June 9, 2021
Debt issuers are trying to get in on the momentum behind environmental, social, and governance investing, but investors should be aware that these borrowers don’t always use the money for green purposes.
While more companies have issued green bonds this year, some junk-rated borrowers used the cash to repay debt, finance SPAC deals, and allocate toward other corporate expenses, promising to spend equivalent sums on sustainability in the future, the Wall Street Journal reports.
The so-called green bonds even include fine-print warnings that companies might not fulfill environmental pledges. Lawyers and analysts have warned that money managers are so eager to purchase green-labeled investment products that they are overlooking the potential risk that their investment bonds aren’t as green as they say they are.
Fire rips through historic high street pub
Thick white smoke could be seen churning up into the sky from miles away
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The pub in Alcester after the fire (Image: Warwickshire Fire and Rescue Service)
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A 17th century high street pub has been left badly damaged after a fire.
souls and may god bless your souls and that was it. did the macphail family havefully [ inaudible ] we couldn t see their faces. they were sitting in first row. so we did not see how they reacted to it. all can i say is watching them while this was going on, they never turned their heads, never waivered the entire time. they just stared at him through the glass as the execution was taking place. the execution was delayed for about four hours. do you know if he was strapped to the gurney the entire time? no idea. we weren t there. did. [ inaudible ] i didn t see anybody. just the attorney for him. which attorney was that? jason ewart. [ inaudible ] do you know anything about his last meal? i don t know. i don t believe he had a last meal and i don t believe he made a final statement when he was going to be given the opportunity to record one.
from the latest from news correspondent, joining us outside the prison in jackson, georgia. what is it like out there tonight? we just spoke well, the atmosphere is very thick with tension. a lot of anticipation that this execution has gone through. i just spoke with a spokeswoman from the department of corrections here in georgia and she says that they are more than mid way through the ex coexecutn at this point. she believes that within 10 minutes she will get words of the details of this execution but this execution has already begun. before she mentioned it would take 20 to 30 minutes and that was in the previous hour and that was to get everybody in place for this execution it take place. now we understand the execution has began through the process and now we are waiting for confirmation of the details and the sequence in what just happened. inside that execution chamber we understand there was going to be three members of the macphail family. we know that members o
changed their minds about his guilt. others claim a man who was with davis that night told people he is the actual gunman. joining us, coming up, will be rachel maddow, ben jealous, jeremy skahill and barry shek and allen ault. from the latest from news correspondent, joining us outside the prison in jackson, georgia. what is it like out there tonight? we just spoke well, the atmosphere is very thick with tension. a lot of anticipation that this execution has gone through. i just spoke with a spokeswoman from the department of corrections here in georgia and she says that they are more than mid way through the ex coexecutn at this point. she believes that within 10 minutes she will get words of the details of this execution but this execution has already begun. before she mentioned it would take 20 to 30 minutes and that was in the previous hour and that was to get everybody in place for this execution it take place. now we understand the execution has began through the p