ACEREZ issues green loan Certified under the Climate Bonds Standard for Australia’s first Renewable Energy Zone
SYDNEY, 8 APRIL 2025 – ACEREZ Partnership (“ACEREZ”) has achieved Pre-Issuance Certification under the Climate Bonds Standard for its green loan. This marks a significant milestone in Australia’s sustainable finance market, aimed at financing the development of electrical grids and…
Bolivia makes history with first Climate Bonds Certified issuance
Banco de Desarrollo Productivo – S.A.M. issues USD 14.8 million green bond La Paz, 07/03/2025 – Banco de Desarrollo Productivo – Sociedad Anónima Mixta (BDP – S.A.M.) has successfully issued Bolivia’s first green bond Certified under the Climate Bonds Standard, underscoring their leadership in…
Adaptation Fund and FRLD Agree to Framework of Collaboration to Address Climate Change
Washington, D.C. (February 3, 2025) — In an effort to respond to the urgent and complex challenges posed by climate change and its rising impacts on vulnerable populations and ecosystems, the Secretariats of the Adaptation Fund (AF) and the Fund for responding…
What should central banks do to combat climate change in 2025?
|Written by Emma Thomasson While Donald Trump’s presidency is a major setback to US efforts to fight climate change, and to attempts to forge international consensus on the issue, other parts of the world are pushing ahead with efforts to…
Catalytic Climate Finance Facility Awards USD 2 million to New Cohort of Blended Finance Vehicles
The Catalytic Climate Finance Facility (CC Facility), a partnership between Climate Policy Initiative (CPI) and Convergence, announced its second cohort of market-ready blended finance vehicles today. The CC Facility will grant the selected five grantees USD 2 million to test,…
A bigger Picture for Climate Finance by Jennifer Sara
COP29 will kick off in Baku in less than a month. Among the topics for these negotiations of the Parties is to set a new climate finance goal to replace the previous target originally set in 2009. The landscape around…
Climate Bonds Standard Expands Criteria for Crop and Livestock Production
The Climate Bonds Initiative has announced the launch of its newly developed Agriculture Production (Crop and Livestock) Criteria, now officially available for certification under the Climate Bonds Standard. This landmark development represents the culmination of significant collaborative efforts by leading experts…
Nigeria: Access Bank Launches Sustainable Fnance Acelerator programme
by NM Partners As part of its ongoing efforts to champion initiatives aimed at advancing access to credit for sustainable projects across Nigeria, Access Bank Plc has officially launched its Sustainable Finance Accelerator Program. Designed to support corporates, MSMEs, and…
Multilateral Fund to Grow Green Firms: An Idea Whose Time Has Come?
by Nancy Lee and Dan Preston Five years ago, we made a proposal to help address a capital market gap that pervades the developing world: the lack of finance for young, innovative firms with potential for rapid growth and job…
Proposal to Make Migration Work for Adaptation: Classifying Remittances as Climate Finance
by Samuel Huckstep and Jonathan Beynon Climate finance is falling short of meeting the adaptation needs of those most vulnerable to climate change. What little is provided increasingly comes from existing, and already overstretched, development budgets. Development leaders emphasise their…