Climate Finance
Financing the Transition to Net Zero; How sustainability-linked financing, bonds, blue loans, and other new financing tools target the climate crisis
The question of how the world finances the transition to net zero by 2050 hangs in the balance. Sustainable finance is the future of finance. However, to avoid ‘sustainability washing,’ issuers and investors must do their homework even more thoroughly to ensure targets are material, ambitious, and robust.
Photo by Kelly Sikkema on Unsplash Climate Adaptation: It’s Everybody’s Business
The impacts of the climate crisis are rapidly intensifying, as evidenced by deadly heatwaves. Beyond slowing the pace of global warming, we must also protect our communities and adapt to living in a changing climate.
People and the planet together: Why Indigenous Peoples and local communities are at the heart of climate action
As we build the global climate finance architecture, Indigenous Peoples and local communities must have a seat at the table.
Sustainable Finance’s Next Big Act Will Tie Social Targets to Returns
Companies’ efforts to improve their environmental, social and governance credentials have given birth to a new type of debt – sustainability-linked finance – that links interest rates to ESG performance. But the majority of these instruments’ targets are mostly linked to issuers’ environmental impact, and not the impact they may have on the people they employ or the communities they affect.
With the pandemic bringing social issues to the fore and calls for a just transition to Net Zero, this could soon be about to change.
