Another successful year for the green bond market with 2015 issuance hitting $41.8bn making it the biggest year ever for green bonds.
Climate Bonds Blog
Posted: Jan 11, 2016
2015 Year End Review - From tall trees to many green shoots: the evolution of the green bond market continues with 2015 seeing $41.8bn green bonds issued – that’s the biggest ever!
Posted: Jan 4, 2016
2015 was a magnificent year for green bonds (look out for our year-end market summary coming soon!). Q4 is in particular a busy quarter for green bonds – a total of $14.87bn were issued, and November was the largest monthly issuance EVER with $7.4bn of green bonds. The 3 largest individual issuances of the year also hit the market in Q4 with a €1.5bn ($1.66bn) bond issued by KfW, two tranche deal of €0.5bn and $0.8bn ($1.3bn) issued by ING Bank; and a green bond totalling $1.25bn from EDF.
Credit Agricole CIB tops Q4 green bond underwriters table; the overall 2015 year end top spot goes to BAML!
Posted: Dec 29, 2015
The Low Carbon Transport Standard has been out for public comment since late October and is now nearing the end of its consultation phase. We welcome all interested parties to submit comments to Justine Leigh-Bell before COB 31 December.
2 days remaining to submit your comments on our Low Carbon Transport Standard – public consultation closes on 31 December
Posted: Dec 28, 2015
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Posted: Dec 24, 2015
November was a good month for the green bonds market: the largest month of issuance to date, the first green bond from Mexico and a first green bond from Indian development bank IDBI.
There was also a flurry of banks with USD1 billion or more mandates including Credit Agricole, HSBC, Barclays, Deutsche Bank, KfW and IFC. We also had some prominent joiners to the Climate Bonds Partners programme including Blackrock, Thomson Reuters, EY and IDBI.
Nov Media digest – South China Morning Post, Financial Times, Reuters, Bloomberg, GlobalCapital & more
Posted: Dec 23, 2015
It’s been a busy year for green bonds, how much have you been paying attention?
Take the 2015 Climate Bond quiz
Last year’s top climate bonds boffin was SEB’s Marianne Gut.
It’s that time of year again…for all you climate bond boffins to prove your mettle! Take the annual CBI Christmas QUIZ now
Posted: Dec 23, 2015
The green bonds market has developed a lot in the past year. It’s time we celebrated that!
On 3 February 2016 the Climate Bonds Initiative will announce the 2015 Green Bond Pioneer Awards, kindly hosted by the London Stock Exchange (and its green bond listing).
Come and celebrate! The Awards will honour pioneering organisations and individuals whose green bond activities have been leading the market in creating climate finance solutions.
Diary Alert: Inaugural Green Bond (Pioneer) Awards - evening Wed 3 Feb 2016, at London Stock Exchange + afternoon seminar
Posted: Dec 22, 2015
London: The alliance that launched the Green Infrastructure Investment Coalition at COP21 are inviting institutional investors & development banks to join the coalition in 2016 to promote the large scale financing of green infrastructure
What’s the GIIC coalition for?
Green Infrastructure Investment Coalition 2016 Call for Members. Global Alliance to Support Climate Finance and INDC Goals
Posted: Dec 22, 2015
People’s Bank of China (PBoC) today announced new guidance on green bond issuance in China’s inter-bank bond market.
中国人民银行（央行）在今天发布了银行间市场绿色债券发行公告。
The PBoC has also published Green Projects Catalogue developed by Green Finance Committee, China Society for Finance & Banking (GFC), defining assets and projects qualified for green bonds.
同时，央行也公布了《绿色债券支持项目目录》。该目录由中国金融学会绿色金融专业委员会(简称“绿金委”)开发，为绿色债券融资项目提供界定标准。
PBoC Takes Post COP21 Step on Green Bonds. New Definitions, Market Guidance and Disclosure Rules. 中国人民银行在巴黎气候大会之后对绿色债券采取行动：新的绿色定义、市场引导和披露要求。
Posted: Dec 21, 2015
Streamlined assessment tool for investors and intermediaries
Climate Bonds Initiative has released the Climate Bonds Standard V2.0, the next iteration of an overarching multi-sector standard that allows investors and intermediaries to easily assess the environmental integrity of bonds claiming to be green and funding the low carbon and climate resilient future.
Climate Bonds releases new Standard V2.0 - post COP21 global guidance for green bond market participants