ESG AND FIXED INCOME IN FIGURES 13 years
$202.2bn 48%
$15m 70%
33% 6
The length of time since the European Investment Bank issued the world’s first environmentally focused bond, which was known as a cli- mate awareness bond. The first bond labelled “green” was issued a year later by the World Bank. Sources: European Investment Bank/World Bank
The size of the green bond market in October 2019, making it a tiny part of the $250trn (£190.9trn) that the global bond market was worth in H1 2019. Sources: Climate Bonds Initiative/International Institute of Finance
The year-on-year increase in the value of green bond issuance in the first half of 2019 at $117.8bn (£963bn). Source: Climate Bonds Initiative
The amount raised by the Republic of Seychelles’ blue bond in Octo- ber 2018, the first by a sovereign, to fund sustainable marine projects. Source: The World Bank
The level of sovereign issuance in the $11.1bn (£8.5bn) global social bond market at the end of 2018. The value of the market that funds projects to create positive social outcomes increased by 41% during the year. Source: BloombergNEF
The level of green bond proceeds funding energy projects, ahead of those for cleaner forms of property (29%) and transport (20%). Source: Climate Bonds Initiative
February 2020 portfolio institutional roundtable: ESG in fixed income
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