Research Archive

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Research| June 17, 2024

Sustainability-Linked Bonds: Building a High Quality Market

The ESG credentials of many sustainability-linked bonds are weak, says this report which identifies regulatory changes for a more credible market.

Published by Climate Bonds Initiative
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Research| April 8, 2024

‘Climate Bailout’

A New Tool for Central Banks to Limit the Financial Risk Resulting from Climate Change

Researchers propose a climate bailout tool to enable companies to sell potentially stranded fossil fuel assets to central banks, reinvesting the proceeds in renewable energy.

Published by International Environmental Agreements
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Research| April 4, 2024

Aligning Sovereign Bond Markets With the Net Zero Transition

The Role of Central banks

Researchers discuss what role central banks can play in greening sovereign bond markets and how they can overcome the significant monetary policy.

Published by LSE Grantham Institute
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Research| February 6, 2024

Mobilising Global Debt Markets for a Just Transition

Green, sustainable bond markets can be adapted to finance a just transition at scale and pace, says this joint paper by the Climate Bonds Initiative and the Grantham Research Institute.

Published by LSE Grantham Research Institute and Climate Bonds Initiative
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Research| November 3, 2023

Bonds to Finance the Sustainable Blue Economy: A Practitioners’ Guide

As appetite for sustainable ocean-themed bonds grows, this guide provides a roadmap for issuers to incorporate blue bonds into their green finance strategies.

Published by Asian Development Bank and International Finance Corporation
Research| October 11, 2023

Green ECB Speeches Matter

The ECB’s green speeches have a “substantial and statistically significant impact” on stock returns and can be used to further green goals, finds this paper by senior officials at Hungary’s central bank.

Published by Magyar Nemzeti Bank
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Research| September 18, 2023

Funds and the State of European Sustainable Finance

About 60% of managed assets in the EU are in ESG or sustainability linked funds, but this MSCI report says there is a long way to go to integrate sustainability into investment processes.

Published by MSCI
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Research| September 14, 2023

Nature Based Currencies

Integrating Natural Capital in Advanced Monetary Systems

In this white paper, digital finance experts explore how central banks could design a nature-based digital currency that supports economic stability, human wellbeing and planetary health.

Published by Open Earth
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Research| July 10, 2023

Structural Changes in Energy Markets and Price Implications

Effects of the Recent Energy Crisis and Perspectives of the Green Transition

The 2021-22 energy crisis was driven by record-breaking rises in wholesale gas prices and this paper discusses lessons that financial regulators can learn regarding price implications of the transition.

Published by European Central Bank
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Research| June 23, 2023

Feeling the Heat

Climate Risks and the Cost of Sovereign Borrowing

Climate change is placing fiscal health under threat, say macroeconomic researchers, and policymakers must ramp up investment in climate change resilience to avoid adverse effects on financial stability.

Published by Asian Development Bank Institute

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