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  • Monday, 12 February, 2024
    Moral Money
    Unloved transition bonds are big in Japan Premium content

    Sovereign bond sale follows a flurry of corporate issuance

    Fumio Kishida
  • Friday, 26 January, 2024
    Plastic pollution
    World Bank and Citi launch $100mn plastic credits bond

    Bond will fund recycling projects in Ghana and Indonesia that generate offset credits

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  • Monday, 22 January, 2024
    Moral Money
    Can blue bonds hold water in the sustainable debt market? Premium content

    A new fund seeks to kick-start the nascent sector

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  • Monday, 20 November, 2023
    LexAIB Group PLC
    AIB: green financiers should figure on greater rigour Premium content

    Banks need to prove to investors that green finance initiatives are more than just a promotional exercise

    A cyclist passes a bank branch of Allied Irish Banks in Dublin, Ireland
  • Monday, 16 October, 2023
    Moral Money
    Companies face intensifying scrutiny over greenwashing Premium content

    New investigation shines light on an obscure corner of the green debt market in Brazil

    A deforested and burnt area on a stretch of the BR-230 (Transamazonian highway) in Humaitá, Amazonas State, Brazil
  • Friday, 22 September, 2023
    ESG investing
    ‘Sustainable’ debt pioneer ditches controversial ‘blue bond’ label

    The Nature Conservancy drops term that has been criticised for suggesting all money raised goes to marine conservation

    A whale jumps to the surface off the coast of Libreville in Gabon
  • Friday, 22 September, 2023
    Sovereign bonds
    Brazil aims to raise $2bn from debut sustainable bond sale

    Green debt issuance will be a test of investor appetite for Lula’s environmental agenda

    A Brazililan federal agency officer taking part in an operation against deforestation in the Amazon in February 2023
  • Monday, 18 September, 2023
    Special ReportThe Future of Banking
    Investors urge greater scrutiny of climate funding tools

    New financing instruments spur concerns over validity of some ‘green’ investments

    A driverless vehicle in a street at the site of Masdar City
  • Thursday, 6 July, 2023
    Special ReportFT Business School Insights
    ESG investment returns face a slowdown

    The factors driving the outperformance of green stocks are changing, prize-winning professors argue

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  • Wednesday, 3 May, 2023
    Anjana Ahuja
    Turning whales into carbon-based assets won’t be easy

    We have allowed the natural capital on which we all depend to be depreciated off the books

    Illustration of a coin being placed into the breathing hole of a whale in the shape of a money box
  • Friday, 21 April, 2023
    ESG investing
    Climate penalties to be built in to more debt issuances

    Sovereign issuers plan ‘sustainability-linked bonds’ as a way of trying to woo ethical investors

  • Monday, 17 April, 2023
    New standards keep the greenwash off green bonds

    European Union aims to define what counts as sustainable debt finance and bring in independent reviewers

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  • Monday, 20 March, 2023
    Moral Money
    The green goose that ‘laid a golden egg’ Premium content

    Also in today’s newsletter, in first interview as chief executive Mars boss warns companies against fleeing ESG issues

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  • Wednesday, 1 March, 2023
    Brussels clamps down on ‘greenwashing’ in bond market

    New rules could sharply reduce the volume of bonds that qualify for a green label, say analysts

    Pedestrian pass the European Commission building
  • Tuesday, 14 February, 2023
    Sustainability bond market stumbles as investors get picky

    Issuance of debt that aims to hold companies to climate pledges has fallen amid ‘greenwashing’ concerns

    Francesco Starace, chief executive of Enel stands with his arms crossed
  • Wednesday, 25 January, 2023
    Capital markets
    India raises $1bn from maiden green bond sale

    Debt earmarked for environmental projects achieves lower borrowing cost than conventional bonds

    An engineer stands between solar panels at a solar park in Bhadla, Rajasthan, India
  • Monday, 2 January, 2023
    Lex
    Green bonds: the disappearing greenium is a welcome development Premium content

    Longer term, the bonds will cease to exist as a separate asset class

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  • Tuesday, 22 November, 2022
    LexESG investing
    EU fund managers: ESG funds confused by 50 shades of green Premium content

    Sustainable investing is complex and it is not yet clear what counts

    Dice with acronym ESG
  • Tuesday, 8 November, 2022
    Sembcorp Industries Ltd
    Sembcorp coal deal raises concerns about distortions in green bonds

    Energy provider to avoid rise in interest payments on sustainability linked debt but will continue to finance the Indian assets

    Smog in Kolkata, India
  • Monday, 7 November, 2022
    Moral Money
    ‘Loss and damage’ is the hot debate at COP27 Premium content

    Plus, the green bond market is doing better than you might think

    People stand under an arch emblazoned with the COP27 logo
  • Friday, 14 October, 2022
    Alice Ross
    Green gilts are under a shadow

    Options for bond buyers with an ESG twist

    A Scottish wind farm
  • Tuesday, 20 September, 2022
    Special Report
    FTfm: Responsible Investing

    Investors are realising that loss of biodiversity is as serious as climate change. Plus: activists see executive pay as tool to bring about change; asset funds warned of greenwashing; carbon credits being questioned as tool for net-zero goals; turmoil prompts supply chain audit

  • Monday, 18 July, 2022
    Special ReportSustainable Finance
    Rising green bond issuance erodes premiums

    But tighter sustainability rules may give the ‘greenium’ a new lease of life

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  • Thursday, 24 March, 2022
    Banking & Savings
    UK green savings bond sales ‘underwhelming’

    Critics question the environmental merits of the scheme

    A wind turbine, part of a wind farm in the Shetland Islands
  • Monday, 21 March, 2022
    FTfm
    Fears rise over ‘greenwash’ bonds

    Market participants in the environmental lending market want assurances on standards

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