News

• BlackRock insurance report sees green bonds surge within larger ESG uptake

  20 September 2018

  Insurers are expected to boost green bond investments in the next five years, as a majority has adopted environmental, social and governance (ESG) investment policies in North America and Europe, a BlackRock report said.

• Bank loans for green project finance have lower default risk than non-green, finds Moody's

  19 September 2018

  Project finance bank loans for green use-of-proceeds projects demonstrate a lower risk of default compared with non-green projects, according to a new report from Moody's Investors Service.

• Green bond round-up, 19 September

  19 September 2018

  DZ Bank is planning to raise €250 million ($300 million) by issuing its first labelled green bond.

• Big four audit firms under spotlight on climate reporting

  19 September 2018

  The ‘big four’ audit firms have been challenged to explain their failure to flag deficiencies in companies’ climate risk reporting.

• SGD1.2bn green loan for Singapore building issued

  18 September 2018

  The first syndicated, secured green loan in South East Asia has been issued, raising SGD1.2 billion ($900 million) to help fund an environmentally-friendly green building in Singapore.

• Financial centres set out principles for sustainability taxonomies

  18 September 2018

  The International Network of Financial Centres for Sustainability (FC4S) has set out ten principles that sustainability taxonomies should meet to avoid increasing transaction costs for financial institutions and to avoid policy confusion.

• EU carbon market update, 17 September 2018

  17 September 2018

  Louis Redshaw reflects on a week of extreme volatility for EU allowances

  

• Wrap-up of sustainable finance stories from San Francisco

  17 September 2018

  Wrap-up of sustainable finance stories from San Francisco

• ING adopts science-based targets

  17 September 2018

  Dutch bank ING said it will adopt science-based targets to steer its €500 billion ($580 billion) lending portfolio towards a low-carbon future.

• PKA makes 10% renewables pledge

  17 September 2018

  Danish pension fund Pensionskassernes Administration (PKA) has pledged to ramp up its investments in renewable energy to 10% of the value of its portfolio by 2020.