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As COP26 winds up, Euromoney looks at how a big reduction in fossil-fuel consumption might impact the currencies of the world’s leading coal and oil exporters.
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EU and US need to offer developing world more to secure an ambitious deal
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Fund to help Latin America meet national targets set out in the Paris Agreement
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Some 20 countries candidates for debt for conservation, says Credit Suisse sustainability chief
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Continued support for fossil fuel-producing clients will remain a bedrock of energy insurance underwriting for some time to come as the insurance market looks to shift towards environmentally friendly underwriting, market participants have told Insurance Insider.
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Whenever an ESG debt capital markets transaction catches the attention of the mainstream press, it tends to put noses out of joint among those who did not participate.
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Rabobank CEO Wiebe Draijer says that private finance must have a role in financing the transition to a more sustainable, equitable and healthy way of feeding the planet.
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Governments have been slow to impose compulsory cap and trade schemes, but if voluntary markets nudge them along, a new asset class could flourish.
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Hertz to accelerate energy transition in rental car sector
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EM sovereigns make bold pleas for climate cash
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Issuer picks Scope 3 emissions as focus but LBO target history keeps order book slim
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Map of agreements on green activities could become kernel of international standard
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Labelled issuance now accounts for at least one in four euro senior transactions
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The International Sustainability Standards Board (ISSB) is one of the most closely watched developments in climate standards to have been announced at COP26. Although its launch was the culmination of an ambitious project, its work is only just beginning.
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Governments speak up on lack of funding, as investors say ESG agenda has anti-EM bias
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Scheme will bring clarity to thorny issue for capital markets
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Greens criticise group’s tolerance for fossil fuels
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Slew of COP 26 developments aims at ditching coal for clean energy
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IDB Invest will issue Latin America’s first blue bond, financing projects that support the expansion of clean water and sanitation in the region
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The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) has pledged to double its efforts to mobilise private sector climate financing by 2025
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Joachim Wenning said the financial sector would play a crucial role in the “very, very costly” energy transition.
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A programme revealed at COP26 plans to speed up progress away from coal-fired power in Indonesia and the Philippines
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The European Investment Bank is promising to provide financing only to companies that are Paris-aligned or working towards it
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Platform to provide loans to emerging markets aligned with the Paris Agreement
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ESG bonds flourish as climate targets come into more focus, but the work in Asia is only beginning
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Complexity of forest risks makes united message from financiers crucial
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Financial help needed to kickstart difficult parts of transition
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Growing investor scrutiny over ESG threatens funding access
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Resilient Water Accelerator aims to bring clean water to 50m people by 2030 — and could use the capital markets to help it deliver
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Intense competition for assets means that risk is being mispriced.
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Investors need to know pace of change, but direction is clear
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Bankers and investors say the UK climate conference could have profound effect on corporate finance
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The flurry of ESG regulation across Europe has posed challenges for in-house counsel on the continent and further afield
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The stickiness of ESG investors is critical if the aviation industry is to meet its 2050 net-zero goals
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Amazon has started up its first Scottish windfarm, just 60km from Glasgow, where the global COP26 climate conference starts this weekend.
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Policymakers in Moscow are finally promising to tackle climate change. Will the Russian private sector follow suit?
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World Bank smashes records with 10 year dollar
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Socially responsible bond issuance already at record level and on track to reach trillion mark
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The president of the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank tells Euromoney the multilateral is intent on being ESG friendly, and crowding more private-sector capital into infrastructure projects.
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There has always been great overlap between Shariah-compliant finance and ESG principles. Malaysia is trying to harness the potential that arises from this confluence.
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A new poll by the data-room technology provider finds that worries over the potential for post-deal value destruction because of climate change have added to a risk environment already heightened by the coronavirus pandemic.
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Before long, investors will pay as close attention to an issuer’s green framework as to its credit rating.
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The BlackRock chief executive sees a big gap opening up between the commitments of large public companies and banks and the rest of society as inflation hits.
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The consequences of missing an ESG target on a debt issue should have real bite to keep issuers accountable. Today's targets are often toothless
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Green bonds are still a tiny percentage of total market outstandings, so maybe borrowers making net-zero pledges should tie all their liabilities to them.
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The issuance of green bonds is that rare thing: a strategy on which the EU and UK agree. That is a good thing as achieving net zero will require the participation of enormous volumes of private capital.
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South African banks’ sustainable finance challenges reflect the nation’s difficult but vital transition away from coal.
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Gas price volatility is delivering profits to speculators. It is a reminder that carbon trading markets could face PR problems if energy dealers are viewed as big beneficiaries.
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The rising price of oil and gas in this recovery underlines the need for much greater investment in clean energy.
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Many initiatives have promised to crowd in private capital through the catalytic effect of their own seed investment. Will this one work?
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James Gifford’s life changed when he hopped aboard a flight from Sydney in 2003. The team he joined in Geneva framed the UN’s Principles for Responsible Investment, created the concept of ‘ESG’ and changed the world.
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Derivatives could turbocharge environmental, social and governance markets, with a related boost to bank revenues. However, they could also make it harder to monitor exposure.
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China faces tough choices in the months ahead. Make the right decisions and it can become the global leader in ESG, a country determined to shed its industrial past and embrace a cleaner, greener future.
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AirTrunk has converted its existing corporate loan facility of more than A$2.1 billion (US$1.55 billion) into a Sustainability Linked Loan (SLL).
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Bright people, information overload and impenetrable jargon: our ESG editor Lucy Fitzgeorge-Parker reflects on her first 12 months covering a fast-growing sector.
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The IFC’s Latin America head sees local capital markets growth as key to financing sustainability.
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Data centre operator Aligned has increased its sustainability-linked financing by $250 million to $1.25 billion.
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