Sustainable bonds, including green, social, blue, and sustainability-linked bonds, are rapidly gaining favor among investors as part of the broader sustainable investments landscape. These instruments offer a focused avenue for financing projects aligned with environmental, social, and governance (ESG) objectives. By earmarking funds for specific initiatives such as renewable energy installations or marine conservation efforts, thematic bonds attract a diverse…
Growing Sustainable Bonds
Sustainable bonds, including green, social, blue, and sustainability-linked bonds, are rapidly gaining favor among investors as part of the broader sustainable investments landscape. These instruments offer a focused avenue for financing projects aligned with environmental, social, and governance (ESG) objectives. By earmarking funds for specific initiatives such as renewable energy installations or marine conservation efforts, thematic bonds attract a diverse…
Growing Sustainable Bonds
Sustainable bonds, including green, social, blue, and sustainability-linked bonds, are rapidly gaining favor among investors as part of the broader sustainable investments landscape. These instruments offer a focused avenue for financing projects aligned with environmental, social, and governance (ESG) objectives. By earmarking funds for specific initiatives such as renewable energy installations or marine conservation efforts, thematic bonds attract a diverse…
Growing Sustainable Bonds
Sustainable bonds, including green, social, blue, and sustainability-linked bonds, are rapidly gaining favor among investors as part of the broader sustainable investments landscape. These instruments offer a focused avenue for financing projects aligned with environmental, social, and governance (ESG) objectives. By earmarking funds for specific initiatives such as renewable energy installations or marine conservation efforts, thematic bonds attract a diverse…
Smith v Fonterra: A Climate Change Litigation Development
The Supreme Court of New Zealand recently overturned strike-out decisions to allow climate change claims (involving a new climate tort) to proceed to trial. Background In 2022, Michael Smith, a Māori tribal elder and the climate change spokesman for the Iwi Chairs Forum, a national forum of tribal leaders, brought proceedings against seven corporate defendants, alleging that they were collectively…
Smith v Fonterra: A Climate Change Litigation Development
The Supreme Court of New Zealand recently overturned strike-out decisions to allow climate change claims (involving a new climate tort) to proceed to trial. Background In 2022, Michael Smith, a Māori tribal elder and the climate change spokesman for the Iwi Chairs Forum, a national forum of tribal leaders, brought proceedings against seven corporate defendants, alleging that they were collectively…
Transition Plans & Real Estate
In a survey carried out by HSBC in 2023, 97% of real estate developers and investors said net zero was important to their business and 59% of the largest real estate companies said net zero was their top priority. A third of companies in the sector already have Transition Plans and the push for formalising Transition Plans across the sector…
EY Acquires Sustainability Consulting Firm Denkstatt
Global professional services firm EY announced the acquisition of Austria-based sustainability consulting company Denkstatt in a move described by firm as aimed at enabling it to provide companies with comprehensive support on sustainability issues. Founded in 1993 in Vienna, Denkstatt provides consulting services aimed at helping clients to improve their sustainability performance, with 170 employees across 5 countries including Bulgaria,…
EY Acquires Sustainability Consulting Firm Denkstatt
Global professional services firm EY announced the acquisition of Austria-based sustainability consulting company Denkstatt in a move described by firm as aimed at enabling it to provide companies with comprehensive support on sustainability issues. Founded in 1993 in Vienna, Denkstatt provides consulting services aimed at helping clients to improve their sustainability performance, with 170 employees across 5 countries including Bulgaria,…
EY Acquires Sustainability Consulting Firm Denkstatt
Global professional services firm EY announced the acquisition of Austria-based sustainability consulting company Denkstatt in a move described by firm as aimed at enabling it to provide companies with comprehensive support on sustainability issues. Founded in 1993 in Vienna, Denkstatt provides consulting services aimed at helping clients to improve their sustainability performance, with 170 employees across 5 countries including Bulgaria,…