Newsletter - Page 2

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Renew Power has successfully closed a US$985m-equivalent Green Loan to finance round-the-clock renewable energy projects in the States of Rajasthan, Maharashtra and Karnataka, India....

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Euro GSSS (Green, Social, Sustainability and Sustainability-linked) issuances, all type of issuers combined, reached EUR 255 bn by the end of September. This represents a 17% decre...

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Details were released late September on how ECB’s green QE would work. The titling of bonds purchasing program focuses on climate change mitigation and began to apply to corporat...

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Ahead of COP 27 starting on November 6th, 2022, the Sustainability-linked Sovereign Debt Hub (SSDH) was launched last September by several Development Finance Institutions (DFI...

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Ramsay Santé topped up its collateral trust, making it one of the largest on the French market (€366.2m in cumulative contracted loan) and the first to be linked to sustainability...

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Last June the European Parliament and Council agreed on a final text [1] for the corporate sustainability reporting directive (CSRD), that will update the 2014 Non-Financial Rep...

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In 2021, the European Financial Reporting Advisory Group (EFRAG), the European public-private advisory group on financial reporting, has been charged by the European Commission w...

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In September, Natixis CIB hosted a two-day seminar to discuss the concepts and tools proposed by its Green & Sustainable Hub to assist the International Development Finance C...

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Executive SummaryPursuant to its climate action roadmap released in 2021 (see our July 2021 article “European Central Bank’s historic pledge on climate”)[1], the ECB announced...

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Sustainable finance has become mainstream and gained traction in most debt market segments, including the rising private debt market. Global investment in private debt exceeded ...

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On June 28th 2022, at the occasion of its Annual General Meeting, the ICMA Green Bond Principles published an “illustrative KPI Registry”.
As it faced some criticism regarding t...

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Recent climate stress test results from the European Central Bank[1] and Bank of England[2] provide a window on the challenges banks face in preparing for cli...

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The vote in the European Parliament was expected to be tight as a cross-party coalition from the left to center-right was opposing the taxonomy complementary delegated act on nu...

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The EU-China Common Ground Taxonomy (CGT) has received plenty of attention from international capital markets and policymakers since its initial release in November 2021. Some As...

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On May 25th, 2022, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) proposed changes to rules and reporting forms to establish disclosure requirements for funds and...

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The Platform’s March 2022 recommendations on extending the Taxonomy [1] are timely and meaningful but unlikely to be politically endorsed [2]. Nonetheless, market participants m...

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Natixis acted as Joint Bookrunner for the issuance of a long 15yr Inaugural Green Inflation- Linked Bond for the Republic of France [1]
On May 25th, France treasury (Agence Franc...

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Proposed by the European Commission on July 6th, 2021[1], the final negotiation phase of the European Green Bond Standard (EU GBS) has begun but several conten...