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By investing in green bonds and supporting new issuers with technical assistance, LAGreen facilitates access to this innovative instrument for financing green initiatives in the region.
The fund promotes best practices and high impact standards, with the aim of consolidating green bonds as an instrument to mobilize funding from international capital markets, financing the transition to more sustainable economic models in the region.
Through its first investment in a green bond, the LAGreen Fund will support the development of sustainable construction to foster green practices in Costa Rica. The LAGreen TAF is supporting transparency practices by supporting the bank’s impact strategy.
The LAGreen Fund and Operadora de Servicios Mega strengthened their commitment to promoting sustainability bonds in Mexico. In May 2022, LAGreen supported Mega’s MXN 3,000 million publicly listed sustainable bond by subscribing MXN 506 million and is providing ongoing technical assistance to support post-issuance activities related to the bond.
LAGreen partnered with IDB Group in a landmark COP 640 billion SLB issued by Bancolombia. This groundbreaking bond combines an environmental and a social objective: reducing the bank’s portfolio carbon intensity and providing financing to over 1.5 million low-income people. LAGreen TAF will support in strengthening the bank’s circular economy strategy across sectors.
LAGreen invested USD 10 million in a sustainable bond issued by Banco de Bogotá. Bond proceeds are dedicated to promoting projects with positive environmental and social impacts, while strengthening the bank’s capital base. Through this bond, the bank will further fulfil its sustainability commitments, for example, in terms of decarbonizing its portfolio.
LAGreen teamed up with the UNEPFI to promote capital market financing for green and social project investments in Latin America. The partners have launched a series of capacity building programs on green, social, sustainability, and securities-based lending bonds addressed to the banking sectors across the region.
The LAGreen TAF partnered with the CBI and Metrix Finanzas to develop a thorough report on the state of the sustainable finance market in the country. The report analyzed the behavior of Green, Social, Sustainable and Sustainability-Linked Bonds in Colombia and mapped the main stakeholders.
The LAGreen Fund has participated in multiple events across the region, including the Green Bonds Regional Roundtable in Dominican Republic, FEPMAC Road Show in Peru, the Climate Bonds Initiative’s Regional Seminar CONNECT in Mexico among others.
The LAGreen TAF partnered with the CBI to develop a thorough report on the state of the sustainable finance market in Peru. The report analyzed the behavior of Green, Social, Sustainable and Sustainability-Linked Bonds in the country and mapped the main stakeholders.
Mobilizing private sector resources will be essential for financing climate action in developing countries.
As one of Earth’s richest regions in terms of forests and biodiversity, Latin America is key for the fight against climate change.
Green bonds are an innovative instrument with the potential to better connect capital markets with climate and environmentally friendly projects in Latin America.
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Introducing LAGreen at COP26
Why a green bond fund in LAC?
LAGreen is a pioneering impact fund. The fund is structured as a blended finance vehicle, with starting capital provided by the European Union and the German Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development, which shall be leveraged to mobilize funding from the private sector.
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LAGreen Technical Assistance Facility provides issuers with customised technical assistance regarding the structuring of green bonds to facilitate access to green financing initiatives. By expanding capacities, opening up access to resources, promoting best practices for sustainable finance, and more, the Technical Assistance Facility multiplies impact and outreach of the fund.
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