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The European Investment Bank issued the first Green Bond in 2007, called a Climate Awareness Bond. The EIB is the global leader of Green Bonds issuance with over EUR 30.8bn raised in 2020 across 16 currencies.
Afterwards, The World Bank became first in the world to issue a labelled "green bond" in 2008, which followed a conventional "plain vanilla" bond structure, contrary to the European Investment Bank's equity-linked Climate Awareness Bond. [27] The green bond market has subsequently increased rapidly in issuance.
The European Union has already created its own "Next Generation EU Green bonds framework" to use green bonds to raise part of the funds for the Next Generation EU project. This project promises an investment of 750 billion euros in grants and loans (at 2018 prices), by the European Commission, aiming to revive the post-covid-19 economy in the ...
In 2007, the LuxSE was the first stock exchange in the world to list a bond labelled green, i.e. a "climate awareness bond" [11] [12] issued by the European Investment Bank. In 2015, the Exchange listed green bonds worth $11.7 billion, followed by a $9.6 billion-worth issuance in the first seven months of 2016.
Firms investing in climate in Europe as found in the European Investment Bank's Investment Survey 2020 [5] [6]. While many eco-investments may be considered socially responsible investments, and vice versa, the two are not mutually inclusive.
Sustainability Bonds are fixed-income financial instruments where the proceeds will be exclusively used to finance or re-finance a combination of Green and Social Projects and which are aligned with the four core components of the International Capital Market Association (ICMA) Green Bonds Principles and Social Bonds principles.
The European Investment Bank proposed on Monday to help close the funding gap and retain the most innovative start-up companies looking to grow in Europe through support for the EU venture capital ...
The European Investment Bank plans to support €1 trillion of climate investment by 2030 as part of the European Green Deal. [66] In 2019 the EIB Board of Directors approved new targets for climate action and environmental sustainability to phase out fossil fuel financing.