Credibility and Best Practice Guidance
Embark on your Certification journey today and unlock 1.5°C alignment
The Climate Bonds Standard and Certification Scheme is a voluntary labelling scheme for investments – and now entities – that address the challenge of climate change and are consistent with the goals of the Paris Climate Agreement.
The Standard was initially designed to support confidence in the climate change credentials of green bonds and other debt instruments and to facilitate investment decision-making.
Now the Certification scheme expands to bridge the market gap in existing guidance on transition financing. It supports all transition, provided the goals, the path and the pace are suitably ambitious.
New Certification options
Previous versions of the Climate Bonds Standard are available here:
Introduction to Certification under Climate Bonds Standard V3.0
“Our ambition is to issue a “dark green” bond. The certificate which we, as the State of the Netherlands, have obtained from the Climate Bonds Initiative is tangible evidence of this ambition. Our aim is to give an extra boost to the Dutch green capital market through the issuance of the Green Bond.”
— Wopke Hoekstra, Minister of Finance, DSTA, Netherlands & Certified Climate Bond Issuer
— Wopke Hoekstra, Minister of Finance, DSTA, Netherlands & Certified Climate Bond Issuer
“Climate Bonds Certification provides issuers with an independent and science based standard to showcase the greenness of their green bond assets. Investors appreciate issuers who go the extra mile by providing transparent and ambitious criteria using Climate Bonds standards”
— Joop Hessels, Executive Director, Head of Sustainable Markets at ABN AMRO Bank N.V. & Certified Climate Bond Issuer
— Joop Hessels, Executive Director, Head of Sustainable Markets at ABN AMRO Bank N.V. & Certified Climate Bond Issuer
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