This paper explores a granular database from the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) Green Bond Transparency Platform covering the issuance of 430 corporate and sovereign Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) bonds in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) that are outstanding in...

PART I: Introducing the need for a Green and Circular Economy -- Chapter 1. The Anthropocene Age and a Sustainable Living -- Chapter 2. Climate Change and Energy Consumption -- Chapter 3. Land use and the spread of humans -- Chapter 4. Resource scarcity -- Chapter 5. The green transition and a...

This article evolved as part of the research project ‘Transformation-oriented innovation policy in the bio-economy-status, potentials and strategies’, which has been supported by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research under grant number 031B0781A. The authors thank an anonymous...