Market Intelligence Services
- Green bond list and tracking: A list of the most recent labelled green bonds
- Climate Bonds Taxonomy: A guide for issuers, investors, governments and municipalities to help them understand what the key investments are that will deliver a low carbon economy. The Taxonomy adopts a traffic light system to indicate whether identified assets and projects are considered to be automatically compatible with a 2-degree decarbonisation trajectory, need further analysis, or are automatically incompatible.
- Climate Bonds Green Bond Database Methodology – September 2020 (English version): The Climate Bonds Initiative uses a clear set of criteria to define green bonds as eligible for its Green Bond Database. More detail on the classification criteria and screening process is set out in our updated green bond database methodology.
- Selected recent reports can be found here.
- Bond analysis
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- Explaining green bonds - Green Bonds are standard bonds with proceeds going to green and climate-related assets, projects and activities
- External Review - Bonds can be qualified as green by an independent reviewer, with Second Party Opinion (SPO) being the most common type
- Green bond segments on stock exchanges - Dedicated green, social and sustainability bond lists have been crucial in showcasing green bonds
- Investor appetite - Huge demand for green bonds with most of the issuances oversubscribed
- Best practice – Voluntary green market guidelines and growing need for universal green definitions