Climate Bonds Blog

Posted: Oct 14, 2015

Your Invitation

Climate Bonds Initiative in partnership with the London Stock Exchange Group (LSEG) and the Peoples Bank of China (PBoC) Green Finance Committee, will co-host a landmark half-day green bond conference on 23rd October 2015 in London. The UK Foreign & Commonwealth Office are a supporting Partner.

China Green Bond Conference - London Stock Exchange - 23rd October 2015
Posted: Oct 13, 2015

Roundtable for asset owners and managers, prospective issuers and underwriters

Invitation: London, 22nd October, Roundtable on Climate Bonds Standard for Agriculture, Forestry and Other Land Use (AFOLU) Investment
Posted: Oct 13, 2015

Leading example of central bank support for green bond market

Lima: Governor of the Bangladesh Bank (BB) Dr Atiur Rahman announced at the annual World Bank-IMF meeting in Peru that the country’s central bank will invest a portion of foreign exchange reserves in green bonds. The central bank’s investment will focus on green bonds issued by multilaterals and other “highly rated financial corporates”. 

Bangladesh Bank to fund climate investment with forex reserves
Posted: Oct 12, 2015

Trends in Private Sector Climate Finance’ highlights need to scale up green bond market

UN investment report confirms key role of green bonds in climate investment
Posted: Oct 10, 2015

Check out all green bond issuances from corporates, cities, munis and banks now!

Climate Bonds Initiative has partnered with the UNFCCC to showcase all labelled green bonds issued by ‘Non-State Actors’ (meaning companies, cities, municipalities and banks) on the Non-State Actor Zone for Climate Action (NAZCA) platform hosted by the UNFCCC.

UNFCCC recognises green bonds as climate actions ahead of UN COP 21 by adding Climate Bonds Initiative’s data bank to its global climate platform!
Posted: Oct 9, 2015

Exciting development this week is the strong pipeline of green bonds. We always expected Q4 to ramp up in the lead up to UN COP 21 in December so its great to see a steady stream of green bond announcements from development banks, corporates (many from India) and municipalities. Plus, Bank of England's report for Insurance sector indicates role for green bonds in financing climate resilience.

Development Bank

HUGE pipeline of green bonds (GB) incl. EDF issues biggest USD corp GB! EIB adds $400m to its 2024 GB/ LM Group’s 1st GB ($56m) & BoE report promotes green bonds!
Posted: Oct 9, 2015

Climate Bonds Initiative Helping Organise International Investor Dialogue on Green Opportunities in Emerging Markets

Limiting global warming to 2° Celsius will require trillions of dollars of annual investment in green growth. Two thirds of the investments required will be in emerging markets that need to build new climate-resilient and low carbon infrastructure.

Climate Resilient Investment on Agenda at GreenInvest World Bank Annual Meeting in Peru
Posted: Oct 5, 2015

Oct is a busy month of green bond events around the world. Come say hello if you are at any of the events we’ll be speaking at, or get in touch if you're interested in arranging a meeting while we're in your part of the world.

Oct talks: Sao Paulo 6 Oct, Copenhagen 6th, Minneapolis 7, NYC 8, Lima 9/10, London 14 & 23, Belo Horizonte 15, Berlin 22, Bonn 24, Singapore 29, HK 30 x2, KL 3 Nov
Posted: Sep 30, 2015

 

Tomorrow (30 Sep), we will be co-hosting a webinar with the CalSTRS at:

Final chance to attend our how will Climate Bonds Standard V2.0 make independent review easy webinars - co-host CalSTRS - 30 Sep 10:00 San Fran / 13:00 NYC / 18:00 LDN / 19:00 Berlin
Posted: Sep 29, 2015

Tomorrow (29 Sep), we will be co-hosting a webinar with the Aviva at:

Reminder: webinar tomorrow! Climate Bonds Initiative and Aviva co-hosted webinar on how the Climate Bonds Standard V2.0 will make independent review easy - 29 Sep: 06:30 New York / 11:30 London / 12:30 Paris / 18:30 Beijing