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Green Bonds

MCLI Recommendation: “Local governments, States, and the federal government should support financing of carbon reducing technologies through the issuance of green bonds.”

LPDD Recommendation: “Accrediting agencies such as Moody’s and the International Capital Market Association should adopt improved green bond standards more closely tied to guaranteed and achieved carbon performance.”

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Example Foreign

World Bank Green Bonds

The World Bank Green Bond raises funds from fixed income investors to support World Bank lending for eligible projects that seek to mitigate climate change or help affected people adapt to it. The pro...
Resource Congress

Proposed Clean Energy Victory Bonds Act (2019)

This proposed 2019 legislation directs the Secretary of Treasury to work with the Secretary of Energy and the Secretary of Defense to establish Clean Energy Victory Bonds. Bonds would be available to ...
Example States and State Governments

New York’s Clean Water, Clean Energy, Green Jobs Environmental Bond Act

In the 2022 election, New York voters overwhelming voted in favor of the Clean Water, Clean Energy, Green Jobs Environmental Bond Act, or Proposition 1. The Act includes up to $1.5B for climate change...
Resource Private Entities

The Climate Bonds Initiative and Market Reports

The Climate Bonds Initiative is an international investor-focused not-for profit working to mobilize the bond market for climate change solutions. They promote investment in projects and assets necess...
Resource Private Entities

International Carbon Markets Association: Green Bond Principles

The International Carbon Markets Association’s Green Bond Principles promote integrity in the Green Bond market through guidelines that recommend transparency, disclosure and reporting. They are inten...
Resource Private Entities

Barclays report, Sustainable Investing and Bond Returns

Barclays report, Sustainable Investing and Bond Returns, studies the impact of environmental, social and corporate governance investing on credit portfolio performance.
Model Law Congress

LPDD Model Law: Federal Green Private Activity Bonds Act

Generally, public entities may only issue tax-exempt bonds for governmental purposes. The Internal Revenue Code specifies certain limited categories of tax-exempt bonds that may be issued for private ...
Example Executive Branch

Fannie Mae Multifamily Green Financing Program

Fannie Mae’s Multifamily Green Financing Program provides mortgage financing to apartment buildings and cooperative for the retrofitting of U.S. rental housing stock to become more energy- and water-e...
Example States and State Governments

Connecticut’s Green Liberty Bonds

In July 2020, the Connecticut Green Bank brought to market about $16 million in Green Liberty Bonds. The bonds will have a $1,000 face value, an uncommonly low denomination that is intended to make th...