Green Finance Innovation: Japan's Transition Bonds

In this first webinar, we deep-dive into transition bonds, a subset of green bonds focused on facilitating the shift from less sustainable to more sustainable practices, reducing emissions from polluting and hard-to-abate sectors. The webinar presents the Japanese experience and practice of issuing transition bonds, exploring opportunities to step up sustainability, and how to embed the just transition into local projects using green loans and bonds – and the key role that local governments and municipalities play in this regard. The city of Kyoto, Japan, and the province of Bali, Indonesia, share their ambitious, innovative finance solutions as good practices, while the Japanese Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation showcases some sustainable finance instruments.