Green bonds and the sustainable bond market

• Explore the links between ESG bonds issuance and SDG goals and encourage course attendees to reflect on the potential contribution of market participants to achieve SDG targets.
• List and compare the variety of ESG bonds available on the current international bond market
• Understand the role of the key actors involved in the issuance of green bonds
• Provide participants with an overview of the green bond market development, and a comprehensive update on standards, regulation and reporting requirements of green bonds
• Grasp the key principles and steps within the issuance of green bonds
• Critically reflect on green-washing and impact washing attempts by issuers as well as on the effectiveness of impact assessments and how the latter can be improved.
• Give participants relevant analytical tools to identify the risks and opportunities for issuers and investors within the sustainability-labelled bonds market
• Understand and assess the existent green bonds verification and supervisory frameworks
• Offer an overview of current digital and technological trends in the green bonds market

Total course length: 18-20 hours

The course will be blended, meaning that it will be delivered both online (a few modules) and residentially in Florence.

ONLINE BLOCK (5-16 september 2022):

• Module 00: Introduction to the course
• Module 0 (Optional): A refresher on bond basics
• Module 1: Sustainable finance and the bond market: an overview
• Module 2: Introduction to Green Bonds
• Module 3: Fundamentals of Green Bond Analysis: Credit Rating Analysis

RESIDENTIAL BLOCK (21-23 september 2022) :

• Module 4: Green Bonds: Legal and Regulatory framework: Standards and Principles
• Module 5: Green bonds: market development
• Module 6: Green Bonds: when the Principles meet the Market
• Module 7: The EU framework and Independent External reviews of Green Bonds
• Module 8: Green, Social, Thematic and Sustainability-linked Bonds: A practical activity
• Module 9: Roundtable discussion “Geopolitics of Debt instruments and standard setting: rise of ESG and impact measurement”

ONLINE BLOCK (26-30 september 2022):

• Module 10: Linking Fintech and Sustainability: Blockchain technology opportunities for the Green Bond Market
• Module 11 (Optional): Green Securitisation

This course has been designed for public and private sector professionals (both at entry and mid-career levels).

Target audience:

EU officials, EBA, ESRB, SRB, National Supervisory Authorities, Supervisory and Risk management departments of Central Banks, staff members in Financial Institutions, economists in the private sector, research economists, Ph.D. and Post-doctoral researchers.

This course is open to participants from all over the world.

Degree pre-requisites

Degree in Economics, Finance, or equivalent. In alternative, participants must have relevant prior professional exposure to the course topics.

Technical pre-requisites

To join the live classes you will need to have the Zoom software installed on your computer and a webcam/microphone.

• € 2250: Private Sector
• € 1950: Public Authorities (e.g. National Competent Authorities, Central Banks) and European Institutions
• € 1150: Full-Time Professors, PhD Students, Research Associates

Please submit a certificate attesting your status of Professor, PhD Student or Research Associate to fbf@eui.eu before registering. FBF secretariat will provide you with a code to register.

* Seats for academics are limited

* Limited seats per institution

Please note that the payment must be settled before the start of the course.

The fee includes tuition, access to all course materials and pedagogic activities, coffee and lunch breaks and social activities. It does not include travel and accommodation expenses or other local transportation costs (taxis, private cars).

A certificate of attendance will be provided to all participants after the course.

CANCELLATION POLICY:

• In case you can no longer attend the course, you are required to inform the organisers by sending an email to fbf@eui.eu in order to free a seat for participants in the waiting list.
• In case of frequent cancellations, FBF reserves the right not to accept further registrations from the same person.