Last year, green bond issuance in the Nordics climbed 64 percent from the year before, according to The Climate Bond Initiative. Swedish issuers accounted for 53 percent of that activity.
Nina Ahlstrand, Head of Sustainable Finance at Norwegian financial group DNB, believes Sweden will continue to show high growth in volume: “However, I also expect the issuance growth in the other Nordic countries to pick up in pace. At DNB, we have a large network of institutional clients and they are, in general, showing a growing interest in green bonds,” she says.
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