Workshop: Safeguarding environmental integrity in the Indian Green Bond market

17 November 2017, Mumbai

This workshop offered a learning platform for the exchange of technical knowledge and experience on the structural advisory for green bond frameworks and their external assessment, aiming to strengthen professional capacity of participants in particular with regards transparency and environmental integrity of green bonds in India. This workshop primarily convened representatives from environmental and climate finance academic institutions, consultancies and rating agencies.

Agenda

• Agenda (English)

Presentations

• Nina Roth, GIZ: Introduction to the Strategic Alliance on Green Bond Market Development
• Klas Eklund, SEB: Global green bond market update
• Asheesh Mehrotra, SEBI: Green bonds in India & disclosure requirements
• Klas Eklund, SEB: Green structural advisory
• Kristina Alnes, CICERO: Independent external assessments of green bonds
• Sandeep Paul, ICRIER: Financing green urban infrastructure reporting – the potential of muni bonds
• Klas Eklund, SEB: Breakout session: How to set up a green bond framework
• Kristina Alnes, CICERO: Breakout session: How to assess a green bond framework

Further Resources

• Securities & Exchange Board of India: Disclosure Requirements for the Issuance and Listing of Green Debt Securities (May 2017)
• International Capital Markets Association (ICMA): The Green Bond Principles 2017
• Examples of Green Bond Frameworks and Second Opinions:
  • CICERO’s second opinions list (including ICBC second opinion)
  • Apple’s Green Bond Framework & Second Opinion (June 2017)
  • ICBC Green Bond Framework and Climate Bonds Certificate (Sep 2017)
  • Municipality Finance Plc Green Bonds Framework and Second Opinion (August/September 2017)
• References for 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
• CICERO: Shades of Climate Risk Report

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