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The China Green Finance Committee is preparing to publish its methodology for relabelling existing Chinese green bonds as being in alignment with the 'common ground taxonomy' (CGT) in a "couple of months' time".

The Common Ground Taxonomy (CGT) of sustainable activities is being extended beyond the EU and China, by the International Platform on Sustainable Finance, Ma Jun has said.

The Hong Kong government revealed plans to issue $4.5 billion more green bonds this year, in its 2022-23 Budget announcement.

Central banks and financial supervisors have been told they can improve their assessment of the relationship between financial stability and biodiversity, including by developing their own "ad hoc methodological approaches that better capture the risk of biodiversity impacts".

A set of green financing guidelines for China's Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) has received backing from 27 firms around the world.

The City of London Corporation’s Green Finance Institute will be launched on 2 July, it has been revealed.

The publication of China’s first nationally unified guidelines on green finance could herald the rise of a new breed of green services, according to a Hong Kong-based consultancy.

Italian energy company Enel has returned to the green bond market, with its third such deal, raising €1 billion ($1.1 billion).

France's ground-breaking sovereign green bond contributed to a projected 7% reduction in the carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions of the country's residential homes sector, the first report on the bond's impact has revealed.