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Climate is dead, long live biodiversity

08 Feb 2023
28 min.

2022 ended with COP15 propelling the world on the path to halt and reverse biodiversity loss. 2023 is set to be a decisive year for biodiversity as many agen...

PDBs' catalytic role in achieving the UN SDGs

30 Jan 2023
< 1 min.

Natixis CIB's Green & Sustainable Hub accompanied the IDFC and its members in framing the notion of SDG alignment through a dedicated study and tailor-made advisory sessions.

CSRD, where are we at?

04 Nov 2022
22 min.

Last June the European Parliament and Council agreed on a final text [1] for the corporate sustainability reporting directive (CSRD), that will update the 20...

Ramsay Santé topped up the first Sustainability-Linked collateral trust

04 Nov 2022
1 min.

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 l...

Climate worst performers under strain from ECB's Green QE, collateral and parliamentary proposals for capital rules changes

04 Nov 2022
29 min.

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...

Extended Taxonomy: in betweenness and elitism softening

05 Sep 2022
4 min.

 
The Platform’s March 2022 recommendations on extending the Taxonomy are timely and meaningful, but unlikely to be politically endorsed. Nonetheless, market participants must not wait for unpredi...

Updated Common Ground Taxonomy, the crowbar of international green capital flows?

05 Aug 2022
7 min.

6 - minute read
 
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...

Nuclear and gas inclusion in the taxonomy creates a “between in and out”

05 Aug 2022
6 min.

5 - minutes read
 
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...

Could IEA’s report tilt EU Parliament’s vote to include nuclear power in the Taxonomy?

05 Jul 2022
4 min.

4 - minute read
On the brink of a decisive vote in the European Parliament on Nuclear integration in the EU taxonomy, the International Energy Agency published a 95-page report on Nuclear Power an...

SUEZ issued its inaugural €2.6bn Green Bond, unprecedented deal in the sector

03 Jun 2022
2 min.

2 - minute read

Natixis acted as Global Coordinator and Sole Green Structurer for the issuance of EUR 2.6 bn triple tranches Green Bond devoted to refinance part of Suez acquisition , the largest...

Taxonomy criteria for non-climate objectives: a welcomed hard work with some inconsistencies

03 Jun 2022
17 min.

12 - minute read

On March 30th, 2022, the Platform on Sustainable Finance (hereafter PSF or the Platform) published its final report containing technical screening criteria (TSC) for the four rem...

Greenflation, the new normal?

03 Jun 2022
15 min.

13 - minute read

The war in Ukraine is feeding the inflationary spiral. If the second half of 2021 was marked by inflation prompted by the global success of stimulus plans to recover from the pan...

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