How Can Sustainability-Linked Bonds Deliver Real Climate Impact?

With COP30 underway, there is renewed focus on how innovative financial instruments such as sustainability-linked bonds (SLBs) can bridge across climate ambition, action, and accountability. During London Climate Action Week 2025, BwB convened investors, policymakers, and finance leaders to explore how SLBs can move from promising but rarely used instruments to credible drivers of impact, addressing challenges around regulation, performance incentives, and market trust. Drawing on this fruitful discussion, BwB's new market insight article highlights the current potential and limitations of SLBs and sets out actionable recommendations identified by session participants as key to strengthening the SLB market. How do you see the SLB market evolving to deliver credible climate outcomes? Share your views below.