Fadi Bou Ali: Green and Blue Bonds Between Promise and Hard Reality

About this episode

The episode features an interview with Fadi Bou Ali discussing the impact of green and blue bonds on climate finance.

In this episode of Development Aid Dialogues, podcast host Hisham Allam interviewed Fadi Bou Ali, a sustainable finance specialist working at the intersection of capital markets and climate solutions, for an in-depth look at how green and blue bonds are reshaping climate finance. Fadi, an expert within ABAAD - Resource Centre for Gender Equality, explains that green bonds and regular loans are “identical twins with different jobs”: structurally similar but governed by a legal contract that st...

People in this episode

Host: Hisham Allam

Guest: Fadi Bou Ali

Topics covered

• sustainable finance
• green bonds
• blue bonds
• climate finance
• capital markets

Keywords

• green bonds
• blue bonds
• sustainable finance
• climate solutions
• capital markets

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: ABAAD - Resource Centre for Gender Equality

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