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Zurich and Amundi launch retail global green bond fund
10 July 2025Zurich Insurance Group and Amundi have launched a global green bond fund for Zurich's life insurance customers.
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SMBC Americas sustainable finance head leaves
09 July 2025Aaron Franklin has left his role as head of sustainable finance at Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation (SMBC) Americas.
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Sustainable debt round-up: Poland, Slovenia, Zelestra ... and more
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Sustainable Fitch: EM bonds perform best on impact metrics
08 July 2025Sustainability bonds from emerging market issuers outperform their developer market counterparts on impact performance, despite disclosing less information, research from Sustainable Fitch found.
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S&P to offer SPOs for 'Amazonia' bonds
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EIB: GCF investment 'significant boost' to Global Green Bond Initiative
07 July 2025The Green Climate Fund's (GCF) investment in the Global Green Bond Initiative (GGBI) will boost "its strong potential to help countries mobilising climate finance at scale", according to the European Investment Bank (EIB).
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Australian Taxonomy-linked sustainable bond guidance expected by early 2026
03 July 2025The Australian Sustainable Finance Institute (ASFI) expects to publish dedicated guidance for using the Australian Sustainable Finance Taxonomy in labelled sustainable bond transactions by early 2026 at the latest.
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Côte d'Ivoire launches 'bold' sovereign sustainability-linked debt framework
03 July 2025Côte d'Ivoire has published its sustainability-linked finance framework, preparing the ground to become the first sub-investment grade sovereign issuer of the target-based instrument.
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IDB, World Bank launch 'Amazonia Bond' programme with $1bn deal plan
02 July 2025The Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) has announced plans to raise $1 billion from a debut 'Amazonia Bond' after it launched a new sustainable bond issuance platform focused on the Amazon with the World Bank.
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GCF approves anchor investment in €3bn public-private EM green bond fund
02 July 2025The Green Climate Fund (GCF) has approved a €200 million ($235 million) anchor investment in a public-private emerging market (EM) green bond fund developed by the EU-led Global Green Bond Initiative (GGBI).
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Sustainable debt round-up: BPIfrance, Snam, Aliro Group ... and more
02 July 2025 -
London 'super sewer' seals first sterling 'blue bond'
02 July 2025Long-standing green bond issuer Tideway London has raised £250 million ($344 million) from its debut 'blue bond,' with the 'super sewer' developer securing the first sterling-denominated bond with the closely watched label.
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Debt-for-nature swaps get guidance to support scalability, project expansion
01 July 2025The first 'practice standards' for the rapidly growing 'debt-for-nature' swaps has been published, which looks to introduce greater consistency in the bespoke instruments...
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Pioneering Poland returns to green bond market after six-year hiatus
01 July 2025Poland has raised €1.25 billion ($1.5 billion) from its first green bond since 2019, nine years after the central European country became the first sovereign sustainable bond issuer.
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Regional share of issuance over time
The past five years have seen the regional making of sustainable bond issuance shift in the face of global dynamics. In 2020 supranational issuance surged in response to the Covid-19 pandemic, yet receded as Asian issuance grew and European issuance dominated while North American issuance fluctuated between 2020 and 2025.
However Q1 2025 has seen a large drop off in the share of both North American and Asian issuance in the face of economic uncertainty, and in the US particularly – political backlash to sustainable financing. Conversely the share of supranational issuance has returned to similar levels as in 2020, with a quarter of the market compared to 26% in 2020. Meanwhile Middle Eastern issuance, which accounted for only 0.66% of the sustainable bond market in 2020 now accounts for 2.2% in the first quarter of 2025.
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