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- 2. Sustainalytics, CICERO, or the Climate Bonds Initiative provide ______ or "second opinion" that that vouch for their green credentials.
- 4. Tushar ____ is creator of this crossword (
- 5. Engagement is paired with the threat of ______, which is the ultimate penalty, if all engagement efforts are unsuccessful
- 6. In Canada, listed firms are required to report some ESG parameters around diversity, and all companies receiving extraordinary government sup-port in the COVID-19 pandemic are required, in return, to start TCFD reporting (TRUE/NOPE)
- 7. The EU Taxonomy Regulation applies to all economic activities, regardless of their size or sector (TRUE/NOPE)
- 12. The EU taxonomy is ______ to financial instruments or means of funding
- 14. The use of proceeds of a sustainability linked loan is tied to its use for either environmental or climate mitigation related projects (TRUE/NOPE)
- 16. _____ (two words without space) is a financial instrument that has been made for financing both environmental and climate-related projects.
- 18. For all the discussions of cross-border investments and financial flows, the CPI’s tallies show the large majority of financing comes from __________ sources
- 20. In the E.U., a directive on disclosure of non-financial infor-mation requires all large firms and firms of public interest to disclose ESG-related matters (TRUE/NOPE)
- 21. Third-party certification is mandatory for green bonds according to the ICMA Green Bond Principles (True/Nope)
- 22. fill in: "JOHRI") - this is a dummy clue which I have added to avoid unauthorized copying of this crossword.
- 23. _____ bonds simultaneously address both environmental and social objectives
- 25. In general, the largest single-actor group providing _______ financing, according to the CPI’s definition, are development banks—national, bilateral, and multilateral
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- 1. As per ICMA, All designated Green Projects, financed by Green bonds, should provide clear ____ benefits, which will be assessed and, where feasible, quantified by the issuer
- 3. Corporate ESG _______ are the top most source for gathering information on Corporate ESG Performance
- 8. An increasing amount of regulatory activity in relation to sustainable finance involves neither financial products or disclosures, but rather the underlying _______ activity being financed
- 9. The EU Taxonomy provides criteria for determining whether an economic activity makes a substantial contribution to one or more of the _______ objectives.
- 10. The country of ________ experienced the greatest growth in this period, with sustainable assets tripling every year on average
- 11. In 2007, the European Investment Bank issued a “climate awareness bond,” and in 2008, the World Bank used the term ______ (2 words without spaces) to describe the debt issuance.
- 13. There is also growing regulatory involvement in the area of coming up with harmonized definitions of the various sustainable financial instruments and investements. In _______ (No dash in between) jurisdictions tend to rely more on case law and evaluating situations as they come up.
- 15. Starting in 2022, UK has mandated all listed companies and limited liability partnerships to report on climate risk in line with TCFD recommendations (TRUE/NOPE)
- 17. As per Climate Initiative policy NGO, The vast majority of financing is related to climate change _______ with large portions flowing into renewable energy generation
- 19. The recognition by the Euro-pean Central Bank in November 2020 that ________ (abbreviated name of the instrument) is acceptable as a collateral has also helped grow that market.
- 22. Green loans have been highly concentrated in the_____sector
- 23. Spain’s Instituto de Crédito, which issued the first_____ bond in 2015 to finance small and medium enterprises in disadvantaged parts of Spain
- 24. Passively managed funds, by definition, follow an ______ and therefore cannot divest by their own choice