Roundtable: India’s Green Bond market – Safeguarding integrity and regulatory requirements

16 November 2017, Mumbai

With the objective to advance the domestic green bond market in India, the roundtable brought together financial institutions, stock exchanges and regulators to jointly discuss critical questions around regulatory developments and environmental integrity in the Indian green bond market.

Agenda

• Agenda (English)

Summary

• Summary (English)

Presentations

• Nina Roth, GIZ: Introduction to the Strategic Alliance on Green Bond Market Development
• Klas Eklund, SEB: Global green bond market update
• Gaurav Bhagat, Standard Chartered: Indian green bond market analysis
• Kristina Alnes, CICERO: Independent external assessments of green bonds
• Yousuf Syed, Axis Bank: Axis Bank’s experience on impact reporting
• Richa Agarwal, Securities & Exchange Board of India (SEBI): Indian green bond market regulation

Further Resources

• International Capital Markets Association (ICMA): The Green Bond Principles 2017
• Securities & Exchange Board of India: Disclosure Requirements for the Issuance and Listing of Green Debt Securities (May 2017)
• CICERO: Shades of Climate Risk Report
• Impact Reporting:
  • Green Bonds – Working towards a Harmonized Framework for Impact Reporting (December 2015)
  • Nordic Public Sector Issuers: Position Paper on Green Bonds Impact Reporting (October 2017)
  • Axis Bank: Green Bond Impact Report

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