Green, Social Bonds in the Context of the Pandemic

Abstract

Today, with the COVID-19 pandemic, the sustainable development agenda has come into focus from a new angle. Issues of inequalities as well as themes of transparency, of effective engagement of different stakeholders to overcome common global challenges, on the other hand, have become increasingly relevant. As the UN notes, the COVID-19 pandemic has served as an unprecedented wake-up call, exposing high levels of inequality in the world and highlighting precisely the issues that have informed the 2030 Agenda and the Paris Climate Agreement. The study is devoted to the analysis of green finance issuance in the Russian market. It reveals problematic issues in this area associated with the lack of a sufficiently wide practice of green bonds issuance in the Russian market and the so far weak regulatory framework.