Climate Bonds Initiative

With COP28 upon us, we've teamed up with Bellona Europa to bring you a series of news, updates and talking points from Dubai! Our opening episode from the COP Cafe features Futerra's Solitaire Townsend, telling us the story of COP...

On this podcast, we highlight the potential climate impact and financial opportunities from investments in renewable energy, grids and storage and support policymakers in adopting energy policies supporting a credible transition. Joining us, we have Ana Diaz of Climate Bonds, as well as Doriana Forleo and  Aurélien Ballagny from the Energy Storage Coalition.

The energy transition underpins the entire global transition to net zero. We need a clean and sustainable energy supply in order to power the green economy. This week, we look at how the sustainable finance markets can support a rapid and credible transition to a green energy sector. From smart grids to solar farms to municipal utilities, opportunities abound for investment in the green energy fut...

The world can’t build a green economy without a foundation of green cement. It’s the second most used substance on Earth, only after water, and if global cement manufacturing were a country, it would be the third-largest emitter on the planet. That’s why decarbonising the cement industry is one of the highest priorities in the fight against catastrophic climate change. This week, we talk to Transi...

The fight against climate change is an uphill battle, and we need all the help we can get. This week on Ready, Set, Transition, we look at how policymakers can tilt the playing field in the planet’s favor to facilitate a rapid, credible transition to net zero. Listen as Bridget Boulle and Maiko Morishito discuss how Japan, the EU, and countries around the world are using ambitious policy changes t...

Today we’re talking Taxonomy with Climate Bonds' Matteo Bigoni. As the green bond market is growing in prominence, work was needed to level the playing field. Enter the Taxonomy team, working to assist nations to develop their own frameworks whilst combatting greenwashing.

The question is no longer why or whether the global economy needs to swiftly move towards a low carbon, climate adapted, sustainable model, but rather how to urgently finance and operationalise the required transition.  In this session we discuss a range of tools for driving a successful transition to a low-carbon economy, including:  Transition advisory and verification Policy support Banking ser...

Addressing climate change requires fundamental and rapid transformations across all sectors of the economy, including those with the largest and hardest-to-abate emissions. Such transformations cannot be achieved through incremental improvements to established modes and systems alone. Climate action to date is neither broad nor deep enough to be responsive to the scale of the challenge faced.   Cu...

In 2021 the Biden Climate Summit saw the bulk of the world’s developed economies commit to ambitious 2030 carbon emission targets. The increasing support for climate action policies worldwide presents vast opportunities as we transition our economies. This session provides a platform to discuss the increasing support for climate action policies worldwide and the potential for innovative solutions...

Opening the Climate Bonds Connect 2023 Conference in New York, some welcoming remarks from Climate Bonds Initiative CEO Sean Kidney.

Join us for Episode 2 of Ready, Set, Transition with interviews from Climate Bonds', Rachel Hemingway and Fabiana Contreras. Join us as we ponder if a net-zero steel sector is possible.

Joining us in the Cafe this week, Dr. Aneil Tripathy, an economic and climate anthropologist, Impact Fellow in the MIT Climate and Sustainability Consortium (MCSC) and Academic Research Consultant at Climate Bonds. We chat about his experience of the New York Connect Conference, the schools of thought around Climate Finance and his love of gardening!

Join Climate Bonds for a new series exploring the challenges and opportunities presented by the global transition, and learn how investment in credible, ambitious decarbonisation efforts can help reach a net zero future. Climate Bonds CEO Sean Kidney and Head of Transition Programmes Rachel Hemingway share their insights into how investors and industries can push the world along the road to a gree...

Head of Market Intelligence Research Caroline Harrison is back in the Cafe to talk about the Green Bond Pricing in the Primary Market paper. It's a run through of how the first half of the year looked for sustainable finance. Where are we at in financing the fight against Climate disaster?

Join Constance de Wavrin, EU Market Engagement Lead at Climate Bonds Initiative, as she interviews Bram Bos, Global Head of Green, Social and Impact Bonds at Goldman Sachs Asset Management, about the state of sustainable bonds markets, GSAM’s green and impact bond franchise and the future of debt investments towards net zero.

With the third CONNECT event of the year coming up in New York City, Climate Bonds' Bipasha Chatterjee and Candace Partridge share their hopes and expectations for the Conference. It’s a city known for lots of things, but on #ClimateWeekNYC it’s the city of ‘Ready, Set, Transition’!

We're joined by returning guest Caroline Harrison and Matthew MacGeoch in the Cafe to discuss the new database and methodology around Sustainability-Linked Bonds, as well as the H1 report. We chat about what is an SLB, why Climate Bonds is looking to 'clean up' these. With the halfway report of our progress, how close are we to our target of mobilising $5 trillion annually towards clim...

This podcast is part of the Roadmap to a Green Energy Transition, a project developed by the Climate Bonds Initiative to highlight the potential climate impact and financial opportunities from investments in renewable energy, grids and storage and to support policymakers in adopting energy policies supporting a credible transition. Joining us is Global Transition Lead Dr. Ana Diaz to give us her t...

En este podcast, Andrés Felipe Sánchez (Head para América Latina y el Caribe - LAC) y Valeria Dagnino (LAC Sustainability Manager) de Climate Bonds Initiative conversan sobre lo que pasó en el #ClimateBondsCONNECT2023 América Latina y el Caribe, en Bogotá - Colombia y hacen un #debrief del evento.

In conversation with Magdalena Caramilea of Autonom, the Romanian auto company. We discuss their decision to issue their first SLB, the challenges and where they hope others can follow suit.

Climate Bonds experts Rachel Hemingway and Leonardo Gava are joined by guest speakers from World Resources China and Planet Tracker to discuss food loss and waste and its implications for net-zero.

How can the Climate Bonds framework help organisations with a green, social and sustainable focus to their business portfolio? So far, we've sat down with internal guests to bring you updates around Climate Bonds Initiative, today our senior advisor Fabrizio Palmucci is joined by Charly Bastard of CDPQ. They're a Canadian investment group with a sustainable investment approach. We find out...

Assessing the credibility of a company’s decarbonisation begins with the rigour and ambition of a transition Plan. We bring together experts who can draw insights on where to begin with Transition planning, what is the current state of guidance in the market and what do investors need to be assured the decarbonisation is credible and aligned with 1.5ºC pathway.

Tune-in to a brand new episode of the Climate Bonds Café 🎙️☕ Joining us, the Head of LatAm and Caribbean Programmes, Andrés Felipe Sánchez to preview the upcoming Climate Bonds Connect regional seminar on July 18th in beautiful Bogotá 🇨🇴!

Join Climate Bonds' Manshu Deng and Wenhong Xie to discuss the successful Hong Kong regional seminar!