Climate Bonds Connected: Podcast Programme

In order to protect a 1.5° future, world economies need to rapidly transition high emitting sectors to a net zero pathway. The cement industry is responsible for 8% of global emissions, but with the right policies, technologies, and financing, can transition to a net zero industry before 2050. On this edition of Climate Bonds Café, we talk with Transition Programme Policy Analyst Fabio Passaro about how Climate Bonds is providing policy guidance to facilitate the rapid, robust, and credible transition of the global cement industry towards a green future.

Following Climate Bonds' Green Bond Pricing report, we sit down with Caroline Harrison, Climate Bonds’ Head of Market Intelligence Research to find out what this sample study can tell us about green bond pricing and why investors are getting so excited about them.

With Climate Bonds’ recent launch of the 2022 Market Snapshot, we sit down with two members of Climate Bonds’ Market Intelligence Team; David Simms, the Lead Green Bond Analyst and Candace Partridge, the Social and Sustainability Bond Data Manager. We'll be talking about what they learned from 2022 and what’s got them very excited for 2023.

In the newest podcast episode we are welcoming Sean Kidney, CEO of Climate Bonds Initiative, Professor at SOAS University of London, Global Capital magazine’s “Most Influential Champion” of the sustainable finance market, Advisory Board Member of ISFC, and last but not least, our excellent CEE Sustainable Finance Summit speaker. This 35-minute discussion looks into the deeper meaning of value creation across our societies and how it relates to green bonds and other sustainability-linked financial instruments. Simply put, we need to urgently mobilise global capital for climate action - and we now have the tools to do so.

In their inaugural episode of One Step Ahead podcast, Lyxor ETF spoke to Sean Kidney, CEO and Co-Founder of Climate Bonds Initiative and Samu Slotte, Global Head of Sustainable Finance at Danske Bank,. They gave their honest take on the urgent need to tackle the climate emergency, and the crucial role investors must play to enact change. Samu also gave concrete examples of green projects financed by Danske Bank’s green bonds, ranging from green buildings to renewable energy.

The episode explores the role of a ‘Green Bond’ government bond to capitalise on growing investor interest in assets designed to fund environmentally friendly spending. While we see the use of proceeds divided in solutions focusing mainly on energy, buildings, transport and water, we also see the dominance of developed markets issuing 72% of the green bonds and emerging markets with less than 20%. The Joint SDG Fund was created to be part of the solution, to help low income countries in their sustainable transition to accelerate the Sustainable Development Goals.

Can transition finance become the key driver of the global decarbonization efforts? What are the main market movements and challenges surrounding this concept? Will we see growth in transition bonds issuance? Tune into our interview with Sean Kidney, Co-founder and CEO, Climate Bonds Initiative, and Leon Saunders, Refinitiv's Head of Sustainable Finance, to learn more.

About Transformers Podcast: How business people and policy makers are transforming the future to create a more sustainable one. The guests are people from the industry, environmental influencers and politicians driving the change into a low carbon and green economy.

Sean Kidney, key influencer in the green finance market. CEO and Co-founder of the Climate Bonds Initiative.. Sean is working to reach a $100 trillion green bond market to deliver a low carbon economy.

Podcast: Event Details: New Vietnam & Indonesia Update Report Launch

Podcast: Event Details: New Vietnam & Indonesia Update Report Launch - in Bahasa

The podcast is divided into three parts: 1) Brief introduction to CBI + Green Infrastructure Investment Opportunities Report series overview 2) Highlights of green investment opportunities Vietnam report: green finance trends in Vietnam, sectoral overviews in Vietnam with a special focus on low carbon transport and renewable energy, the Vietnemese government's policies to attract investment into infrastructure projects and the demand for green finance intruments development to finance green projects. 3) Interview with Le Cong Thinh, Head of Electrical System Department, Institute of Energy Science, Vietnam Academy of Science and Technology.

Podcast: Event Details: EU Taxonomy Explored: Talks with TEG Experts: No 5: Land use

This webinar, held on April 23rd, was hosted by EU TEG member Sean Kidney (CBI) with guest speakers Anna Creed, Climate Bonds Head of Standards, and Elodie Feller, Investment Programme Lead at UNEP Finance Initiative.

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EU Taxonomy Explored: Talks with TEG Experts: No 4: Manufacturing

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EU Taxonomy Explored: Talks with TEG Experts: No 2: Low Carbon Buildings

Buildings are responsible for 40% of energy consumption and 36% of carbon emissions. Lowering the carbon intensity of the built environment in cities and urban areas needs significant investment. Join Sean Kidney, Ursula Hartenberger and Fabrizio Varriale as they discuss the challenges of driving capital towards sunstainable buildings and net-zero by 2050 and the opportunties opened by the EU taxonomy,