Green Bonds and Cryptocurrency: The Investors’ Advantage

Shaista Jaffer and Syrine Sassi

Chapter 7 in Climate Finance & Accountability:A Comprehensive and Holistic Approach, 2026, pp 187-225 from World Scientific Publishing Co. Pte. Ltd.

Abstract: Environmental, financial, and economic sustainability are a few of the goals that corporations aim to achieve globally. Investor behavior and portfolio management are key determinants in facilitating the strategies to fulfill these targets. A group of financial instruments that most effectively addresses this concern is green bonds. Also known as climate bonds, green bonds are a type of bond issued to stimulate corporate funding solely for investment in climate and environmentally friendly projects worldwide. Issued by companies, organizations, and other groups around the globe, climate bonds have several uses in developed and developing countries due to their unique properties and characteristics. Cryptocurrencies are also popular financial assets that attract much attention globally. The most successful crypto asset, Bitcoin possesses several characteristics that pose as advantages and disadvantages in the financial markets. On the basis of our literature review, we present a comparison between the characteristics of green bonds and Bitcoin, suggesting that these two investment instruments have an environmental dimension. We also shed some light on how country-level characteristics and economic conditions may influence this comparison, thus opening avenues for future research in this area.

Keywords: Climate Finance; Environmental; Social; and Governance (ESG); Climate-Related Financial Disclosures; TCFD (Task Force on Climate-Related Financial Disclosures); Corporate Sustainability; Financial Risk Management; Sustainable Investing; Climate Risk Reporting; Corporate Environmental Accountability; Regulatory Frameworks; Capital Markets and Climate Risk; Carbon Transition Risk; Physical Climate Risk; Financial Disclosure Regulation; Responsible Investment (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: G32 M14 Q54 Q56 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2026
References: Add references at CitEc
Citations:

Downloads: (external link)
https://www.worldscientific.com/doi/pdf/10.1142/9789819821822_0007 (application/pdf)
https://www.worldscientific.com/doi/abs/10.1142/9789819821822_0007 (text/html)
Ebook Access is available upon purchase.

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:wsi:wschap:9789819821822_0007

Ordering information: This item can be ordered from

Access Statistics for this chapter

More chapters in World Scientific Book Chapters from World Scientific Publishing Co. Pte. Ltd.
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Tai Tone Lim ().