Sovereign Green and Blue Bonds for the Pacific
ICMA principles, ring-fencing, and debt sustainability requirements before issuing a sovereign thematic bond, illustrated by Fiji's 2017 issuance.
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Perspectives on Sustainable Impact Finance
Technical analysis on blended finance, thematic bonds, biodiversity finance, adaptation finance, and regulation shaping sustainable capital structures.
Biodiversity Target-Setting for Banks
How banks convert TNFD-style biodiversity exposure into measurable, priced loan covenants, illustrated by a real sustainability-linked loan.
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Financing Sustainable Food Systems
Blended capital and MRV at smallholder scale, illustrated by Rabobank's ACORN programme.
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Loss and Damage Finance for the Pacific
Why loss and damage financing is structurally distinct from adaptation finance, quantified through tuna fisheries and sea-level projections.
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Financing Building Sector Decarbonization in Cambodia
Bonds, guarantees and loan design to mobilise private capital for low-carbon buildings.
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Debt-for-Nature Swaps: Structuring Sovereign Debt Relief for Conservation
Transaction logic, credit enhancement, and MRV requirements behind sovereign debt-for-nature swaps.
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Blended Finance Structuring: Capital Stacks, First-Loss Capital and Risk-Sharing
How to structure a blended-finance transaction: capital stack design, first-loss capital, guarantees, and concessional capital.
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EU Taxonomy Readiness for MDB-Financed Projects
What EU Taxonomy alignment requires: technical screening criteria, Do No Significant Harm, and CSRD linkages.
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Blue Economy Bonds: Structuring Credible Ocean Finance
ICMA-aligned use of proceeds, eligible categories, exclusions and MRV, illustrated by ADB, KEXIM, BDO Unibank and Thai Union.
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Nature Finance and Disclosure: From Dependency to Deployable Capital
Making biodiversity financially legible through TNFD-style disclosure, then getting private capital to flow against it.
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Financing Building Decarbonization Across Asia
How Thailand, Indonesia and India finance low-carbon buildings, and why bankable pipeline and code enforcement bind harder than the green cost premium.
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Climate Risk and Central Banking: Lessons from Mongolia
How a central bank turns physical and transition climate risk into monetary policy and prudential supervision, through the Bank of Mongolia's dzud and herder-loan exposure.
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Recovery and Loss-and-Damage Finance
Why climate loss-and-damage and post-conflict recovery share one financing architecture, illustrated by Viet Nam and Ukraine.
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Building a National Climate Finance Strategy
The sequence that turns targets into mobilised capital: taxonomy, budget tagging, bonds, insurance and blended finance, compared across Sri Lanka and Uzbekistan.
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