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Is any sovereign worth the greenium?

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Issuance of green sovereign debt is rocketing and investors remain prepared to pay a greenium, but standard paper still has a role to play

Governments looking to take action on climate change may have just spotted the only free lunch in finance: the green sovereign bond.

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