There will be a ‘green bonds insight’ event at the Responsible Investor Americas 2014 conference on 10 December from 12:15 to 16:00. Folks from sell & buy sides, local governments and NGOs will discuss:
- Green bonds: how the finance works and what they fund.
- Issuers' perspectives
- Are green and ESG bonds about to take off in North America
Two Climate Bonds Standard board participants will be speaking; Bettina Redway, the Deputy Treasurer of California (Green Bonds: Issuers' perspectives) and Douglass Sims, Director of Strategy and Finance at the NRDC (Green and ESG bonds prospects in North America).
DC Water CFO Mark Kim, a member of the Climate Bonds Standard Water Infrastructure Technical Working Group, will be presenting the issuer’s perspective at the Green bonds: how the finance works and what they fund session; and Lenoar Suki from Climate Bonds Partner Bloomberg will be speaking in the Are green and ESG bonds about to take off in North America.
It'll be interesting to hear if NYC Deputy Comptroller Carol Kostic, also speaking, is going to tell us when they will go to market with ther mooted green bond.
The event is open to RI subscribers and asset owners; to attend contact events@responsible-investor.com
The full agenda:
Case examples from an issuer, a seller and a buyer
- Eila Krievi, Director, Head of Capital Markets Department, European Investment Bank
- Mark Kim, Chief Financial Officer, DC Water
- Stephen Liberatore, Global Public Markets, TIAA-CREF Asset Management
- Nicholas Pfaff, Director, Market Practice and Regulatory Policy, International Capital Market Association (ICMA) and Secretary, Green Bonds Principles
- Moderator: Lindsay Smart, Head of UK and US Markets, Vigeo
Green Bonds: Issuers' perspectives
This panel of green bond issuers will discuss their motivations for issuing green bonds and how they incorporate the Green Bonds Principles into their process. Is there resistance from investors and consultants? If so, what is the best way to overcome it.
- Bettina Redway, Deputy Treasurer, State of California
- Mark Peternell, Vice President Sustainability, Regency Centers
- Nancy Kyte, Senior Portfolio Manager, Export Development Canada
- Laura Tlaiye, Sustainability Advisor Capital Markets Department, World Bank Treasury
- Moderator: Suzanne Buchta, Managing Director Green Debt Capital Markets Americas, Bank of America Merrill Lynch
Are green and ESG bonds about to take off in North America
- Lenora Suki, Senior Product Strategist, Bloomberg LP
- Douglass Sims, Director of Strategy and Finance, Center for Market Innovation at Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC)
- Carol Kostic, Deputy Comptroller for Public Finance, New York City
