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  • Moody's: Sustainable bond issuance set to remain 'resilient' in 2024

    24 January 2024

    Sustainable bond issuance in 2024 is expected to remain flat at around $950 billion with growth in green and sustainability bonds expected to offset weakness for social and sustainability-linked bonds, according to Moody's Investors Service.

  • Moody's: Sustainability-linked bonds face 'pivotal' 2024 as quality concerns persist

    24 January 2024

    2024 could prove a "pivotal" year for sustainability-linked bonds (SLBs) as they continue to demonstrate a sustainability quality gap compared with use-of-proceeds instruments, according to second-party opinion provider Moody's Investors Service.

  • Moody's: TNFD metrics an 'important milestone'

    29 March 2023

    The disclosure metrics proposed by the Taskforce on Nature-related Financial Disclosures (TNFD) are a significant step towards helping investors understand nature risks, and could boost sustainable debt markets, Moody's Investors Service said.

  • Asia-Pacific 'ripe' for sovereign sustainable bond issuance, says Moody's

    15 February 2022

    Asia-Pacific's (APAC) need for finance to help it recover from the pandemic, as well as the region's focus on the transition to a low-carbon economy,...

  • Moody's forecasts $1trn sustainable bond issuance in 2021

    27 October 2021

    Moody's ESG Solutions forecasts that green, social, sustainability and sustainability-linked (GSSS) bond issuance in 2021 will reach the $1 trillion milestone...

  • Sustainability-linked bonds: One year after the principles - where to next?

    10 August 2021

    Amid ongoing innovation and accelerating growth in 2021, where should the sustainability-linked bond market look next? Ahren Lester reports

  • Sustainability-linked bonds: One year after the principles - Part 1

    13 July 2021

    One year after the Sustainability Linked Bond Principles were published, the target-based fixed income instrument is seeing issuance accelerate. Market participants warn, however, that some current issues lack substance. Ahren Lester reports

  • SDGs and repeat issuers will boost green bond market, says Moody's

    12 November 2018

    Growing use of the UN's Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) by investors and bond issuers, coupled with a growing number of repeat issuers, will help drive future growth of the green bond market, said Moody's Investors Service.

  • $517 billion in rated debt exposed to immediate environmental credit risk, says Moody's

    01 October 2018

    Unregulated utilities and power companies as well as coal mining and coal terminals—which have $517 billion in rated debt—have "very high" exposure to carbon regulation resulting in "immediate" environmental credit risk, said Moody's.

  • Moody’s predicts sharp increase in sovereign green bonds

    09 July 2018

    Many more sovereign green bonds are likely in coming years, predicts Moody’s Investors Service.