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CBI: Green bond issuance to bounce back with 'stellar' 2023
31 January 2023The Climate Bonds Initiative (CBI) has predicted a "stellar" year for green bond issuance in 2023 after more than a decade of annual growth was halted in 2022,...
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Exclusive interview with new CBI chair
25 November 2022New chair Doris Honold tells Ahren Lester the Climate Bonds Initiative (CBI) should focus on "replicating and innovating" to accelerate the scaling of the sustainable bond market
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Climate Bonds Standard extension to SLBs to 'fire integrity'
20 October 2022The Climate Bonds Initiative (CBI) is to extend its Climate Bonds Standard and certification scheme to cover sustainability-linked bonds (SLBs), in a move the organisation said would "fire ambition and integrity" in the market.
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China green bond principles 'important' but imperfect
22 August 2022Publication of the China GBPs has potential wide-ranging implications for the green bond market, but they remain a work in progress. Ahren Lester reports
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China Green Bond Principles will 'ensure place in global market'
08 August 2022China has published its own green bond principles (GBP) broadly based on the standard administered by the International Capital Market Association (ICMA)...
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Climate resilience taxonomy is CBI's 'next big project'
25 July 2022Climate Bonds Initiative (CBI) is preparing a 'climate resilience taxonomy' after it updated its green bond methodology and published its social and sustainability bond methodology.
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Emerging markets investors 'set to benefit' from G7 risk mitigation work
25 February 2022Work by rich nations to implement new risk off-take strategies could be set to benefit investors searching for yield in emerging market climate-themed investments, Environmental Finance's ESG in Fixed Income event heard.
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EU's nuclear, gas taxonomy inclusion prompts fierce response
04 January 2022A text by the European Commission that proposes inclusion of some nuclear and natural gas energy generation activities in the EU's sustainability taxonomy has sparked a fierce response from some observers, who argue the proposals would undermine the credibility of the framework.
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EU climate criteria adopted in 'important milestone'
09 December 2021The first set of climate criteria for the EU taxonomy has been passed into law and will come into force on 1 January.
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Russia adopts national green taxonomy
11 November 2021Russia has adopted its own national taxonomy of 'green' activities which has been designed to be broadly in line with the taxonomies already published by the Climate Bonds Initiative (CBI) and EU.