Next Friday morning, 12 June 8:00-10:00, we're holding in London a roundtable discussion on legal issues around green bonds. If you're in a law firm and looking at green bonds, please do join us. The roundtable is for legal counsel only.
Background:
Following a landmark green bond growth year in 2013, the labelled green bond market has once again experienced a year of incredible growth in 2014: by year-end there had been $36.6bn of green bonds issued by 35 different issuers. We're hoping that the market size will triple again in 2014.
While the market continues its steady upward climb, the characteristics of issued green bonds vary significantly. The bonds promise environmental and climate benefits, and yet how do we know whether these promises are being fulfilled? What is the current state of legal practice around green bonds? Are these green assertions vulnerable to legal challenges and, if so, what can the legal practitioner do, immediately, and over a period of time?
Climate Bonds Senior Fellow Motoko Aizawa will moderate the roundtable. Motoko is an internationally recognized expert on standard setting in the environmental, social and governance dimensions of sustainability, and the former Head of the Policy and Standards Unit at the International Finance Corporation, where she was instrumental in the development of the Equator Principles.
This will the second roundtable we've run on the topic; the first was in New York City in February. Motoko wrote a reflection note about that meeting for the Climate Bonds blog.
Details:
Friday 12 June, 2015 - 8:00am-10:00am
Address: Norton Rose, 3 More London Riverside, London, SE1 2AQ
If you'd like to suggest any legal colleagues for the roundtable, please do so.
RSVPs to info@climatebonds.net.
We'll be holding another legal roundtable for investment bank lawyers later in the year.
