Climate Finance
Making Sustainability-Linked Bonds More Impactful
Sustainability-linked bonds are a promising pillar of sustainable finance that can help raise the funding needed to underpin successful energy transitions in developing economies. The bonds’ structure as well as how they are regulated will need to evolve to meet the demands of a fast-growing and maturing market. Read full article on IFC.org
Biodiversity Finance for Infrastructure Companies in Emerging Markets: How to Move from Objectives to Actions
Halting degradation and restoring biodiversity represents an important business opportunity for infrastructure companies, and emerging markets seeking to create new green jobs. This opportunity, estimated at over $6.5 trillion per year, is expected to generate more than 204 million new jobs by 2030. To help companies and investors identify opportunities for biodiversity finance, IFC has […]
The quest to fill the infrastructure financing gap for people and planet
After spending two weeks at COP27, something that struck me is the triad of urgent needs: supporting the transition to net-zero economies, protecting emerging and developing economies from mounting and increasingly severe climate risks, and promoting universal access to basic services for millions of households around the globe that are left behind. Low-carbon, climate-smart infrastructure […]
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.
