climate-bond-standards

New Climate Bonds Expert Working Group kicks off to develop eligibility criteria for climate bonds linked to Agriculture and Forestry investments

Working group of 15 international experts gets the Standard development under way

The Climate Bonds Initiative held the first meeting of a new Agriculture, Forestry and Other Land Use (AFOLU) Expert Group last week. It is convened to develop eligibility criteria for assets and projects that can be used to back Climate Bonds. 

Proposed Climate Bonds Green Property criteria allow top 15% of buildings to be used to back green bonds; positive feedback so far; consultation period now closes 30 Sept

Green buildings are central to a shift to a low-carbon economy; the International Energy Agency(IEA) tells us that deep cuts in building emissions are needed to head off catastrophic climate change.

Public consultation period for Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) eligibility criteria ends next week. Last chance to get your comments in!

The published BRT criteria proposed by the Low Carbon Transport Technical Working Group will end its 30 day period of public consultation Monday 14th of July – so hurry and send us your feedback in the comments box below or at standards@climatebonds.net!

Reminder: register now for tomorrow's Webinar on Green Property Criteria! Or Thurs. This will be a huge slice of growing green / climate bonds market; an opportunity to find out about "what is green"

RSVP to justine@climatebonds.net(link sends e-mail)

We expect that Green Property Bonds are going to end up being 50% of the exploding green bonds market. Green Property Bonds can be issued against the whole value of a green building, or the value of a buildings portfolio. They can also be issued against a portfolio where the owners are planning to make it green. Lots of options.

But critical to making this concept work will be investor confidence in what is a green building.