News

• Boston Common withdraws climate resolutions with Verizon and Home Depot

  08 March 2019

  Boston Common Asset Management has withdrawn its climate-related shareholder resolutions with Verizon Communications and The Home Depot after reaching agreements with the companies.

• ING issues first sustainability loan in Spanish real estate sector

  08 March 2019

  ING has issued the first sustainability loan in the Spanish real estate sector.

• Double down on data to defeat greenwashing, MSCI says

  08 March 2019

  An increase in ‘greenwashing’ can be curbed if asset managers increase the availability of sustainability data of investment portfolios, MSCI has claimed.

• Corporate green bond issuers 'should have transition strategies'

  07 March 2019

  Investors should base decisions about whether to invest in corporate green bonds on their issuer's forward-looking and low-carbon transition strategy, said panelists at a conference of NGO Climate Bonds Initiative (CBI).

• BlackRock launches six sustainable ETFs

  07 March 2019

  BlackRock has launched six 'sustainable' exchange-traded funds (ETFs), as it predicts a 20-fold increase in assets in this space over the next decade.

• Draft EU green bond standard published

  06 March 2019

  Proposals for an EU green bond standard (EU GBS) have been published, which endorse regulating second opinion providers and requiring post-issuance impact reporting.

• 79% of green bonds report post-issuance

  06 March 2019

  79% of the green bond market, according to value, is reporting on its use of proceeds (UoP) and impact, according to NGO Climate Bonds Initiative (CBI).

• Green bond round-up: BNP Paribas; NYSERDA; Nigerian first; Konan Ultra Power

  06 March 2019

  BNP Paribas has returned to the green bond market, with a €750 million ($850 million) transaction.

• JP Morgan launches high-yield corporate ESG bond index

  05 March 2019

  JP Morgan has created an environmental, social and governance (ESG) tilted, high-yield corporate bond index.

• Poland prices longest-dated sovereign green bond

  05 March 2019

  The Republic of Poland has priced the longest-dated sovereign green bond, as it returned to the green bond market for a €2 billion ($2.3 billion) fundraise.