The latest figures from Lyxor Capital have shown that ESG ETFs continued their unprecedented growth trend by gathering €12.6 billion ($15 billion) in February 2021, setting a new record and capturing 70% of the total ETF flows.
Last month, equity ESG ETFs gained €6 billion and fixed income ESG ETFs saw €6.6 billion of flows.
On a regional basis, there was €7 billion in cumulative flows in February 2021 for the US, more than double Europe and the Asia Pacific regions combined.
The US government has established a White House Climate and Trade Task Force to study ways it can tackle "carbon leakage, carbon dumping, and embodied carbon in general" and draw lessons from the EU's Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism (CBAM).
Bond issuances tackling hard-to-abate sectors can have their transition-focused bonds judged as green bonds if they manage "obsolescence risk," a sustainable bond investor told an Environmental Finance event.
The firm's latest fund will diversify into generating carbon credits, Ricardo Vernazza-Paganini tells Genevieve Redgrave
