{"id":269380,"date":"2023-11-15T19:22:11","date_gmt":"2023-11-15T13:52:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/?p=269380"},"modified":"2023-11-15T19:22:11","modified_gmt":"2023-11-15T13:52:11","slug":"sovereign-green-bond-fy24s-first-sovereign-green-bond-issuance-sails-through","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/sovereign-green-bond-fy24s-first-sovereign-green-bond-issuance-sails-through\/","title":{"rendered":"Sovereign Green Bond: FY24\u2019s first sovereign green bond issuance sails through"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>Source: <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The post is based on the article <\/span><b>\u201cSovereign Green Bond: FY24\u2019s first sovereign green bond issuance sails through\u201d <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">published in <\/span><b>\u201cHindu Businessline\u201d on 15th November 2023<\/b><\/p>\n<h2>Why in the News?<\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The first issuance of Sovereign Green Bonds for the Fiscal Year 2024 saw a successful auction of five-year maturity bonds, drawing considerable investor attention.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2>What are Sovereign Green Bonds?<\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Sovereign Green bonds are fixed interest-bearing financial instruments issued by any sovereign entity \/ inter-governmental organization \/corporation.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The proceeds of these bonds are used only for environmentally conscious, climate-resilient projects.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In the Union Budget 2022-23, the government announced the issue of sovereign green bonds (SGrBs) as part of its market borrowings for mobilizing resources for green infrastructure.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The framework for the sovereign green bond was issued by the government in November 2022.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><b>What are the benefits of <\/b><b>Sovereign Green Bonds?<\/b><\/h2>\n<p><b>1. Low Risk:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Since these bonds are issued by the government entity, they carry nil credit and default risk.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>2. Focus on sustainable development:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Green bonds are a good investment vehicle for those who are more concerned with the sustainable social development and greening of brown industries.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>3. Absence<\/b><b>\u00a0of Project-Related Risks: <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">According to the framework released by the government, investors in these bonds do not bear project related risks. This means payments of principal and interest on the issuances are not conditional on performance of the projects.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><b>What are the risks associated with <\/b><b>Sovereign Green Bonds?<\/b><\/h2>\n<p><b>1. Greenwashing: <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Greenwashing refers to the practice of making false or misleading claims about the green credentials of a company or a project. There<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">&#8216;s a risk that projects funded by green bonds may not deliver the expected net environmental benefits.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">2. <strong>Credit<\/strong><\/span><b>\u00a0Rating of Sovereign Bonds<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">: If a government wants to go global to raise funds, it needs to improve its credit rating as all bonds issued globally are closely linked to the credit rating of the issuing country.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>UPSC Syllabus: Economy<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: The post is based on the article \u201cSovereign Green Bond: FY24\u2019s first sovereign green bond issuance sails through\u201d published in \u201cHindu Businessline\u201d on 15th November 2023 Why in the News? The first issuance of Sovereign Green Bonds for the Fiscal Year 2024 saw a successful auction of five-year maturity bonds, drawing considerable investor attention.&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/sovereign-green-bond-fy24s-first-sovereign-green-bond-issuance-sails-through\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Sovereign Green Bond: FY24\u2019s first sovereign green bond issuance sails through<\/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":[1566,3127],"tags":[11872],"class_list":["post-269380","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-factly-articles","category-economy","tag-9pm-daily-factly","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":1,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1700083700},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/269380","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=269380"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/269380\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=269380"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=269380"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=269380"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}