01 July 2025

Make mine a double! The sustainability reporting materiality debate

Analysis

30 June 2025

Easing the reporting burden

EFRAG's plan to simplify the CSRD and lighten its load on companies met with guarded praise from financial institutions. Michael Hurley reports
27 June 2025

Sustainable Debt Asia Conference 2025 Round-up

The event in Singapore heard how the region is taking a practical approach to the transition, writes Ahren Lester
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

News

  • EIOPA urges deeper biodiversity risk action amid promising insurer steps

    01 July 2025

  • Aberdeen: 'Public bond markets are well-primed for climate adaptation and resilience'

    01 July 2025

  • Debt-for-nature swaps get guidance to support scalability, project expansion

    01 July 2025

  • Pioneering Poland returns to green bond market after six-year hiatus

    01 July 2025

  • GIST Impact to integrate Biodiversity Intactness Index

    01 July 2025

  • ECB adds nature-related risk reference for first time in monetary policy strategy

    01 July 2025

  • UK pension fund to invest £25m in upcoming nature 'infra' fund

    01 July 2025

  • Fossil fuel underwriting curbs are effective but implementation is patchy, study shows

    01 July 2025

  • Nobody will fight hard to save 'ESG', says Morningstar

    01 July 2025

  • Oxygen Conservation aims for £1bn natural capital portfolio

    30 June 2025

  • Manulife: 'We are watching the interesting SLLB instrument closely'

    30 June 2025

  • 'Several vulnerabilities' in financial institutions' sustainability reports, ESMA finds

    30 June 2025

  • Data centres a 'huge' sustainable investment opportunity, says HSBC

    30 June 2025

  • 'Better explanation of taxonomy differences could drive cross-border investment'

    30 June 2025

  • Treat emerging market sovereigns differently in transition investments - BlackRock

    27 June 2025

  • ING replaces DZ Bank on Principles ExCom

    27 June 2025

  • Singaporean banks carry out nature-risk study

    27 June 2025

  • Rathbones secures SDR labels for £566m sustainable multi-asset range

    27 June 2025

  • Lack of reliable data hindering investment in the Global South, says AXA

    27 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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  2. Treat emerging market sovereigns differently in transition investments - BlackRock
  3. ICMA Principles gives green light to 'nature bond' label
  4. ING replaces DZ Bank on Principles ExCom
  5. Manulife: 'We are watching the interesting SLLB instrument closely'
  6. Singaporean banks carry out nature-risk study
  7. Data centres a 'huge' sustainable investment opportunity, says HSBC
  8. Microsoft in landmark soil carbon credit deal
  9. Winners of Environmental Finance's Sustainable Investment Awards 2025 revealed
  10. Easing the reporting burden

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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
27 June 2025

Sustainable Debt Asia Conference 2025 Round-up

The event in Singapore heard how the region is taking a practical approach to the transition, writes Ahren Lester
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

  • Manulife: 'We are watching the interesting SLLB instrument closely'

  • 'Better explanation of taxonomy differences could drive cross-border investment'

  • Singaporean banks carry out nature-risk study

  • 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

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.

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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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