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Sustainable Energy & Infrastructure Client Feature — August 2025

This month, we’re pleased to feature our client, The Metals Company (TMC). TMC is a leading explorer of the world’s largest undeveloped resource of critical metals essential to energy, defense, manufacturing, and...more

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Capital Markets Insight: The Brazilian Sustainable Debt Market – A Cross-Border Regulatory Perspective

Sustainable debt issuances by Brazilian companies in both domestic and international markets have steadily increased. Abroad, the combined volume of green, social, and sustainability bonds issued by Brazilian corporates,...more

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Guidance for Including Methane Abatement in Oil and Gas Debt Structuring: Methane Finance Working Group Announces Release

The Methane Finance Working Group (“MFWG”) has released a guidance document titled: Guidance for Including Methane Abatement in Oil and Gas Debt Structuring (“Guidance”). MFWG is described as a coalition of financial,...more

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FMSB Statement of good practice on the governance of sustainability-linked products

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The Financial Markets Standards Board (FMSB) has issued a Statement of Good Practice (SoGP) on the governance of sustainability-linked products (SLPs), along with a press release. SLPs are products where the financial and/or...more

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ESMA publishes overview of planned consultations for 2025

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The European Securities and Markets Authority has published an overview of its planned consultations for 2025. The consultations relate to workstreams under the EU Listing Act,...more

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Sustainable Commercial Paper: Short-Term Paper, Long-Term Impact

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Over the past few years, we have seen growing interest in Commercial Paper (CP) programmes with a sustainable focus. Traditionally used by corporations, financial institutions, sovereigns, and other issuers for...more

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Asset Management Regulatory Year in Review 2024

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2024 was a year of meaningful regulatory change for asset managers globally. The regulatory activity was wide ranging and without a particular unifying theme. In fact, the wide, and in cases diverging focuses of key global...more

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European Commission communication on EU competitiveness compass

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The European Commission has published a communication on a Competitiveness Compass for the EU, which sets out an action plan in response to the Draghi report published in September 2024. The communication sets out the...more

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Loan Market Association Publishes Green Loan Terms, Smoothing Path for Green Finance in 2025

The green term sheet accompanies the provisions for green loans previously published at the end of 2024. Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) principles continue to be a focus for the financial markets. Notably, the...more

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The EU Green Bond Standard

Christmas is coming early to the ESG bond market as the new EU Green Bond Standard applies from 21 December 2024. The new standard is conceptually similar to existing ICMA use of proceeds standards but quite different in...more

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Euronext Launches New Sustainable Investment Tools and ESG Initiatives

In September 2023, pan-European stock exchange and market infrastructure provider Euronext announced the imminent launch of a range of ESG tools and initiatives focused on sustainable finance, including its intention to...more

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Insight: Sustainability-Linked Bonds - Some Practical Considerations For Documenting And Structuring Transactions

Sustainability-linked bonds (“SLBs”) have fast become an important feature of the sustainable finance market. According to Climate Bonds Initiative, SLB issuance reached US$76.3 billion in 2022 and we have seen an...more

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Italy: Ministry of Economics publishes regulation on ethical and sustainable finance

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On 21 January 2023, the Italian Ministry of Economics published on the Official Gazette a regulation setting out the requirements to obtain the status of ethical and sustainable banking operator. The institution satisfying...more

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Sustainable finance: The road so far and a look ahead

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ESG, sustainability, climate change adaptation and mitigation, social impact investing and related themes have become ubiquitous concepts that seem to be top of mind for every board director, financier and investor. While...more

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Un argomento ormai noto a tutti gli specialisti del settore regolamentare (e non solo) è l'importanza che il fattore ESG riveste...

1) Una introduzione - Stato dell’arte e normativa europea L’inclusione di fattori ESG (ambiente, sociale, governance) nei processi aziendali e nelle decisioni imprenditoriali presenti, anche, nel settore finanziario, è ad...more

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ESG Securitisation Continues to Develop in the European Union

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ESG securitisation has the potential to play a key role in achieving sustainable finance objectives in the European Union. There have been a number of regulatory developments and other advances in this area, including the...more

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Sustainability Financing: Singapore Again Consults on ‘Green’ Taxonomy and Relevant Standards

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Singapore’s Green Finance Industry Taskforce (GFIT) published a second consultation paper on 12 May 2022, proposing detailed thresholds and criteria for a revised Singapore taxonomy for Singapore-based financial institutions...more

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Singapore’s Green Finance Drive

What is green finance? The term “green finance” refers to financial products and services provided for project investment and financing, project operation and risk management in sectors such as environmental protection,...more

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Sustainable finance in Latin America

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GSS bonds and other forms of sustainable finance have become a mainstream feature of Latin American debt capital markets - Sustainability issues in Latin America have long been closely linked to finance, but never more so...more

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European Green Bonds and Sustainability-Linked Derivatives - A Brief Update

Environmental, social and governance (ESG) factors continue to play an increasingly significant role across the capital markets and have an impact on a range of financial instruments and products. We have previously written...more

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