Climate Bonds Initiative

How can RMB financing do more than fund green projects? What if it could also help connect China’s green industries with climate investment needs across emerging markets?
In this Fireside Chat, Sean Kidney, CEO and Co-founder of Climate Bonds Initiative, speaks with Dr Ma Jun, Chairman of the Hong Kong Green Finance Association, about the opportunities to connect financing, trade, and the global green transition.
In this conversation:
Opportunities and barriers for green Panda and dim sum bonds
Green and transition finance taxonomies, and how to drive market adoption
Reducing verification costs through regional cooperation and AI
Connecting RMB financing with green trade and climate investment
Cross-border cooperation, from sustainable agriculture to green hydrogen

In this episode of Climate Bonds Café, Gabriel Carhart speaks with Aishwarya Sankar, Senior Sustainability Analyst and CBRT Coordinator at Climate Bonds Initiative, about the launch of the updated Water Infrastructure Criteria under the Climate Bonds Standard. 

The conversation explores how the revised Criteria strengthen resilience requirements across the water sector, including climate risk assessments, adaptation planning, and methane considerations in wastewater treatment. 

Explore the updated Water Infrastructure Criteria: https://www.climatebonds.net/news-events/blog/climate-bonds-updates-water-infrastructure-criteria-strengthen-climate-resilience

Asia is warming at twice the global average, and as a region, has experienced some of the most severe economic and social impacts from climate-related events over the past two decades.
Annual costs associated with physical climate risks for companies in Asia are projected to reach USD 336 billion by the 2030s, but several structural barriers continue to constrain capital deployment into climate adaptation and resilience.
In this special video episode recording during London Climate Action Week, DBS Bank’s Kelvin Wong and Shilpa Gulrajani, as well as Climate Bonds’ Meggie Eloy, join us to discuss how Asia can move from resilience ambition to mainstream implementation, covering illustrative examples across asset classes and emerging markets.
For a deeper dive into the opportunities and challenges for scaling adaptation finance in the region, read the Adaptation and Resilience: Exploring Investable Opportunities in APAC report.

Japan is at a pivotal moment in its energy transition, and its financial institutions are under pressure to prove that sustainable finance is more than a label.
 
In this episode, Climate Bonds Initiative CEO Sean Kidney sits down with Masayuki Takanashi, Executive Officer and Group Chief Sustainability Officer of SMBC Group, for a frank conversation on how SMBC Group creates Social Value, and what credible sustainable finance actually looks like in practice.
 
Topics covered:
SMBC Group's "Social Value Creation" strategy and what it means in practice
The SMBC Sustainable Finance Framework — what it does and why it matters
Transition finance and Japan's path to decarbonisation
Introduced by Yumiko Watanabe, Head of Japan Programme, Climate Bonds Initiative.

Methane abatement is one of the fastest ways to slow near term warming, but finance is still falling far short of what's needed. In this episode, we look at how sustainable finance taxonomies can help make methane mitigation more visible, credible, and investable.
Climate Policy Initiative's Gaoyi Miao, as well as Climate Bonds' Zofia Wetmanska and Lily Burge join us to discuss how updating taxonomies to better reflect methane's climate impact could unlock an important stream of investment for rapid abatement.