Resources
The Green Loan Principles (GLP) (March 2025)
The GLP apply to loans where the fundamental determinant is the utilisation of the loan proceeds for Green Projects.
Sustainability Linked-Loan Principles (SLLP) (March 2025)
Sustainability-linked loans aim to incentivise the borrower’s achievement of ambitious, predetermined sustainability performance objectives
Social Loan Principles (SLP) (March 2025)
The SLP aim to create a high-level framework of market standards and guidelines, providing a consistent methodology for use across the social loan market.
Guidance on Green Loan Principles (March 2025)
Guidance on the Green Loan Principles (GLP), to provide clarity as to the GLP's application and promote a harmonised market approach.
Guidance on Sustainability-Linked Loan Principles (March 2025)
Guidance on the Sustainability-Linked Loan Principles (SLLP), to provide clarity as to the SLLP's application and promote a harmonised market approach.
Guidance on Social Loan Principles (March 2025)
Guidance on the Social Loan Principles (SLP), to provide clarity as to the SLP's application and promote a harmonised market approach.
External Review Guidance for Green, Social, and Sustainability-Linked Loans (January 2024)
This Guidance aims to promote best practice and provides voluntary guidance relating to professional and ethical standards for external reviewers, as well as to the organisation, content and disclosure of their reports.
Guidelines for Sustainability-Linked Loan Financing Bonds (June 2024, including June 2025 Annex on FAQ)
Voluntary process guidelines that recommend transparency and disclosure and promote integrity in the development of the SLLB market by clarifying the approach for issuance of such type of instrument. Including a 2025 Appendix on FAQs intended to support scalability of the product, whilst maintaining credibility and integrity in the structuring of SLLBs.
Sustainable Finance Insights Report on Greenwashing: Understanding and Navigating the Impacts for the Loan Market. (March 2025)
Report outlining the broad scope of greenwashing rules, guidance and initiatives, and the need for wider ecosystem stakeholders to ensure they understand their role and responsibility in supporting banks, funds and corporates.
A Guide to the Application of the Sustainability-Linked Loan Principles in Fund Finance (March 2024)
This guide provides practical guidance on the application of the sustainability-linked loan principles (SLLP) to fund finance transactions. The guide identifies challenges and considerations that may arise and covers how the SLLP can be utilised in the fund finance market.
Updated Best Practice Guide to Sustainability-Linked Leveraged Loans (October 2023)
Guide providing practical guidance on the application of the SLLP to leveraged loans, intended to assist borrowers and lenders in integrating sustainability considerations into their facility agreements.
Introduction to Green Loan Frameworks (December 2023)
An introduction to green loan frameworks, as referenced in the Green Loan Principles (GLP), and incorporates an example framework.
Introduction to the sustainability coordinator role (July 2022)
Overview of the role of the sustainability coordinator in the structuring of Green, Social and Sustainability-Linked loans.
ESG Diligence Questionnaire - Asset Manager (Excel Version) (December 2022)
Excel version of ESG Diligence Questionnaire for asset managers
Sustainability-Linked Loans - When Finance Rewards Sustainability Performance (June 2025)
The LMA's latest insights on SLLs and what they can achieve, both as a label and a tool for engagement.
Getting Started in Sustainable Finance (November 2023)
This introductory guide describes the background to the emergence of sustainable lending, the global commitments driving the sustainability agenda, the range of products on offer and further resources on hand to help.
Sustainable Finance for Social Housing (October 2023)
This article explores the potential benefits of the use of green, social, and sustainability-linked loans in the social housing sector, and focusses on some of the related challenges and opportunities for market participants.
Sustainable Finance in the Mid-market (October 2023)
This article explores the use of sustainable finance products in the mid-market.
Financing Sustainability in Shipping (September 2023)
This article explores how the SLL product can be, and already is being, used in the context of shipping financing transactions.
Financing a Sustainable Future for Aviation (June 2023)
This article explores how the SLL product can be, and already is being, used in the context of aviation financing transactions.
It's a Matter of Time (July 2022)
This article explores how the timeline for a transaction will inevitably be impacted when seeking to introduce a sustainability element to the deal.
KPI Selection: A Matter of Materiality (June 2022)
This article sets out how parties can ensure that the KPIs selected are able to withstand the scrutiny of the syndicate, market and press.
Fear of Failure: Frustrating Ambition (June 2022)
This article examines whether the fear of failing to hit SPTs may be stifling parties from setting the right level of ambition in the SLL market.
ICMA's KPI Registry for Sustainability-Linked Bonds (June 2025)
An excel spreadsheet that includes high-level recommendations as well as illustrative examples for the selection of Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) for Sustainability-Linked Bonds (SLBs).
ESG IDP Integrated Disclosure Template (April 2025)
Reporting tool representing a proportionate set of questions that are designed to promote greater harmonisation and consistency of key sustainability indicators by borrowers in private credit and syndicated loan transactions.
Guide for Adaptation and Resilience Finance (April 2024)
Guide produced by Standard Chartered, KPMG and UNDDR on investment in climate adaptation and resilience in emerging markets, providing a list of activities that fall into this category and how these can be assessed.
LSEG LPC Green Lending Review (January 2024)
Review of global 2023 sustainable lending practices.
Bloomberg EMEA ESG Loans Insights Q3 2023
Exclusive to the LMA and its members, the shared data is prohibited from being shared or reproduced.
Carbon Footprint Measurement: A Concise Guide for Companies and Their Lenders (September 2023)
iCI report summarising the increasing importance of, and interest in, this information, pathways for how to collect and measure GHG emissions, and how this information can be used beyond reporting to stakeholders.
Infrastructure Debt ESG Covenant Package (September 2022)
ESG covenant package designed to unify ESG data collection and facilitate compliance with ESG disclosure regulations in the UK and EU.