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Month: November 2020

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EPC A label-only Taxonomy plan threatens green buildings issuance

25 November 2020

Draft EU Taxonomy standards threatens to stymie green bond issuance to finance green buildings by limiting eligibility to those with EPC A labels, with one pioneering covered bond issuer floating a switch to KPI-linked bonds, although there are suggestions the Commission may be open to compromise.

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Green/ESG CP: Pioneering steps

The expansion of green, social and sustainable or sustainability-linked formats into short term instruments has the potential to boost overall volumes and impact, and pioneers have already begun testing appetite in the commercial paper market. However, the sector’s intrinsic characteristics raise questions over how to best exploit its potential. In this special Sustainabonds report, sponsored by ABN AMRO, Neil Day explores experience to date and asks what could catalyse growth.
  • La Banque Postale: On an extra-financial public mission

  • NN pioneers with green covered and mortgage start-up

  • Accelerating the transition to sustainable finance via liability management

  • Public sector roundtable: Building a better future

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  • Taxonomy reverts to ‘top 15%’ for buildings, sparing green covered bonds
  • ECB seeks greater ESG covered bond disclosure as different models debated
  • Nykredit to issue green covered bonds in Danish, Swedish markets
  • Green Loan Principles launched in complement to bond growth
  • Rabobank pushes ESG status as touchstone in CP/CD first

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  • Affordable housing, hospital themes for CFF social debut
  • Social interest ‘encouraging’ in smooth Berlin Hyp reopener
  • ‘Delayed’ EBA work set to take in green amid ECB focus
  • Green/ESG CP: Pioneering steps
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  • The Week in Green (January 19th edition) | NordSip: […] world’s first green covered bond law has been proposed by Luxembourg’s ministry of finance to create a framework to…
  • Prolific Berlin Hyp plans green fourth, moves atop oekom ratings – SUSTAINABONDS: […] deal is a follow-up to a debut EUR500m seven year senior green bond the bank issued in September 2016.…
  • HLEG expert: Climate charges likelier than green risk weight cut – SUSTAINABONDS: […] Hosted by Norton Rose in London and held under the Chatham House Rule, the meeting was convened as part…

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