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WASHINGTON, January 5, 2009: The World Bank has launched its first “green bonds” designed to raise additional funding for projects or programs that support low-carbon activities in client countries.

In partnership with SEB (Skandinaviska Enskilda Banken. Red.), the World Bank raised approximately 350 million US dollar via several key Scandinavian institutional investors. The bond issue responds to growing interest from sustainable or socially responsible institutional investors, as well as some individual investors, who wish to support climate change-related projects in developing countries.

The bond issue is one example of the kind of innovation the Bank is trying to encourage within its Strategic Framework for Development and Climate Change, endorsed by the Development Committee at the last Annual Meetings in October.

One objective of the Framework is to help stimulate and coordinate new public and private-sector financing for climate action. The offering is the first time the Bank has offered bonds to raise funds identified to a specific program.

In a statement issued when the bonds were launched, President Robert Zoellick said: – Tackling climate change is going to take immense resources that will only come from a well-orchestrated flow of public and private finance. This transaction is an important early effort to show one way in which this can be done.

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