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July 2, 2024
The Principles announce guidance for green enabling projects and guidelines for Sustainability-Linked Loan financing Bonds (SLLB)
The International Capital Market Association (ICMA) has released additional guidance and accompanying documents on the sustaina...
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April 5, 2024
Commentary Response to Bloomberg article 'The $280 Billion Climate Bond Market That Isn’t Working'
Presenting the shortcomings of sustainability-linked bond (SLB) markets, the recent Bloomberg article 'A $280 Billion Climate...'
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December 22, 2023
SSDH at COP28 – Key Takeaways
COP28 – the United Nations Climate Conference – was held from November 30th to December 12th, 2023, in Dubai...
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October 25, 2023
Accelerating sovereign sustainability-linked bond transactions: Building the ecosystem
The wall of bond maturities facing many sovereigns in 2024-2025 and the prospect of market lock-out has created an urgent need...
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October 25, 2023
The understated benefits of sovereign sustainability-linked bonds
What could influence a Debt Management Office (DMO) to choose a Sustainability-linked Bond (SLB) over a vanilla bond?
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October 25, 2023
Data and governance requirements of sovereign sustainability-linked bonds
Sustainability-linked Bonds (SLBs) are a powerful mechanism to operationalise sustainability commitments and render...
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October 25, 2023
A sober assessment of the sovereign sustainability-linked bond value proposition
The value proposition of Sustainability-linked bonds (SLBs) for sovereigns, compared to conventional bonds...
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September 13, 2023
How sustainability-linked bonds can improve sovereign credit ratings: an illustrative example
Issuing sustainability-linked Bonds (SLBs) can address several credit rating weaknesses by reducing the cost of borrowing...
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September 13, 2023
Sustainability-linked bonds and public debt dynamics: a detour into sovereign debt maths
This deep-dive into the weeds of sovereign debt maths builds on the argument for why debt stock shouldn’t be the main focus...
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September 13, 2023
Go with the flow, not just the stock: Sustainability-linked bonds and public debt dynamics
Sustainability-linked bonds (SLBs) and debt-for-nature swaps (DnS) are dominating the discourse on how to tackle the climate...
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August 29, 2023
Africa Climate Summit SIDE EVENT: Catalysing private-sector capital through credit enhancement for sustainability-linked sovereign financing
To realize the required scale, sustainability-linked sovereign financing (such as debt conversions for nature/climate...
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June 22, 2023
Institutional Commitment to Support the Issuance of Sustainability-Linked Sovereign Debt
Providers of (re)insurance solutions express their intent to collaborate and reduce the borrowing costs for developing countries.
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March 31, 2023
Innovative Financing Instrument Offers Lasting Solution to Climate and Debt Crises
The vast potential of sustainability-linked sovereign debt in tackling both the emerging markets debt and climate...
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March 20, 2023
PUBLIC EVENT - Joining the dots: climate, nature and the sovereign debt crisis
This event, co-organised by NatureFinance and Bruegel, will discuss how the issuance of sustainability...
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January 5, 2023
Making sovereign debt markets work for sustainable development
Improving the financial health of sovereigns and reducing the need for ex-post debt structuring...
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November 29, 2022
SSDH BRIEFING: Decoding COP27 Climate Finance Talks on KPI-linked Sovereign Debt
A briefing of the 27th Conference of Parties (COP27) of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change
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November 4, 2022
COP27 Event: Stepping out of the Comfort Zone: What’s next for Sustainability-Linked Financing?
COP27: 8th November, Stepping out of the Comfort Zone: What’s next for Sustainability-Linked Financing?
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September 8, 2022
LANDMARK NEW PLATFORM TO CATALYSE MARKET FOR SUSTAINABILITY-LINKED SOVEREIGN BONDS, ANNOUNCED TODAY.
New platform will provide support and network to incorporate nature and climate outcomes into sovereign debt
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