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This free-to-download report includes graphics and data from the Environmental Finance Bond Database to illustrate the main trends in the market in 2020 together with forward-looking commentary from leading market commentators
Environmental Finance's Bond Awards were expanded again this year to reflect the growth and evolution of the green, social and sustainability (GSS) bond markets and to include the nascent GSS loan market.
This free-to-download report includes graphics and data from the Environmental Finance Bond Database to illustrate the main trends in the market in 2020 together with forward-looking commentary from leading market commentators
Dollar value grouping by bond category in 2020
Graph demonstrating the distribution of values of individual bonds issued in 2020 by bond category. Each bond is designated a grouping based on where its value fall in the range (e.g. group 1 are bonds valued up to $100 million and group 15 are bonds valued at $10 billion or more.)
In general, there is a decrease in green bonds investment as the dollar value increases from group 1 to 15. However, we do see two peaks in volume at group 6 and group 11 which represent dollar values $500-599 million, $1000-2499 million, respectively. This implies that green bonds dominated smaller and mid tier issuances in 2020 but the largest issuances were mostly other bond types.
Social and sustainability bonds follow a similar pattern to the green bonds in terms of volume, but as a proportion they dominated largest issuances. Only social bond investments fell within the highest dollar value in group 15 (valued $10 billion and above). These social bonds have been issued by the EU sure programme in response to COVID-19.
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