Issuer’s Adaptation & Resilience performance in respect of a waste management facility Box 1: Step by Step Approach to assessing the qualifying carbon intensity of Energy from Waste Waste Management Criteria

USD 7 billion and 7.6 billion are required per year for adaptation measures in the agriculture, food and forestry sectors. • Despite the need for more finance flows directed towards addressing climate

contributing to five high level environmental objectives (climate change mitigation, climate change adaptation, natural resource conservation, biodiversity conservation, and pollution prevention and control

core components of the SLBP. Regardless, in select cases, issuers may choose to combine the Green Bond Principles/Social Bond Principles approach with the SLBP. Transition bonds can be either green bonds

consisting of the Climate Bonds Initiative, the Alliance for Global Water Adaptation (AGWA), CDP, Ceres, and the World Resources Institute (WRI), gratefully acknowledge John Matthews, Coordinator for the

. The vast majority of these green projects are focused on climate change mitigation or adaptation, but there is a small share of the market, which also funds green, non-climate projects, such as green

Scheme November 2018 * These Criteria also cover the conservation and restoration of non-forested land Assessing climate change mitigation and adaptation aspects of financial products is not

. Comply with Adaptation & Resilience Criteria Each facility must undergo a site- specific assessment, carried out by an accredited assessor using the ESG Gap Analysis Tool. This tool identifies gaps between

are automatically eligible in any system. The rest are eligible if the system in which they’re located is on a pathway to decarbonisation. Comply with Adaptation & Resilience Component Complete

are many possible objectives for a green taxonomy such as climate change mitigation, climate change adaptation, protection and restoration of biodiversity and ecosystems etc. The taxonomy development