35 years: Sustainable finance & banking
In the second part of Stephanie's video on Green Finance Markets, she discusses the green bond market and evaluates its impact.
In the second part of Stephanie's video on Green Finance Markets, she discusses the green bond market and evaluates its impact.
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8 mins 52 secs
Green bonds are bonds that finance projects, assets and activities, with clear and demonstrable environmental benefits. In this video, Stephanie evaluates the successes and issues surrounding the green bond market, and provides suggestions for developments. Proposing that the keys to a change in practices will come from the focus on risk and regulatory requirements to disclose.
Key learning objectives:
Outline the four pillars of the GBP
Understand the ways the green bond market has been successful
Identify the key debate points that continue to trouble the green bond market
Understand where the developments are going to come from
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This was released by a group of 14 banks, early in 2014, and which have since been adopted around the world. The GBP, now supplemented by the Social Bond Principles and Sustainability Bond Guidelines, set out a well-understood voluntary process for issuing bonds which requires demonstrable environmental benefits
The discussion as to how we define green - for example:
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