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Italy expects 'gradual' growth in sovereign green bond issuance
19 June 2026Italy is expecting to increase its annual issuance of sovereign green bonds in future years, as the country continues to prioritise green investment amid the EU financing wind down, a senior public debt official said.
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Regulators must clarify 'what are we trying to achieve' on sustainable finance rules
19 June 2026Policymakers and regulators have been urged to go "back to basics" to clarify what they are trying to achieve from sustainable finance regulations, the UK Sustainable Investment and Finance Association (UKSIF) told an event in London.
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PGGM: We really see return and impact value in blue bonds
18 June 2026Blue bonds will become more important as nature and biodiversity goals among institutional investors grow, Raymond van Wersch tells Ahren Lester
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S&P: Current transition label is a 'Version 1.0 transition tool'
18 June 2026The frameworks developed for transition-labelled debt are important 'Transition 1.0' tools, but S&P Global Ratings argues that 'Transition 2.0' tools need to focus on the rate of change and the pricing impact of this.
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BNP Paribas: 'Big hopes' for sovereign SLBs
17 June 2026Although still a complex instrument for corporate issuers, BNP Paribas said there is "still big hope" for the growth of the sovereign sustainability-linked bond (SLB) market.
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AI build-out 'conundrum' poses 'real challenge' for sustainable bonds
16 June 2026The massive capital expenditure required for the build-out of artificial intelligence (AI) is coming to bond markets, posing a "conundrum" for sustainable investors ahead of clients increasing questions on the topic.
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Taxonomies 'naturally converging' amid 'structured chaos'
15 June 2026Although the landscape of competing sustainable finance taxonomies looks complicated, Climate Bonds Initiative (CBI) argues that it disguises the growing convergence and interoperability between them.
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Edentree advocates 'social-flavoured UK sovereign bond' after green success
12 June 2026Investors are understood to be encouraging the UK government to consider issuing a social-focused sustainable bond after continued success for its innovative and expanding green bond programme, according to Edentree Investment Management (IM).
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Middle East offers 'eye-catching' sustainable bond markets
11 June 2026Despite historically being overlooked, the "very fast growing" Middle Eastern sustainable bond market offers attractive opportunities, said Edmond de Rothschild.
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Just transition: Sustainable bond guidance to unlock 'immense promise'
11 June 2026An initiative has been launched to develop "practical" guidance to integrate 'just transition' considerations into sustainable bond markets, amid fears the theme has been "lost in translation" within allocation and impact reporting.
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Policy must do heavy lifting to unlock investment, says Green Climate Fund
22 June 2026There are four key elements that need to be addressed by governments in developing countries to attract and enable private capital to flow into sustainability-focused projects, according to the Green Climate Fund.
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Two changes to The Principles ExCom
22 June 2026From Peter Cripps in Milan
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PepsiCo: 'Credible, transparent measurement' needed on nature
22 June 2026PepsiCo has warned that better metrics on nature outcomes are needed before corporate investment can be scaled up, delegates at a Climate Action event heard.
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How AI can mainstream investments in Natural Capital
22 June 2026A domain-specialised AI assistant can unlock barriers to nature finance by systematising available data and processes, write a team of experts spanning MIT, X (the Moonshot Factory), and global finance.
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'Clear and growing commercial opportunity' in adaptation, GFANZ says
22 June 2026There is a "clear and growing commercial opportunity" to invest in climate adaptation and resilience, as evidenced by more private finance-led transactions no longer requiring public money to succeed, according to a report.