Webinar: Financial instruments and success cases - Celsius Initiative

“We don´t lack money, we lack good projects to lend money to”, “future investments will be extreme transparent” and “keep on working with the Celsius network to make sure that knowledge and expertise is accessible” were some important messages in the Celsius talk May, with focus om financial instruments.

The Celsius Talk May speakers together represent an amazing competence within an issue that needs to be solved for a successful energy transition: financial investment.
Moderated by Magnus Andersson, financial expert at the Celsius partner IMCG, the webinar gave a European multiple perspective on financial investment, from EU’s Urban Agenda Energy Transition Partnership to success cases and transparent green bonds to minimize the risks. Watch the full webinar at our Youtube-channel!

Common language
One of the speakers, Kristina Lygnerud of Halmstad University and Swedish Environmental Institute, pointed out three main issues to address to make the investments happen, namely, to make investors finding the “ultra-green” DHC-projects which they tend to miss, the value of being green and to break the language barrier between industry and bankers.
“The bankers are not aware of the industry and therefor they put risk premia on top of risk premia, when there should really not be one”, she said.

Standardisations
Standardisation for project assessment is crucial for green investments.
“It is needed to make it safe and easy for both investors and projects. The risks are reduced and projects don´t have to invent the wheel every time they need investment”, Magnus (...) Read More

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