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  • Webinar: COP29 a missed opportunity to support private sector transition planning

    22 November 2024

    A lack of progress on negotiations at COP29 is undermining hopes that countries could support the creation of an international framework that would support private sector transition planning, a webinar hosted by the IFC and Environmental Finance heard.

  • Judging the credibility of transition plans, part two

    29 July 2024

    Investors preparing for a wave of transition plan disclosures face a complicated task to determine 'what good looks like', Michael Hurley writes

  • ICMA working on detailed 'green enabling' project checklist after guidance

    26 June 2024

    The International Capital Market Association (ICMA)-administered Principles is working on a "detailed checklist" to help issuers and investors use its newly released 'green enabling' project guidance.

  • Emerging markets sustainable bond issuance still faces challenges

    18 April 2024

    Momentum is building in sustainable bond issuance in several emerging markets, but a range of obstacles to attracting capital still need to be overcome, attendees at the Environmental Finance Sustainable Debt EMEA conference heard.

  • Scope 3 'make or break' for the SLB market, says BNP Paribas

    14 July 2023

    Scope 3 emissions could "make or break" the sustainability-linked bond (SLBs) market, a sustainable finance head at BNP Paribas has told Environmental Finance.

  • ICMA Principles: Transition and sustainability-linked bond updates expected

    16 June 2023

    The International Capital Market Association (ICMA)-administered sustainable bond principles are expected to update their transition finance handbook and expand sustainability-linked bond guidance at its annual general meeting next week.

  • Amundi: 'Hot' SLB market set for growth

    21 June 2021

    The sustainability-linked bond (SLB) market is set for strong growth and diversification of issuer types, Amundi has said.

  • Green Bond Standard 'may lead to fewer issuances'

    18 November 2020

    The introduction of the EU's Green Bond Standard may have the unintended effect of actually reducing the rate of corporate issuances, a panel discussion at Environmental Finance's ESG in Fixed Income Europe 2020 conference heard.

  • Transition bonds webinar: Gas is in but oil is 'tough case to make'

    30 September 2020

    Natural gas but not oil is included in a transition taxonomy created by second party opinion provider Sustainalytics.

  • BNP: Growing in leaps and bounds

    Fresh from scooping several categories in the Green Bond Awards, BNP Paribas' Head of Sustainable Capital Markets Agnes Gourc looks ahead to the next stage of the market's growth.