ESG Ratings & Sustainability Linked Bonds
Stephanie Sfakianos
35 years: Sustainable finance & banking
In this video, Stephanie outlines the drawbacks of relying on ESG scores & ratings, and instead suggests ESG disclosure should be improved to help smaller companies. She further goes on to introduce the idea of a Sustainability linked bond, before finally providing concluding remarks on what the breakdown of market activity will look like in a year's time.
In this video, Stephanie outlines the drawbacks of relying on ESG scores & ratings, and instead suggests ESG disclosure should be improved to help smaller companies. She further goes on to introduce the idea of a Sustainability linked bond, before finally providing concluding remarks on what the breakdown of market activity will look like in a year's time.
ESG Ratings & Sustainability Linked Bonds
10 mins 18 secs
ESG ratings providers are going to be subjected to a great deal more scrutiny, with accreditation schemes being set up, starting in Europe. However, there are still challenges in how ESG scores are analysed and measured. Smaller companies are finding it difficult to keep up with their larger counterparts, who have dedicated team members focused on ESG efforts.
Key learning objectives:
Identify how ESG scores are measured
Understand if ESG ratings really matter
Outline the ongoing international efforts to improve standards
Define sustainability-linked bond
Understand how successful have efforts been to ‘green’ financial markets
Stephanie Sfakianos
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