as climate change mitigation. While well-intentioned, issuance of a green bond by an investment-grade sovereign has no … development of the market for green financing, and represents poor public sector governance. A performance-linked bond whose …

This paper analyses linkages between green, conventional (corporate and sovereign) bond markets and geopolitical risk … conventional bond markets. Green bond markets are significantly affected by sovereign and corporate bonds in both regimes, with …

In 2016 Poland was the first EU country to issue a Green Bond Principles-aligned bond to finance environmental projects … this chapter we analyse the features of these bond issuances and in particular, their conditions, objectives and governance … the development of local sustainable finance markets and to diversify their investors base. While ICMA Green Bond …

This paper explores a granular database from the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) Green Bond Transparency Platform … reference yield curve can boost the private ESG bond market. Using a difference-in-differences (DID) approach, we empirically … bond issuances and a 25 percent increase in the number of ESG corporate bond issuances in the external markets after three …