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Climate Bonds Initiative
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Over the last ten years, Climate Bonds has worked to mobilise the most significant capital market of all, the $100 trillion bond market for climate change solutions. Join us on the debate over the vision for the next ten years - the Transition Decade.
Episodes
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Water, risk and resilience: inside the updated Water Infrastructure Criteria
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...
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Climate Bonds Café: Financing Resilience in Asia: How DBS is building the market
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...
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Climate Bonds Café: From Ambition to Action: SMBC's Approach to Social Value Creation
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...
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Making Methane Investable: How taxonomies can direct capital to rapid climate action
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…
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Financing the Future: Five Steps to Europe's Energy Sovereignty
Europe is facing another energy shock — the second in four years. With oil and gas markets rattled by conflict in the Middle East and renewed pressure on global supply chains, the risks of fossil fuel dependence are back in focus. In this episode of Financing the Future, we speak with Climate…
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|LAC| Por un Caribe resiliente: Finanzas Azules/Blue Finance
In this special episode in English of the series “Por un Caribe resiliente,” Malini Samtani, Green Finance Advisory Officer at IDB Invest, joins Andrés Felipe Sánchez of Climate Bonds to discuss how IDB Invest is advancing blue finance to protect oceans, strengthen water security systems, and…
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Climate Bonds Café: Chinese New Year
Watching China’s climate journey feels a bit like riding a powerful horse. It’s fierce, fast, and full of relentless energy. In this episode of the Climate Bonds Café, we deep into China's ambitious sustainability targets: from peaking carbon emissions by 2030 to expanding renewable energy…
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|LAC| Por un Caribe resiliente: Biodiversidad como escudo climático
En este episodio de la serie “Por un Caribe resiliente”, Laura Chaparro, Directora de Finanzas Sostenibles para América Latina y África en Ambire Global, conversa con Adelaida Peláez Angel de Climate Bonds sobre cómo la protección de la biodiversidad se convierte en un pilar clave para fortalecer...
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|LAC| Por un Caribe resiliente: Impulsando la inversión verde en el Caribe
En este episodio de la serie "Por un Caribe resiliente", Mariana Escobar, Principal Investment Officer de IFC, conversa con Adelaida Peláez Angel de Climate Bonds sobre los esfuerzos del IFC para movilizar capital verde hacia el Caribe: desde la alianza histórica con el CARICOM para desarrollar…
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|LAC| Por un Caribe resiliente: Estrategias de la banca para la adaptación
En este episodio de la serie “Por un Caribe resiliente”, Daniel Gracian, Director de Finanzas Sostenibles de Scotiabank, conversa con Adelaida Peláez Ángel, Oficial Técnica Senior para América Latina y el Caribe de Climate Bonds, sobre cómo la banca puede integrar la adaptación climática en su...
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Financing the Future: The Methane Moment - Agriculture
Agriculture is the largest source of human-caused methane emissions, responsible for around 40% globally. But unlike the energy sector, these emissions are spread across millions of farms, shaped by biology, local conditions, and tight margins. That makes them harder to tackle and to finance. In...
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Feeding the Future: How Science and Investment Can shape the Agri-Food Systems Transition
Food security isn’t just about producing more food. It’s about fixing systemic imbalances across the entire value chain, from production and supply chains to consumer behaviour and environmental impact. In this conversation, Professor Shenggen Fan, Executive Chair of the World Agri-Food…
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Financing the Future: The Methane Moment - Energy
In the latest episode of Financing the Future, we focus on how the energy sector can deliver rapid methane abatement this decade, and how finance and policy can help unlock that opportunity at scale.Methane is one of the biggest climate risks in the energy sector and one of the fastest...
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Financing the Future: The Methane Moment
Methane is one of the most powerful drivers of climate change, responsible for nearly a third of the warming we’ve already experienced. Cutting methane now offers one of the fastest ways to slow near-term warming and protect a 1.5°C future. In this episode of Financing the Future, host Gabriel...
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|Brasil| Estado do Mercado de Dívida Sustentável no Brasil
Neste episódio, Leonardo Gava (Gerente do Programa Brasileiro da Climate Bonds) conversou com Beatriz Ferrari (Gerente de Finanças Sustentáveis da ERM), sobre o novo relatório “Estado do Mercado de Dívida Sustentável no Brasil - 1º semestre de 2025”, produzido pela Climate Bonds Initiative em...
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Interoperability after COP30: What’s next for global taxonomies
In this post-COP30 episode of The Path to Green: Taxonomies in Action, Gabriel speaks with Bridget Boulle (Climate Bonds Initiative) and Elodie Feller (UNEP FI) about what became one of the biggest themes in Belém: taxonomy interoperability. They unpack why it dominated the COP30 agenda, how...
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A construção da Taxonomia Sustentável Brasileira
Nesse episódio especial em português da série The Path to Green: Taxonomies in Action, nossos especialistas Sheila Alves e Leonardo Gava explicam os bastidores da Taxonomia Sustentável Brasileira, recém-lançada pelo Governo Brasileiro durante a Pré-COP30. Eles detalham como o trabalho técnico e...
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Building Green Finance: China’s Journey and Global Collaboration
A special conversation recorded at Hong Kong Green Week 2025. Climate Bonds CEO Sean Kidney sits down with Dr. Ma Jun, Chairman of the Hong Kong Green Finance Association, reflecting on the evolution of green finance in China and beyond: from the first national frameworks to cross-border...
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|LAC| COP30 Brasil: Transición más allá del carbono
En este episodio conversamos con Marcelo Mena, CEO del Global Methane Hub (GMH), sobre los desafíos y oportunidades para reducir las emisiones de metano, un gas de efecto invernadero con un impacto climático mucho más potente que el CO₂ a corto plazo. Abordamos el papel del GMH como actor clave…
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|LAC| COP30 Brasil: Ciudades e Infraestructuras Resilientes
En este episodio conversamos con Luís Alejandro Mejía, Director de Mercados Financieros Verdes de la División de Clima y Medio Ambiente del BID Invest y Director por la Americas en la Junta Directiva del Consejo Mundial de Construcción Verde, sobre los desafíos y oportunidades que enfrentan las...
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|LAC| COP30 Brasil: Movilizando capital para la transición
En este episodio de COP30 Brasil: Movilizando capital para la transición, conversamos con Lizeth Palencia, Regional Head de América Latina en Principles for Responsible Investment, sobre cómo acelerar las oportunidades para inversionistas en finanzas sostenibles. Exploramos los principales...
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Inside the Climate Bonds Resilience Taxonomy
Today on the show we’re diving into the Climate Bonds Resilience Taxonomy. Around the world, climate disasters are hitting harder; disrupting communities, infrastructure, and economies. Finance has made real progress on mitigation, reducing emissions, but resilience and adaptation need the same...
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|LAC| COP30 Brasil: Finanças e Biodiversidade
Neste episódio, conversamos com Fabio Guido, Diretor de Relações Institucionais e Sustentabilidade do Itaú Unibanco, sobre como o mercado pode valorizar a proteção das florestas e da biodiversidade, bem como os mecanismos financeiros inovadores que estão surgindo para soluções baseadas na natureza.
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Climate Bonds Café, Meet the Experts! Marina Strovolidou
We're continuing to meet the experts in the fight against climate change, with our expert this week Marina Strovolidou walking us through the Climate Bonds Standard. What is is, why it's important and some important changes to it. Marina has amassed a range of experiences across the sectors,...
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Climate Bonds Café, Meet the Experts! Caroline Harrison
We're back in the Café and meeting the experts once again this week. Today, we bring back Climate Bonds Director of Technical Development Caroline Harrison. We talk all things numbers; the process behind the data gathering and why Climate Bonds is the most trusted source in assessing what we...
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|LAC| COP30 Brasil: Transição justa
Neste episódio, conversamos com Maria Netto, Diretora Executiva do Instituto Clima e Sociedade (iCS), sobre como garantir que a transição climática seja justa e inclusiva. Conectamos a COP30 com a importância de abordar os principais riscos da exclusão de comunidades vulneráveis, o papel das...
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Greenwashing vs. Credibility: How taxonomies can protect investors
In this episode of The Path to Green: Taxonomies in Action, Barney sits down with Zofia Wetmańska, Taxonomy Manager at Climate Bonds, to unpack how taxonomies help fight greenwashing and build market credibility, and why that matters more than ever in today’s fast-growing sustainable finance...
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Climate Bonds Café, Meet the Experts! Meggie Eloy
Join us for the first of our 'Meet the Experts' mini-series! To kick us off, we explore the importance of credibility in climate action plans with Meggie Eloy, Senior Analyst at Climate Bonds. Discover how realistic pathways and collaborative efforts can lead to sustainable impact.
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Deep dive into the Climate Bonds Taxonomy
In this second episode of The Path to Green: Taxonomies in Action, Barney sits down with Bridget Boulle, our Principal Technical Advisor, to explore the Climate Bonds Taxonomy – a trusted, science-based guide for sustainable investment. Discover why the taxonomy was created, how it’s structured,...
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Climate Bonds Café: Solutions beyond the farm-gate
Think about the food in your kitchen... A lot of us look at the nutritional information when we buy food, but not the carbon footprint. While us as consumers may even avoid certain food groups with an environmental rationale, wouldn't you like to see changes across the food value chain, which can...
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Climate Bonds Café: CONNECT in Panama
An economics, geography and Spanish lesson all rolled into one on this episode of the Café! Climate Bonds Head of LatAm and Caribbean Programmes Andrés Felipe Sánchez joins us to preview the upcoming Climate Bonds Connect regional conference in Panama City, Panama. Don't miss this lively...
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Taxonomies in Green Finance & What to Expect in 2025
Welcome to the first episode of our new podcast series “The Path to Green: Taxonomies in Action”, where we explore the growing role of taxonomies in green finance and their global impact. In this episode, Matteo Bigoni, our Head of Taxonomy, joins us to discuss the importance of taxonomies…
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|BRASIL| Metano e agricultura brasileira
Neste podcast, Leandro Waquil (Climate Bonds) conversa com Leonardo Gava (Climate Bonds) e Wagner Oliveira (Climate Policy Initiative) sobre o abatimento de metano na agropecuária no Brasil e o lançamento do relatório “Panorama do incentivo público às práticas de abatimento de metano na…
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Climate Bonds Café: Changing the menu
The first Climate Bonds Café of 2025! We've got a good one for you... Today, we sit down with Climate Bonds' Agri-Food Lead, Reyes Tirado to discuss the launch of the Alternative Proteins Criteria. Now, that may not sound the most relevant to your day-to-day, but did you know livestock accounts…
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Financing the Future: A new vision for EU agriculture
When it comes to climate change, agriculture is one of the biggest elephants in the room. It is a massive emitter, but also one of the first sectors to feel the heat. The good news? With the right policies and investments, agriculture can go from being part of the problem to being a huge part of...
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Financing the Future: Unlocking Private Capital through DFIs
The transition to net zero requires trillions in investment, especially in emerging economies. But with limited public funds, how do we unlock private capital to finance climate action? In this episode of Financing the Future, we explore the critical role of Development Finance Institutions…
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Climate Stories: The Story of Risk
A brand new podcast series from Climate Bonds! CEO Sean Kidney and guests enjoy a wide-ranging and candid discussion. This debut episode is an in-depth dialogue around risk; our understandings of risk, the moral conflicts of managing climate risk in our society and posing the question "should...
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Climate Bonds Café: Highlights from COP29
Back from Baku, we're joined today by Climate Bonds' Senior Policy Research Analyst, Lily Burge and Senior Transitions Policy Analyst Fabio Passaro to talk COP29. All the talking points, plus their own ambitions and reflections from the biggest - and most contentious - climate event in the...
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Transitioning the Food Sector: From Farm to Fork
This week on the Climate Bonds Café, we’re talking agriculture, food and land use, everything you need to know from farm to fork. There’s so much work to be done, so many costs but also benefits of a food systems transition, as well as the need for this to be an equitable distribution. We hope to...
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| LAC | Acciones y Valores Sostenibles: Bolsa de Valores de la República Dominicana
En el 6º episodio de nuestra serie, Acciones y Valores Sostenibles: Bolsas de Valores latinoamericanas y del Caribe, Andrés Felipe Sánchez, Head para América Latina y el Caribe de Climate Bonds Initiative, conversa con Elianne Vílchez, Vicepresidente Ejecutiva y Gerente General de la Bolsa de...
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Climate Bonds Cafe: The Resilience Special - Risk and Reward
Last week saw the launch of Climate Bonds' new Resilience Taxonomy at ClimateWeek NYC. There are trillions of dollars worth of investible resilience projects now defined by our taxonomy, such as building elevated roads and bridges, flood barriers and levees in cities that are prone to flooding,...
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|LAC | Acciones y Valores Sostenibles: BIVA y LAGreen Fund
En el 5º episodio de nuestra nueva serie, Acciones y Valores Sostenibles: Bolsas de Valores latinoamericanas y del Caribe, conversamos con María Ariza, CEO, BIVA, quien nos contará sobre el marcado de finanzas sostenibles en México. También conversamos con Matías Gallardo, Senior Sustainable...
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| LAC | Acciones y Valores Sostenibles: BCV
En este cuarto episodio de nuestra nueva serie, Acciones y Valores sostenibles: Bolsas de Valores Latinoamericanas y del Caribe, exploramos cómo la Bolsa Centroamericana de Valores (BCV) está liderando el camino hacia un futuro más sostenible en América Central. Sofia Borges y Andrea Barrenechea...
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Climate Bonds Cafe: Introducing Climate Resilience
A Climate Bonds Café rewind! Today we look back at our episode on Climate Resilience with Ujala Qadir. What it means, why it's more important than ever and the work going on with experts to tackle climate disasters.
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| LAC | Acciones y Valores Sostenibles: nuam exchange
En el tercer episodio de nuestra nueva serie, Acciones y Valores Sostenibles: Bolsas de Valores latinoamericanas y del Caribe, conversamos con Nicolás Mayorga, Gerente Sr. de Estrategia de Emisiones, nuam exchange, quien nos contará sobre las oportunidades para el sector financiero que se derivan...
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Climate Bonds Café: On Track for $1 Trillion?
We're back, it's a markets update from Director of Technical Development, Caroline Harrison. With a record-breaking report from the first quarter of the year, we look at all the key facts, figures and stars of the market. Many are now daring to wonder if a trillion dollars of aligned green…
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Climate Bonds Café: Brazil's Climate Agenda
It's an exciting time for Brazil! The world's 5th largest country is vital in the global fight against climate change and faces a unique set of challenges, threats and opportunities. Time then, for the Climate Bonds Connect Regional Seminar of Latin America and the Caribbean to head to Sao Paulo!...
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Climate Bonds Café: The Shanghai Connect
We're joined today by Climate Bonds CEO and Co-Founder Sean Kidney and Head of Sustainable Finance for Asia at Standard Chartered Bank, Tracy Wong-Harris to chat about the upcoming Connect Regional Seminar in Shanghai. The importance of China in the fight against climate change, the size of the...
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| LAC | Acciones y Valores Sostenibles: B3
Edición especial de Brasil en portugués: Neste podcast, Júlia Ambrosano, Gerente de Desenvolvimento de Mercado para América Latina, conversa com César Sanches, Head de Sustentabilidade da B3, que nos contará sobre as oportunidades do setor financeiro brasileiro. Conheceremos sua percepção sobre…
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Climate Bonds Café: Future Proofing the Planet
For this episode we're in the Café with the terrible backdrop of the floods that are ravaging Rio Grande do Sul in Brazil. With thousands displaced and severe casualties, we sit down with Ujala Qadir to remind us why climate resilience is an urgent necessity
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Over the last ten years, Climate Bonds has worked to mobilise the most significant capital market of all, the $100 trillion bond market for climate change solutions. Join us on the debate over the vision for the next ten years - the Transition Decade.
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