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The carbon transition marks a huge structural shift in the way the global economy will operate. Investors need to think about this, suggests AXA’s Jane Wadia

Major corporations are using sustainability-linked bonds to fill their coffers to fund their green transitions, which is set to kick off in earnest in 2022

Borrowers and investors will confront a range of penalty mechanisms – both in type and size – as sustainability-linked finance floods the market

Sustainability-linked finance has kicked off and is preparing to take the world by storm, pundits tipping the market will hit US$17trn within five years

Amarachi Seery, Sustainability Analyst, sheds some positive light on the latest IPCC Report which outlines the harsh reality of the current state of the climate

As the green transition and fourth industrial revolution spawn massive social disruption, two new types of bond have been developed to “save the day” – the social bond and the sustainable bond

In a post-pandemic Europe, climate change is front and centre of political agendas across the continent. The EC has proposed necessary changes to enact in the next decade to reach previously agreed to climate change goals

Governments have been slow to adopt sovereign crisis bonds, but covid has proven a shot in the arm, if not without controversy

Big capital is encouraging sovereign social bond issuance as a means to achieving the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals, but everyone’s a critic

As financialisation of the globe gathers pace, sovereign nations are being pressed to issue GSS bonds, and they may have to take the bad with the good