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Sustainability Markets Insights
Read time: 5 mins Added: 07/10/26
All things sustainability and investment in debt capital markets
- Catch up on the latest news, trends, and insights on sustainable investment.
- Read market commentary on debt investors’ ESG assessment methodologies, regulation and the search for value and impact.
- Dive into the data with quantitative analysis on bond issuance trends, giving you the opportunity to better understand the sustainability landscape.
- Receive important updates on sustainable fund flows, ESG ratings, performance benchmarks, targets and impact reporting.
- Explore the tensions and opportunities in working towards global climate, nature and social goals.
Out now: Sustainable bond impact reporting
Explore how issuers can make sustainable bond impact reporting more credible, consistent and useful for investors.
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Interpreting transition plans
Seven insights for investors from the specialists, revealing what transition plans can tell investors about companies’ ambition, credibility and long-term resilience.
Labelled bond update
Looking at how sustainable debt markets are maturing through refinancing, tighter scrutiny, and greater emphasis on transparency, credibility and relevance.
Voluntary Carbon Market
Examining the shift towards higher‑quality carbon credits, growing compliance demand, and evolving standards shaping future investment and pricing.
Sustainability Regulations
Understanding the implications of sustainability regulatory developments across key jurisdictions, and AI’s potential in regulations and disclosures.
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Review of 2025
Taking stock of 2025 and identifying emerging themes in sustainable finance across the UK and EU.
Nature-themed finance
With a focus on mobilising capital to protect and restore nature, this edition looks at the variety of bond instruments and at investor sentiment around nature-themed finance.
Bondholder engagement
As integration of ESG factors deepens across investment processes, and regulated sustainability disclosure becomes more prolific, we shift the spotlight to the quality of issuer–investor dialogue and engagement.
EU regulatory update
We explore the consequences of the European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) fund naming guidelines. What does it mean for the investable universe and how might these developments drive investor behaviours?
Stewardship, Data, Defence, Nuclear
Where might the sustainable investment policies and methodologies be caught in the shifting sands of regulation and geopolitics? We take a look at stewardship, data, defence, and nuclear.
Investor disclosure requirements
With the EU’s green agenda under pressure and as the UK sees lower than anticipated uptake of sustainable fund labels, we look beyond the headlines.
Review of 2024
Despite the challenges that persist for sustainable bonds, in our review of 2024 we suggest they remain a tool you’d still want to be able to access as an issuer or investor in 2025.
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