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The UK\u2019s major financial institutions have agreed to give\u00a0environmental finance greater priority this year through the \u2018Green Finance Initiative\u2019<\/a>\u00a0(GFI)\u00a0launched this week.<\/p>\n

Major banks, asset managers and insurance companies will be among those aiming to increase the flow of projects eligible for green bonds that will fund cleaner energy and lower carbon infrastructure.<\/p>\n

The GFI will also work to increase the quality and availability of information on green investments.<\/p>\n

The green bond market doubled in size\u00a0last year to around US$42 billion of issuance, but needs to expand at a much quicker pace if the world is to\u00a0implement both the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals<\/a> and the Paris climate change agreement<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Achim Steiner, Executive Director of the United Nations Environment Programme, told the \u2018Year of Green Finance\u2019<\/a> event in London: “2016 is set to be the year of green finance. Across the world, we are seeing a growing number of countries aligning their financial systems with the sustainability imperative.”<\/p>\n

A UNEP report<\/a> launched this week said the UK\u2019s financial sector could play a major role in giving low carbon or sustainable investments a much bigger share of the US$90 trillion that the New Climate Economy<\/a> think tank estimates will need to be spent on the world\u2019s infrastructure over the next 15 years.<\/p>\n

This year\u00a0will also likely see efforts by China, as leader of the G20 in 2016, to deliver faster progress on environmental lending so that domestic and international investments can be made greener.<\/p>\n

China, the UN, G20 and global financial institutions will this year aim to expand a system of green bonds to pay for the US$50 trillion of investment required to meet a 2C climate goal agreed at the Paris climate summit.<\/p>\n

Green bonds, or climate bonds, are a relatively new asset class designed to raise finance for lower carbon investments such as renewable energy, mass transit systems and drought-resistant seeds.<\/p>\n

The green bond market is forecast to\u00a0grow to around US$100 billion this year.\u00a0This would\u00a0compare with an overall value of\u00a0bond market estimated to be around US$80 trillion.<\/p>\n

Green bonds will also be needed to fund a huge environmental clean-up following decades of rapid economic growth, particularly in large developing countries.<\/p>\n

On January 24, the\u00a0Green Finance Study Group<\/a>\u00a0(GFSG), which is chaired by the People\u2019s Bank of China and the Bank of England, and includes the\u00a0UNEP<\/a>\u00a0as an organiser, will launch in Beijing.<\/p>\n

The new committee will focus on encouraging the private sector to funnel funds for low carbon infrastructure and development \u00a0It will also make policy recommendations to the G20 when it\u00a0meets<\/a>\u00a0in Hangzhou in September.<\/p>\n

In December 2015, China issued\u00a0new guidelines for green bonds<\/a>, a critically-important\u00a0step in increasing the flows needed to lower carbon investments.<\/p>\n

According to experts, the green bond guidelines will help Chinese issuers reach out to a more diversified group of international institutional investors that can provide low-cost, long-term capital. In addition, China\u2019s domestic issuances of green bonds would become increasingly relevant to international investors.<\/p>\n

Green bonds<\/b><\/p>\n

China needs 2 trillion-4 trillion yuan (US$300-600 billion) a year of finance for new, lower carbon infrastructure and cleaner air, water and soil, and these sums need to start flowing quickly, said Ma Jun, chief economist at the People\u2019s Bank of China via a webcast.<\/p>\n

\u201cChina has a huge environmental challenge, for instance, our levels of PM2.5 pollution are 20 times that seen in Australia, 75% of China\u2019s water is polluted and a fifth of its arable land is contaminated,\u201d Ma said.<\/p>\n

Around 85% of the vast sums needed to tackle these problems, and make big cuts in carbon emissions, will need to come from the private sector, Ma added. At the same time, the policy agenda must focus on expanding the green bond market, green insurance and supporting financial disclosure.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe need the right financial incentives to close the funding gap (for infrastructure),\u201d said Elizabeth Corley, global chief executive officer at Allianz Global Investors.<\/p>\n

Many environmental finance initiatives are in their early stages, held back by market uncertainty, and\u00a0the size and age of other competitive markets, said Roger Gifford, chair of the\u00a0GFI.
\n‘Fifty shades of green’<\/strong><\/p>\n

For the green bond market to mature, major economies and financial institutions will need to deliver clear progress on common standards on what constitutes a green investment.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe questions that arise are, what is green and what is the quality control. Will we end up with 50 shades of green?\u201d Gifford asked.<\/p>\n

To be worthwhile, green bonds and other methods of environmental finance must have environmental credibility and provide decent returns for investors, said Steve Waygood, chief responsible investment officer of UK insurance company Aviva, which has a major presence in Asia.<\/p>\n

But while China has tried to make its criteria for environmental finance more rigorous, the guidelines announced late last year will support some activities \u2013 such as cleaner coal generation \u2013 that would not\u00a0be eligible for green bond status in many western financial institutions.<\/p>\n

Calls for disclosure<\/strong><\/p>\n

Encouraging companies to disclose figures on greenhouse gas emissions and use of natural resources, such as water, is also needed besides green bonds, say financial institutions.<\/p>\n

In December, Mark Carney, Bank of England governor and Michael Bloomberg, whose media company of the same name sells news and data to financial institutions, said they would head up a\u00a0task force<\/a>\u00a0that would look at ways of compiling and presenting comparable environmental data on companies across the world.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Paris agreement put green finance<\/a> at the core of markets around the world, and we now have greater opportunity to include particular assets (such as renewable energy) as well as excluding others (such as oil and coal), in investor portfolios,\u201d said Allianz\u2019s Corley.<\/p>\n

At present, over 90% of companies listed on the UK\u2019s FTSE 100 index disclose CO2 data, aided in part by UK company law, but in the Shenzhen stock exchange for example, the figure is still in single digits, according to\u00a0figures<\/a>\u00a0compiled by Aviva and Corporate Knights Capital.<\/p>\n

Poor corporate disclosure is making the assessment of environmental costs a challenging task for both Chinese banks and other investors, points out Chaoni Huang, a business development manager in Asia for Trucost, a data provider.<\/p>\n

That may change if the\u00a0government heeds the country\u2019s central bank, which last year recommended that companies be forced to disclose environmental data. This would allow lenders to assess which companies are taking the least action to cut CO2.<\/p>\n

Huang told\u00a0chinadialogue<\/em>\u00a0in an email: \u201cWhile it is not viable to stop lending to one particular sector or company overnight, we do hope to see that banks and other type of investors in China start to incorporate meaningful environmental metrics into traditional financial and risk assessment.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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