The bundling of green loans into securities can unlock additional capital to finance the transition to a low carbon and climate-resilient economy.
Opportunities now exist across the EU to grow a significant market around green securitisation and contribute directly to 2030 energy and carbon reduction targets.
The green debt market continues to diversify with a new synthetic securitisation deal. Last week, Crédit Agricole CIB and Mariner Investment Group completed a USD 3bn private synthetic risk transfer through a Green Capital Note.
US$ 217 million allocated for energy efficiency Green Bond in LATAM & Caribbean
Last month Toyota closed their second green bond for a whopping $1.25bn. Standard auto loans backed the issuance with proceeds to be used for electric and hybrid car loans; that means it’s more like a corporate green bond, where proceeds from a bond backed by existing (non-green) assets are directed green loans still to be made.
Across Europe and a number of other regions bank recapitalisation pressures have led to a reduction in business and project lending - and thus reduced renewable energy lending.
This is a problem because the bulk of project finance (95% globally) comes from bank lending.
The development of a market for securitized renewable energy and energy efficiency assets and loans, allowing banks to quickly recycle limited loan capital, is going to be vital to ensuring banks deliver the project finance needed as we “green” energy systems.
