Sitemap of Natixis GSH

Our Center of Expertise

Climate

• Sustainability backlash: Facts & fantasies
• Exposure to coal sector: Urgewald's GCEL list, a reference for investors
• COP 28 UAE Main Takeaways
• Greenflation, the new normal?

Deals

• Setting New Standards: Nandan Nanfang's Landmark SLL for Zinc Production
• Deals highlight
• Renault successful €850 million inaugural green bond
• Sustainable Debt in Focus: 2024 Summary and 2025 Outlook
• Natixis CIB partners with Long Beach Container Terminal in recent green USPP transaction
• Al Wakra and Al Wukair Sewage Treatment Plant Successfully Secures its USD 529m Green Loan
• Reindustrialization and fair transition in France: Verkor secures financing for an EV Battery Gigafactory in Dunkirk

EU Sustainable Finance Action Plan

• TEG 101 - EU Taxonomy of sustainable activities
• TEG 101 - EU Climate Benchmarks
• TEG 101 - The EU Green Bond Standard: A bedrock for maket rules and integrity

Flagship reports

• Update of our study “The New Geography of Taxonomies”
• EUGBS final text: need to know!
• PDBs' catalytic role in achieving the UN SDGs
• Extended Taxonomy: in betweenness and elitism softening
• The New Geography of Taxonomies
• Release of our study the New Geography of Taxonomies
• The Art of Social Bond Impact Reporting
• Financing green hydrogen’s development: clearing the hurdles
• Waste & Circular Economy: Deciphering green & sustainable challenges and opportunities of waste management
• Low-carbon hydrogen: sensing the path to large-scale deployment
• U.S. 2020 Presidential Election
• What role for natural gas in the transition towards a low-carbon economy?
• DESALINATION: Balancing the Socioeconomic Benefits and Environmental Costs
• Water economy: deciphering the challenges, financing the opportunities
• Brown industries: the Transition Tightrope
• Complementarity between gas and power assets amid transitioning energy systems
• Solving the Sustainable Development Goals Rubik’s Cube
• The Next Big Challenge: Greening the Belt and Road Initiative

Industry

• Iron & Steel: a bumpy road from the world’s hardest-to-abate industries to a cornerstone of a net-zero economy
• Air France – KLM €1bn inaugural sustainability-linked bond

Investors

• Investor survey: sustainability requirements for data centers
• Fixed Income Investor Survey on the use of Second Party Opinions
• The New Frontiers in Real Assets & ESG: takeaways of the panel hosted during Natixis CIB Private Debt Forum
• ESG Analysis of the Banking sector: From G to E?
• Sustainability-Linked Term Loan Bs: Aligning leveraged loans with ESG integration strategies
• ESG integration in Leverage Finance: where do we stand?
• Can Nuclear be considered as a transition energy?
• Transitioning brown industries: a conditional appetite
• Investors' views on Sustainability-Linked Bonds
• Is Social Bond format / Principles fit for Covid-19 crisis related expenditures?
• “Green & Sustainable Finance: what’s next?”

Nature

• EU Deforestation Regulation: While implementation could be further delayed, EUDR is already enhancing supply chain practices
• Nature-centered financings: ICMA’s practioners’ guide
• UNOC: a mild success for sustainability on an ocean of backlash
• Blue finance: beyond climate, highlighting nature objectives
• Confirmed momentum: nature-related integration in investment practices
• Climate is dead, long live biodiversity
• From Marseille to Kunming: Noah’s Ark for biodiversity?

Regulation

• The EU Clean Industrial Deal: towards reconciliation of economic competitiveness, strategic autonomy and decarbonization
• The precarious future of the Inflation Reduction Act
• EBA’s newly released transition plan guidelines
• ESG ratings: at last regulated, at risk of growing competition with raw data
• SFDR 2: will 2024 open the age of maturity for sustainable finance regulations?
• The ISSB Sustainability Standards: Simple in words, complex in deeds
• A new Taxonomy is born: insights on the Mexican Sustainable Taxonomy
• Taxo4: insights from the release of criteria for non-climate objectives
• The Green Claims Directive proposal: the EU arms up against greenwashing
• EUGBS: hurrah a political agreement… but no legislative transcription details yet
• ECB's avenues to intensify climate action in quest “of punch”
• CSRD, where are we at?
• Climate worst performers under strain from ECB's Green QE, collateral and parliamentary proposals for capital rules changes
• Updated Common Ground Taxonomy, the crowbar of international green capital flows?
• Nuclear and gas inclusion in the taxonomy creates a “between in and out”
• Could IEA’s report tilt EU Parliament’s vote to include nuclear power in the Taxonomy?
• Taxonomy criteria for non-climate objectives: a welcomed hard work with some inconsistencies
• Last minute: EU Taxonomy, final report of the TEG just out!
• EU Taxonomy - reminder on who, what and when

SDG

• Mexico’s SDG Bond Framework: a two-fold eligibility and unique governance

Sustainable finance

• Connecting the dots: geospatial big data for sustainable finance
• Countdown to Belem: What to expect at COP 30?
• Transition planning: standardization, mainstreaming & diversification
• Green Enabling Projects eligibility framing by ICMA, and a first transaction with Vulcan
• Towards greater synergies between Sustainability-Linked Loans and the GSS Bond market
• Société des grands projets issues €1 billion with its new green framework aligned with EU Taxonomy Climate objectives
• 2024 horizons
• Industrial bank of Korea (“IBK”) successfully issued a US$600m 5-year Gender Equality themed Social Bond with a focus on women empowerment
• Natixis acted as Co-Green Loan Coordinator for the first post-IRA large renewable energy transaction in the United States
• 2023 Sustainability Linked Bond Principles Updates
• ICMA Principles: Climate Transition Finance Handbook gets its first update
• Transition plan stocktaking from the NGFS
• Commercial Bank of Dubai’s inaugural $500mn 5-yr Green Bond issuance
• Social bonds: easy come and easy go?
• LMA’s update on GSSL principles and guidance: towards convergence with ICMA?
• Market Insights from Enel’s updated Sustainability-Linked Bond Framework
• Renew Power US$1bn Green Loan: “round-the-clock” hybrid power project financing
• Wrapping up 2022 and welcoming 2023
• Ramsay Santé topped up the first Sustainability-Linked collateral trust
• SUEZ issued its inaugural €2.6bn Green Bond, unprecedented deal in the sector
• A world's first for France and its €4bn green inflation-linked bond (OAT€i)
• Haffner Energy IPO, Key Player in decarbonization and green hydrogen production
• Unédic issued the two largest social bonds ever in the midst of the covid-19 crisis
• Green & sustainable Deals
• Why we need a shaded taxonomy from green to brown and in between

Sustainable Finance Watch

• European oil & gas groups: actively trending towards electric utilities’ business models?
• Christine Lagarde sees climate change as “mission critical” for the ECB and opens the door to EU taxonomy-based asset purchases programs
• 1st "conseil de défense écologique" announcement
• “New Horizon” speech from Mark Carney
• Risk weighting adjustments for green/brown assets
• 2018 Climate Finance Day: Our key Takeaways

Autre

• Republic of Benin’s trailblazing €500m 12,5-Y inaugural issuance under its new SDG Bond Framework
• BPCE issues €100 million of transition bonds, invested by AXA IM
• BP intensifies its transition efforts amid asset value and oil demand forecast revisions
• German sovereign innovates with its Bund’s inaugural green twins
• New prospects around SDG finance
• Sustainability-Linked Bond Principles : a set of guidelines to help this new product thrive in integrity
• A Greener Green Bond Catalogue: The incoming China’s unified Taxonomy notches new win
• Cicero and K2A pave the way for a new green-labelled equity market
• NGFS, ECB and ACPR: a new wave of recommendations and consultations about climate-related risks
• Impact investing on the surge
• European O&G Groups: actively trending towards electric utilities’ business models?
• Covid-19 crisis in Europe: a midwife for a federalist green & social leap forward
• EU draft delegated acts on Climate Benchmarks and ESG disclosure regulations: what is divergent from the TEG Final Report?
• From Sustainability reporting standards to impact assessment methodologies: tools are proliferating
• Net Zero Asset Owners Alliance first step towards fulfilling its commitment
• European Commission’s Renewed Sustainable Finance Strategy: broader and deeper
• Carbon offsetting from aviation: another victim of Coronavirus?
• Covid-19 economic crisis: heated debate about public support’s conditionality
• Market overview of Covid-19 Responses-related Bonds
• Green hydrogen at heart of EU’s energy transition
• Best in universe ESG method outperforms best in class in the Covid 19 crisis
• French market authority issues a first set of requirements to control sustainable funds communication
• Aviation and coronavirus: what future for environmental measures?
• Investors’ actions and appetite for social bonds in response to Covid-19
• Covid-19: a new (sustainability) model in the making ?
• EU Taxonomy of green activities: final report from the TEG to the EU Commission released
• TPI State of transition 2020 Report raises the ‘Red Flag’ for COP26
• European financials in search of biodiversity impact measurement
• From little drops to groundswell, emerging markets bonds on the path to sustainable finance
• New York City and New York State start acting on their climate related policies: exclusion vs thematic investing
• Green, Social & Sustainability Bonds Market
• BP sets ambition for net zero emissions by 2050
• Aviation’s climate footprint, investors' wake-up call to action
• ECBC to set minimum standards for Energy Efficiency Covered Bonds
• European Green Deal: Putting words into action
• Rising risk on the financing of fossil fuels?
• Taking a deep dive in IEA’s 2019 World Energy Outlook
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