Green Bonds and Financing the Transition to a Low-Carbon Economy with Sean Kidney

In this video, Sean Kidney Co-founder and CEO of Climate Bonds Initiative discusses the importance of green bonds and financing the transition to a low-carbon economy.

This conversation highlights the urgency of addressing climate change and the potential for green bonds to help fund renewable energy projects, improve energy efficiency, and promote sustainable agriculture.

Kidney emphasises the need for clear standards and regulations to ensure the integrity of the green bond market and prevent greenwashing. This video makes a compelling case for the critical role that green bonds can play in financing the transition to a more sustainable future. With the global bond market worth $130 trillion, green and sustainable bonds currently make up just 4 trillion of that total.

However, kidney believes that this market has the potential to grow at least ten times in the next decade, making green bonds the biggest asset class in the world.

Watch this video to learn more about the role of green bonds in financing a sustainable future.

 

“We are learning to be adults when the planet needs us to be adults... if we do grow up, we become the consciousness of Gaia. If we don’t, we’re toast.” 

More About the Climate Bonds Initiative

Their science-based taxonomy has certified $300 billion in climate bonds across 16 sectors and 20 instrument types, and they have $34 trillion in assets represented at board level.  

 

Some of the insights in this episode include: 

Climate as a species-level opportunity (if we can take it) 

The trillion-dollar question: are green bonds growing fast enough? 

The power of pension funds – and why they’re finally waking up 

How emerging green markets can solve the West’s demographic timebomb 

Eat quinoa, not corn (and other lessons from green bond taxonomy) 

Climate resilience funding: many flavours of gelato! 

Last-mile CCUS, the Icelandic volcano way 

Should we just cancel COP? Sean gets stuck in! 

Climate lessons from Marx, memes and the KKK 

Why turning the world’s supertanker is a systems game 

 

"It's never too late till it really is too late…this is really about how we manage the planet…we ended up becoming stewards of the earth…humans affect everything."

"… you're thinking, what are we doing?! I'm going to say, how can you not be passionate when you're looking at your future corroding before your eyes in the science?" "So my belief is that we need to change the financial system to be future-fit to meet our needs and, of course, that means bonds that are green will become the biggest asset class."

 

Listen to the full podcast or watch the video to learn more about the role of green bonds in financing a sustainable future.

 

REFERENCES:

https://www.climatebonds.net/about/speakers-bureau/sean-kidney

https://uk.linkedin.com/in/seankidney

 

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