Breakout Session 1-A: What lessons can be learnt from the GSSS bond market?
February 4, 2025 1:15 PM | 1:15 PM - 2:15 PMAuditorium
February 4, 2025 1:15 PM | 1:15 PM - 2:15 PM
Auditorium
Description
By linking scale with impact, green, social, sustainability and sustainability-linked (GSSS) bonds hold immense potential for mobilising private finance towards sustainable development. Yet issuances are largely not happening in the countries or regions that have the greatest financing needs, and which could therefore benefit the most from these instruments. At the same time, investors are often reluctant – or disincentivized – from investing in issuances from developing countries.
The session will explore the incentives and disincentives for both issuers and investors to enter the GSSS bond market. The discussion will focus specifically on the role that development actors and other key stakeholders can play in overcoming the barriers and increasing the attractiveness of GSSS bonds, to ultimately scale up the use of these instruments in the mobilisation of private finance.
