25 April 2024

Wave of change: The state of play on blue bonds

Analysis

24 April 2024

Article 6 and CORSIA: preparing for compliance

With airlines set to demand vast numbers of carbon credits, a supply crunch is a very real risk, writes Pedro Carvalho
23 April 2024

What is the most important skill you need to succeed in sustainable finance?

While data skills are important in determining whether you get a job in sustainable finance, communication skills are key to making a success of these jobs, write Rory Sullivan and Nicky Amos
22 April 2024

Comment: Are we finally ready to have a grown-up conversation about the transition?

There are encouraging signs we are starting to have a more sophisticated and practical conversation about how to invest in the transition, says Peter Cripps
18 April 2024

Is Asia's transition finance harming climate goals?

Is the transition label a way to pull the wool over the eyes of investors and the public on climate action, asks Christina Ng
16 April 2024

SFDR 'not working for impact VC funds'

Venture capital funds are calling for special treatment in the updated version of SFDR. Jennifer Forrest reports
16 April 2024

Natural capital will become a fundamental component of investors' portfolios

Ben O'Donnell responds to Environmental Finance's article: 'Comment: Can natural capital become its own asset class?'

News

  • Morningstar Sustainalytics ex-president joins Glass Lewis as CEO

    25 April 2024

  • BlackRock and Temasek's Decarbonization Partners closes debut fund at $1.4bn

    25 April 2024

  • Investors 'can help turn the tide on England's sewage crisis'

    25 April 2024

  • Allianz GI 'could develop products on biodiversity this year

    25 April 2024

  • Enel SLB target miss 'unlikely' to trigger forced selling, says Barclays

    25 April 2024

  • UN kills off NZIA and launches multi-stakeholder forum for net zero

    25 April 2024

  • Nature risks bigger threat to the economy than Global Financial Crisis, warns GFI

    25 April 2024

  • Nature Action 100 publishes company benchmark design

    25 April 2024

  • TNFD unlikely to be major issue in proxy season, says Morningstar

    24 April 2024

  • AllianzGI to support two major biodiversity resolutions

    24 April 2024

  • Bond round-up: Equitable Bank, Scotiabank, KBN ... and more

    24 April 2024

  • Enel SLB target miss 'very significant event' for market

    24 April 2024

  • 'Historic day' as EU CSDDD approved

    24 April 2024

  • 'Unprecedented': Woodside Energy climate plan rejected by investors

    24 April 2024

  • More money market funds are Article 8, but fewer put ESG in the name

    24 April 2024

  • Taxonomy users told to get creative to maximise its transition planning potential

    24 April 2024

  • ISSB to work on biodiversity disclosures

    23 April 2024

  • FCA confirms start date for anti-greenwashing rule

    23 April 2024

  • Rwanda considering sovereign SLB after development bank success

    23 April 2024

  • Austria launches ground-breaking 'green' money market instrument

    23 April 2024

  • Governments urged to make nature transition plans mandatory

    23 April 2024

  • Europe needs more green securitisations, says head of French central bank

    23 April 2024

  • Moody's promotes Ghosh to global role

    22 April 2024

  • BoE suggests ways financial institutions can build on climate scenarios

    22 April 2024

  • The UK's SDR has overlooked 'ethical' funds

    22 April 2024

  • EFRAG proposes reducing 'circular economy' ESRS datapoints

    22 April 2024

  • Transition bond label is a 'distraction' for transition finance, says MetLife IM

    22 April 2024

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  1. Enel SLB target miss 'very significant event' for market
  2. Comment: Are we finally ready to have a grown-up conversation about the transition?
  3. ISSB to work on biodiversity disclosures
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  5. Natural capital will become a fundamental component of investors' portfolios
  6. Transition bond label is a 'distraction' for transition finance, says MetLife IM
  7. What is the most important skill you need to succeed in sustainable finance?
  8. Nature Action 100 publishes company benchmark design
  9. Governments urged to make nature transition plans mandatory
  10. BoE suggests ways financial institutions can build on climate scenarios

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EF Data

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Quarterly sustainable bond issuance by label ($Value)

Provisional data for Q1 2024 shows a general uptick in issuance of all labels from the previous quarter except for sustainability linked bonds which have had their weakest quarter since Q1 2021 and have been on a downward trend since their peak in Q4 2021. Conversely transition bonds have had a record-breaking quarter due to Japan’s pioneering sovereign transition bonds.

Green bonds remain by far the largest label while sustainability and social bonds have kept at similar levels in Q1 2024, with sustainability bonds slightly outperforming social bonds for the first time since Q1 2023. Overall Q1 2024 has been one of the strongest quarters on record.

You can read more on Environmental Finance Data's forecast and prediction here.

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