Sustainable Finance Insights - January 2021 Highlights
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In this episode, Nick and Cheryl discuss some of the key sustainable finance deals and transactions from the beginning of the year. Environmental Finance released its annual Sustainable Bonds Insights report, which highlights a record year for green, social, sustainability and sustainability-linked bonds with more than 602 billion in issuance in 2020. Also of note in the report is that Sustainalytics continues to be a market leader with more than 30% of market share among opinion providers (based on number of issuers).
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Hosts:
- Nick Gandolfo, Director, Sustainable Finance Solutions
- Cheryl Tay, Senior Associate, Sustainable Finance Solutions
Resources mentioned in this episode:
- Environmental Finance: Sustainable Bonds Insights 2021
- CBI: Record $269.5bn green issuance for 2020 (includes themes for 2021)
- Sustainalytics: 2021 Outlook podcast episode
- BlackRock: Larry Fink 2021 letter to CEOs
- Pension Age: Cushon launches ‘world’s first’ Net Zero Now pension
- Portfolio Earth: Bankrolling Extinction
- Environmental Finance: Are green bonds funding the transition?
- Environmental Finance: Green Bond Funds – Impact Reporting Practices 2020
- CBI & HSBC: Sovereign Green, Social and Sustainability Bond Survey
- Sustainalytics Country Risk Ratings
- Science-Based Targets: From Ambition to Impacts
- Sustainalytics Sustainability-Linked Bonds
- Hellenic Shipping News: The Poseidon Principles Disclosure Report is good, but the disclosure could have been better
- Responsible Investor: Experts question credibility of the world’s first official transition bond despite high investor demand
Sustainalytics SPOs:
- Central China Real Estate Limited Green Finance Framework
- BDO Sustainable Finance Framework
- Hudson Green Financing Framework
- Trinity Industries Leasing Company Green Financing Framework
- CSCDA Community Improvement Authority Social Bond Framework
- New World Development Green Finance Framework
- Seaspan Sustainability-Linked Bond
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