Climate Bonds Initiative

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...

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.

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!

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.

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…

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...

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.

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

Joining us in the Cafe this week, Dr. Aneil Tripathy, an economic and climate anthropologist, Impact Fellow in the MIT Climate and Sustainability Consortium (MCSC) and Academic Research Consultant at Climate Bonds.

We chat about his experience of the New York Connect Conference, the schools of thought around Climate Finance and his love of gardening!

Join Climate Bonds for a new series exploring the challenges and opportunities presented by the global transition, and learn how investment in credible, ambitious decarbonisation efforts can help reach a net zero future. Climate Bonds CEO Sean Kidney and Head of Transition Programmes Rachel Hemingway share their insights into how investors and industries can push the world along the road to a green future.

Head of Market Intelligence Research Caroline Harrison is back in the Cafe to talk about the Green Bond Pricing in the Primary Market paper.

It's a run through of how the first half of the year looked for sustainable finance. Where are we at in financing the fight against Climate disaster?

With the third CONNECT event of the year coming up in New York City, Climate Bonds' Bipasha Chatterjee and Candace Partridge share their hopes and expectations for the Conference. It’s a city known for lots of things, but on #ClimateWeekNYC it’s the city of ‘Ready, Set, Transition’!

We're joined by returning guest Caroline Harrison and Matthew MacGeoch in the Cafe to discuss the new database and methodology around Sustainability-Linked Bonds, as well as the H1 report. We chat about what is an SLB, why Climate Bonds is looking to 'clean up' these. With the halfway report of our progress, how close are we to our target of mobilising $5 trillion annually towards climate-friendly initiatives?

This podcast is part of the Roadmap to a Green Energy Transition, a project developed by the Climate Bonds Initiative to highlight the potential climate impact and financial opportunities from investments in renewable energy, grids and storage and to support policymakers in adopting energy policies supporting a credible transition. Joining us is Global Transition Lead Dr. Ana Diaz to give us her thoughts and insights.

En este podcast, Andrés Felipe Sánchez (Head para América Latina y el Caribe - LAC) y Valeria Dagnino (LAC Sustainability Manager) de Climate Bonds Initiative conversan sobre lo que pasó en el #ClimateBondsCONNECT2023 América Latina y el Caribe, en Bogotá - Colombia y hacen un #debrief del evento.

In conversation with Magdalena Caramilea of Autonom, the Romanian auto company. We discuss their decision to issue their first SLB, the challenges and where they hope others can follow suit.

Climate Bonds experts Rachel Hemingway and Leonardo Gava are joined by guest speakers from World Resources China and Planet Tracker to discuss food loss and waste and its implications for net-zero.

How can the Climate Bonds framework help organisations with a green, social and sustainable focus to their business portfolio? So far, we've sat down with internal guests to bring you updates around Climate Bonds Initiative, today our senior advisor Fabrizio Palmucci is joined by Charly Bastard of CDPQ. They're a Canadian investment group with a sustainable investment approach. We find out their rationale, their biggest challenges and how other organisations can follow suit.

Assessing the credibility of a company’s decarbonisation begins with the rigour and ambition of a transition Plan. We bring together experts who can draw insights on where to begin with Transition planning, what is the current state of guidance in the market and what do investors need to be assured the decarbonisation is credible and aligned with 1.5ºC pathway.

Tune-in to a brand new episode of the Climate Bonds Café 🎙️☕ Joining us, the Head of LatAm and Caribbean Programmes, Andrés Felipe Sánchez to preview the upcoming Climate Bonds Connect regional seminar on July 18th in beautiful Bogotá 🇨🇴!

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.