The sustainable bond market of cities and regions – Franklin Templeton

The Franklin Templeton Fixed Income team believe investors with an appetite for sustainable impact should focus their attention on the market of urban GSS bonds.

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... Urban green, social and sustainability (GSS) bonds allow impact-oriented investors direct financing of projects that address the most pressing challenges of our times and develop strategic local or regional resilience. These use-of-proceeds instruments assure an investor is directly supporting sustainable economic activities. Sustainability linked bonds (SLBs) are another possibility for environmentally and socially conscious investors and can be considered an indirect financing.

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