Environmental Finance's Americas focus day - the first of six events in the ESG in Fixed Income Global Series of conferences - ended after a day of panels, presentations and speed networking sessions.
In response to a recent webinar on emerging market green bond issuance we have hand-picked a selection of audience questions for webinar speakers Dirk Dijksma, head of innovation investments at Symbiotics and Shushanik Hovsepyan, head of capital markets at Ameriabank
Sustainability-linked bonds are proving more popular for carbon-intensive issuers than transition bonds, and experts are worried the 'transition' label is adding unnecessary confusion in the market. Ahren Lester and Christopher Marchant report
Check the winners of Environmental Finance Bond Awards.
6 May 2021
Part of the ESG in Fixed Income Global Series 2021. A select group of winners from EF's 2021 Bond awards will be chosen to talk about their innovative approaches and strategies that further develop the GSS bond universe.
20 May 2021
Discuss how biodiversity loss may affect companies' risk-reward profiles is one of the hot topics of the year and is only set to intensify.
8 June 2021
To coincide with the UN World Oceans Day, this briefing afternoon will review one of the most exciting areas of development for natural capital investment.
16-17 June 2021
Part of the ESG in Fixed Income Global Series 2021. With a spotlights on ICMA's Sustainability-Linked Bond Principles 'one year on', the growth of KPI-linked products and social bonds.
6 July 2021
Hear how investors are turning their attention to the broad range of water issues that are material to the long-term financial performance of their investments.
7 September 2021
Understand how investment opportunities in forestry, agriculture and sustainable land use continue to develop and how they can best preserve carbon, biodiversity, soil quality and ecosystems.
16 September 2021
Part of the ESG in Fixed Income Global Series 2021. With spotlights on transition strategies, climate resilience and science-based targets.
14 October 2021
Part of the ESG in Fixed Income Global Series 2021. With spotlights on emerging markets, sovereign bonds and US munis.
18 November 2021
Part of the ESG in Fixed Income Global Series 2021. With spotlights on standards and harmonisation, ESG data, bondholder engagements and impact reporting.
Advances in artificial intelligence (AI) technology have the potential to help investors to collect and aggregate ESG data more effectively. This webinar will look at how investors are approaching such technologies and consider the opportunities for ESG data collection in emerging markets.
This free webinar will consider how the transition to a low carbon economy can minimise negative impacts to people and jobs, as well as considering the effect the Covid-19 has had on just transition impact themes.
This webinar will consider how impact investment is changing the investment decisions that pension funds are making.
This webinar will assess how a shift towards impact compares with other forms of private equity investment strategies.
Part of the ESG in Fixed Income Global Series 2021. With additional spotlights on transition bonds, social bonds and sustainability-linked loans.
Exploring the integral role that Natural Capital investment can play in building climate resilience.
On demand - the leading event for issuers and investors about the green, social and sustainability bond market
The original CRO's hub for the insurance industry.
Bringing the investor, corporate and data provider communities together to discuss the future of ESG Data.
An investor panel looks at how investors can value natural capital assets and structure funds. Features gold sponsor Mirova Natural Capital.
A review of nature-based solutions and ecosystem services with potential to scale. Features gold sponsor Lombard Odier Investment Managers.
How impact can maximise environmental and biodiversity gains. Features gold sponsor HSBC Pollination Climate Asset Management and silver sponsor The Nature Conservancy.
What policy makers can do to collectively to protect nature within financial systems. Features silver sponsors Impax Asset Management and Baker McKenzie.