{"id":199839,"date":"2022-08-12T18:56:53","date_gmt":"2022-08-12T13:26:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=199839"},"modified":"2022-08-12T18:56:53","modified_gmt":"2022-08-12T13:26:53","slug":"sebi-proposes-blue-bonds-concept-for-sustainable-financing-activities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/sebi-proposes-blue-bonds-concept-for-sustainable-financing-activities\/","title":{"rendered":"Sebi proposes blue bonds concept for sustainable financing activities"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><b>Source: <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The post is based on the article <\/span><b>\u201cSebi proposes blue bonds concept for sustainable financing activities\u201d <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">published in <\/span><b>Economic Times <\/b>on<b> 8th August 2022.<\/b><\/p>\n<h5><b>What is the News?<\/b><\/h5>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">SEBI has proposed the concept of blue bonds as a mode of sustainable finance, saying such securities can be utilized for various blue economy-related activities, including oceanic resource mining and sustainable fishing.<\/span><\/p>\n<h5><b>What are Blue Bonds?<\/b><\/h5>\n<figure id=\"attachment_199840\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-199840\" style=\"width: 512px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-199840\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/Screenshot-2022-08-12-at-3.39.54-AM.png?resize=512%2C174&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Blue Bonds\" width=\"512\" height=\"174\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/Screenshot-2022-08-12-at-3.39.54-AM.png?w=1417&amp;ssl=1 1417w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/Screenshot-2022-08-12-at-3.39.54-AM.png?resize=300%2C102&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/Screenshot-2022-08-12-at-3.39.54-AM.png?resize=1024%2C348&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/Screenshot-2022-08-12-at-3.39.54-AM.png?resize=768%2C261&amp;ssl=1 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 512px) 100vw, 512px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-199840\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Source: ADB<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A blue bond is a<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> debt instrument issued by governments, development banks or others to raise capital from investors to finance marine and ocean-based projects that have positive environmental, economic and climate benefits.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Like in the case of conventional bonds, investors lend money to a bond issuer, who agrees to repay the interest every year for the term of the bond plus the capital on a certain day.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Similarly, in a blue bond, earnings are generated from the investments in sustainable blue economy projects. Furthermore, the issuance of a blue bond enables investors to fulfil their corporate social responsibilities and generate benefits for the ocean and humankind.<\/span><\/p>\n<h5><b>Which country issued the first blue bond?<\/b><\/h5>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Republic of Seychelles launched the world\u2019s first sovereign blue bond in 2018 raising a total of $15 million to advance the small island state\u2019s blue economy.<\/span><\/p>\n<h5><b>What are the benefits of Blue Bond?<\/b><\/h5>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>a)<\/strong> It offers an opportunity for private sector capital to be mobilized to support the blue economy. <strong>b) <\/strong><\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It helps in<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> raising awareness about important marine issues while providing much-needed funding to projects. <strong>c) <\/strong><\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">will catalyze progress towards SDG 14 (Life Below Water).<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: The post is based on the article \u201cSebi proposes blue bonds concept for sustainable financing activities\u201d published in Economic Times on 8th August 2022. What is the News? SEBI has proposed the concept of blue bonds as a mode of sustainable finance, saying such securities can be utilized for various blue economy-related activities, including&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/sebi-proposes-blue-bonds-concept-for-sustainable-financing-activities\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Sebi proposes blue bonds concept for sustainable financing activities<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10317,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1566,4182,9],"tags":[10596],"class_list":["post-199839","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-factly-articles","category-environment","category-public","tag-economic-times","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199839","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10317"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=199839"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199839\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=199839"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=199839"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=199839"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}