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As noted previously in the October 2020 edition of
Baseload, the capital markets have seen explosive growth in the issuance of ESG debt in recent years. The advantages to utilities have been generally twofold: (1) provide access to a larger investor base than would otherwise be available (i.e. those investors with ESG-focused criteria) and (2) provide evidence of good corporate citizenship regarding certain of the issuer’s projects.
ESG encompasses three individual (but highly overlapping) elements: environmental criteria, social criteria and governance. The environmental element has been a mainstay of the capital markets since the late 2000s and has steadily increased since the International Capital Market Association (ICMA) first published its “Green Bond Principles” in 2014 and last updated them in 2018. [1] Debt issued in this category is designed to support specific climate-related or environmental projects and includes investments
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KfW’s €4 Billion Green Bond Scored E1/75 On Green Transaction Evaluation
April 8, 2021 GMT
STOCKHOLM, April 8, 2021 /PRNewswire/ S&P Global Ratings said today that KfW ’s €4 billion green bond scored E1/75 in its Green Transaction Evaluation. E1 is the highest score on our scale; E4 is the lowest. The full Green Transaction Evaluation report is available here.
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“The score reflects the transaction’s strong governance and transparency, and the favorable environmental impact of projects to be financed by the green bond,” said Pierre-Brice Hellsing, the primary contact for the evaluation.
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