> The European Investment Bank issued a 7 year, 3%, SEK1 billion ($148m) Climate Awareness Bond last week. Underwriters were SEB (Christopher Flensborg is at it again) and Deutsche Bank. Looks like Swedish funds continue to have appetite for climate and green bonds.
> Climate Bond talks are everywhere this Spring:
- Nick Silver is running a private climate finance session at an LSE Grantham Institute seminar in London this week (19 Apr).
- I'm is speaking in Oslo on 2 May at a half day seminar on Climate Bonds and Standards hosted by DNV.
- Kirsten Spalding (Standards Board/INCR), Mike Wilkins (Standards Industry Working Group/S&P) and I are all speakers at the NYC Environmental Bonds Conference on 23 May. (25% discount for readers of this email).
- I'm speaking at a Climate Bonds breakfast event in Toronto on 25 May.
Let me know if you'd like to find out more.
Plus I'll be in Washington DC this week and in Australia in mid-May. Let me know if you'd like to meet.