EEA geospatial data catalogue
Green bond issuance by type of issuer (2014-2024)
This indicator measures the green bonds which are issued specifically to finance green projects (i.e. the proceeds from green bonds are earmarked for green projects), as a share of all bonds issued by corporates and governments in Europe. The use of proceeds is typically guided by a set of criteria or green bond frameworks. The average values include the issuance of all bonds issued by corporates and governments in the calendar year that were issued in a country of the European Union. To be included in the calculation, the bond must be listed with the data provider. Only sovereign bonds issued by governments with a maturity of more than one year are included. The shares per type of issuer include all bonds and green bonds issued by corporates and governments.
Data source restrictions: Data provided by ESMA based on data from commercial data provider (LSEG/Refinitive). Data are not publicly available.
Simple
Identification info
- Date (Creation)
- 2025-08-20
- Date (Publication)
- 2025-08-20
- Edition
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01.00
- Citation identifier
- eea_s_eu-sdg-13-70_p_2014-2024_v01_r00
Identifier
- Point of contact
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Organisation Individual Electronic mail address Website Role European Environment Agency
Point of contact European Environment Agency
Custodian
- Topic category
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- Environment
- Economy
Extent
Temporal extent
- Time period
- 2014-01-01 2024-12-31
- Maintenance and update frequency
- Annually
- Date
- 2026-05
- Date type
- update
- Continents, countries, sea regions of the world.
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EU27 (from 2020)
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- EEA Management Plan
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2025 EEA/INDI/2025/025
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- Unit of measure
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Percentage of total
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- Available breakdowns
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by type of issuer
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- Reference period
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Calendar year
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Resource constraints
- Use constraints
- Other restrictions
- Other constraints
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License CC-BY 4.0 ( https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). Copyright holder: European Environment Agency (EEA).
- Other constraints
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Data access: Share of bonds issued as green bonds (copyright-protected and direct link to the dataset is not available), European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA), based on data produced by Refinitiv.
- Language
- English
Distribution Information
Data quality info
- Hierarchy level
- Dataset
Report
- Name of measure
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Frequency of dissemination
- Measure description
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The indicator is updated annually.
Result
- Value
- Every year
Report
- Name of measure
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Timeliness
- Measure description
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New data points are disseminated within one year after the reference year.
Result
- Value
- T+1 year
Report
- Name of measure
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Reference area
- Measure description
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27 EU Member States plus EU Total aggregation.
Result
- Value
- All EU MS
Report
- Name of measure
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Comparability - geographical
- Measure description
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Limitations in comparability may occur, as the classification is done by the data provider. Absolute volumes depend on currency rates which might change.
Result
- Value
- not applicable
Report
- Name of measure
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Time coverage
- Measure description
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Presented time series (including EU aggregates) starts in 2014.
Result
- Value
- 5 to 10 years
Report
- Name of measure
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Comparability - over time
- Measure description
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Length of comparable time series without methodological breaks is longer than 4 data points.
Result
- Value
- > 4 data points
Resource lineage
- Statement
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This indicator is calculated based on data on the issuance of green bonds by companies, including financial institutions, and governments in the EU. Green bonds issued from supranational entities, from agencies and sub-national entities are not included. It shows green bond issuance as a percentage of all bonds issued and by type of green bond issuer. Data on corporate and government bonds were provided by the European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) in May 2025. As the groups of issuers were compiled by ESMA and Refinitive Eikon, minor double-counting at margins cannot be excluded, despite the utmost care.
- Hierarchy level
- Dataset
Metadata
- Metadata identifier
- 8d37b2c9-69c8-481f-b7ae-91ef628ae0e2
- Language
- English
- Character encoding
- UTF8
- Contact
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Organisation Individual Electronic mail address Website Role European Environment Agency
Point of contact
Type of resource
- Resource type
- Non geographic dataset
- Name
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Tabular dataset
- Metadata linkage
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https://sdi.eea.europa.eu/geonetwork/srv/api/records/8d37b2c9-69c8-481f-b7ae-91ef628ae0e2
- Date info (Creation)
- 2025-08-20T06:08:13.294167Z
- Date info (Revision)
- 2025-10-09T11:02:54.835105Z
Metadata standard
- Title
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ISO 19115/19139
- Edition
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1.0
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