Media-digest

May’s media digest sees emerging markets as a big theme – coverage in Bloomberg, Reuters, Global Capital, Enviro Finance + more

The growing anticipation of green bonds taking off in Asia has determined the flavor of May’s media digest. The widely commented report by Moody’s fits with this trend by pointing to India and China as countries offering ‘sizeable growth potential’.

Asia

Media digest March; emerging mkts, standards & Green Bond Principles on the top of agenda – Fin Times, Forbes, Fin News, Reuters, IFR, Times of India, China Economic Times +more

‘China – the game changer’ was a phrase that recurred in several articles in March that reported on the growing climate awareness of the political elite in China. They also reported on the key reform recommendations that Climate Bonds Initiative, IISD and the Chongyang Institute for Financial Studies at Renmin University of China put forward to the Chinese policy makers in the whitepaper released in March.

Feb GB media stories: IFR, Investment & Pensions, Bloomberg, Banking Today, Dagens Næringsliv, Cities Today, Europe’s World, BNN +more.

A number of important green bonds market developments in February meant a buzzy month for the media coverage. The trending topics were India’s first green bond, Deutsche Bank’s €1 billion green bonds commitment and Oslo Stock Exchange green bonds listing. We have also seen the role of the governments in scaling up the market highlighted in a number of articles.  

Business News Network, Buy green bonds, feel good about yourself

Jan 2015 media digest: stories in FT, India’s Economic Times, Reuters, Bloomberg and more!

Jan 2015 media digest: stories in FT, India’s Economic Times, Reuters, Bloomberg and more!

2014 has been a breakthrough year for green bonds with issuance reaching US$36.6 billion. Media coverage matched the momentum. Here is what media have been saying so far in 2015:

Financial Times, Are green bonds a fair weather phenomenon?, by Ralph Atkins