Novethic has joined the Climate Bonds Partnership Programme to develop the work of its research centre on climate finance.
The centre’s surveys, certification of green funds and learning courses for investors complements the Climate Bonds Initiative mission to bring together all stakeholders, including NGOs, banks and institutional investors, to foster rapid growth in green bond markets around the globe.
Novethic has been assessing and advising asset owners and managers on environmental and social investments since 2001.
In 2016, Novethic has published various studies which explain the strong investor movement towards green finance. In its latest report – Green Bonds – an investors’ perspective – Novethic sheds light on how investors perceive the current market development of this new bond segment, surveying a representative panel of investors with a combined EUR 7.7 billion in green bonds.
Novethic introduced Europe’s first socially responsible investing label in 2009 and developed a certification scheme to assess green funds in 2013.
This year it was appointed as auditor of the public French green label, initiated by the French Ministry of Environment and which relies significantly on climate bonds research.
