The Climate Bonds Initiative
The Climate Bonds Initiative is an investor-focused not-for-profit working to mobilize capital markets to finance climate change solutions. It promotes investment in projects and assets necessary for a rapid transition to a low-carbon economy. Work is three broad work streams:
- Market promotion: Thought leadership and advocacy on how to encourage investment. This includes bringing the three key actors to the table – industry, investors and governments – to develop the basis of a tripartite agreement under the Climate Bonds concept. Read more here
- Market facilitation: Proposals for standards, incentives and governance institutions that will support the scaling up of investment. This includes the development of models and a financial architecture for Climate Bonds designed to deliver accelerated low carbon industry development while creating returns for investors and no-cost, low-carbon inward investment for governments. Read more about policy proposals here
- Market growth: Development of project models to provide risk-adjusted returns in assets such as renewable energy, energy efficiency, forestry and other climate sectors. Project models are aimed at demonstrating how to engineer investibility through large-scale mitigation and adaptation pilot schemes in both developed and developing countries. Read more about project models here
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Sean Kidney, in Doha at the COP18, on how private capital can finance the transition to the low-carbon economy