In the context of the pandemic crisis, the Emerging Markets Investors Alliance (EMIA) published a white paper that seeks to advance long term, sustainable solutions to the debt crisis in emerg...

The Brazilian National Bank for Economic and Social Development (BNDES) is launching its Sustainability Bond Framework (SBF), produced through a partnership with the Inter-American Development...

The United Nations Development Program (UNDP) recently published the Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) Impact Standards for bond issuers (Version 1.0). The new Standards are already being pi...

Climate Bonds Initiative (CBI) recently issued its 2020 edition of the global State of the Market Report. This report describes the shape and size of the green, social and sustainability (GSS)...

The Banco Central do Brazil (BCB) has opened a public consultation on two draft regulations that define sustainability criteria to be applied to rural credit operations and the characterizatio...

The Ministry of Finance reported that it issued sustainable bonds in international markets for a total of 1.5 billion dollars. The operation is part of the financing plan for 2021 published in...

The Climate Bonds Standards Board (CBSB) has approved the Hydropower Criteria under the International Climate Bonds Standard (CBS), providing screening criteria for investments in sustainable ...

IDB Invest issued a gender social bond of approximately 122 million dollars, with a three-year maturity in Mexico. The funds will finance projects aimed at promoting gender equality and the em...

Luis de Guindos, Vice-President of the European Central Bank (ECB), recently published a blog post describing the framework for the economy-wide climate stress test that the Bank is currently ...