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Sustainable finance
In a year that was unstable in many ways, the sustainable finance market demonstrated promising resilience. The Nordic sustainable bond market proved relatively more stable than the global market, experiencing 3% year-on-year growth compared to a contraction of 23% year-on-year globally. We outline the developments in some key charts below.
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Sustainable finance
When it comes to financing structures focused on social impact, the vast majority currently incorporate gender diversity targets as the social KPI, in part due to the availability of established and comparable data. Looking ahead, we expect a wider range of social targets to be reported on and included in sustainable financing where material.
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Sustainable finance
We must overcome commitment fatigue and resource constraints if we are to make meaningful progress in understanding and limiting biodiversity risks, argues Nordea Sustainable Finance Advisory’s David Ray.
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Sustainable finance
The World Bank’s recent issuance of a sustainable development bond raising awareness for biodiversity highlights investors’ growing interest in the issue. Biodiversity loss is directly linked to climate change, both reinforcing each other, with their interaction amplifying the risk of reaching planetary tipping points.
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Sustainable finance
The EU Platform on Sustainable Finance's long-awaited Recommendations on Data and Usability of the EU Taxonomy offers valuable insight into emerging best practices.
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Sustainable finance
The integration of ESG factors into credit ratings is an exercise distinct from the ratings and evaluations carried out by ESG service providers, although the two are often compared and confused. We take a look at the differences between the two approaches.
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Sustainable finance
The EU Platform on Sustainable Finance on 11 October released one of the last outstanding reports on the usability of the EU Taxonomy. It provides recommendations on interpretation of the existing Taxonomy and guidance for the remaining environmental objectives as well as alignment with other European sustainable finance regulation.
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Sustainable finance
The EU Platform on Sustainable Finance published its final report on the functioning of the Minimum Safeguards laid out in the EU Taxonomy Regulation. The Minimum Safeguards ensure that companies engaging in sustainable activities meet certain standards when it comes to human and labour rights, bribery, taxation and fair competition.
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Sustainability
Fair Finance Guide has published a critical report on Swedish banks’ lending to companies operating in the Arctic. The report was referred to in an article in Aftonbladet on 3 October 2022.
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Sustainable finance
After a turbulent first half-year, the third quarter shows a market adapting to the new-normal: persistent inflation and rising interest rates. The energy crisis has not only resulted in a risk of recession in the Euro area but also created ambiguity for corporates’ sustainability ambitions, pushing the financial sector to the forefront of issuing sustainable debt.
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Sustainable finance
The Nordea ESG Research expert team has released the yearly update of its ESG ratings. The update covers insights into disclosure trends and the material ESG risk and opportunity exposures of around 330 Nordic companies. With information based on FY2021 disclosures, the updated report offers new insight into the first full “back to business” year.
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Sustainable finance
The European Central Bank has announced that as of 1 October it will start tilting its reinvestments for corporate bonds falling due on its balance sheet towards issuers with higher climate-scoring profiles in order to mitigate the climate-related financial risks within the Eurosystem.
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