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  • SLB issuance is 'brave' and quality is improving 'significantly'

    07 October 2025

    Sustainability-linked bonds (SLBs) are a "very strong mechanism" for issuers to commit to their transition story, and second-party opinion (SPO) provider Morningstar Sustainalytics said the quality of the target-based structure has improved "significantly"

  • SPO providers hail sustainable debt market innovation despite contraction

    02 September 2025

    Optimism for SLB prospects is widespread among SPO providers, as issuers continue to focus on sustainable debt innovation amid the market slowdown. Ahren Lester reports

  • Adaptation investments need to prepare for more than 1.5°C of warming, warns Aberdeen

    04 April 2025

    Investors need to be "realistic" that the ambition of the Paris Agreement to restrict warming to 1.5°C is probably going to be missed, Aberdeen told an Environmental Finance conference.

  • Sustainable Debt EMEA returns to London next week

    27 March 2025

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

  • Sustainalytics brings in four-tier SPOs, in significant overhaul of framework

    03 March 2025

    Morningstar Sustainalytics has overhauled its framework for issuing second-party opinions (SPOs) on green bonds and other use of proceeds bonds, Environmental Finance has learned.