The Market of Green Bonds. An International Analysis of Public and Private Issuers in the Green Bond Market

Bachelor Thesis from the year 2020 in the subject Economics - Finance, grade: 1,7, Wiesbaden University of Applied Sciences (Wiesbaden Business School), course: Finance, language: English, abstract: This thesis aims to analyse the Green Bond market and its protagonists in order to assess its long-term potential in financing the necessary changes on earth. To ensure that readers without profound financial literacy can comprehend the paper, the second chapter gives an overview of the debt capital market instrument 'bonds' and its main aspects. The tools used to assess the protagonists' international competitiveness as part of the international analysis are introduced here as well. The third part deals with 'Green Bonds' in particular. It consists of important general information and a widespread market overview. Section four comprises the international market and competitiveness analyses of the main market players: the EU, United States and China (with Hong Kong SAR). A future prospect for the Green Bond market, based on the outcomes of a brief 'expert interview' the author distributed among professionals working in the financial world, is given in chapter five. To round off the thesis, the sixth and final chapter forms the conclusion that draws a bow back to the introduction.