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Insight: Sustainability-Linked Bonds - Some Practical Considerations For Documenting And Structuring Transactions

Sustainability-linked bonds (“SLBs”) have fast become an important feature of the sustainable finance market. According to Climate Bonds Initiative, SLB issuance reached US$76.3 billion in 2022 and we have seen an...more

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Climate Resilience as a Proposed New Feature of Sovereign Debt Instruments

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Climate factors' impact on a debtor's ability to honor its obligations has been recognized for over 4,000 years. It was the Code of Hammurabi in Mesopotamia that first mandated a deferral of principal repayment and...more

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Skadden’s 2023 Insights – Five Critical Areas for the Year Ahead

The pandemic’s impact may be subsiding, but businesses are encountering new challenges across the globe, including the potential for an economic retrenchment, rising interest rates, shifting regulatory and litigation...more

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Sustainable finance in Latin America

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GSS bonds and other forms of sustainable finance have become a mainstream feature of Latin American debt capital markets - Sustainability issues in Latin America have long been closely linked to finance, but never more so...more

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Financial Daily Dose 12.16.2020 | Top Story: EU and UK Regulators Announce Sweeping New Laws Aimed at Big Tech Gatekeepers

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EU and British authorities unveiled new proposals this week to “crimp the power of ‘gatekeeper’ platforms like Amazon, Apple, Facebook, Google and Microsoft, which policymakers argue deserve more oversight given their outsize...more

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Opinon: Zoning can be a Cost-Effective Tool for Confronting Climate Change

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As a coastal region confronting the impacts of climate change, South Florida must continue to advance urban resiliency and sustainability innovations through public investments, regulations, and private sector incentives that...more

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The rise of the SDG CLO: How to use the bond market to deliver the United Nations' Sustainable Development Goals by 2030

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In 2015, the United Nations General Assembly adopted 17 sustainable development goals to be achieved by 2030 ("SDGs"). The SDGs include ending poverty and hunger, promoting gender equality, tackling climate change and...more

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Impact Links: EY Proxy Season Review Report; Rhino Impact Bonds; UN SDGs; Climate Emergency Fund; Moody’s Buys Climate Data Firm

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..The EY Center for Board Matters’ 2019 Proxy Season Review report revealed gender diversity and sustainability were among the main governance concerns. ..The $50 million Rhino Impact Bonds (RIB), the first financial...more

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When Is a Loan “Green”?

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New international guidelines on environmental sustainability adopted from green bonds allow lenders and borrowers to designate “green loans" - More than US $150 billion in “green bonds”—bonds that fund projects that...more

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Your Daily Dose of Financial News

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Here’s the other shoe for that news that all the big banks passed their Fed stress tests the other day: are the “bad old days of enormous leverage and freewheeling deals” and the risk inherent in them back, too?....more

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Even as the administration is mulling over withdrawing from the Paris Climate Accord, Exxon Mobil’s shareholders have voted to demand a more detailed accounting of the climate change policy risks facing the company—an...more

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Sustainable Development Update - June 2016 #2

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Sustainable Development Focus - There's a way to invest in a cleaner environment, and the market is booming - Business Insider - Jun 6 - Summer is coming, and green bonds are blooming. Issuers of such bonds...more

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China Gives Green Light for Green Bonds

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China launched a green bond pilot initiative via the Shanghai Stock Exchange, encouraging further foreign investment in a rapidly growing asset class and paving the way for issuances by non-financial institutions....more

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