Navigating Sustainable Finance

The Climate Bonds Initiative offers technical assistance to prospective debt issuers and asset managers to navigate sustainable finance. Their services include ESG readiness assessments, pre-issuance support for labelled and transition-themed bonds, framework reviews, and post-issuance impact reporting guidance. The organization leverages its role as a standards setter and database curator to provide industry benchmarking and alignment with 1.5-degree emissions pathways.

• The Climate Bonds Initiative provides technical assistance to a variety of entities, including governments, municipalities, national development banks, and corporate entities, to help them issue climate-related labelled bonds and analogous debt instruments.
• The organization's technical assistance is informed by over 10 years of experience supporting entities in LAC, Africa, Central Europe, Central Asia, and ASEAN to raise funds via debt instruments aligned with the Paris Agreement or a 1.5-degree emissions pathway.
• Support services for issuers are divided into pre-issuance and post-issuance phases. Pre-issuance support includes ESG readiness, portfolio assessments against taxonomies (such as EU, Chinese, or Colombian), and the development of bond frameworks. Post-issuance support focuses on impact reporting and annual reporting guidance.
• For hard-to-abate sectors, the Climate Bonds Initiative assists issuers of Transition Bonds and Sustainability Linked Bonds (SLB) in establishing science-based Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) and robust transition strategies.

APA

Climate Bonds Initiative (2024). Navigating Sustainable Finance. https://www.climatebonds.net/files/documents/supporting-documents/Technical-Assistance-Brochure.pdf

Chicago

Climate Bonds Initiative. Navigating Sustainable Finance. 2024. https://www.climatebonds.net/files/documents/supporting-documents/Technical-Assistance-Brochure.pdf.

Wikipedia

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BibTeX

@techreport{climatebondsinitiative2024navigating, author = {{Climate Bonds Initiative}}, title = {{Navigating Sustainable Finance}}, institution = {Climate Bonds Initiative}, year = {2024}, month = mar, url = {https://www.climatebonds.net/files/documents/supporting-documents/Technical-Assistance-Brochure.pdf}, urldate = {2026-08-17}, note = {Indexed by Climate Insights Directory} }