It's an exciting time for Brazil! The world's 5th largest country is vital in the global fight against climate change and faces a unique set of challenges, threats and opportunities.
Time then, for the Climate Bonds Connect Regional Seminar of Latin America and the Caribbean to head to Sao Paulo! Our guest, Julia Ambrosano sheds light on why this is a such a pivotal year for the Brazilian climate agenda, with the region looking to grab a just transition with both hands!
The importance of China in the fight against climate change, the size of the challenges but also the massive potential.
For this episode we're in the Café with the terrible backdrop of the floods that are ravaging Rio Grande do Sul in Brazil. With thousands displaced and severe casualties, we sit down with Ujala Qadir to remind us why climate resilience is an urgent necessity
We're in Tokyo, for the long-awaited return of Stories of Hope! In this episode, Sean Kidney is joined by Shinichi Tsunoda – General Manager of Sustainable Business Promotion Department, Mizuho Financial Group. Sean and Shinichi talk ambition from the Japanese government's technology roadmap, is it enough? With a recent issuance of a ¥1.6 trillion Transition Bond, it's an exciting horizon for industry and governance in Japan...
En este primero episodio de nuestra nueva serie, Acciones y Valores Sostenibles, exploramos cómo las bolsas de valores latinoamericanas están liderando el camino hacia un futuro más sostenible.
Andrés Felipe Sánchez, Head de Programas para América Latina y el Caribe de Climate Bonds Initiative y Manuel Batista, Vicepresidente de Finanzas e Innovación Estratégica de la Bolsa Latinoamericana de Valores (Latinex), discuten las estrategias de la bolsa para atraer inversiones verdes y promover la sostenibilidad financiera en la región.
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In this podcast series, we explore the transition of the agri-food sector towards net-zero emissions, and we aim to spotlight the industry's endeavours to combat climate change. Our scope is to uncover how companies are shaping sustainable, resilient, and environmentally friendly supply chains by showcasing the initiatives of leading actors from farm to fork.
We're kicking off 2024 by arriving at the European Parliament in Brussels for the first Climate Bonds Connect of the year.
To help us dissect the details and let you know exactly what to expect from this event, we're back at the Climate Bonds Café!
Climate change is happening everywhere, but how do we mitigate risk and disaster from climate impacts across the world? Joining us in London from the United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction, Paola Albrito. Tune in for a resilience masterclass.
It's been a busy year for the Latin America and Caribbean team! We're joined by Head of LAC Programmes, Andrés Felipe Sánchez at our Climate Bonds Connect 23 Global Conference in London.
Tune in for news, updates and case studies across the region in 2023, as we look ahead to the new year.
Join us from our Climate Bonds Connect 23 Global Conference in London as we grab a coffee and a chat with Anna-Marie Slot, Global Sustainability ESG Partner, Ashurst.
With a growing appetite among industries to green their practices, how can companies utilise more climate knowledge into a sustainable strategy?
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Sean Kidney, CEO of Climate Bonds Initiative & Watson Michael discuss about what Climate Bonds does. Furthermore they discussed about; - Current views on the climate crisis - Green Finance & examples - What Climate Bonds does? - How their trainings help people & organizations References
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Today we sit down with the wonderful Ujala Qadir, to discuss climate resilience. What it means, why it's more important than ever and the work going on with experts to tackle climate disasters.
Join Climate Bonds' Manshu Deng and Wenhong Xie to discuss the successful Hong Kong regional seminar!
Tune in as we chat to Manshu Deng to preview the CONNECT conference in Hong Kong next month.
Join us as we chat to Rabobank Brasil/Rabobank South America's Taciano Custódio and Xing Lan of Natixis about how to accelerate the transition of agriculture and agri-food systems toward net-zero.
Today we sit down with the wonderful Ujala Qadir, to discuss climate resilience. What it means, why it's more important than ever and the work going on with experts to tackle climate disasters.
In order to protect a 1.5° future, world economies need to rapidly transition high emitting sectors to a net zero pathway. The cement industry is responsible for 8% of global emissions, but with the right policies, technologies, and financing, can transition to a net zero industry before 2050. On this edition of Climate Bonds Café, we talk with Transition Programme Policy Analyst Fabio Passaro about how Climate Bonds is providing policy guidance to facilitate the rapid, robust, and credible transition of the global cement industry towards a green future.
Join Climate Bonds' CEO Sean Kidney and Director Anna Creed as we examine the structural expansion of the Climate Bonds Standards and Certification Scheme. Tune in to hear what it is and why it's causing so much excitement.
Following Climate Bonds' Green Bond Pricing report, we sit down with Caroline Harrison, Climate Bonds’ Head of Market Intelligence Research to find out what this sample study can tell us about green bond pricing and why investors are getting so excited about them.
Recently, India sold its first sovereign green bonds, debuting a 1 billion dollar issuance. Today, we sit down with Neha Kumar, Head of Climate Bonds’ South Asia Programme and Abraham Pedroza, Climate Bonds’ Lead trainer, who will be leading a Capacity Building training session in India soon.
With Climate Bonds’ recent launch of the 2022 Market Snapshot, we sit down with two members of Climate Bonds’ Market Intelligence Team; David Simms, the Lead Green Bond Analyst and Candace Partridge, the Social and Sustainability Bond Data Manager. We'll be talking about what they learned from 2022 and what’s got them very excited for 2023.
Welcome to the opener of the Climate Bonds Cafe. The show where we sit down with a coffee and bring you all the news around financing the fight against climate change.
In the newest podcast episode we are welcoming Sean Kidney, CEO of Climate Bonds Initiative, Professor at SOAS University of London, Global Capital magazine’s “Most Influential Champion” of the sustainable finance market, Advisory Board Member of ISFC, and last but not least, our excellent CEE Sustainable Finance Summit speaker. This 35-minute discussion looks into the deeper meaning of value creation across our societies and how it relates to green bonds and other sustainability-linked financial instruments. Simply put, we need to urgently mobilise global capital for climate action - and we now have the tools to do so.
When the first Green Bonds were issued in the late 2000s, no one imagined the demand to come. The first public offering was done by IFC and it sold out in only a few hours. Since then, Green Bonds have grown from around $2.5 billion in 2012 over $270 billion in 2020 with analysts projecting even further growth this year. Today, bonds are sought out as an investment option by pensions funds, insurers, and central banks, but according to Sean Kidney, CEO at the Climate Bonds Initiative and IFC's Treasurer John Gandolfo, their greatest potential may lie in their ability to change the terms of the debate.
In their inaugural episode of One Step Ahead podcast, Lyxor ETF spoke to Sean Kidney, CEO and Co-Founder of Climate Bonds Initiative and Samu Slotte, Global Head of Sustainable Finance at Danske Bank,. They gave their honest take on the urgent need to tackle the climate emergency, and the crucial role investors must play to enact change. Samu also gave concrete examples of green projects financed by Danske Bank’s green bonds, ranging from green buildings to renewable energy.
Hausfeld London's vlog series - the 'Green Room' - which celebrates #COP26, Ingrid Gubbay speaks to Sean Kidney, CEO of Climate Bonds Initiative. They discuss his hopes for COP26, how institutional investors need to calibrate risk - with #climatechange one of the biggest risks of our time, where our governments need to act fast, and which green instruments need our focus.
The episode explores the role of a ‘Green Bond’ government bond to capitalise on growing investor interest in assets designed to fund environmentally friendly spending. While we see the use of proceeds divided in solutions focusing mainly on energy, buildings, transport and water, we also see the dominance of developed markets issuing 72% of the green bonds and emerging markets with less than 20%. The Joint SDG Fund was created to be part of the solution, to help low income countries in their sustainable transition to accelerate the Sustainable Development Goals.
Sean Kidney, CEO at Climate Bonds Initiative, shares the inside story of sustainable finance and the extraordinary growth of capital allocated to climate solutions. Our discussion covers investor expectations, climate risk, regulatory action, and more.
We have been caught up in the blame game of individual activity, which is a red herring”, says Kidney. “Most of what we have to do are systemic changes to our economies; it’s energy systems, it’s transport systems; it's urban development planning. These are the areas of the most important changes. Which means our world changes around us and we change within it.”
Can transition finance become the key driver of the global decarbonization efforts? What are the main market movements and challenges surrounding this concept? Will we see growth in transition bonds issuance? Tune into our interview with Sean Kidney, Co-founder and CEO, Climate Bonds Initiative, and Leon Saunders, Refinitiv's Head of Sustainable Finance, to learn more.
Nico chats to Sean Kidney, CEO of the Climate Bonds Initiative. They discuss the global surge in green bond issuance, how green bonds relate to other thematic bonds as well as the EU Taxonomy for Climate Mitigation and a potential future Taxonomy for Biodiversity.
About Transformers Podcast: How business people and policy makers are transforming the future to create a more sustainable one. The guests are people from the industry, environmental influencers and politicians driving the change into a low carbon and green economy.
Sean Kidney, key influencer in the green finance market. CEO and Co-founder of the Climate Bonds Initiative.. Sean is working to reach a $100 trillion green bond market to deliver a low carbon economy.
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Regulators set the qualitative benchmarks and as such have pivotal role in ensuring that an issuance is related to developmental criteria.
Podcast: Event Details: New Vietnam & Indonesia Update Report Launch
Podcast: Event Details: New Vietnam & Indonesia Update Report Launch - in Vietnamese
The podcast is divided into three parts: 1) Brief introduction to CBI + Green Infrastructure Investment Opportunities Report series overview 2) Highlights of green investment opportunities Vietnam report: green finance trends in Vietnam, sectoral overviews in Vietnam with a special focus on low carbon transport and renewable energy, the Vietnemese government's policies to attract investment into infrastructure projects and the demand for green finance intruments development to finance green projects. 3) Interview with Le Cong Thinh, Head of Electrical System Department, Institute of Energy Science, Vietnam Academy of Science and Technology.
Podcast: Event Details: New Vietnam & Indonesia Update Report Launch - in Bahasa
The podcast is divided into three parts: 1) Brief introduction to CBI + Green Infrastructure Investment Opportunities Report series overview 2) Highlights of green investment opportunities Vietnam report: green finance trends in Vietnam, sectoral overviews in Vietnam with a special focus on low carbon transport and renewable energy, the Vietnemese government's policies to attract investment into infrastructure projects and the demand for green finance intruments development to finance green projects. 3) Interview with Le Cong Thinh, Head of Electrical System Department, Institute of Energy Science, Vietnam Academy of Science and Technology.
Podcast: Event Details: Green Bond Issuance- Going back to the Basics
Climate Bonds Initiative ivites you to the online discussion on the opportunities for green bonds and how to issue them.
In this episode you'll be hearing: - What are green bonds and how are they define? - what is the size of the green bond market currently? - What are the requirements for a green bond issue? and how to work with banks and verifiers to issue a green bond.
Podcast: Event Details: EU Taxonomy Explored: Talks with TEG Experts: No 5: Land use
This webinar, held on April 23rd, was hosted by EU TEG member Sean Kidney (CBI) with guest speakers Anna Creed, Climate Bonds Head of Standards, and Elodie Feller, Investment Programme Lead at UNEP Finance Initiative.
The European Commission's Action Plan on Financing Sustainable Growth sets out a comprehensive strategy to further connect finance with sustainability. The EU Technical Expert Group's (TEG) proposed EU Green Bond Standard (EU GBS) strengthens the Commission's commitment to creating standards and labels for green financial products Join Sean Kidney in a Q&A round with TEG Experts as they discuss the implications of the EU GBS in the European financial markets.
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EU Taxonomy Explored: Talks with TEG Experts: No 4: Manufacturing
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EU Taxonomy Explored: Talks with TEG Experts: No 2: Low Carbon Buildings
Buildings are responsible for 40% of energy consumption and 36% of carbon emissions. Lowering the carbon intensity of the built environment in cities and urban areas needs significant investment. Join Sean Kidney, Ursula Hartenberger and Fabrizio Varriale as they discuss the challenges of driving capital towards sunstainable buildings and net-zero by 2050 and the opportunties opened by the EU taxonomy,
The Launch of EU Taxonomy marks a foundational change in how instiutional investors, asset managers and corporates will assess and determine low carbon investments directions, climate risks and new opportunities. The taxonomy has implications far wider than the EU and will gradually influence regulatory standards, regional guidelines and investor behaviour in multiple jurisdictions. Sean Kidney and guests discuss the implications in the first of a series of webinars on the EU Taxonomy.
Those of us who refuse to get caught up in today’s prevalent doom and gloom talk, have the opportunity to find out here why we will be facing the biggest investment boom in the history of humanity. Sean Kidney shows how we can all participate in the transition toward a new global economy to create better jobs, stronger communities, cleaner air, live longer, and live a life of meaning. You will be totally empowered. I promise. Enjoy the show!
