Tender Details

Country: South Africa
Summary: Ifc -Jse Market Research on Practices and Barriers to Climate Thematic Bond Issuance
ZAT Ref No: 116144255
Deadline: 24 Mar 2025
Financier: World Bank (WB)
Purchaser Ownership: Government
Tender Value: Refer Document
Notice Type: Tender
Document Ref. No.: 0002014659
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Description:
South Africa faces several urgentsustainable development challenges in the coming decades, including ensuring asustainable energy supply, meeting infrastructure renewal and expansion needs, addressinginequality and high unemployment, preventing biodiversity loss, and respondingto climate change. These challenges all require changes in policy and ways ofdoing business, placing sustainability issues at the centre of decision making.They also require sizeable new investment and the redirection of existinginvestments through the country-s capital market and wider financial sector.The Johannesburg Stock Exchange (JSE) presents an important platform for raising climate finance and plays an important role as asecondary financial sector regulator as a result of being able to set thelisting requirements of issuers. Its green bond segment was expanded into a sustainabilityand transition bonds segment in 2020, with listing requirements that are basedon the Green, Social, and Sustainability (GSS) bond guidelines from theInternational Capital Markets Association (ICMA). These include climate-relatedrequirements for green and sustainability-linked bonds and guidelines for transitionbonds. The JSE recognizes that there are manydynamics as to why issuers choose to list a climate thematic bond and whyinvestors choose to invest in them and would like to get a better understandingof strategies to support the further development of the climate thematic bondmarket. As a result, the JSE hasidentified the need for research into evolving practices and barriers forclimate thematic capital market instruments in the South African market andsolutions to scale issuances. This aligns with the IFC-World Bank-s 30 by30 program that aims to scale climate finance through greening the financialsector and includes a component to increase the issuance of climate thematicbonds through technical assistance to capital market players, including theJSE. With this in mind, IFC and JSE entered into a cooperat...
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IFC-JSE_ToR-for-SLB-and-Transition-bond-market-research-March-2025.pdf

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Ifc -Jse Market Research on Practices and Barriers to Climate Thematic Bond Issuance - Southafrica Tender

The WORLD BANK(WB), a Government sector organization in South Africa, has announced a new tender for Ifc -Jse Market Research on Practices and Barriers to Climate Thematic Bond Issuance. This tender is published on SouthafricaTenders under ZAT Ref No: 116144255 and is categorized as a Tender. Interested and eligible suppliers are invited to participate by reviewing the tender documents and submitting their bids before the deadline on 2025-03-24.

The estimated tender value is Refer Document, and full details, including technical specifications and submission requirements, are provided in the official tender documents. Ensure all submissions meet the criteria outlined to be considered for evaluation.