> At NYC Environmental Conference this week Citibank director of structured finance Stuart Murray said: "The Climate Bonds market is ready to explode." He added: "The demand for climate bonds among investors we talk to is robust ... the issue is just that we’re not seeing that many bonds coming to market." Come on originators!
> Asian Development Bank (ADB) has raised $339 million from its second sale of clean-energy bonds to Japanese retail investors. ADB said the bond sale comprised A$15.3 million in four-year paper, BRL147 million in three-year bonds and TRY452 million in three-year bonds.
> Thanks to the organising of my friends at Canada's Sustainable Prosperity, Canada's Business News Network did a climate bonds TV piece today (I'm a star! with World Bank's Heike Reichelt) http://watch.bnn.ca/headline/
> New IEA Renewable Energy Technology Deployment report features green bonds proposal. http://goo.gl/RtPAV
> Our Renewable Energy Covered Bonds paper got a bit of media coverage this week. An examples: http://www.greenwisebusiness.co.uk/news/covered-bonds-could-plug-renewable-energy-investment-gap-3337.aspx
> Upcoming Talks
- Climate SE Asia rep Louis Perroy speaks next week in Singapore on “Will Bonds Play an Important Role in the Adaptation and Mitigation Financing Efforts?".
- Sean Kidney at Committee for Workers Capital in Berlin and Carbon Expo in Cologne.
