Climate Bonds Blog

Posted: Nov 25, 2009

For the past six months the Climate Bonds Initiative, working with a range of associated groups, has been pressing political parties in the UK to adopt policies for a "Green Investment Bank" and for "Green Bonds". (You can read more about these proposals in our Climate Bonds discussion paper).

 

In late November the UK Conservative's Shadow Chancellor announced that, if they win government, they will set up a Green Investment Bank to:
"design frameworks that provide the certainty and incentives to attract private sector investment in green technologies"

A win: UK Shadow Chancellor Osborne announces green bonds and Green Investment Bank
Posted: Nov 14, 2009

Climate war chest

www.brw.com.au  |  November 5–11 2009 | page 8

“Climate bonds” are the way to ramp up investment in climate-change response, in the same way that war bonds funded military spending in the two world wars, a non-profit group established to promote investment in renewable energy says.

A spokesperson for Climate Bonds Initiative, Sean Kidney, says in response to a recent report highlighting the urgent need for emissions controls that investors need an option to invest in renewable energy without compromising returns.

“They have to be equivalent investments,” he explains.

Climate bonds story in BRW magazine