Climate Bonds Initiative Europe
Budget
€10,949,262
EP Access
0
accredited persons
Staff
6
1.5 FTE
EU Grants
None
Mission & Goals
Climate Bonds is an international organisation working to mobilise global capital for climate action and resilience, ensuring investments support a sustainable, adaptive, and low-carbon future. Climate Bonds’ strategy over the next three years is articulated around four strategic objectives. The first objective is to optimise our impact and ability to deliver on our mission by strengthening internal strategies, structures, and processes. Our second objective is to expand and strengthen this role by catalysing the growth of a large and credible sustainable finance market to achieve a target of $5tn in annual issuances of Green, Social, Sustainability, and other sustainable labelled debt by 2025. Our third objective focuses on inspiring investors to champion and promote the transition to a green and resilient future. Our fourth strategic objective is to shape the climate policy agenda by urging governments to establish a favourable environment for green and resilient investments.
EU Legislative Interests
List of contributions to public consultations: - EU climate target for 2040 - Platform on Sustainable Finance (PSF) - EU Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism (CBAM) - Sustainable Finance Disclosure Regulation (SFDR) - Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive (CSRD) - Industrial Decarbonisation Accelerator Act - REPowerEU - Methane Regulation (EU/2024/1787) - Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) Climate Bonds Initiative Europe aims (i) to ensure that the Paris agreement goals are taken into account when sustainable finance legislation is drawn; (ii) to ensure that the EU Taxonomy is science based and becomes a non-disputable guide to green investments; (iii) to ensure that the Climate Law is implemented in full and the EU sets ambitious 2040 climate targets; (iv) to mainstream transition finance in order to secure a net zero EU economy by 2050; (v) to highlight credible transition pathways for hard to abate sectors and the buildings sectors; (vi) to phase out coal, oil and gas as an energy fuel; (vii) to raise awareness of the climate bonds market and; (viii) to redirect public and private capital towards zero emission investments.
Communication Activities
Climate Bonds organises (mainly) online events, publishes relevant sustainable finance information on the organisation’s website and has led awareness raising campaigns on the following subjects: - Gas phase out; - EU Taxonomy; - Energy Performance of Buildings Directive; - CBAM; - EU Green Bonds Standards; - Transition pathways for hard to abate sectors (cement, steel, and chemicals). Climate Bonds has strongly promoted the EU's Platform on Sustainable Finance and helped contribute to its important work. To support its work across Europe, as well as other regions around the world, Climate Bonds produces: State of the Market reports, quarterly highlights reports, regional and country-specific reports and updates. In addition, the organisation tracks post-issuance reporting and green bond pricing in the primary market, green bond underwriter league tables and stock exchanges with green/sustainability bond segments. Climate Bonds issues thematic reports as well ( e.g. on sectors and structures used in the market), while also producing guides to facilitate issuance. Climate Bonds publishes regular market news, designed as both a journal of record for bond issuance and updates on investment news and research material to fixed income investment in climate solutions. Climate Bonds maintains a bond library for new issuers over the past 10 years.
Interests Represented
Does not represent commercial interests
Member Of
NA
Organisation Members
Existing funders supporting the charitable purposes of Climate Bonds Initiative include: Sequoia Climate Foundation, Tara Climate Foundation, International Climate Foundation , Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank, Children’s Investment Fund Foundation, Laudes Foundation, Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation, Inter-American Development Bank, European Climate Foundation, The Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit GmbH (GIZ), World Resources Institute, Asian Development Bank, The Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office, ClimateWorks Foundation, European Bank for Reconstruction and Development, New Venture Fund, Growald Climate Fund, FSD Africa, United Nations Development Programme, UK PACT. https://www.climatebonds.net/about/network-members
Commissioner Meetings
No recorded meetings with EU commissioners.