The Potential Role of Enhanced Bond Structures in Forest Climate Finance

This report develops innovative bond structures that respond to challenges currently limiting the financing of forest-based NDC activities, with the intention to catalyze significant increases in financing flows. The report sets out a detailed shortlist of three potential enhanced bond structures, w...

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Bibliographic Details
Corporate Author: World Bank
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Washington, D.C The World Bank 2017
Series:Other Environmental Study
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Collection: World Bank E-Library Archive - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
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Summary:This report develops innovative bond structures that respond to challenges currently limiting the financing of forest-based NDC activities, with the intention to catalyze significant increases in financing flows. The report sets out a detailed shortlist of three potential enhanced bond structures, which have the potential to catalyze funding across the gamut of forest-based nationally determined contribution (NDC) activities. The focus is on bond structures that blend donor-funded performance-based payments (PBP) alongside some upfront grant funding to improve the financial performance of the use of proceeds for issuers, and hence enable larger-scale financing from capital markets