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Monoline-wrapped renewables project financing could be a game-changer
20 September 2019The application of insurance-wrapped debt to renewable-energy project financing is likely to emerge as a valuable addition to the green capital markets toolkit, writes Keith Mullin
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Setting the benchmark for sustainable banking
18 September 2019The Principles for Responsible Banking are due to be launched this month. Could they be a game-changer for the sector, Michael Hurley asks
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Sustainable finance: it's all about transition! Part two
13 September 2019In the second of this two-part series, Hervé P. Duteil explores the concept of Transition Finance and its limits, and proposes a non-prescriptive framework to start thinking about transition bonds (and loans)
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Growing the NY Green Bank
13 September 2019NY Green Bank's Alfred Griffin will deliver a keynote address at next week’s ESG in Fixed Income conference, featuring Green Bonds Americas. He tells Michael Hurley about the bank's next moves
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Rising to the challenge
13 September 2019While the mandatory carbon markets await new rules, the voluntary market remains buoyant and is pushing into new areas. Katie Kouchakji talks to this year's winners of our Voluntary Carbon Market Rankings to find out what's cooking.
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Sustainable finance: it's all about transition! Part one
06 September 2019In the first of this two-part series, Hervé P. Duteil explores the question of what transition finance is and identifies three revolutions within it
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Climate Action – how the bond market can finance the fight
05 September 2019The green bond market and the carbon markets could be combined to help decarbonise the economy, suggests Mark Leahy.
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Green bond comment September: Are stringent standards a good thing?
04 September 2019Heads were turned when it was recently revealed that just 17% of the market value of bonds contained in the Bloomberg Barclays MSCI Green Bond Index would meet the proposed EU Taxonomy criteria – and thus be eligible to be verified in line with the EU Green Bond Standard (GBS).
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A proposal for rating unremediated pollution costs of business
03 September 2019A new system could be used to price in externalities, argue Praveen Varma, Mark Gold and Henry Shilling
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Climate risk management: what about corporate lending?
26 August 2019Financial institutions need to do more, argues Brianna Peterson
- Comment: The rumpus over SBTi's offsetting U-turn
- EU should create 'sustainability-linked green bond' label, says IEEFA
- SBTi board faces resignations and staff ire after change to carbon credit stance
- EDF green bonds 'at risk' after French nuclear weapon move, says Barclays
- SBTi warms to offsets, in massive move for voluntary carbon market
- White Paper 3 - The role of ESG disclosure in sustainable bond investment decisions
- SFDR 'not working for impact VC funds'
- World Bank releases 'game-changing' streamlined impact metrics
- SBTi clarifies carbon credit stance amid staff unrest
- 'Naive' to think nature disclosures will help scale up investment, UK MPs hear