Issuing a Green Bond: A Practical Perspective

The green bond market, which was anointed in 2007 by the first ever green bond from the European Investment Bank, employs a set of principles to ensure capital is deployed to support climate-aligned causes. At the end of June 2022, the Climate Bonds Initiative (Climate Bonds), an international not-for-profit influential in the market’s development, had recorded more than ten thousand green bonds with cumulative volumes of USD 1.9 trillion in its Green Bond Database (GBDB). Climate Bonds GBDB captures only green bonds that are Paris-aligned and reach sufficient reporting standards, and therefore the volume of self-labelled green issuance is even larger. The chapter outlines the practicalities and benefits from entering this market segment.

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