{"id":6668,"date":"2019-11-19T10:21:05","date_gmt":"2019-11-19T07:21:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/africasustainabilitymatters.com\/?p=6668"},"modified":"2026-01-11T05:30:41","modified_gmt":"2026-01-11T05:30:41","slug":"how-green-bonds-in-capital-markets-create-depth-for-real-estate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/2019\/11\/19\/how-green-bonds-in-capital-markets-create-depth-for-real-estate\/","title":{"rendered":"How Green Bonds In Capital Markets Create Depth For Real Estate"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>By\nJonathan Muga<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>When veteran French\nconservative politician and former head of the International Monetary Fund\n(IMF), Christine Lagarde was being interviewed to become the first female\npresident of the European Central Bank \u2013 the most powerful economic institution\nin Europe, according to a green business new site Climate Change News, her\npitch suggested that the bank should phase out climate-warming investments and\nmove gradually transition towards green products.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Lagarde\u2019s\nview is firmed up in growing acceptance that the world today not only has to\nconfront an economic crisis, with rising levels of poverty, and insecurity but\nalso a climate and environmental crisis, with potentially severe consequences\nfor humankind.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Closer\nhome, the pursuit of climate change adaptation estimated at Sh2.3 trillion\n($20-30 billion) annually over the next 10 to 20 years according to Kenya\u2019s\nGreen Economy Strategy and Implementation Plan (GESIP) is urgent. Equally\nimportant is the incalculable destruction effects of climate change, manifested\nin natural disasters, left across Kenya in the recent past.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The recent closing of Kenya\u2019s first-ever Green Bond by Acorn Project (Two) Limited Liability Partnership, an Sh4.3 billion bond, supports a Big 4 Agenda priority, investing in affordable, environmentally friendly housing for over 5,000 students in Nairobi, is a milestone in Kenya\u2019s transition to a low-carbon economy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Acorn will use the proceeds of the bond to construct purpose-built student accommodation buildings that meet the international green building standards for water, energy and construction materials, ensuring lower operating costs and a lower carbon impact\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.businessdailyafrica.com\/analysis\/columnists\/green-bonds-in-capital-markets\/4259356-5353630-xm8h6tz\/index.html\">Read more>><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Jonathan Muga When veteran French conservative politician and former head of the International Monetary Fund (IMF), Christine Lagarde was being interviewed to become the first female president of the&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":6669,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[101],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6668","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-international-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6668","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6668"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6668\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6669"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6668"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6668"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6668"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}