Iren Sustainable Financing Framework
Iren Sustainable Financing Framework
Sustainable finance
Starting in 2017, through the issuance of its first Green Bond, the Iren Group embarked on a path of sustainable finance to support its investment strategies strongly focused on projects with positive sustainability impacts. To date, Iren has issued 6 Green Bonds, for a total amount of €3 billion, which represent, together with other sustainable finance instruments, about 79% of the total debt.
Debt structure
Iren has also consolidated its historic relationship with the European Investment Bank (EIB) as well as the Council of Europe Development Bank (CEB), institutions that support investment projects that have environmental and social sustainability requirements.
Data updated to Q1 2024.
Over the years, Iren first developed a Green Financing Framework and in 2022 adopted a new Sustainable Financing Framework, evolving from that of 2018, to further strengthen its commitment to sustainable finance. The new Sustainable Financing Framework contemplates the use of both Use of Proceeds and Sustainability Linked instruments.
Iren New Sustainable Financing Framework
The Sustainable Financing Framework highlights how the Iren Group intends to continue supporting its sustainable development vision by combining the use of different Green & Sustainability-linked financing instruments. The Framework is aligned with the Green Bond Principles 2021 and the Sustainability-linked Bond Principles 2020 of the ICMA (International Capital Market Association), and with the Green Loan Principles 2021 and the Sustainability-linked Loan Principles 2022 of the LMA (Loan Market Association). Within the Sustainable Financing Framework, Iren S.p.A. may issue any type of debt instrument such as bonds (senior unsecured, subordinated unsecured or hybrid, or project bonds), loans, guarantees and derivatives.
Green Financial Component
Energy efficiency
Renewables
Wastewater Purification ed
efficiency of water services
Circular economy
E-mobility
1,9 million
tons of CO2 emissions
avoided in 2023
Green bond
Green Bonds highlight Iren's focus on a growing segment of investors who, in turn, include ESG parameters in their analyses as a tangible element of sustainability and investment choice.
To date, Iren has issued six Green Bonds with a total outstanding amount of 3 billion Euro.