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Join us for a digest of the latest research, analysis and insights on the relationships between environmental social and corporate governance issues and global business, finance and society. In each episode, hear from experts sharing their insights on how institutional investors can identify and mitigate risks related to ESG factors, but also leverage opportunities in sustainable investment and debt capital markets. This is ESG in Conversation.
Episodes
Wednesday Apr 07, 2021
Sustainable Finance Insights - February 2021 Highlights
Wednesday Apr 07, 2021
Wednesday Apr 07, 2021
Hosts:
- Nick Gandolfo, Director, Sustainable Finance Solutions
- Cheryl Tay, Senior Associate, Sustainable Finance Solutions
Resources mentioned in this episode:
- Monetary Authority of Singapore: MAS Launches World’s First Grant Scheme to Support Green and Sustainability-Linked Loans
- The Asset Triple A Sustainable Capital Markets Regional Awards 2020 – Best Second-Party Opinion Provider
- 2021 Trends Podcast Episode: Apple | Google | Spotify
- Sustainalytics: 10 for 2021: Investing in the Circular Economy
- Nasdaq: The ESG Market Could Explode This Year
- Environmental Finance: Combing Sustainability-Linked and Green Bonds Would Be ‘More Impactful’
- WWF – Dasgupta Review on the Economics of Biodiversity Report
- Sustainalytics: EU Sustainable Action Plan Resource Center
- ING: Singapore Green Plan 2030 – Important Steps Toward a Sustainable Future
- ICMA: Sustainability-Linked Bond Principles – Related Questions
- The Australian: Altech targets US$144m raise from listed green bond
- Hines: Hines and ING Agree First Green Loan Facility
- Reading on transition
- ICMA: Climate Transition Finance Handbook
- CBI White Paper: Financing a Credible Transition
- Sustainalytics: Transition Bond SPO (see under ‘Related Resources’)
- Transition Pathways Initiative: https://transitionpathwayinitiative.org/
- IEA: https://www.iea.org/topics/clean-energy-transitions
- SBTi: https://sciencebasedtargets.org/
- Sustainalytics: Sustainability-Linked Bonds SPO Backgrounder (see under ‘Latest Insights’)
- JP Morgan: JPMorgan Chase Issues $1billon Inaugural Social Bonds
- Asia Development Bank: ADB Issues First Gender Bond in Kazakhstan Tenge
- Carlyle: Announces Largest ESG-Linked Credit Facility in the US at $4.1 Billion and First-Ever Exclusively Tied to Board Diversity
- Business Green: Low Carbon Aluminium Producer Rusal Agrees $200m Sustainability-Linked Loan
- Thai Union: Thai Union Launches Inaugural Sustainability-Linked Loan
Sustainalytics SPOs:
- Alibaba Group Sustainable Finance Framework
- SCSK Corporation Green Finance Second-Party Opinion
- Trinity Industries Leasing Company Green Financing Framework Second-Party Opinion
- H&M Sustainability-Linked Bonds Second-Party Opinion
- Constellium Sustainability-Linked Financing Framework Second-Party Opinion
Wednesday Mar 10, 2021
Sustainable Finance Insights - January 2021 Highlights
Wednesday Mar 10, 2021
Wednesday Mar 10, 2021
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
Thursday Feb 25, 2021
Sustainable Finance Insights | Special Episode – 2021 Outlook
Thursday Feb 25, 2021
Thursday Feb 25, 2021
Hosts:
- Nick Gandolfo, Director, Sustainable Finance Solutions
- Cheryl Tay, Senior Associate, Sustainable Finance Solutions
Resources and SPOs mentioned in the episode:
- 10 for 2021: Investing in a circular food economy
- CBI Agriculture Criteria
- TESCO Sustainability-Linked Bond Second-Party Opinion
- Starbucks Sustainability Bond Second-Party Opinion
- Olam: Olam International secures Asia’s first sustainability-linked club loan facility for US$500 million
- BNP Paribas: Danone’s Positive Incentive Financing Strategy
- UOB/Wilmar: UOB extends US$200 million sustainability-linked loan to Wilmar in support of agricultural sustainability in Asia
- COFCO: COFCO International links sustainability performance to new USD2.1 billion credit facility
Friday Jan 29, 2021
Sustainable Finance Insights - December 2020 Highlights
Friday Jan 29, 2021
Friday Jan 29, 2021
If you would like to ask a question to be featured in a future episode, please send it to: podcast@sustainalytics.com
Hosts:
- Nick Gandolfo, Director, Sustainable Finance Solutions
- Cheryl Tay, Senior Associate, Sustainable Finance Solutions
Resources mentioned in the episode:
- ICMA transition handbook
- CBI: Financing Credible Transitions
- CBI: Green Infrastructure Investment Opportunities Philippines
- Environmental Finance: Concerns EU Taxonomy proposals diverge from TEG recommendations
- Environmental Finance: ECB to stress test banks on climate risks after finding disclosures lacking
- Bloomberg: Schroders CEO calls for climate ‘impact-adjusted profits’
- TechCrunch: The biggest step the Biden administration took on climate yesterday wasn’t rejoining the Paris Agreement
Sustainalytics’ SPOs:
Thursday Dec 17, 2020
Sustainable Finance Insights - November 2020 Highlights
Thursday Dec 17, 2020
Thursday Dec 17, 2020
If you would like to ask a question to be featured in a future episode, please send it to: podcast@sustainalytics.com
Hosts:
- Nick Gandolfo, Director, Sustainable Finance Solutions
- Cheryl Tay, Senior Associate, Sustainable Finance Solutions
Resources mentioned in the episode:
- Banking & Finance: Hype over ESG social bond sale grows after bumper demand at debut
- Environmental Finance: Are banks really going green or just greenwashing?
- Environmental Finance: Are banks really going green, or just greenwashing, Part two
- Environmental Finance: Green Bond Standard ‘may lead to fewer issuance’
- BunkerSpot: Climate Bonds Initiative launches shipping investments criteria
- I&PE: ESMA launches consultation on taxonomy KPI reporting
- Malay Mail: UK to sell its first ‘green’ bond in 2021, says Sunak
- BloombergQuint: China Opens Its Bond Market—With Unknown Consequences for World
- Global Compliance News: Indonesia Sustainability Series: Obligation to Submit Sustainability Report in 2021
Sustainalytics’ SPOs
The post Sustainable Finance Insights (November Highlights) appeared first on Sustainalytics.
Tuesday Dec 01, 2020
Sustainable Finance Insights - October 2020 Highlights
Tuesday Dec 01, 2020
Tuesday Dec 01, 2020
In addition to market updates, Cheryl and Nick answer some listener questions. Submit your questions to podcast@sustainalytics.com.
Hosts:
- Nick Gandolfo, Director, Sustainable Finance Solutions
- Cheryl Tay, Senior Associate, Sustainable Finance Solutions
Resources mentioned in the episode:
- ICMA Quarterly Newsletter – Sustainability-Linked Bond from External Review Perspective
- ICMA response to the EC consultation on the EU Green Bond Standard
- Increasing sustainable bond market scrutiny
- Environmental Finance: Science Based Targets initiative launch finance sector framework
- BCG: Why the new competitive advantage demands sustainability (Sustainable Business Model Innovation)
- Nordea: Lessons from the infant sustainability-linked bond market
- Wall Street Journal: Companies test a new type of ESG bond with fewer restrictions
- OECD: Developing Sustainable Finance Definitions and Taxonomies
- I&PE: International sustainable finance forum starts taxonomy work, gains IMF
Sustainalytics’ SPOs
Wednesday Nov 11, 2020
Sustainable Finance Insights - September 2020 Highlights
Wednesday Nov 11, 2020
Wednesday Nov 11, 2020
Hosts:
- Nick Gandolfo, Director, Sustainable Finance Solutions
- Cheryl Tay, Senior Associate, Sustainable Finance Solutions
Resources mentioned in the episode:
- AIIB & Amundi: Climate Change Investment Framework
- BP: 2020 Energy Outlook report
- World Economic Forum & Deloitte: Summary of alignment discussion among leading sustainability and integrated corporate reporting organization CDP, CDSB, GRI, IIRC and SASB
- Environmental Finance: Defining transition finance: how to be inclusive yet specific
- International Energy Agency: Energy Technology Perspectives 2020
- Hellenic Shipping News: The Poseidon Principles: Shipping emissions reduction efforts steer into new waters
- GRI Universal Standards
- GRI Sector Standard: Oil and Gas
- Natixis CIB: Report on EU Taxonomy for sustainable activities
Sustainalytics SPOs:
Tuesday Sep 29, 2020
Sustainable Finance Insights - August 2020 Highlights
Tuesday Sep 29, 2020
Tuesday Sep 29, 2020
Hosts:
- Nick Gandolfo, Director, Sustainable Finance Solutions
- Cheryl Tay, Senior Associate, Sustainable Finance Solutions
Resources mentioned in the episode:
- ING: Asia’s lamentable green Covid-19 response
- Morningstar: Sustainable Fund Flows Hit Record in Q2
- Harvard Business Review: The Challenge of Rating ESG Performance
- Sustainalytics’ public company ESG Risk Ratings
- S&P Global: Growing supply chain focus prompts interest in nascent form of ESG finance
- Sustainalytics: ESG Risk Ratings License
- Oxfam: Making Green Bonds Work
- Climate Bonds Initiative: Agriculture Criteria
- Global Impact Investing Network: R3 (Response, Recovery, and Resilience) Investment Coalition
- Bonds and SPOs:
Tuesday Sep 08, 2020
Sustainable Finance Insights - July 2020 Highlights
Tuesday Sep 08, 2020
Tuesday Sep 08, 2020
Hosts:
- Nick Gandolfo, Director, Sustainable Finance Solutions
- Cheryl Tay, Senior Associate, Sustainable Finance Solutions
Resources mentioned in the episode:
- Environmental Finance: Sustainable debt market transformed by Covid-19 impact in H1
- BBVA: How sustainability-linked bonds will breathe life into the market
- Environmental Finance: KPI-linked bonds webinar: Investors want ‘Paris alignment’
- Sustainalytics’ company ESG ratings are now public: www.sustainalytics.com/esg-ratings
- Bloomberg: MetLife Makes Green Bond Sale Debut as Financials Pave the Way
- ESI Africa: Nedbank accounts for green bonds launched in South Africa
- Bangkok Post: Govt to offer B30bn of green bonds in August
- GlobalCapital: Moncler find fit for EU 400m sustainability-linked loan
- Environmental Finance: World Bank launches EM green taxonomy development guidelines
Wednesday Jul 29, 2020
Sustainable Finance Insights - June 2020 Highlights
Wednesday Jul 29, 2020
Wednesday Jul 29, 2020
Sustainalytics’ monthly round up of the transactions and developments in the global sustainable finance market. In this episode, Nick and Cheryl note the uptick in social bond issues compared to this time last year. At the end of May global social bond issues amounted to USD 30.4 bn compared to USD 17.3 bn for the entirety of 2019.
Hosts:
- Nick Gandolfo, Director, Sustainable Finance Solutions
- Cheryl Tay, Senior Associate, Sustainable Finance Solutions
Resources mentioned in the episode:
- Lexology: Sustainable Finance 2.0: Recent Developments in the Loan Market
- International Capital Market Association (ICMA) updates
- Climate Bonds Initiative (CBI): China Green Bond Market report
- Business Standard: State Bank of India plans to raise up to $1.5 bn via overseas bonds in FY21
- Forbes: Why Hydrogen, Why Now? Because Climate, Economy and Finance Say So
- M Bank Second-Party Opinion
- Granite REIT Second-Party Opinion
- Ford Foundation Second-Party Opinion