Managing risk, achieving impact: Linking sovereign debt with climate and nature targets

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Sustainability-linked sovereign bonds can help promote economic resilience and a much-needed sustainable recovery to Covid-19, according to the World Bank's Fiona Stewart and Samantha Power

As we all look to the hopeful end of the global Covid-19 pandemic and make plans to return to the 'new normal', many countries are struggling to fund the relief and recovery packages needed to get their...

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