Blog Mailing
It’s warm and tropically humid in Lima, Peru, where I’m visiting for a week of climate finance meetings and conferences revolving around the UN Climate Change negotiations. Expectations from the conference are low, but there's a lot about other ways of mobilizing private sector capital - give the scale of the investment challenge, that's the main game.
Australia’s first certified Climate Bond was launched today by one of Australia’s four big banks; National Australia Bank (NAB). The bond has been certified under the Climate Bonds Standard; a FairTrade-like labeling scheme for bonds that allows investors to easily prioritise ‘climate-smart’ investments. The bond raised A$300 million and will fund a portfolio of seventeen wind and solar energy farms. It is the first time an Australian issuer has brought a green bond to the local market.
日本有数の証券会社である野村證券がClimate Bondsパートナーとなった。(for our Japanese readers)
野村証券でHead of EMEA Syndicateを務めるNick Dent氏は以下のようにコメントしている。
Leading Japanese securities house, Nomura, has signed up as a Climate Bonds Partner.
Nick Dent, Head of EMEA Syndicate at Nomura, said:
There will be a ‘green bonds insight’ event at the Responsible Investor Americas 2014 conference on 10 December from 12:15 to 16:00. Folks from sell & buy sides, local governments and NGOs will discuss:
