Featured in Distributed bliss – 06-2022

High stakes

Despite worldwide net-zero pledges, a new EU sustainable debt taxonomy, an urgent need to address the climate crisis, and record sustainable debt investments, the world still has a long path to tread to meet its climate goals. In the third quarter of 2022, pv magazine’s UP Initiative will focus on green finance. Specifically, what steps have been made in the past two years? Will sustainability-linked bonds gain traction? What supporting policies and standards are in place or required? And what can solar companies do to be ESG-ready?

By

Becky Beetz

24 Jun 2022

At the BETD, the green finance discussion centered on the role of the taxonomy in removing a major barrier to the flow of capital into renewables – namely the lack of knowledge of the mechanics of green finance. | Image: Photothek / Berlin Energy Transition Dialogue

In 2020, the UP Initiative focused on green finance. At the time, Covid-19 was just beginning to hit the headlines with fears of unknown consequences on the political, social, and industrial level abounding. Two and a half years later, resiliency has been proven in many areas, not least in the renewables (and solar) industry, with …

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