• 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

  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?

  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

  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

• 10 Years of Green Bond Issuance at EIB

  Developing a Lingua Franca for Green Bonds

  • 03 Aug 2017