Our Green Bonds Framework
Impact reporting
How does the issuer report on the bonds’ positive contributions? Is reporting clear and credible?
Is the issuer's sustainability strategy ambitious and credible? How does the green bond align and contribute to this?
Issuer's sustainability strategy
Do the projects financed align with our eligibility criteria?
Use of proceeds and project selection
Does the issuer have a robust process for selecting projects and tracking proceeds?
Management of proceeds
We use a proprietary green bond assessment framework to select green bonds that finance projects that make a material contribution to our targeted environmental outcomes. The framework evaluates bonds against four pillars and is designed to rate a green bond against our minimum standards as well as our expectations of what leading green bonds and issuers should look like.
