The Climate Bonds Initiative is an international, investor-focused not-for-profit and the only organisation in the world working to mobilise the $100 trillion bond market for climate change solutions. 

Supported by a 50-member Advisory Panel, CBI has an international stakeholder base among institutional investors, NGOs and the finance sector.

The aim is to develop a large and liquid Green and Climate Bonds market that will help drive down the cost of capital for climate projects and improve access to lower-cost debt in emerging markets.

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Job Title: Job Title: Senior Policy AnalystLocation: Remote - based in UK or Europe Department: Global Policy TeamPosition reports to: Global Head of PolicySalary: £45-47K DOEClosing: 11th April 2025Climate Bonds Initiative is an investor-focused NGO working to mobilise the $100 trillion global bond market for climate change solutions. We promote investment in projects and assets necessary for a rapid transition to a low carbon and climate resilient economy.Our main workstreams are green bond standards and certification, data and market analysis, policy and market development, communications and advocacy. Climate Bonds is a fast growing, dynamic NGO driven by a big mission. You will be working within an organisation that is leading the development of innovative international climate finance solutions.Purpose:The Global Policy Team (GPT) works to support policy-makers change the policy architecture to make it easy to (efficiently) finance the transition. The team works together with regional teams across the organisation, maintaining a global focus and providing policy expertise. The Global Policy Team is looking for an experienced Senior Analyst to lead on sector-specific policy work, with a strong focus on hard-to-abate sectors. The role includes a mix of analytical work and coordination of work taking place across the organisation, to provide consistency and leadership in excellence. The role is ideal for a candidate looking to grow within the role and support the expansion of the team, including through contributing to project proposals and supporting the design of new work. Key Relationships:Internal: GPT, Taxonomy team, Standards team External: stakeholders in government, industry, finance and civil society.Duties and responsibilities:<a></a><ul><li>Lead and develop analysis on the transition of the hard-to-abate sectors (such as steel, cement, agriculture, energy, etc) and its financing, within a broader understanding of industrial transition (including e.g. hydrogen), and continue to develop expertise in those sectors. This includes:</li></ul><ol> <li>Proactively monitoring and analysis of critical policy initiatives in key markets (e.g. EU, China, Latin America, India and Japan);</li> <li>Drafting of reports, briefings, presentations, blogs, etc. </li> <li>Draft briefings for CBI’s CEO and senior executives on relevant topics.</li> </ol><ul><li>Act as a point of contact, expertise and thought leadership on those topics for the Global Policy Team, acting as a representative for the team with all regional and project teams, coordinating work, enabling consistency and quality and fostering communications and learnings. This also includes: Contributing to CBI’s policy network. </li></ul><ul><li>Support CBI’s work in advocacy and influence work on the topics listed above. Representing the organization externally.   </li></ul><ul><li>Maintain network of stakeholders, internally and externally to support advocacy, influence work, and collaborate. This should be based on a good understanding of the key stakeholders in the net zero transition in key sectors, both at global (e.g. G20, SFWG, G7, etc) and regional and national levels (e.g. national policy-makers, regulators). </li></ul>Decision making authority:<ul> <li>Contribute to the team’s growth through identifying opportunities, contributing to project proposals and pitching new ideas. </li> <li>Contributing to management and coordination of policy projects;</li> <li>Regional team reports <a></a><a></a> </li> <li>Assessment and contribution to project proposals to support team expansion. <a></a> </li> </ul> RequirementsEssential:<ul> <li>Self-starter, motivated and ambitious candidate willing to grow within the team and support its expansion. Able to function with minimal supervision and adapt to rapidly changing environments. </li> <li>At least 3 years of work experience in a policy or analytical role in the fields of financing the transition to net zero or transitions in hard-to-abate sectors.  </li> <li>Bachelor’s degree in a relevant discipline – policy, economics, finance, environment. </li> <li>Excellent analytical and drafting skills, strong communication skills, ability to function in diverse, remote and multi-cultural teams. </li> <li>Knowledge of relevant global policy landscape and of policy context in one or more regions. Ability to identify and analyse events that shape policy developments</li> <li>Understanding of financial markets – with a focus on debt markets – and how those can contribute to the financing of the transition to net zero and good command of CBI’s mission. </li> </ul>Desirable:<ul> <li>Master’s degree in a relevant discipline is desirable, experience in relevant fields will be considered as equivalent. </li> <li>Experience in providing critical analysis of transition pathways at sectoral levels. </li> <li>Policy experience at both global level and different regional levels. </li> <li>Briefing experience.</li> <li>Project management experience. </li> <li>Additional language skills (beyond English). </li> </ul>Benefits<ul> <li>Impactful responsibilities from the day you join with responsibility for your own learning curve, the role is what you make of it and the possibilities depend on you.</li> <li>Amazing opportunities for career progression and structured career development – we’ll work with you to explore your learning development and career potential</li> </ul><ul> <li>We offer a structured and bespoke induction programme specifically suited to the team you’ll be joining and the specific role you’ll be doing. During your first few months, you’ll be given all the training you need to succeed in your role.</li> <li>Opportunity to attend a series of Lunch and Learns, delivered by internal subject matter experts and external guest speakers</li> </ul><ul><li>An international and diverse work atmosphere</li></ul><ul><li>The chance to be part of our rapid growth and play a key role in the next exciting phase of Climate Bonds Initiative journey</li></ul><ul><li>Everyone that joins us is given the opportunity to undertake our signature GSS+ Bonds Training.</li></ul>

Senior Policy Analyst - Based in UK and Europe

Job Title: Job Title: Senior Sustainable Debt AnalystLocation: Remote - based in Brazil or Toronto, CanadaDepartment: Market Intelligence Data ProductsPosition reports to: Head of Market Intelligence Data Products Salary: BRL261,000/CAD75,000Purpose:The purpose of this role is to:<ul> <li>Support team heads, managers, and other analysts through GSS bond data collection, analysis and database entry with specialisation in bonds issued in Latin America.</li> <li>Conduct Green, Social and Sustainability (GSS) debt data analysis and issuers assessment as required for reports and data products, including bonds issued in Spanish and Portuguese.</li> <li>Support the management of the data, e.g. by contributing to data automation and quality controls, including extensive cross team collaboration and reconciliation.</li> <li>Help implement improvements in GSS debt analysis methodology and processes for relevant projects, including conducting data analysis for reporting.</li> <li>Liaise with Climate Bonds Initiative's internal and external stakeholders on relevant projects and data enquiries.</li> <li>Support the work of the co-Heads of the Market Intelligence team on other relevant tasks and projects as required.</li> </ul>Requirements<ul> <li>Fluent in Spanish and Portuguese </li> <li>Excellent Excel skills, </li> <li>Knowledge of sustainable finance specifically labelled debt markets, </li> <li>Knowledge of debt markets in Latam</li> </ul>Benefits<ul> <li>Impactful responsibilities from the day you join with responsibility for your own learning curve, the role is what you make of it and the possibilities depend on you.</li> <li>Amazing opportunities for career progression and structured career development – we’ll work with you to explore your learning development and career potential</li> </ul><ul> <li>We offer a structured and bespoke induction programme specifically suited to the team you’ll be joining and the specific role you’ll be doing. During your first few months, you’ll be given all the training you need to succeed in your role.</li> <li>Opportunity to attend a series of Lunch and Learns, delivered by internal subject matter experts and external guest speakers</li> </ul><ul><li>An international and diverse work atmosphere</li></ul><ul><li>The chance to be part of our rapid growth and play a key role in the next exciting phase of Climate Bonds Initiative journey</li></ul><ul><li>Everyone that joins us is given the opportunity to undertake our signature GSS+ Bonds Training.</li></ul>

Senior Sustainable Debt Analyst

Job title Resilience Lead Purpose:The Resilience Lead plays a pivotal role in advancing CBI’s initiatives to ensure that global investments rapidly integrate essential resilience strategies in response to escalating climate challenges.This position involves facilitating a swift transformation of public sector and corporate capital flows to align with resilience priorities, while also fostering coalitions that support this acceleration by leveraging CBI’s expertise and guidance.In your role as Resilience Lead, you will contribute to the development of Climate Bonds' strategy, pioneering efforts in this dynamic segment of sustainable finance. Serving as an ambassador and subject matter expert for Climate Bonds, you will spearhead engagement and fundraising initiatives to cultivate a broad, supportive network and promote thought leadership in resilience.Your extensive knowledge will not only enrich Climate Bonds but also empower your colleagues, ensuring that the resilience agenda is seamlessly integrated across the organisation with urgency and efficiency.Duties and responsibilities:<ul> <li>Act as Climate Bonds subject matter expert on Resilience and Adaptation, utilising deep technical knowledge to upskill and embed resilience expertise and activities across the organisation, such that it becomes integrated into all team strategies.</li> <li>Keep abreast of market and industry developments in Resilience and Adaptation, anticipating potential needs and challenges that seek to proactively identify opportunities to optimise the pace and success of Climate Bonds contribution.</li> <li>Support the Chief Investment Officer to identify the fundraising strategy for Resilience to secure long-term sustainable funding.</li> <li>Execution of the global fundraising effort, from cultivating donor relationships, managing international relationships, and driving fundraising initiatives that will build the Resilience Programme income and enhance the organisation's impact.</li> <li>Build coalitions that support the evolution of resilience priorities with public sector and corporate capital flows.</li> <li>Develop CBI’s work to track and report the adoption of those priorities through reporting of aligned investment and other indicators.</li> <li>Participate in external initiatives to embed Climate Bonds Resilience priorities into other framework setting initiatives.</li> <li>Partner with the Head of Programme Design to ensure domain expertise and feedback gained from implementation, delivery and the external landscape is iterated and developed into the programme as required.</li> <li>Regular engagement with external third parties to articulate the programme strategy, rep-resenting Climate Bonds as Resilience expert, advising on market need and potential focus areas for resilience</li> <li>Project manage the current pipeline of Resilience Projects and ensure its adequate re-sourcing, oversee any direct consultants or direct team resources, until such a time as funding is in place to recognise the optimal structure for delivery.</li> </ul>RequirementsEssential:<ul> <li>Practitioner experience of adaptation and resilience.</li> <li>Demonstratable experience of climate A&amp;R finance, existing A&amp;R frameworks such as the MDB methodology and the EU Taxonomy</li> <li>Strong stakeholder engagement and management experience at a senior level, including with developing and implementing an engagement strategy</li> <li>Previous experience successfully managing multiple, high value and complex budgets, including managing donor relationships and reporting.</li> <li>Demonstrable experience in fundraising and donor management</li> <li>Knowledge of climate change adaptation approaches and resilience building across a variety of sectors</li> <li>Ability to work as part of a team and to take a collaborative approach.</li> <li>Strong critical thinking, strategic and problem-solving skills, able to drive change and provide clarity on the implications of complex is-sues and how these will affect the programme</li> <li>An excellent communicator with outstanding relationship manage-ment skills and the interpersonal skills required to build relation-ships with staff and colleagues in different cultural environments.</li> <li>Ability to bring a positive outlook to working at Climate Bonds and energising teams around the mission.</li> <li>Effective presentation style as well as strong speaking and written communication skills.</li> <li>Experience of developing and managing a network of professional relationships</li> </ul>Benefits<ul> <li>Impactful responsibilities from the day you join with responsibility for your own learning curve, the role is what you make of it and the possibilities depend on you.</li> <li>Amazing opportunities for career progression and structured career development – we’ll work with you to explore your learning development and career potential</li> </ul><ul> <li>We offer a structured and bespoke induction programme specifically suited to the team you’ll be joining and the specific role you’ll be doing. During your first few months, you’ll be given all the training you need to succeed in your role.</li> <li>Opportunity to attend a series of Lunch and Learns, delivered by internal subject matter experts and external guest speakers</li> </ul><ul><li>An international and diverse work atmosphere</li></ul><ul><li>The chance to be part of our rapid growth and play a key role in the next exciting phase of Climate Bonds Initiative journey</li></ul><ul><li>Everyone that joins us is given the opportunity to undertake our signature GSS+ Bonds Training.</li></ul>

Resilience Lead

Title - Resilience Taxonomy ManagerLevel - 3Reporting to - Head of Taxonomies Pay - £60-65kLocation - fully remote within a +/- 5 hour timezone of GMT Climate Bonds Initiative is an international NGO working to mobilise global capital for climate action. Our mission is to develop trusted standards, tools, and market intelligence that accelerate the transition to a climate-resilient and low-carbon economy.Purpose: The Resilience Taxonomy Manager will lead the ongoing development and implementation of the Climate Bonds Resilience Taxonomy (CBRT), a critical framework guiding investments in climate Adaptation and Resilience (A&amp;R).This role will oversee working groups, manage technical partnerships, and support the integration of the CBRT into other taxonomies. The goal is a practicable taxonomy that is fit-for-purpose and relatable to a non-technical audience.Duties and Responsibilities: <ul> <li> Lead the CBRT development – Oversee the ongoing refinement and expansion of the CBRT, with annual updates, and development of user-friendly guidance and tools, internal systems and processes should be designed and established for continual refinement and maintenance of the taxonomy. </li> <li> Manage the Resilience Taxonomy Advisory Group (RTAG) – Facilitate engagement, drive strategic discussions, and ensure expert inputs shape the taxonomy, and position the RTAG as a community-of-practice that advocates for the adoption and application of the CBRT.</li> <li> Oversee Thematic Working Groups (TWGs) – Coordinate consultants, technical partners, and stakeholders to produce high-quality outputs. Provide guidance to Resilience Taxonomy Coordinators to manage these working groups. Manage anchor partners for each TWG. Develop and manage workplans for each TWG. </li> <li> Support adoption and integration – Work with other Climate Bonds teams, particularly Taxonomy, Standards, Market Intelligence, Capacity Building and Technical Assistance, to embed CBRT into national frameworks, investment frameworks, market tracking, financial regulations, and other use cases. </li> <li> Stakeholder engagement and partnerships – Cultivate relationships with financial institutions, investors, governments, and multilateral agencies to ensure inputs, feedback, and continuous road-testing of the taxonomy to ensure it is fit-for-purpose for relevant use cases. </li> <li> Monitor policy and market trends – Stay ahead of emerging policy developments and best practice in adaptation and resilience finance. </li> <li> Funding and resourcing– Support fundraising efforts and grant applications to secure long-term resources for CBRT development. </li> </ul> RequirementsEssential:<ul> <li>Undergraduate degree in any relevant subject.</li> <li>Experience in A&amp;R and infrastructure.</li> <li>Decent grasp of sustainable finance concepts </li> <li>Strong writing skills with the ability to communicate technical content clearly</li> <li>Proven experience leading multi-stakeholder initiatives or frameworks</li> <li>Excellent engagement and relationship management skills, including a track record of collaborating with a cross section of stakeholder groups</li> <li>Strong analytical, research, and strategic thinking skills</li> <li>Proven experience of delivering projects independently</li> <li>Ability to manage complex projects with multiple partners</li> <li>Fluency in verbal and written English</li> <li>Existing network in A&amp;R finance</li> </ul>Desirable:<ul> <li>Advanced degree in any related subject.</li> <li>Experience in taxonomy or standards development</li> <li>Strong public speaking and presentation skills</li> <li>Experience working with financial market stakeholders</li> <li>Experience working in or with emerging markets</li> <li>Knowledge of a second language </li> </ul> Benefits<ul> <li>Impactful responsibilities from the day you join with responsibility for your own learning curve, the role is what you make of it and the possibilities depend on you.</li> <li>Amazing opportunities for career progression and structured career development – we’ll work with you to explore your learning development and career potential</li> </ul><ul> <li>We offer a structured and bespoke induction programme specifically suited to the team you’ll be joining and the specific role you’ll be doing. During your first few months, you’ll be given all the training you need to succeed in your role.</li> <li>Opportunity to attend a series of Lunch and Learns, delivered by internal subject matter experts and external guest speakers</li> </ul><ul><li>An international and diverse work atmosphere</li></ul><ul><li>The chance to be part of our rapid growth and play a key role in the next exciting phase of Climate Bonds Initiative journey</li></ul><ul><li>Everyone that joins us is given the opportunity to undertake our signature GSS+ Bonds Training.</li></ul>

Resilience Taxonomy Manager

Job Title: Policy Analyst - JapanSalary: JPY 6000,000 - JPY 6,500,000Level: 5Team: JapanReporting to: Japan Programme LeadClosing date for applications: 3rd March 2025Purpose: The purpose of this role is to assist the CBI policy team in shaping Japan's climate transition policy in alignment with the CBI’s mission at the regional level and reflecting the positions of member states within ASEAN. This will involve proactive analysis of governmental, industrial, and financial stances. Additionally, the position will support policy managers in advocating for and promoting the importance of sustainable finance in climate transition within essential sectors such as energy, buildings, and industry.Duties and Responsibilities:<ul> <li>Act as a key point of contact for the policy team internally for CBI, ensuring excellent communication within and between teams.</li> <li>Mapping of stakeholders in ASEAN/Japan for zero-carbon transition in key sectors (i.e. energy, buildings, industry)</li> <li>Proactively monitor and analyse key policy initiatives from key markets (EU, US, China, Japan, Latin America) at the sectoral level, ensuring teams across CBI are informed of key announcements and events that could influence the development and implementation of policy in Japan.</li> <li>Develop communication materials and presentations</li> <li>Draft policy blogs, briefs, reports on sectoral transition</li> <li>Action to deliver: coordinate and organise project activities, engaging with local and international partners</li> <li>Assisting in the project management of all Japan programmes, including updating the PMF in collaboration with the PAL team, overseeing programme administration to ensure the smooth operation of programmes, highlighting and escalating any potential issues and risks</li> <li>Ensuring accurate tracking of all costs and income relating to events for the Japan Programmes</li> </ul>RequirementsEssentials:<ul> <li>Must speak Japanese and English - professional </li> <li>Need to be an English speaker as a minimum</li> <li>Technical policy background in climate or sustainable finance </li> <li> A solid understanding of the links between climate transition and sustainable finance</li> <li>Ability to identify and analyse events that shape policy developments</li> <li>Ability to take initiative to proactively analyse industry, financial and governmental positions and understand and communicate the implications of these on CBI’s mission</li> <li>Strong analytical skills</li> <li>Strong oral and written communication skills</li> <li>Ability to function independently and under minimal supervision and to liaise with geographically dispersed multi-cultural team</li> <li>Openness to change and ability to manage complexities</li> </ul>Desirable:<ul><li>Degree or masters’ degree in a relevant discipline - economics, finance, environment, management</li></ul>Benefits<ul> <li>Impactful responsibilities from the day you join with responsibility for your own learning curve, the role is what you make of it and the possibilities depend on you.</li> <li>Amazing opportunities for career progression and structured career development – we’ll work with you to explore your learning development and career potential</li> </ul><ul> <li>We offer a structured and bespoke induction programme specifically suited to the team you’ll be joining and the specific role you’ll be doing. During your first few months, you’ll be given all the training you need to succeed in your role.</li> <li>Opportunity to attend a series of Lunch and Learns, delivered by internal subject matter experts and external guest speakers</li> </ul><ul><li>An international and diverse work atmosphere</li></ul><ul><li>The chance to be part of our rapid growth and play a key role in the next exciting phase of Climate Bonds Initiative journey</li></ul><ul><li>Everyone that joins us is given the opportunity to undertake our signature GSS+ Bonds Training.</li></ul>

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Senior Policy Analyst - Based in UK and Europe

Senior Policy Analyst - Based in UK and Europe

Senior Sustainable Debt Analyst

Senior Sustainable Debt Analyst

Resilience Lead

Resilience Lead

Resilience Taxonomy Manager

Resilience Taxonomy Manager

Policy Analyst - Japan

Policy Analyst - Japan

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