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Weak March hits sustainable bond issuance in first quarter
17 April 2026A significant fall in sustainable bond issuance in March amid the Middle East conflict resulted in the market contracting during the first three months of 2026.
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Sustainable debt market contracts by up to 20% in 2025
09 January 2026Sustainable bond and loan volumes are estimated to have fallen by a fifth to around $1.6 trillion in 2025, but innovation continues drive optimism.
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Sustainable bonds 'unlikely' to reach $1trn in 2025 after weak quarter
23 October 2025The sustainable bond market is likely fall short of $1 trillion issuance volume milestone in 2025 for the first time since 2021 after a "particularly slow" third quarter, according to Environmental Finance Data (EF Data).
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Sustainalytics no longer biggest SPO provider, after S&P and Moody's surge
29 August 2025S&P Global and Moody's were the two largest sustainable finance framework second-party opinion (SPO) providers in the first half of 2025 after they strengthened their share at the expense of long-standing market leader Morningstar Sustainalytics.
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Q2 issuance puts market on track for weakest year since 2022
15 July 2025Labelled bond issuance during the first half of the year has fallen by more than $100 billion compared with 2024, putting the sustainable bond market on track for one of its weakest years in recent memory, according to Environmental Finance Data.
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Sustainable bond market sails past $6trn milestone - but headwinds remain
19 March 2025Cumulative issuance of sustainable bonds has now crossed $6 trillion as the green bond market continues to set the pace, but the journey towards $7 trillion faces headwinds.
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'Big four' SPO providers becomes 'big five' in 2024
10 February 2025Japan-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.
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Sustainability-linked bonds becoming 'endangered species' in 2024
30 October 2024Sustainability-linked bonds (SLBs) are becoming an "endangered species" in 2024 after recording the weakest quarterly issuance volumes since the end of 2020 for the performance-based instrument.
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Sustainable bond market hits $5trn of issuance
20 May 2024Cumulative issuance of sustainable bonds has now crossed the $5 trillion mark, boosted by strong support from sovereign issuers.
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Sustainable bonds 'on track' for $1bn issuance in 2024
18 April 2024Sustainable bond issuance is looking set to return to a billion-dollar market in 2024 after a record-breaking first quarter, according to Environmental Finance figures.
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