IPE Real Assets – Guest view: Green loans

This article first appeared in the August 2024 edition of IPE Real Assets

With increasing regulations and more investors embedding sustainability goals into their investments, incorporating green targets into the debt component of the capital structure is becoming more common. As a result, the debt market across Europe is becoming a two-tiered market, with more green loans being issued at the same time as overall lending volumes have declined.

In this guest article for IPE Real Assets, Dave White discussed the growing appetite for these loans across Europe, and how both lenders and investors are responding to this changing landscape.