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Green bond issuance has surged in recent years in response to growing investor appetite and borrowers' needs as they embark on the sustainability transition. The EU leads the way, with over 40% of all sustainable bond issuances denominated in euro. The EU's 'Regulation on European Green Bonds and optional disclosures for bonds marketed as environmentally sustainable and sustainability-linked bonds' is the first comprehensive legislative text covering such issuance, and a cornerstone of EU's Sustainable Finance strategy. This book explores in an interdisciplinary way the challenges and opportunities of green bonds and sustainable finance from a legal, regulatory and economic perspectives. First, it analyses green bonds as a new financial instrument in the context of the existing capital markets law. Second, it studies green bond impact on the market and on investor protection. Third, it assesses green bonds' relevance for prudential supervision and central banking. The variety of viewpoints ensures a highly comprehensive analysis of green bonds' impact in a European and global context.
List of contents
1 Introduction.- 2 Towards a European Green Bond Standard: A European initiative to promote sustainable finance.- 3 Member States sovereign green bond issuance and the development of local green bond markets in the EU.- 4 Issuing a green bond - a practical perspective.- 5 Issuing green bonds without a Green Bonds Regulation: Canadian experiences.- 6 The Green Bonds Market in the light of European Commission's Proposal: Implications for greenwashing liability.- 7 Integrating sustainability in the MiFID II package-based regulation: effects on financial intermediaries' accountability and potential conflict between regulatory objectives.- 8 Discussion: green bonds and banking and capital markets from a practitioner's perspective.- 9 Method transparency for Green Bonds: Learnings from climate transition risk metrics.- 10 The Role of Prudential Requirements in Fostering Green Bond Markets: The Experience of Hungary.- 11 Discussion: Micro- and macro-prudential issueson green bonds from a practitioner's perspective.- 12 Green bonds and the ECB: A Tale of (Measured) Promise and (Required) Caution.- 13 Green bonds and monetary policy.
