Climate Bonds Blog

Posted: Feb 3, 2019

We're warming up for our Annual Conference 5-7th March in London.

Meantime some opportunities to meet the Climate Bonds team in events across Europe, Asia and Central America. 

TEG briefings and a host of activities in China, Hong Kong and Japan are all on the radar. 

Here's what's on the agenda for February!

 

Helsinki

5th

Manuel Adamini

February Events: from Helsinki to Tokyo, Honduras to Brussels, meet the Climate Bonds Team ahead of #CBI19
Posted: Jan 28, 2019

 

Just 5 Weeks to go! Climate Bonds Conference: New Speakers Announced: GB Pioneer Awards Voting Open: Register Now!
Posted: Jan 22, 2019

Green finance markets in ASEAN: Foundations for green growth and low carbon infrastructure 

 

Opportunities emerge

Since the initial 2016 green bond deals in the Philippines and Vietnam, ASEAN green bond market stakeholders have laid some solid foundations, culminatining in total issuance of USD5bn as of the end of November 2018.

ASEAN Green Finance: New Climate Bonds reports: ASEAN Green Finance State of the Market 2018 & ASEAN Green Financial Instruments Guide
Posted: Jan 18, 2019

Highlights:

Market Blog #19: 18 Jan 2019: USD167.3bn total 2018 GB issuance - USD11bn GBs in Dec '18 alone: 1st GB from Icelandic city: 1st sovereign blue bond
Posted: Jan 14, 2019

*Originally posted by the Grantham Research Institute on 9 January 2019.

 

Sustainable finance in troubling times: five actions to prevent market turbulence turning into a crisis - by Nick Robins
Posted: Jan 13, 2019

Meet the Climate Bonds team in events across Europe, Asia and North America!

If you're in Mexico City on the 22nd, come talk to our director Justine Leigh-Bell at the Green Finance Seminar for Central Banks and Supervisors of North, Central and South America.

And don't miss a discussion about taxonomies for sustainable finance with CEO Sean Kidney in Toronto on the 31th.

Here's what's in the agenda for the second half of January!

 

Where?

January Events: Meet the team in Thailand, Mexico City, Stockholm, Toronto, Helsinki... and more!
Posted: Jan 9, 2019

MARKET

Bonds&Loans, Green Bond Additionality: The Big Picture, Sean Kidney

Sean Kidney’s answer to returning questions of green bonds’ additionality. CEO of Climate Bonds Initiative explains the broad-ranging successes of the green bonds market in creating pre-conditions for large capital shifts to low-carbon and climate-resilient economy, larger systemic impact of this burgeoning market and how green bonds have been ‘catalyst for a wider green finance expansion’.

December media digest with the Wall Street Journal, France24, Bonds & Loans, Financial Times, Euractiv, La Tribune and more!
Posted: Jan 7, 2019

 

NY HFA on the Top of the Programmatic Issuers - Multiple Green Bonds Using Streamlined Route 

11 Green Bonds and Counting 

NY HFA in Double Figures- 11th Certified GB – Leads Programmatic Issuers Using Certification Route
Posted: Dec 20, 2018

Highlights:

Market Blog #18: 20th Dec: GB issuance at USD7.2bn so far: 1st Thai Certified Bond: 1st Certified Bond from South Carolina Muni: 1st Namibian GB
Posted: Dec 19, 2018

MARKET

 

The Economist, Green asset classes are proliferating

“Verdant and vibrant” is how Economist describes the green finance sphere. Author says that green bonds success has spurred the growth of other environmentally-friendly asset classes.

November media digest with The Economist, Financial Times, Handelsblatt, National Geographic, I&PE, Reuters and more!