Finance for Resilience: What are green bonds and how to encourage their growth in developing markets
Finance for Resilience: What are green bonds and how to encourage their growth in developing markets
The fourth episode of the Finance for Resilience podcast takes a look at what green bonds are and how to encourage their growth in developing markets.
The fourth episode unpacks the topic of green bonds and the challenges and benefits associated with this financing mechanism.
Considering the significant climate finance gap, green bonds are likely to play a crucial role in meeting the goals of the Paris Agreement. However, the growth of the market in the global South has lagged in comparison to the rest of the world.
Join CDKN’s climate finance lead, Kamleshan Pillay, as he hosts an in-depth discussion on green bonds and how to encourage their growth in developing markets. Kamlesh is joined by guests Megan Sager, Director of Sustainable Solutions in Cape Town, Robert Bunyi, Managing Director of Kenya Pooled Water Fund and Sandeep Bhattacharya, India project manager at the Climate Bonds Initiative.
Listen to Episode 4: What are green bonds and how to encourage their growth in developing market below or on Spotify, Google or Apple iTunes. Read the transcript here.
Further reading
- GCF and the Implementation of the Paris Agreement
- The Paris Agreement: the world unites to fight climate change
- Status of Pledges and Contributions made to the Green Climate Fund
- Development Bank of Southern Africa
- Environmental Investment Fund
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About the guests
Megan Sager specializes in mobilising capital at scale for the urban transition to sustainability, focusing on green building, affordable housing, and renewable energy. She is the founding director of the Sustainable Solutions consulting and advisory group which serves clients in SA and across the globe. She holds an MSc in Economics for Development from the University of Oxford and a Sustainable Finance Expert qualification from the Frankfurt School of Finance and Management.
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Robert Bunyi is the Chief Executive Officer of the Kenyan Pooled Water Fund. He has over 20 years’ experience working across finance, energy and real estate sectors. His career started in 1996 as an equity analyst on the NSE and has worked in the capital market sector covering African equity markets since. More recently he expanded into consulting having founded Mavuno Capital, an investment advisory firm that deals mainly in real estate. He also serves as a Non-executive director of Invesco Assurance, a specialist passenger service vehicle insurance company owned by sector actors
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Sandeep Bhattacharya is responsible for coordinating Climate Bonds Initiative efforts to drive the development of the Indian Green Finance market as well as CBI's stakeholder engagement in the country. He also takes part in CBI’s communications and media engagements in India.
