IFC, T Rowe Price to launch 'first' blue bond fund

    20 November 2023

    The International Finance Corporation (IFC) and T Rowe Price are preparing to launch the first dedicated 'blue' bond investment strategy to support sustainable marine and water investment from companies and financial institutions in emerging markets.