European Investment Bank

  • EIB: standard-bearer of sustainable finance

    EIB: standard-bearer of sustainable finance

    For well over a decade, the cornerstone of the European Investment Bank’s sustainability funding policy has been the conviction that the financial services industry has a pivotal role to play in spearheading the battle against climate change. As the EU’s climate bank, it has also consistently recognised its responsibility for developing best practice, which in turn helps promote enhanced environmental and social standards across the global financial community.

    31 Jan 2020
  • EIB: spearheading the rollout of Ibor replacements

    EIB: spearheading the rollout of Ibor replacements

    When investors are presented with a new financial instrument, their instinct is generally to focus on pricing, relative value and liquidity. This is a natural response, especially in a low yield environment in which every basis point counts.

    04 Dec 2019
  • Protecting the heart and lungs of the planet

    Protecting the heart and lungs of the planet

    One year after the launch of the Clean Oceans Initiative, the European Investment Bank wants to use its success in tackling plastic pollution as a springboard to safeguard the wider blue economy.

    20 Oct 2019
  • Spearheading alignment with the Paris Agreement

    Spearheading alignment with the Paris Agreement

    With its push to embrace its role as the European Union’s climate bank, the European Investment Bank is set to play a key part in the alliance of multilateral development banks committed to fight climate change.

    19 Oct 2019
  • Towards a decarbonised future

    Towards a decarbonised future

    The European Investment Bank has set out a strategy for lending that will support the EU’s goal of decarbonising the economy by financing investments that cut emissions, combat climate change and support alternatives to fossil fuels.

    17 Oct 2019

  • Sustainable finance: moving towards a common language

    Since the issuance of a pioneering Climate Awareness Bond (CAB) by the European Investment Bank (EIB) in 2007, the global Green Bond market has expanded at an impressive pace, with total issuance passing the $500bn mark in the third quarter of 2018.

    06 Dec 2018
  • Helping the sea to fight climate change

    Helping the sea to fight climate change

    A compelling recent example of the EIB’s role as a “crowding-in” bank is its support for the Althelia Sustainable Ocean Fund (SOF), the first close of which was announced in September.

    13 Oct 2018
  • What is sustainable finance?

    What is sustainable finance?

    If that sounds like an easy question to answer, consider the hypothetical case of a lender backing a scheme to retrain adults as computer programmers, or accountants in a city like Katowice, the capital of the Polish region of Silesia

    30 Sep 2018
  • Public transport keeps the air clean

    Public transport keeps the air clean

    There are close to 5 million motorbikes and scooters in the Vietnamese capital city, Hanoi. To put this figure into perspective, it means there is more than one motorbike or scooter for every two residents of the city, which has a population of about 7.8 million

    30 Sep 2018