climate-bonds-initiative

New Climate Bonds Senior Fellow: Motoko Aizawa, expert in standard setting, ex-IFC & leading figure Equator Principles dvlpt, former advisor China Ministry for Env & CBRC. Focus to be on Climate Bonds Standard

As of November 1, 2014, Motoko Aizawa will join the Climate Bond Initiative as Senior Fellow and advise on further development of the Climate Bond Standards scheme. And what a catch she is!

Citi+BoAML promote new Green Bonds Framework; JP Morgan+MS join up; defines a green bond as being about underlying assets not green rating of the company

Earlier this month CitiBank and Bank of America Merrill Lynch (BoAML) launched, via a special EuroWeek report on 'sustainable' capital markets, a "Framework for Green Bonds". This is potentially a big development.