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Blue Bonds

Kumari Sonali

Blue Bonds:

SEBI has proposed the ‘blue bonds’ for sustainable finance

Blue bond:

  • It will be a debt instrument to support investments in healthy oceans and blue economies (i.e. use of ocean resources for economic growth)- sustainable exploitation of ocean resources, fishing, and extracting renewable energy.
  • It will catalyse progress towards SDG 14 (Life Below Water)
  • UN Decade of Ocean Science for sustainable development (2021-2030)
  • First Blue Bond: the Republic of Seychelles, in 2018, was the first to come with a sovereign blue bond.
  • Other similar types of bonds: Green Bond : used to fund projects that have positive environmental and/or climate benefits

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