Nominations have opened for the 2024 Environmental Finance Sustainable Debt Awards, formerly known as the Environmental Finance Bond Awards.
The awards have been rebranded in light of the expanding universe of green, social, sustainability and sustainability-linked (GSSS) bond and loan deals, with several new categories added this year.
These include:
- Award for innovation – loan structure.
- Award for innovation – loan use of proceeds.
- Green loan of the year.
- Social loan of the year.
- The Sustainability-linked bond of the year and Sustainability-linked loan of the year awards have both been broken down into sub-categories, covering corporates, financial institutions, Sovereign, Supranational and Agency (SSAs)/sub-sovereigns, and others.
Now in its ninth year, the 2024 awards include 13 updated categories, bringing the total to 80 categories that recognise the remarkable GSSS bond issuers and loan market participants, lead managers, investors, external reviewers, and personalities across the sustainable debt market.
The deadline for entries is Friday 9 February.
The awards are reviewed by an independent panel of judges from the investment community with the winners announced on Environmental Finance on Monday 1 April.
The 2024 awards follow the success of the 2023 Environmental Finance Bond Awards which attracted close to 400 entries from a diverse range of market participants, with the winner list revealing the depth of innovation in the market.
The rebranding of awards matches the rebranding of the 2023 ESG in Fixed Income Global Conference Series to the 2024 Sustainable Debt Global Conference Series, taking place in London, New York and Singapore, with a similar expansion of coverage to include a greater focus on sustainable loans markets.