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  • 'Dividing line' between transition and business strategies is fading fast

    26 April 2024

    The convergence of climate transition and financial business strategies is becoming more prominent and is helping drive greater sophistication in transition planning by issuers, sustainable finance experts told an Environmental Finance event.

  • Demand for renewables will 'drive investors to green bonds & loans'

    28 March 2022

    ING have said that the drive for renewable energy, caused by Russia's invasion of Ukraine, will drive higher issuance of green, use of proceeds (UoP) loans and bonds, instead of sustainable and sustainability-linked bonds and loans, over the next year.

  • The rise of hybrid sustainable debt frameworks

    15 December 2021

    Frameworks that enable debt issuers to finance either specific projects or general purposes are increasingly common, Michael Hurley writes

  • 'Transition' firms preferring sustainability-linked over transition bonds

    12 April 2021

    Sustainability-linked bonds are proving more popular for carbon-intensive issuers than transition bonds, and experts are worried the 'transition' label is adding unnecessary confusion in the market. Ahren Lester and Christopher Marchant report

  • ESG in Fixed Income Global Series - Americas focus day roundup

    12 April 2021

    Environmental Finance's Americas focus day - the first of six events in the ESG in Fixed Income Global Series of conferences - ended after a day of panels, presentations and speed networking sessions.