Diversification of the global green bond market

Green Bonds emerged as a new form of environmental financing in 2007. While the green bond market is viewed as a niche in the global financial market, it has grown rapidly to nearly USD 900 billion in 2017. The aim of the article is to analyze and assess changes taking place in the structure of the global green bond market with particular emphasis on the diversification of issuers undertaking activity in this market area. The first part of the paper summarizes the general theory of green bonds. It also includes an exemplification of different types of green bonds and shows conditions which should be satisfied to call a bond the green bond. Afterward, the growth and diversification of the green bond market are shown and analyzed, what makes a field to draw some conclusions.