News

• Introduce tax exemption for green bond investors, Canada told

  14 June 2019

  Canada’s government has been encouraged to establish a comply-or-explain approach to climate-related disclosures, introduce tax incentives to encourage green bond issuance and develop a ‘transition-oriented’ taxonomy.

• Spatial data's potential to spot environmental risk in sovereign bonds

  14 June 2019

  Data generated by satellite imagery can help sovereign bond investors better assess environmental risks that could weaken a country's economy, a report said.

• People moves: UNFCCC: London Collective Investment Vehicle: Aon Securities

  14 June 2019

  The United Nations Framework Concerning Climate Change (UNFCCC) has hired Padraig Oliver as a climate finance programme officer.

• ESMA urges EU Commission to increase sustainability regulation

  14 June 2019

  The European Commission has been urged by an EU supervisory authority to introduce regulation, rather than non-binding guidelines, in areas such as requiring sustainability-related disclosures and accreditation of green bond second opinion providers.

• Pimco, AfDB, Iberdrola and ING elected to GBP executive committee

  13 June 2019

  US investment management giant Pimco and Dutch bank ING are among four institutions to have been elected to the executive committee of the Green Bond Principles (GBPs) and Social Bond Principles (SBPs).

• GBPs map 'green' project eligibility against other taxonomies

  13 June 2019

  A mapping of how the influential Green Bond Principles' (GBPs) judgment of "greenness" corresponds with that of other standards and taxonomies has been published.

• Green bond round-up, 12 June 2019

  12 June 2019

  The US Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corporation (Freddie Mac) plans to enter the green bond market with a new commercial mortgage-backed security programme.

• AXA IM pens 'transition bond guidelines'

  12 June 2019

  AXA Investment Managers has penned guidelines for issuing 'transition bonds', arguing that the development of this new asset class is necessary to stop the green bond market being undermined.

• European alternatives managers top in ESG performance despite Asian, US improvement

  11 June 2019

  European alternatives managers continue to lead the world in environmental, social and governance (ESG) performance, but Asia and the US are steadily improving, according to a new report from LGT Capital Partners.

• Voluntary carbon market could put an end to claims of 'climate neutrality'

  11 June 2019

  Companies that buy emissions offsets in the voluntary carbon market may no longer be able to claim the transactions make them "carbon neutral", according to a consultation document drawn up by several market players.