I have worked on and off for the creation of green bonds to fund green infrastructure development in the UK for more than eight years, usually with environmentalist and Green New Deal coordinator Colin Hines, who is my partner in Finance for the Future. As a result of this work I am a member of
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I have to say I normally pay remarkably little attention to the Sovereign Society in the USA. They are, if I put it nicely, good friends of tax havens. That’s why I read their newsletters. You have to know who’s writing about you – and these guys do seem to have it in for me
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The Financial Times has noted that: Retail investors are being prevented from investing in the UK corporate bond market because of the way the market is structured, according to a new report. The Investment Management Association (IMA) has warned that investors find it difficult to understand the risks of different corporate bonds, because of the
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The FT has reported that the quality of corproateb debt is at its lowest level for 25 years. Hardly surprising, but it is yet another argument for Green Bonds – which would be used to provide real benefit for real people through investment in our collective futures, and for People’s Pensions.

Bonds are on my agenda right now. In fact, approximately half my professional work is currently dedicated to their use in the public sector. So I was interested to note that the FT reported last Thursday that the introduction of International Financial Reporting Standards for UK government accounting next year will create a conundrum. This
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Will Hutton wrote a good piece in the Guardian on Monday on the obvious need for the use of bond finance to pay for the infrastructure development this country needs. I explored this here last week. In his article Will Hutton said: The heart of the problem is the Treasury’s attitude towards public debt and
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An aspect of my work which gets little attention here, but on which I am fairly persistently engaged, relates to developing new means of raising capital for essential social infrastructure projects. I work on this issue with environmentalist and economist Colin Hines. We had the following letter in this morning’s Guardian: The prime minister is
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