GGKP Webinar - How Green Bonds Are Financing Sustainable Development

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Green Growth Knowledge Partnership
Green Growth Knowledge Partnership
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GGKP Webinar - How Green Bonds Are Financing Sustainable Development

30 SEP 2021

Around the world, public and private finance has begun to flow towards sustainable development through the issuance of green bonds. At the municipal level, sustainable infrastructure projects financed by green bonds are helping to address poverty, economic growth and other Sustainable Development Goals. At the national level, green taxonomies and green finance frameworks are providing critical guidance to investors and issuers as well as helping to safeguard against greenwashing.

On 30 September (9h00 ART / 14h00 CEST / 19h00 WIB) join us for the webinar How Green Bonds Are Financing Sustainable Development. We will hear from municipal and national leaders and experts from ArgentinaIndonesia and South Africa on how green bonds are being accessed and utilized; the purpose and function of green finance taxonomies; why tailor-made sustainability frameworks are key to success; and the importance of South-South Cooperation for exchange of best practice and lessons learned.

The panel will delve into the opportunities, challenges and broad potential of green bonds for driving forward sustainable development in advance of the climate finance and biodiversity discussions planned for the 26th UN Climate Change Conference of the Parties (COP26).

Discussion questions include: 

  • How are municipalities approaching the question of green bonds, in the context of their mandates?
  • Why are fit-for-purpose green finance frameworks necessary?
  • What is the purpose of national green taxonomies?
  • What are key opportunities for country exchange and mutual learning? 
 

Speakers

Maia Colodenco, Head of the International Affairs Unit, Working Group on Sustainable Finance, Ministry of Economy Argentina

Florencia Puch Genolet, Assistant Manager of Corporate Governance, National Securities Commission of Argentina

Peter Head, Chair, Resilience Brokers

Monene J. Mathiba, Specialist Financial Analyst, Office of the CFO, Tshwane metropolitan municipality

Dr Joko Tri Haryanto, Senior Researcher, Fiscal Policy Agency for Climate Change Financing and Multilateral Policy, Ministry of Finance of Indonesia

Christelle van Vuuren, Associate Director, Africa - Carbon Trust

Moderator:  Arthur Wood, Founding Partner, TOTAL Impact Capital

 

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This is the fourth session of a five-part #GGKPwebinar series held under the  IKI project,  "Green Economy Transformation" in cooperation with the Partnership for Action on Green Economy (PAGE) - Synergies between low-emission pathways and the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), also known as the GET project. The GET project is  funded by the German Federal Ministry of Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety (BMU) through its International Climate Initiative (IKI), and is implemented by the  Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH in cooperation with  the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP).  GET project is active in six countries including Argentina, Indonesia and South Africa.

This session is organized jointly with the Poverty-Environment Action – a global programme that supports country-led efforts to put pro-poor, pro-environment objectives into the heart of government by mainstreaming poverty-environment  objectives into national development and sub-national development  planning, from policymaking to budgeting, implementation and monitoring.  

Poverty-Environment Action and the GET project are supporting the Government of South Africa and two metropolitan municipalities with capacity building related to the issuance of green and sustainability bonds including enabling peer-to-peer exchanges at different levels.