Moody’s Municipal Infrastructure and Green Bonds; Environmental Finance & the Americas; California Green Bonds Symposium in Feb 2018.
Is the tide turning on US green finance?
At Climate Bonds we see the US as having huge potential for green bond issuance, particularly at the municipal and corporate level. The more discussion and debate around climate finance, infrastructure renewal and green growth, the better.
These three coming events have caught our eye and are worth sharing with readers.
1) Moody’s Decarbonizing Municipal Infrastructure Using Green Bonds
Wednesday, 20 September 2017
8:30 AM - 11:30 AM, New York
We think this has to be one of the go-to events during Climate Week NYC. It’s hosted by Moody’s Investors Service in partnership with us, so we may have a touch of bias.
“Decarbonizing Municipal Infrastructure Using Green Bonds” will focus on the risks climate change is posing on local governments at both state and city levels and the need to invest in the low carbon economy.
Speakers include our own Sean Kidney and Pat McCoy from multiple green bond issuer New York MTA.
Register here.
2) Environmental Finance Conference-Green Bonds Americas 2017
Monday, 23 October 2017
8:50 AM - 5:10 PM, New York
As we noted in our August Market Blog, it’s the third time round for Environmental Finance in holding this East Coast event. There’s a full day agenda, looking across the gamut of issues facing the US green bond market.
We want to see many more tens of billions in green bonds from corporate America in the next three years as part of the push to reach $1trillion by 2020.
This conference has attracted some of the biggest names in US green finance, so we’re pleased to see growing the market features from the opening session onwards.
Due in just over a month, but don’t delay, register here.
3) California Treasurers Green Bond Symposium 2018
Tuesday and Wednesday, 27-28 February 2018
Santa Monica, CA
Hosted by John Chiang and coordinated by the Milken Institute and the doughty Environment Finance who are making an East-Coast West-Coast double for green bond events.
California has been leading the way on green bond issuance, with SFPUC and BART both issuing Climate Certified Bonds. In a hot tip for Blog readers, there’s more West Coast issuance in the pipeline.
Treasurer Chiang has been busy for some time with his own green finance plans, releasing ‘Growing the US Green Bond Market: Volume 1: The Barriers and Challenges’ in January 2017 in what we described at the time as:
“A bold new move by America’s largest and most innovative state to lead on climate finance, green infrastructure funding and kick-start the US green bond market”.
He’s just penned this piece in the San Francisco Chronicle calling on corporate America to back the development of a huge and diverse green bond market to fund climate resilient infrastructure investment and reduce emissions.
We concur.
Registrations aren’t open yet, but more information is here on the Treasurers website.
So mark the dates: 27-28 February 2018, Santa Monica and keep an eye on the Environmental Finance website.
Take your pick Blog readers, any one of these three are worth your time.
‘Till next time
Climate Bonds
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