Julian Lewis, IFR: Welcome to the second panel of the IFR ESG roundtable: New priorities in public sector ESG capital markets. We have some of the largest green bond issuers represented on the panel today, but also four leaders to help us make sense of challenges for the market, like alignment with the EU Taxonomy of sustainable activities, the coming EU Green Bond Standard, and the grandfathering of older bonds into this new environment. I thought we’d start by asking the issuers to say s

Tessa Walsh, IFR: Welcome to the first panel of the IFR ESG roundtable: Energy transition challenges and opportunities. We have a real range of perspectives here: issuers, investors, bankers, our colleagues from ratings agencies with sustainable finance experience, and we also have data and standardisation expertise on the panel. To take advantage of your different perspectives, could you lay out some of the key challenges and opportunities with energy transition that you’re dealing with i

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