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Entries for 'ESG'
Frontier Markets Debt Monitor: Spring Meetings Policy Focus on Debt Sustainability
April 11, 2024
In 2023, frontier market (FM) accumulated some $20 billion of new debt, bringing the total to $3.5 trillion. For the first time since 2020, the FM debt-to-GDP ratio increased, as growth and inflation subsided.
Green Weekly Insight: A “why not” moment for biodiversity investment
March 28, 2024
Nature and biodiversity are emerging as critical areas of market focus, attracting increasing attention from corporates, financial institutions, and policymakers.
ESG Flows and Markets: Risk-on sentiment supports market expansion
March 14, 2024
Global climate flows surpassed $2 trillion in 2023—up from $1.4 trillion in 2022. While still well short of the estimated $8.1 trillion annual pace needed to achieve net-zero emissions by 2050, the pickup reflects the strong growth in climate finance commitments in recent years.
Weekly Insight: Surge in ESG fund flows amid tech stock rally
February 28, 2024
Early 2024 saw a sharp surge in ESG fund flows, driven by a rally in tech shares (which are heavily weighted in ESG indices given their high ESG scores). In February, inflows to ESG fixed income funds reached their highest in over a year. Looking ahead, a synchronized series of rate cuts by major central banks could have a positive impact on ESG fund flows, particularly in the second half of 2024.
Global Debt Monitor: Politics, Policy and Debt Markets—What to Watch in 2024
February 21, 2024
Over $15 trillion was added to the global debt mountain last year, bringing the total to a new record high of $313 trillion. The global debt-to-GDP ratio declined for a third consecutive year, largely driven by mature markets.
Sustainable Debt Monitor: Looking for Traction—Can the G20 Help?
February 6, 2024
The ESG-labelled debt universe grew by 25% in 2023, nearing $6 trillion. However, this is still less than 2% of the global debt universe—policy support, including from the G20 Brazil Presidency, could support substantial market expansion.
Current Account with Clay Lowery - Episode 61: Shaving the Fuzz? A Recap of COP28
January 8, 2024
In the first Current Account episode of 2024, Clay is joined by IIF's Sonja Gibbs, Managing Director, Global Policy Initiatives and Head of Sustainabl...
Current Account with Clay Lowery - Episode 60: 2024 – The Year of Growth?
December 11, 2023
In this episode of Current Account, Clay is joined by IIF's President and CEO Tim Adams to recap key events in the financial industry throughout 2023 ...
ESG Flows and Markets: Financing climate transition in an era of geoeconomic fragmentation
December 7, 2023
Global climate flows are on track to surpass $2 trillion in 2023—up from $1.4 trillion in 2022. While still well short of the estimated $8.6 trillion annual pace needed to achieve net-zero emissions by 2050, the pickup reflects the strong growth in climate finance commitments in recent years.
Global Debt Monitor: Politics and Climate Finance in a High-Debt World
November 16, 2023
Global debt reached a staggering $307 trillion in Q3 2023, with a big increase across the board in both mature markets (U.S., Japan, France, and the UK) and emerging markets (China, India, Brazil, and Mexico).
Sustainable Debt Monitor: Progress, challenges on the road to COP28
November 2, 2023
The ESG debt universe has expanded by $1.1 trillion over the past four quarters, surpassing $5.6 trillion in Q3 2023.
Weekly Insight: The long shadow of geopolitics
October 26, 2023
Rising global tensions and political divides could hinder multilateral efforts to achieve sustainable development goals. Global economic performance remains subdued, with significant regional disparities; a contributing factor has been the prolonged stagnation in global capital flows over the past 15 years amid post-financial crisis regulatory initiatives.
Current Account with Clay Lowery - Episode 54: Annual Meetings in Marrakech: Key Takeaways
October 16, 2023
In this episode of Current Account, Clay records live from the IIF's Annual Membership Meetings in Marrakech, Morocco. He is accompanied by colleagues...
Frontier Markets Debt Monitor: Tenuous recovery, risks ahead
October 5, 2023
After reaching an all-time high of $3.5 trillion in Q1 2023, total debt in frontier markets (FM) saw a slight decline in Q2 2023.
Global Debt Monitor: In Search of Sustainability
September 19, 2023
In a higher-rate environment, the global debt stock rose by $10 trillion to a new record high of $307 trillion in H1 2023.
ESG Flows and Markets: Net Zero Transition - Slow but Steady
August 1, 2023
Global climate flows surpassed $1.1 trillion in 2022 - up over 25% from $870 billion in 2021. However, this is still well short of what will be needed to achieve net-zero emissions. ESG stock and bond market performance improved in Q2 2023. Despite rapid growth, ESG integration in global debt markets is still at an early stage: just 6.1% of total debt issuance in Q2 2023 was ESG-linked.
Sustainable Debt Monitor: Green bonds bloom
July 31, 2023
The ESG debt universe (bonds and loans) hit a fresh record high of $5.4 trillion in H1 2023, up 30% from H1 2022. However new ESG debt issuance slowed to some $630 billion in H1 2023—over 15% lower than in H1 2022.
ESG Flows and Markets: Mind the gap - mobilizing transition finance
May 10, 2023
Amid tighter monetary and financial market conditions, ESG fund flows remain subdued and volatile. After large outflows in March, April saw a slight recovery in investor appetite for ESG funds. However, outflows from emerging market ESG funds accelerated in April.
Sustainable Debt Monitor: Financing the Net Zero Transition
May 3, 2023
The ESG debt universe hit $5.1 trillion in Q1 2023, up from $3.8 trillion a year ago and $2.3 trillion in Q1 2021. Amid the recent banking sector turmoil, ESG loan issuance fell sharply in Q1 2023, coming in at $40 billion—over 65% lower than in Q4 2022. In contrast, ESG bond issuance reached its highest level in five quarters.
Green Weekly Insight - Views from DC: transition finance in focus
April 18, 2023
At our IIF Sustainable Finance and Global Debt & Financial Stability Roundtables last week, key themes included net zero transition finance as well as the impact of higher funding costs for vulnerable sovereign and corporate borrowers.
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