Climate change is an urgent threat to humanity whose impacts are being felt all around the world and are on track to get much worse. Temperatures are steadily increasing, sea levels are rising, weather patterns are shifting and extreme weather events such as fires, droughts, floods and hurricanes are being experienced in an unprecedented frequency and intensity. This current climate change trend is significant, because it is extremely likely to be caused by greenhouse gases emissions related to human activities, proceeding at an always increasing rate since the mid-20th century. Climate change also presents the single biggest threat to global sustainable development, with even its widespread impacts disproportionately burdening the most the poorest and most vulnerable countries. On the basis of current stated policies and recent worldwide trends, greenhouse gases emissions are set to continue to rise in the coming years and urgent action is needed to further scale up climate change mitigation measures. Critical to tackle climate change and foster sustainable development, since it provides the needed capital, is the Climate Finance, which refers to all the financing which directly support mitigation, adaptation and resilience actions. Within the climate finance sphere, one of its main successful mechanism which are experiencing a very promising growth are the Green Bonds. As innovative financial instruments of the global finance sector, Green Bonds allow to connect the debt capital markets to projects that have environmental benefits, raising essential private investors capital for the necessary low-carbon assets. With the Green Bonds market development and private investors interest rise in recent years, it seemed interesting to investigate on possible determinants and related characteristics that could lead to an even greater market expansion and consecutively to a bigger contribution in addressing climate change and promoting Sustainable Development.
I cambiamenti climatici sono una minaccia per l’umanità, con i loro impatti percepiti in tutto il mondo e con la loro tendenza volta a peggiorare. Le temperature stanno costantemente salendo, il livello del mare sta crescendo, le condizioni meteorologiche stanno mutando e fenomeni meteorologici estremi come incendi, siccità, alluvioni e uragani stanno avvenendo con una frequenza ed una intensità senza precedenti. Questa attuale tendenza di cambiamenti climatici è significativa, perché è estremamente probabile che sia causata da emissioni di gas serra associate ad attività umane che stanno continuando ad aumentare inesorabilmente dalla metà del ventesimo secolo. I cambiamenti climatici anche rappresentano il più grande pericolo per lo sviluppo sostenibile globale, con addirittura i loro diffusi impatti che gravano maggiormente sui paesi più poveri e vulnerabili. Sulle basi delle attuali normative dichiarate e del loro andamento negli ultimi anni, le emissioni di gas serra sono destinate a crescere ulteriormente nei prossimi anni e misure urgenti sono necessarie per decarbonizzare l’economia globale. Critica per rispondere ai cambiamenti climatici e promuovere lo sviluppo sostenibile, dal momento che fornisce il capitale necessario, è la finanza climatica, termine a cui si riferiscono tutti i finanziamenti volti a supportare misure di mitigazione e adattamento e resilienza ai cambiamenti climatici. Nella sfera della finanza climatica, uno dei suoi meccanismi più di successo dal momento che stanno attraversando una crescita molto promettente, sono i Green Bond. Come strumento finanziario innovativo del settore finanziario, essi permettono di connettere il mercato capitale di debito con progetti legati a benefici ambientali, mobilitando gli essenziali capitali privati degli investitori ai necessari asset a basse emissioni. Con la crescita del mercato delle obbligazioni verdi e dell’interesse degli investitori privati nei loro confronti negli ultimi anni, è sembrato interessante investigare più nel dettaglio su possibili fattori e associate caratteristiche che potrebbero condurre ad un’ulteriore espansione del mercato e consecutivamente ad un loro maggiore apporto nel fronteggiare il cambiamento climatico e promuovere lo Sviluppo Sostenibile.
Promoting green bond issuances for climate change mitigation
MASTROGIOVANNI, FRANCESCO
2019/2020
Abstract
Climate change is an urgent threat to humanity whose impacts are being felt all around the world and are on track to get much worse. Temperatures are steadily increasing, sea levels are rising, weather patterns are shifting and extreme weather events such as fires, droughts, floods and hurricanes are being experienced in an unprecedented frequency and intensity. This current climate change trend is significant, because it is extremely likely to be caused by greenhouse gases emissions related to human activities, proceeding at an always increasing rate since the mid-20th century. Climate change also presents the single biggest threat to global sustainable development, with even its widespread impacts disproportionately burdening the most the poorest and most vulnerable countries. On the basis of current stated policies and recent worldwide trends, greenhouse gases emissions are set to continue to rise in the coming years and urgent action is needed to further scale up climate change mitigation measures. Critical to tackle climate change and foster sustainable development, since it provides the needed capital, is the Climate Finance, which refers to all the financing which directly support mitigation, adaptation and resilience actions. Within the climate finance sphere, one of its main successful mechanism which are experiencing a very promising growth are the Green Bonds. As innovative financial instruments of the global finance sector, Green Bonds allow to connect the debt capital markets to projects that have environmental benefits, raising essential private investors capital for the necessary low-carbon assets. With the Green Bonds market development and private investors interest rise in recent years, it seemed interesting to investigate on possible determinants and related characteristics that could lead to an even greater market expansion and consecutively to a bigger contribution in addressing climate change and promoting Sustainable Development.File | Dimensione | Formato | |
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