News

• Tesco to consider social targets in SLBs

  03 May 2022

  UK supermarket firm Tesco would consider linking sustainability-linked bonds to social targets, an executive at the company said.

• Climate change 'the ultimate systemic risk,' says BoE

  03 May 2022

  Climate change represents "the ultimate systemic risk ... [because] firms cannot diversify away from their exposure to the planet," a senior official at the Bank of England (BoE) has said.

• Quadoro and aream launch renewable energy impact fund

  03 May 2022

  Quadoro and aream have launched an open-ended impact fund which will invest solely in renewable energy and which the fund managers said is one of the first of its kind in Germany.

• Allianz to halt investments in new oil and gas fields

  03 May 2022

  And will require 'net-zero by 2050' commitment from hydrocarbon producers

• Berlin Hyp readies first social bond

  02 May 2022

  German real estate lender Berlin Hyp is preparing to issue its maiden social bond, shortly after the prolific sustainable bond issuer described social debt as the "missing link" in its sustainable financing.

• ESG in Fixed Income EMEA 2022 conference: Highlights

  30 April 2022

  Environmental Finance's in-person ESG in Fixed Income EMEA 2022 conference in London recently highlighted the crucial environmental, social and governance (ESG) topics relevant to the fixed income markets in the region

• Emerging markets 'need their own taxonomy'

  29 April 2022

  Emerging markets need their own taxonomy of sustainable activities that is even more granular than the EU Taxonomy, according to one ESG data expert.

• EU taxonomy amber category 'could lead to greenwashing'

  29 April 2022

  The planned introduction of an amber category in the EU's taxonomy is likely to lead to greenwashing if not used as a short-term transitional stepping stone, an Environmental Finance conference heard.

• SLB step-downs are 'opportunity' for sovereigns

  29 April 2022

  HSBC has highlighted an "opportunity" for sovereigns to include 'step-down' provisions in their sustainability-linked bond frameworks.

• Russia posed 'challenge' to ESG emerging market benchmarks

  29 April 2022

  Russia's invasion of Ukraine posed a challenge to some environmental, social and governance (ESG) emerging market (EM) benchmarks...