Green Bonds

  • 'Big four' SPO providers becomes 'big five' in 2024

    10 February 2025

    Japan-focused Rating and Investment Information (R&I) secured more than a 10% share of the sustainable finance second-party opinion market in 2024, joining the global 'big four' US providers led by Sustainalytics and S&P Global.

  • South Korea readies sovereign green bond market return in 2026

    06 February 2025

    South Korea is planning to issue a green bond in 2026 following investor engagement, according to a senior government official - five years after the sovereign was last active in the market.

  • 'SLBs can be the right tool for impact investing' urge investors

    06 February 2025

    Sustainability-linked bonds (SLBs) have the potential to be valuable impact investing tools and regulations in Europe could be building the right "home" for the performance-based instrument,...

  • We want the greenium to go away, says Amundi

    06 February 2025

    An Amundi fixed income specialist argued that green-labelled bonds should not attract a 'greenium'.

  • Ashmore plans $3bn EM impact debt fund

    06 February 2025

    Emerging markets-focused asset manager Ashmore plans to raise $3 billion for its first impact debt fund, a conference heard.

  • KEPCO drops sustainable bond label from US dollar issuance

    05 February 2025

    South Korean utility firm Korea Electric Power Corporation (KEPCO) has launched its first US dollar-denominated bond transaction without a sustainable bond label in years,...

  • Sustainable debt round-up: UK, Japan, Hapag-Lloyd ... and more

    05 February 2025
  • Fannie Mae joins IBRD in exclusive $200bn sustainable bond club

    05 February 2025

    US government-owned mortgage provider Fannie Mae has raised more than $200 billion from sustainable bonds, becoming only the second issuer to cross this milestone.

  • KfW green bond tap three-times oversubscribed

    04 February 2025

    German development bank KfW has raised €3 billion ($3.1 billion) from a tap of its existing green bond due March 2032, with the deal attracting an orderbook of around €8.75 billion.

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Annual issuance of sustainable bonds

Preliminary figures from 2024 show annual sustainable bond issuance above $1 trillion for the first time since 2021. After a decline in annual issuance to $970 billion in 2022, recovering to just shy of $1 trillion in 2023, the sustainable bond market continues its incremental growth, although is still some way from reaching the all time high of 2021 which saw $1.15 trillion in sustainable bond issuance.

For more in-depth analysis of the trends in the sustainable bond market in 2024 look out for Environmental Finance’s Sustainable Bonds Insight Guide 2025 coming in February 2025.

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