Global debt market lacks transparency with 90% of unknown ESG impact: WWF

All issuers of debt around the world should disclose the environmental, social and governance (ESG) risks, as the ESG impact of 90% of debt in the market is still unidentified, a report by the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) has found. Global private and public debt issuance climbed to $281 trillion by the end of 2020 and proved to be the largest source of financing globally. This was almost three times the value of the $95 trillion global equities market, the report published on…