26 June 2025

Winners of Environmental Finance's Sustainable Investment Awards 2025 revealed

Analysis

26 June 2025

Placing African institutions at the forefront of the global sustainability agenda

Nana Skari Maidugu, named Personality of the year in Environmental Finance's Sustainable Investment Awards, explains her work to Annabelle Palmer
25 June 2025

What other countries can learn from how China financed a green transformation

China's green transformation has come about more from "financing green" than "greening finance", write Calvin Quek and Mathias Larsen
24 June 2025

Defending the indefensible?

Capital is pouring into the defence sector - but can it be considered a sustainable investment, asks Rob Langston
23 June 2025

Climate adaptation: The storm is upon us

Collaboration on climate resilience is now as important as mitigation, write Leslie Maasdorp and Stephanie Pfeifer

News

  • People Moves, 27 June: Cbus Super Fund, Osmosis, BII, Revaia

    27 June 2025

  • TNFD to release investment manager guidance

    27 June 2025

  • Defence 'likely' to be ineligible for sustainable bonds, says ICMA Principles

    27 June 2025

  • APAC investors in 'flight to basics' away from SLBs, conference hears

    26 June 2025

  • ICMA Principles gives green light to 'nature bond' label

    26 June 2025

  • National biodiversity plans not yet 'investment grade', says banking giant

    26 June 2025

  • 'Bankability' key to unlocking capital for APAC region's sustainable infra projects

    26 June 2025

  • No transition without 'just transition', says Nomura's Mortimer

    26 June 2025

  • Objective of labelled bond market should not be more labels, says Schroders

    26 June 2025

  • Corporates could become big issuers of 'adaptation' debt, APAC conference hears

    26 June 2025

  • Winners of Environmental Finance's Sustainable Investment Awards 2025 revealed

    26 June 2025

  • GRI adds transition plan & 'just transition' requirements to overhauled standards

    26 June 2025

  • VC appetite for climate-tech continues to decline, says report

    26 June 2025

  • Institutional investors looking for 50-60% IRR in nature projects, claims major bank

    26 June 2025

  • GIIN framework helps asset owners prioritise most impactful climate mitigation strategies

    25 June 2025

  • Sustainable debt round-up: EIB's record orderbook, RWE, Nigeria and more

    25 June 2025

  • Australian regulator to integrate adaptation into taxonomy

    25 June 2025

  • UK consults on transition plan rules, ISSB-aligned standards

    25 June 2025

  • Investors see exclusion as doing little to reduce real world emissions, says Nordea

    25 June 2025

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Market Insight

Catalysing sustainable growth: how CGIF unlocks bond markets in the ASEAN+3 region

Anuj Awasthi, CGIF's vice president of operations tells Environmental Finance how the fund deepening local bond markets and mobilising vital funds towards impact.
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  3. Defending the indefensible?
  4. Nature rising on the agenda amid anti-climate and ESG rhetoric, says Aviva
  5. 'Stuck in cycle of metrics' on nature, says mining giant
  6. Ravi Menon: MDBs are 'crowding out' private sector for blended finance
  7. UK consults on transition plan rules, ISSB-aligned standards
  8. What other countries can learn from how China financed a green transformation
  9. UK lays ground for ISSB endorsement and transition plan consultation
  10. We need to 'make it okay again' to invest in carbon, says Standard Chartered's Winters

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Sustainable Investment Awards 2025

Sustainable Investment Awards 2025

Sustainable Investment Awards are global and seek to recognise asset managers, analysts and data providers incorporating ESG across all asset classes. The winners have been announced.

Clarifying the investment gap and risk exposure

Bridging the sustainable and transition financing gap impacts sovereigns and companies alike. Rahul Ghosh, managing director and global head of sustainable finance at Moody's Ratings, tells Environmental Finance how greater transparency can help.

Taking a sector-specific microscope to climate transition planning

The Transition Pathway Initiative Centre's new Net Zero Standards Assessment Framework takes a sector-specific approach to extractive companies' transition plans. Seyed Alireza Modirzadeh explains

Why forests are the next frontier in climate investment

Investors increasingly understand the role sustainable forestry can play in the path to a net zero economy, argues Andrew Boutwell, Senior Managing Director and Head of Investment Management at Forest Investment Associates.

Focus on Asia Pacific

More on Asia Pacific
26 June 2025

Sustainable Debt Asia 2025

The original event for GSSS bond issuers and investors
25 June 2025

What other countries can learn from how China financed a green transformation

China's green transformation has come about more from "financing green" than "greening finance", write Calvin Quek and Mathias Larsen

  • APAC investors in 'flight to basics' away from SLBs, conference hears

  • 'Bankability' key to unlocking capital for APAC region's sustainable infra projects

  • No transition without 'just transition', says Nomura's Mortimer

  • Corporates could become big issuers of 'adaptation' debt, APAC conference hears

  • Australian regulator to integrate adaptation into taxonomy

  • Ravi Menon: MDBs are 'crowding out' private sector for blended finance

  • Tokyo Metropolitan Government plots €300m resilience bond

  • GPIF vows to improve tracking of asset managers' stewardship activities

Environmental Finance Sustainable Debt Awards 2025

Environmental Finance's Sustainable Debt Awards 2025

Environmental Finance Sustainable Debt Awards celebrate the leading green, social, sustainable and sustainability-linked bond and loan deals and recognise market innovations. The winners have been revealed.

Supporting Japan's transition

Osamu Morishita, head of the sustainability promotion department at Mizuho Securities, reflects on the outlook for sustainability in the Japanese market for 2025.

Taking a global view of the climate transition

The climate transition is progressing unevenly, from company to company and region to region. S&P Global Ratings' Christa Clapp and Alexandra Dimitrijevic explain how investors can get a consistent picture

Personality of the year: Bodo Winkler-Viti, Berlin Hyp

Berlin Hyp funding and investor relations head Bodo Winkler-Viti has secured the 'Personality of the year' award at the Environmental Finance Sustainable Debt Awards 2025 for his role as a "true pioneer" in sustainable debt markets for a decade.

Upcoming conferences and webinars 2025

26 June 2025

Sustainable Debt Asia 2025

The original event for GSSS bond issuers and investors
2 July 2025, 3:00 PM BST

Putting the Alpha into Nature: unlocking portfolio outperformance through high-quality nature data

This webinar will explore how high-quality, asset-level nature data can be applied to identify alpha within investment portfolios.

18 September 2025, 8:30 AM

Sustainable Debt Americas 2025

The original event for GSSS bond issuers and investors
13 October 2025, 8:45 AM

The Future of ESG Data EMEA

Exploring the future of ESG data: identifying decision-useful data for investments, navigating ongoing regulatory changes, and keeping up with technological innovations shaping the field.

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Regional share of issuance over time

The past five years have seen the regional making of sustainable bond issuance shift in the face of global dynamics. In 2020 supranational issuance surged in response to the Covid-19 pandemic, yet receded as Asian issuance grew and European issuance dominated while North American issuance fluctuated between 2020 and 2025.

However Q1 2025 has seen a large drop off in the share of both North American and Asian issuance in the face of economic uncertainty, and in the US particularly – political backlash to sustainable financing. Conversely the share of supranational issuance has returned to similar levels as in 2020, with a quarter of the market compared to 26% in 2020. Meanwhile Middle Eastern issuance, which accounted for only 0.66% of the sustainable bond market in 2020 now accounts for 2.2% in the first quarter of 2025.

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