Is the green finance revolution slowing down—or just getting smarter? Despite a cooling pace of growth, leading analysts forecast that sustainable bond issuance will hold strong at the $1 trillion mark in 2025, signaling consolidation and resilience in a maturing…

Are green bonds just a marketing exercise—or do they drive real environmental outcomes? A new study from the Bank for International Settlements (BIS) offers a compelling answer: companies that issue green bonds tend to significantly reduce their greenhouse gas emissions…

In a year marked by increasing scrutiny of Sustainable Finance frameworks, the March 2025 updates to the Green Loan Principles (GLP), Social Loan Principles (SLP), and Sustainability-Linked Loan Principles (SLLP) represent a welcome recalibration of the market’s guiding standards. These…

Introduction Sustainable Finance has long faced a key challenge: how do investors know their capital is making a real impact? The past year has seen significant strides in impact measurement and reporting, driven by investor demand for clear, comparable, and…

Introduction The Sustainable Finance market is more global than ever, yet practices, definitions, and regulations still differ significantly across regions. With the EU Green Bond Standard set to take effect, and taxonomies being developed worldwide, are we moving toward global…

Introduction The landscape of Sustainable Finance is undergoing a fundamental shift. The growing alignment of green, social, and sustainable bond frameworks with regulatory taxonomies—most notably the EU Taxonomy—signals a move from market-driven definitions of sustainability to regulatory oversight. But what…