‘The green bonds market spreads its wings across the globe’, ‘Explosive growth!’, ‘Green bonds enter the game as star players!’ – that’s how some of the journalists described the exciting growth of the green bonds market in 2014. After the impressive year, everyone wonders if ‘the breakneck speed of expansion’ will continue.
While October saw lots of exciting 'firsts' in the green bond market that created a media buzz, another topic that kept popping up was the discussion on ‘to standardise or not to standardise’. And after S&PDJI, Barclays/MSCI and Band of America launched their green bonds indices in November, the market started talking about green bonds going mainstream.
Below are selected articles from the last two months of media coverage. Note that we don’t include individual bonds reviews here.
After a quiet August, green bonds issuance in September went through the roof – there have been 17 green bonds issued taking the total issuance amount year to date to US$28.86bn (see green bonds graph on our home page for details).
Analysing the green bond media coverage in July brings an obvious conclusion: the momentum is growing. We now find ourselves in a position of having to heavily filter the coverage for this digest. – and this month we have chosen 28 media stories worth sharing with you.
