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Global issuance of green bonds tops $100 billion to date in 2019

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 28 JUN 2019  |  NEWS
... "Reaching US$100 billion in green issuance for the third time and so early in the year is welcome; however, the global climate finance challenge is to reach a US$ 1 trillion in annual green investment early in the 2020s," Kidney said. "The EU TEG process ...

Man Group appoints Jason Mitchell co-head of responsible investment

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 3 AUG 2018  |  NEWS
... Group since 2010. Mitchell also serves on the Advisory Board of Imperial College Business School's Centre for Climate Finance and Investment, and is a member of the PRI Academic Advisory Committee, the PRI Macroeconomic Risk Advisory Committee, the Investment ...

Climate Bonds Initiative analyses bond issuance from second quarter 2017

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 10 NOV 2017  |  NEWS
... investor diversification remain among the most talked about topics for green bonds," said Peer Stein, global head of climate finance, Financial Institutions Group - IFC. "With this second publication in a joint series with the Climate Bonds Initiative ...

International Finance Corporation launches NZ dollar-denominated green bond

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 4 AUG 2017  |  NEWS
... demonstrates the continued and expanding role of capital markets in mobilizing international savings to help close the climate finance gap," Monish Mahurkar, said IFC director for treasury market operations. He added, "As of July 2017, IFC has issued ...

Climate Bonds Initiative analyses disclosure of use of proceeds

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 30 JUN 2017  |  NEWS
... reporting to 78%." "International green bond markets need to accelerate in depth and diversity to meet country climate finance goals," said Sean Kidney, CEO Climate Bonds Initiative. "This report reflects the best practice examples by market leaders ...

IGCC calls for action, investment to adapt at-risk infrastructure

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 17 MAR 2017  |  NEWS
... promoting adaptation investment across Australia," among other recommendations. IGCC will also engage with global climate finance bodies on the development of an adaptation and resilience measurement framework. IGCC also recommends that investors should ...

London Stock Exchange joins Climate Bonds Partnership Program

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 8 APR 2016  |  NEWS
... working cooperatively on joint projects that build and strengthen the position of green bonds in providing global climate finance solutions."

Norton Rose Fulbright becomes Climate Bonds Initiative partner

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 11 MAR 2016  |  NEWS
... transition. Climate Bonds plays an active role in international discourse on the development of new market-based climate finance solutions. Joining the Partnership Programme gives us an opportunity to increase our engagement with an active participant ...

Global Investors sign Paris Green Bonds Statement

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 11 DEC 2015  |  NEWS
... Initiative. "This guide can help the public sector in translating aspects of their national INDC objectives into climate finance outcomes. Adding green bonds into the climate finance mix can help the shift of capital to low carbon projects, infrastructure ...

Climate Bonds Initiative to release V2.0 standards this month

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 9 OCT 2015  |  NEWS
... version 2.0 of the Climate Bonds Standards, is based in Australia. He updated institutional investors and other climate finance professionals attending the Investor Group on Climate Change (IGCC) Summit in Melbourne this week. The rise in external certification ...