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The transition to net zero requires trillions in investment, especially in emerging economies. But with limited public funds, how do we unlock private capital to finance climate action?

In this episode of Financing the Future, we explore the critical role of Development Finance Institutions (DFIs) in mobilising private investment. We discuss how DFIs bridge the financing gap for sustainable projects, strategies to manage risk and attract private investors, the $5 trillion green bond market, and the power of data transparency and pipeline development.

Tune in now to discover how DFIs can shape the future of sustainable investment!

A brand new podcast series from Climate Bonds! CEO Sean Kidney and guests enjoy a wide-ranging and candid discussion. This debut episode is an in-depth dialogue around risk; our understandings of risk, the moral conflicts of managing climate risk in our society and posing the question "should climate change be classed as a risk?"

Joining Sean is Nick Silver, author, Founder/Trustee at Radix and co-founder of Climate Bonds Initiative.

Back from Baku, we're joined today by Climate Bonds' Senior Policy Research Analyst, Lily Burge and Senior Transitions Policy Analyst Fabio Passaro to talk COP29.

All the talking points, plus their own ambitions and reflections from the biggest - and most contentious - climate event in the calendar. As we get closer to a crucial round of negotiations, what does success look like?

This week on the Climate Bonds Café, we’re talking agriculture, food and land use, everything you need to know from farm to fork.

There’s so much work to be done, so many costs but also benefits of a food systems transition, as well as the need for this to be an equitable distribution. We hope to inform you, involve you and inspire you.

Joining us:

Maria Alejandra Pulido, EU Sustainability Agri Lead, Climate Bonds Initiative

Kitty Parker-Brooks, Project Manager, Nature and Materials, Systemiq

Kate Newbury-Hyde, Senior Manager, Agriculture and Food, WBCSD

En el 6º episodio de nuestra serie, Acciones y Valores Sostenibles: Bolsas de Valores latinoamericanas y del Caribe, Andrés Felipe Sánchez, Head para América Latina y el Caribe de Climate Bonds Initiative, conversa con Elianne Vílchez, Vicepresidente Ejecutiva y Gerente General de la Bolsa de Valores de la República Dominicana, quien nos contará sobre las oportunidades para el sector financiero que se derivan de las finanzas sostenibles en República Dominicana. 

Last week saw the launch of Climate Bonds' new Resilience Taxonomy at ClimateWeek NYC. There are trillions of dollars worth of investible resilience projects now defined by our taxonomy, such as building elevated roads and bridges, flood barriers and levees in cities that are prone to flooding, supporting farmers to adopt drought-resistant crops and irrigation systems, and planting trees, creating parks and restoring wetlands.

We urgently need to get capital flowing to these kinds of projects to help prepare the communities and systems we live in for the impacts of a warmer, less predictable world.

En el 5º episodio de nuestra nueva serie, Acciones y Valores Sostenibles: Bolsas de Valores latinoamericanas y del Caribe, conversamos con María Ariza, CEO, BIVA, quien nos contará sobre el marcado de finanzas sostenibles en México. También conversamos con Matías Gallardo, Senior Sustainable Finance Officer, LAGreen Fund sobre nuestro nuevo informe '⁠Estado del Mercado de Deuda Sostenible en México 2024⁠'. 

En este cuarto episodio de nuestra nueva serie, Acciones y Valores sostenibles: Bolsas de Valores Latinoamericanas y del Caribe, exploramos cómo la Bolsa Centroamericana de Valores ⁠(BCV) está liderando el camino hacia un futuro más sostenible en América Central. Sofia Borges y Andrea Barrenechea de Climate Bonds y Edgar Gutierrez, Gerente General de la BCV, discuten las estrategias, los principales actores del mercado VSS+ en la región caribeña y la importancia de las bolsas de valores para su desarrollo.

Informe: ⁠Guidance to assess transition plans   

A Climate Bonds Café rewind!

Today we look back at our episode on Climate Resilience with Ujala Qadir. What it means, why it's more important than ever and the work going on with experts to tackle climate disasters.

En el tercer episodio de nuestra nueva serie, Acciones y Valores Sostenibles: Bolsas de Valores latinoamericanas y del Caribe, conversamos con Nicolás Mayorga, Gerente Sr. de Estrategia de Emisiones, nuam exchange, quien nos contará sobre las oportunidades para el sector financiero que se derivan de la integración de las bolsas de valores de Colombia, Santiago y Lima. Conoceremos sobre la motivación para la integración, los retos a lo que se enfrentan los emisores del mercado sostenible en Colombia, Chile y Perú y las metas de corto y mediano plazo de nuam exchange respecto a las Finanzas Sostenibles.

We're back, it's a markets update from Director of Technical Development, Caroline Harrison. With a record-breaking report from the first quarter of the year, we look at all the key facts, figures and stars of the market. Many are now daring to wonder if a trillion dollars of aligned green issuance is possible for 2024....

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!

We're joined today by Climate Bonds CEO and Co-Founder Sean Kidney and Head of Sustainable Finance for Asia at Standard Chartered Bank, Tracy Wong-Harris to chat about the upcoming Connect Regional Seminar in Shanghai.

The importance of China in the fight against climate change, the size of the challenges but also the massive potential.

Edición especial de Brasil en portugués: Neste podcast, Júlia Ambrosano, Gerente de Desenvolvimento de Mercado para América Latina, conversa com César Sanches, Head de Sustentabilidade da B3, que nos contará sobre as oportunidades do setor financeiro brasileiro. Conheceremos sua percepção sobre os desafios enfrentados pela bolsa de valores do Brasil e as metas de curto e médio prazo da B3 em relação às Finanças Sustentáveis. Acesse o ESG Workspace: https://esgws.b3.com.br/

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.

Informe: Guidance to assess transition plans

For our second episode of the Agribite series, we're joined by Danone's Frederick Pasquier and Anco Van Schaik. Join us as we explore how Danone and its eco-system are contributing to a more sustainable agri-food industry.

First episode features Esteban Mezzano, General Counsel Operations & Sustainability at Nestlé. With its unique global footprint, Nestlé is one of the world’s largest, most diversified food and beverages company, selling products in 188 countries worldwide.

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.

Climate Bonds' Head of China Programme Wenhong Xie returns to the Cafe, set up at our London conference to give us a quickfire update on sustainable finance in China.

It's a familiar face in London, as we chat to Climate Bonds Co-Founder Nick Silver around the ideal 'eco-diet' and find out what is a blue bond?

At the London Global Connect Conference, we chat to 2050 CEO and Chairman Azeem Qureshi on the role of technology in the climate battle.

Tune in for a COP28 debrief! A momentous, controversial but ultimately fruitful event saw the agreement to phase-out fossil fuels. Join a bevy of guests from our partners Bellona Europa recorded on the ground in Dubai.

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.

Speaking at our Climate Bonds Connect23 Global Conference in London, shortly before COP28, we sit down with ICMIF CEO Shaun Tarbuck. Join us as we discuss preparing industry with strategic planning and sustainability strategy for the worst effects of climate change

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?

With a run-through of the Japanese context in the transition bond market, we meet Tomo Ishikawa, Chief Regulatory Engagement Officer at MUFG. Live from our Climate Bonds Connect23 Global Conference in London!

Today's guest, Pietro Candia gives us an insight into how negotiations are going from the UAE and what to look out for in the final few days.

We're talking energy today. Bellona Europa's Marta Lovisolo joins us in the Cafe to discuss renewable energy, the discussion around hydrogen and lessons on the ground from Dubai.

COP 28 is THE global event when we talk about climate action, but does that mean it’s an even playing field in terms of opportunities for nations? Our guest today, Carlijn Nouwen, Co-Founder of CAP-A covers an important question: how do we empower Africa?

'When women are climate-resilient we will all be climate-resilient.'

Catch our interview with the wonderfully inspiring Kathy Baughman-McLeod, CEO of Climate Resilience for All, live from Climate Bonds' Global Connect Conference, London. We talk about resilience, why investors should prioritise this and how to create a more climate-adaptive world.

Joining us today is Bellona Europa Climate Policy Manager, Ariane Giraneza to chat climate justice and just transition. While climate transition needs to be ambitious and credible, join us as we discuss how to create a greener world, financially, environmentally and societally.

Climate scientists and advocates have to walk everyone through complicated, nuances information, with some doubting the objective facts around it. Perhaps its inaccessibility to all, means at events like this there’s a risk of the science being lost in all the talk, the politics and the controversy of an event like COP28.

We're joined by Katherine Romanak, a research scientist at the Bureau of Economic Geology to explain to us how to communicate the science at an event like COP.

Did you know Brazil ranks as the 7th biggest global emitter of greenhouse gases? Not only that, but the agriculture sector, a focal point of the Brazilian economy accounts for a third of all global emissions.

It's an industry and a nation that's dying for best practices and science-based pathways for an ambitious, credible transition. Today we're joined by Climate Bonds' Leonardo Gava and Peter Elwin of Planet Tracker, to discuss agri opportunities for Brazil.

Download the report 'Investment Opportunities: Agri-food sector in Brazil'.

COP is lots of discussions. Lots of hype and scrutiny before the event, lots of networking during the event and lots of people wondering the outcome after.

But solid action doesn’t just happen over a cup of coffee. There’s lots of high-level discussions behind the scenes. We're joined today by Elena Bonfligio of ERCST to find out where they begin their involvement and what do things look like at the negotiation table…

So you've landed in the UAE... Where do you go? Who do you see first? And how easy is it to come with a wish-list of targets? We're joined by Climate Bonds' Transition Programme Policy Analyst, Fabio Passaro to give us a flavour of what it's like to be in Dubai for this seismic event.

COP remains one of the most high-profile, most important and most controversial events on the climate calendar. Some are boycotting this event in Dubai, so we sit down with Bellona Europa CEO Frederic Hauge to find out why they're still going.

Over the next few weeks at COP28, we've teamed up with Bellona Europa to bring you all the news, action and talking points from Dubai.

But to get you started, a short history of COP: What is it, how long has it been going for and why do we need it? Joining us for a brief history lesson, Bellona's Olav Øye.

With COP28 upon us, we've teamed up with Bellona Europa to bring you a series of news, updates and talking points from Dubai! Our opening episode from the COP Cafe features Futerra's Solitaire Townsend, telling us the story of COP...

On this podcast, we highlight the potential climate impact and financial opportunities from investments in renewable energy, grids and storage and support policymakers in adopting energy policies supporting a credible transition. Joining us, we have Ana Diaz of Climate Bonds, as well as Doriana Forleo and  Aurélien Ballagny from the Energy Storage Coalition.

The energy transition underpins the entire global transition to net zero. We need a clean and sustainable energy supply in order to power the green economy. This week, we look at how the sustainable finance markets can support a rapid and credible transition to a green energy sector. From smart grids to solar farms to municipal utilities, opportunities abound for investment in the green energy future. 

The world can’t build a green economy without a foundation of green cement. It’s the second most used substance on Earth, only after water, and if global cement manufacturing were a country, it would be the third-largest emitter on the planet. That’s why decarbonising the cement industry is one of the highest priorities in the fight against catastrophic climate change. This week, we talk to Transition Programme Policy Analyst Fabio Passaro about how sustainable finance markets and global policymakers can facilitate the cement industry’s transition to a net zero future.

The fight against climate change is an uphill battle, and we need all the help we can get. This week on Ready, Set, Transition, we look at how policymakers can tilt the playing field in the planet’s favor to facilitate a rapid, credible transition to net zero. Listen as Bridget Boulle and Maiko Morishito discuss how Japan, the EU, and countries around the world are using ambitious policy changes to speed, steer, and simplify the global transition. 

Today we’re talking Taxonomy with Climate Bonds' Matteo Bigoni. As the green bond market is growing in prominence, work was needed to level the playing field. Enter the Taxonomy team, working to assist nations to develop their own frameworks whilst combatting greenwashing.

The question is no longer why or whether the global economy needs to swiftly move towards a low carbon, climate adapted, sustainable model, but rather how to urgently finance and operationalise the required transition. 

In this session we discuss a range of tools for driving a successful transition to a low-carbon economy, including: 

• Transition advisory and verification
• Policy support
• Banking services for transition
• Transition investments
• Disclosure

Speakers:

• Swami Venkataraman (Moderator) Moody's Investor Service, Associate Managing Director Global ESG Analytics & Integration
• Candace Partridge (Speaker) Climate Bonds Initiative, Senior Sustainability Data Manager
• Thatyanne Gasparotto (Speaker) Natixis Corporate Investment Banking, Director, Green & Sustainable Financing Solutions
• Jamie Franco (Speaker) TCW, Managing Director, Global Co-Head of Sustainable Investment Group
• Charlie Gailliot (Speaker) KKR, Partner & Co-Head, Global Climate Investments

Addressing climate change requires fundamental and rapid transformations across all sectors of the economy, including those with the largest and hardest-to-abate emissions. Such transformations cannot be achieved through incremental improvements to established modes and systems alone. Climate action to date is neither broad nor deep enough to be responsive to the scale of the challenge faced.   Current and potential issuers of green bonds in a range of sustainable sectors including steel, green hydrogen, renewable energy, grids and transmission, electric vehicles, mass transit, and green buildings, will provide insights into the current green bond issuance efforts and share their perspectives on what the future holds for their respective industries. Speakers

• Marilyn Ceci(Moderator)JP Morgan, Managing Director, Senior Advisor to The Center for Carbon Transition
• David Stickler(Speaker)Hybar, Chief Executive Officer
• Claudia Jaramillo(Speaker)Jacobs, Chief Financial Officer
• Niall Hannigan(Speaker)Masdar, Chief Financial Officer
• Taylor Pullins(Speaker)White & Case LLP, Partner

In 2021 the Biden Climate Summit saw the bulk of the world’s developed economies commit to ambitious 2030 carbon emission targets. The increasing support for climate action policies worldwide presents vast opportunities as we transition our economies.

This session provides a platform to discuss the increasing support for climate action policies worldwide and the potential for innovative solutions to drive the transition towards a low-carbon economy.

Speakers

• Herman Bril (Speaker) PSP Investments, Managing Director and Head of Sustainability and Climate Innovation
• Peter Cashion (Speaker) CalPERS, Managing Investment Director - Sustainable Investments
• Charlotte Gardes-Landolfini (Speaker) International Monetary Fund, Climate Change, Energy and Financial Stability Expert
• Sean Kidney (Moderator) Climate Bonds Initiative, Chief Executive Officer

Opening the Climate Bonds Connect 2023 Conference in New York, some welcoming remarks from Climate Bonds Initiative CEO Sean Kidney.