Climate Bonds Blog

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 18, 2019 by Giulia Rado

Highlights:

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

Posted: Jan 14, 2019 by Louise Patzdorf

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

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

Posted: Jan 13, 2019 by Mariana Caminha

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?

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

Posted: Jan 9, 2019 by Mariana Caminha

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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’.

NY HFA in Double Figures- 11th Certified GB – Leads Programmatic Issuers Using Certification Route

Posted: Jan 7, 2019 by Andrew Whiley

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

11 Green Bonds and Counting

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 20, 2018 by Giulia Rado

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

Posted: Dec 19, 2018 by Mariana Caminha

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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.

Brazil Green Finance Initiative (BGFI) holds final meeting of the year with green infrastructure for Brazil’s cities at the top of the agenda

Posted: Dec 17, 2018 by Mariana Caminha

Infrastructure companies present investors with a pipeline of green city projects. Water and Sanitation set to be a key sector for investment in 2019 including renewable energy and public lighting.

What’s it all about?

EU TEG calls for feedback on Taxonomy: Online platforms and workshops - Mitigation, Resilience and Adaptation topics for comment

Posted: Dec 14, 2018 by Louise Patzdorf

Call for feedback and workshop invitations on EU Taxonomy for Sustainable Finance from the Technical Expert Group