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The Climate Bonds Building Criteria establish standards for certifying green building investments to achieve a zero-carbon future by 2050. The framework covers commercial, residential, and built environment assets, offering two compliance paths: Absolute Performance (based on city-specific net-zero trajectories) and Relative Performance (requiring 30-50% emissions reduction for retrofits). New buildings face additional mandates, including a total ban on fossil fuels for heating and cooking, mandatory electrification, and upcoming requirements for Whole Life Carbon Assessment and Scope 3 emissions reporting.

This document is a summary of frequently asked questions (FAQs) designed to guide issuers through the seven-step process of issuing green bonds specifically for climate resilience. It provides practical advice on selecting eligibility criteria, identifying qualifying assets, developing frameworks, arranging verification, and managing reporting and labeling.

This report by the Climate Bonds Initiative analyzes how financial taxonomies can facilitate the transition to net-zero emissions by 2050, particularly for hard-to-abate sectors. It introduces six 'transition mechanisms'—including forward-looking criteria, expiry dates, and transition plan requirements—to help developers create credible benchmarks. Through case studies of the EU, China, and Australia, the report illustrates different taxonomy archetypes (binary, traffic-light, and mixed) and emphasizes the need to integrate these technical tools with broader national climate policies and science-based pathways.

This report by the Climate Bonds Initiative analyzes how sustainable finance taxonomies incorporate transition mechanisms to support the shift to net-zero emissions by 2050. It identifies six key 'Taxonomy Transition Mechanisms'—including forward criteria, sunset dates, and transition plan requirements—and examines their application across traffic-light, binary, and mixed taxonomy archetypes. Through case studies of jurisdictions like Singapore, the EU, Australia, China, and Rwanda, the report demonstrates how these mechanisms can be used to provide granular, science-based criteria for hard-to-abate sectors, distinguishing between point-in-time 'transition labels' for financial instruments and the long-term 'transition process' of entities and sectors.

This guide by the Climate Bonds Initiative analyzes the Indonesian green bond market, identifying it as the largest in ASEAN. It details significant barriers to growth, including high currency hedging costs, market illiquidity, low international credit ratings, and a lack of bankable green projects. The document proposes a roadmap of solutions involving government subsidies, regulatory reforms (such as allowing English Law for bonds), and the use of blended finance and credit enhancements from Multilateral Development Banks to attract international investors.

The Climate Bonds Resilience Taxonomy (CBRT) is a methodology designed to define, identify, and scale up investments for climate resilience and adaptation. It provides a classification system of activities and measures, supported by science-based screening criteria, to help financial institutions, governments, and corporates identify credible resilience investments and mitigate greenwashing.

DNV GL Business Assurance Australia Pty Ltd provided a pre-issuance verification assurance opinion for Westpac Banking Corporation's Green Tailored Deposit product, confirming its alignment with the Climate Bonds Standard Version 2.1.

This guide by the Global Climate and Health Alliance details the intersection of the climate crisis and public health, emphasizing the vulnerabilities of children and marginalized groups. It advocates for the integration of health priorities into Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs) and outlines how mitigation and adaptation strategies in energy, transport, agriculture, and urban planning can yield significant health and economic benefits.

The Healthy NDC Scorecard is a visual tool designed to evaluate whether national climate commitments (NDCs) are sufficient to protect human health, measuring them against the Paris Agreement and science-aligned targets.

This briefing from the Global Climate and Health Alliance argues for the scaling and integration of climate adaptation and health financing. It highlights a significant funding gap, the inefficiency of siloed governance, and the potential for cross-sectoral adaptation to protect public health and health systems.

A fact sheet from the Global Climate and Health Alliance introducing a global report on the systemic and multidimensional health impacts of fossil fuel pollution across the human lifespan and the fossil fuel life cycle.

This executive summary from the Global Climate and Health Alliance (GCHA) details the comprehensive health impacts of the fossil fuel lifecycle—from extraction to disposal—and advocates for a rapid, just transition to renewable energy to protect global public health and environmental stability.

This executive summary from the Global Climate and Health Alliance (GCHA) details the comprehensive health and social burdens associated with the entire lifecycle of fossil fuels—from extraction to disposal. It argues that the health impacts are systemic, persistent, and disproportionately affect marginalized communities, necessitating a rapid and just transition to clean, renewable energy to prevent millions of premature deaths and mitigate the climate crisis.

This executive summary by the Global Climate and Health Alliance (GCHA) details the comprehensive health and environmental impacts of fossil fuels throughout their entire life cycle—from extraction to disposal. It argues that the current dependence on fossil fuels creates a 'triple crisis' of environmental devastation, widespread human health damage, and instability in health systems, necessitating an urgent and just transition to clean energy.

The Global Climate and Health Alliance reports that fossil fuels cause systemic health damage across all life stages, from prenatal development to old age, through every phase of their life cycle (extraction, refining, transport, combustion, and waste). These impacts disproportionately affect marginalized communities in "sacrifice zones." The document highlights that global fossil fuel subsidies reached 7 trillion USD in 2022 and argues that a just transition to clean energy could save over 2 million lives annually and recover 4 trillion USD in public revenue. Key policy recommendations include halting new exploration, applying the "polluter pays" principle, and redirecting subsidies toward public health and renewables.

This fact sheet from the Global Climate and Health Alliance details the systemic health damages caused by fossil fuels across the human body, different life stages, and the entire industrial lifecycle from extraction to waste.

A statement from the Global Climate and Health Alliance addressed to the COP28 President, urging the accelerated, just, and equitable phase-out of fossil fuels to protect global health and achieve the 1.5 °C temperature goal of the Paris Agreement.

This fact sheet from the Global Climate and Health Alliance examines the relationship between climate change and food safety, highlighting how temperature and rainfall changes increase the risk of food- and water-borne diseases, harmful algal blooms, and malnutrition.

This briefing by the Global Climate and Health Alliance outlines the synergies between combating climate change and preventing non-communicable diseases (NCDs). It argues that interventions in energy, transport, and food systems can provide 'co-benefit' solutions that simultaneously reduce greenhouse gas emissions and NCD risk factors such as air pollution, physical inactivity, and poor diet.

This policy brief by the Global Climate and Health Alliance explores the intersection between climate change and non-communicable diseases (NCDs), arguing that interventions to mitigate climate change offer significant 'co-benefits' for public health. The document advocates for multisectoral government action and a whole-of-society approach to integrate health priorities into climate plans and vice versa, focusing on energy, transport, and food systems.