Green Bonds: A Bridge to SDGs - Focus on SDG 6, 7, 9, 11, 13 & 15

The document examines how green bonds support the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), specifically identifying SDGs 6, 7, 9, 11, 13, and 15 as those receiving the most direct benefit from green investment. It highlights that while clean energy (SDG7) remains the largest market share at 40%, other sectors like low carbon buildings (24%) and transport (15%) are significant. The author argues that climate change is a crosscutting threat to all SDGs and calls for the application of 'green' definitions and climate risk disclosure across all thematic bonds—including social and sustainability bonds—to avoid short-term gains that fail long-term climate targets. The briefing concludes that annual green bond issuance must scale to USD1 trillion by 2020 to meet these goals.

• Green bond investment provides direct benefits to six specific UN Sustainable Development Goals: Clean water and sanitation (SDG6), Clean energy (SDG7), Sustainable industry, innovation and infrastructure (SDG9), Sustainable cities and communities (SDG11), Climate Action (SDG13), and Life on land (SDG15).
• Clean energy (SDG7) is the largest segment of the green bond market, accounting for 40% of issuance, followed by low carbon buildings at 24% and low carbon transport at 15%. Clean water and sanitation (SDG6) represents 11%, while sustainable forestry and agriculture (SDG15) accounts for 3%.
• Climate change is described as a crosscutting theme and the "single biggest threat to development," meaning that achieving the SDGs is dependent on applying a climate lens to other goals and limiting global temperature rise to below 2°C.

APA

Climate Bonds Initiative (2018). Green Bonds: A Bridge to SDGs - Focus on SDG 6, 7, 9, 11, 13 & 15. https://www.climatebonds.net/news-events/blog/green-bonds-bridge-sdgs-focus-sdg-6-7-9-11-13-15

Chicago

Climate Bonds Initiative. Green Bonds: A Bridge to SDGs - Focus on SDG 6, 7, 9, 11, 13 & 15. 2018. https://www.climatebonds.net/news-events/blog/green-bonds-bridge-sdgs-focus-sdg-6-7-9-11-13-15.

Wikipedia

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BibTeX

@techreport{climatebondsinitiative2018green, author = {{Climate Bonds Initiative}}, title = {{Green Bonds: A Bridge to SDGs - Focus on SDG 6, 7, 9, 11, 13 \& 15}}, institution = {Climate Bonds Initiative}, year = {2018}, month = jun, url = {https://www.climatebonds.net/news-events/blog/green-bonds-bridge-sdgs-focus-sdg-6-7-9-11-13-15}, urldate = {2026-08-17}, note = {Indexed by Climate Insights Directory} }