Green Bonds: Quick Insight into One of the Most Implemented Sustainable Debt Instrument to Tackle Climate Change

The importance of climate change and its impacts on different areas has helped to increase the implementation of financial instruments that seek to mitigate or adapt future events. After Paris Agreement in 2015 a particular instrument started to gain momentum: Green Bonds are debt instruments which...

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Main Author: Santiago Bohner
Format: Article
Language:Spanish
Published: Universidad Nacional de La Plata 2022-12-01
Series:Ciencias Administrativas
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Online Access:https://revistas.unlp.edu.ar/CADM/article/view/13829
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description The importance of climate change and its impacts on different areas has helped to increase the implementation of financial instruments that seek to mitigate or adapt future events. After Paris Agreement in 2015 a particular instrument started to gain momentum: Green Bonds are debt instruments which focus on financing only green projects and even when the need financial flows are higher than actual contributions, green bonds issuance has been breaking major milestones since 2007. Until June 2021, cumulative volume of green bonds was 1.6 trillion dollars, mostly coming from United States, China, and Europe. Countries are exposed to climate change risks despite its contribution to it however efforts from some regions such as Latin America or Africa are still very low. Also, an unorganized transition to a greener future could increase instability within prices, people, and natural resources.
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spelling doaj.art-2df25a7cfb62471aab56ffd33c821db32022-12-22T04:21:32ZspaUniversidad Nacional de La PlataCiencias Administrativas2314-37382022-12-0110.24215/23143738e117Green Bonds: Quick Insight into One of the Most Implemented Sustainable Debt Instrument to Tackle Climate ChangeSantiago Bohner0Facultad de Ciencias Económicas. Universidad Nacional de La Plata. Argentina. The importance of climate change and its impacts on different areas has helped to increase the implementation of financial instruments that seek to mitigate or adapt future events. After Paris Agreement in 2015 a particular instrument started to gain momentum: Green Bonds are debt instruments which focus on financing only green projects and even when the need financial flows are higher than actual contributions, green bonds issuance has been breaking major milestones since 2007. Until June 2021, cumulative volume of green bonds was 1.6 trillion dollars, mostly coming from United States, China, and Europe. Countries are exposed to climate change risks despite its contribution to it however efforts from some regions such as Latin America or Africa are still very low. Also, an unorganized transition to a greener future could increase instability within prices, people, and natural resources. https://revistas.unlp.edu.ar/CADM/article/view/13829green bondssustainabilityclimate change
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Green Bonds: Quick Insight into One of the Most Implemented Sustainable Debt Instrument to Tackle Climate Change
Ciencias Administrativas
green bonds
sustainability
climate change
title Green Bonds: Quick Insight into One of the Most Implemented Sustainable Debt Instrument to Tackle Climate Change
title_full Green Bonds: Quick Insight into One of the Most Implemented Sustainable Debt Instrument to Tackle Climate Change
title_fullStr Green Bonds: Quick Insight into One of the Most Implemented Sustainable Debt Instrument to Tackle Climate Change
title_full_unstemmed Green Bonds: Quick Insight into One of the Most Implemented Sustainable Debt Instrument to Tackle Climate Change
title_short Green Bonds: Quick Insight into One of the Most Implemented Sustainable Debt Instrument to Tackle Climate Change
title_sort green bonds quick insight into one of the most implemented sustainable debt instrument to tackle climate change
topic green bonds
sustainability
climate change
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