As part of Environmental Finance's ESG in Fixed Income 2020 virtual conference, David Gregg, head of corporate finance at Yorkshire Water, gave a presentation on how Yorkshire Water's capital markets approach is financing sustainability initiatives such as flood management and peatland restoration.
The US government has established a White House Climate and Trade Task Force to study ways it can tackle "carbon leakage, carbon dumping, and embodied carbon in general" and draw lessons from the EU's Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism (CBAM).
Bond issuances tackling hard-to-abate sectors can have their transition-focused bonds judged as green bonds if they manage "obsolescence risk," a sustainable bond investor told an Environmental Finance event.
The firm's latest fund will diversify into generating carbon credits, Ricardo Vernazza-Paganini tells Genevieve Redgrave
