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Sustainable Lending

Private finance has a critical role to play in catalysing the transition to a sustainable global economy. At the LMA, we are dedicated to promoting growth and innovation in sustainable lending practices, and supporting the loan market as new sustainable finance regulation emerges. Our ongoing initiatives include:

documentation projects, including the release of model provisions for sustainability-linked loans, together with work on the preparation of an accompanying term sheet and a template mandate letter for sustainability coordinators;
supporting the development of market practice, including the publication of updated versions of the Green, Social and Sustainability-Linked Loan Principles and accompanying guidance documents;
responding to regulatory proposals in relation to sustainable finance; and
attending and hosting various sustainable finance events.

Latest News

LMA publishes its first-ever Sustainable Finance Insights Report on Greenwashing: Understanding and Navigating the Impacts for the Loan Market.

Today, we want to give a special shoutout to our dedicated members – along with participants from across the wider banking and private credit markets – for their invaluable contributions to the LMA’s first-ever Sustainable Finance Insights Report on Greenwashing: Understanding and Navigating the Impacts for the Loan Market. A special thank you to Hannah Vanstone (LMA) and Sukhvir Basran (King & Spalding) for their tireless efforts in bringing this report to life.

Read the report here.

LMA sets out high-level recommendations on Sustainability Omnibus Proposal

The LMA has today published its high-level position paper on the EU’s First Omnibus package on sustainability.

This output follows engagement with the LMA’s Sustainable Finance Regulatory Committee and sets out 5 key recommendations for the Commission:

LMA responds to HM Treasury consultation on UK Green Taxonomy

Yesterday, the LMA submitted its response to HM Treasury’s consultation on the value case for a UK Green Taxonomy.

A copy of the consultation response can be found here.

LMA launches Green Loans Term Sheet

Video Content

The Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence Directive Revisited

November 2024

Sustainable Finance Webinars

Seminar on the LMA’s sustainability-linked loan rider

The Politics of ESG: Will action meet expectation?

With David Chmiel – Global Torchlight

An introduction to nature-related risk

With Hannah Vanstone – LMA & Dr Rhian-Mari Thomas OBE – Green Finance Institute

ESG trends in leveraged loans

With Gemma Lawrence-Pardew – LMA, Emma Norman – Invesco, Pathik Gandhi – Linklaters and Jacob Mi...

Innovation in Acquisition Financing: Europe's first ESG unitranche

With Gemma Lawrence-Pardew – LMA & Alice Foucault – BaringsWith

Sustainability in the new world

Sustaining sustainability: have the foundations been laid for a green recovery?

From the LMA Syndicated Loans virtual conference (22-23 September 2020).

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Spotlight on transition finance: bridging the gap between green and brown

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Spotlight on Data - the missing piece?

This webinar lasts approx 20 minutes and is an interview with Todd Arthur Bridges, Partner and Global Head ...