Pascal Nguyên – författare

Blue finance now has credible frameworks and landmark transactions, yet issuers and investors still lack a consolidated, deal-level manual. This book maps use-of-proceeds and sustainability-linked structures to investable ocean and coastal projects across sovereign, municipal, and corporate issuers. It offers step-by-step KPI design, covenant language, and verification/MRV (Measurement, Reporting and Verification) pathways for shipping and ports, fisheries and aquaculture, wastewater and plastics abatement, and coastal adaptation. Signature case boxes dissect Seychelles’ blue bond and Belize and Barbados debt conversions to surface replicable mechanics—guarantees, conservation funds, and governance. With term-sheet templates and pipeline models for EMDEs (Emerging Markets and Developing Economies), the book helps treasurers, arrangers, and asset managers go from policy to bankable deals.

This book aims to bridge climate risk and public-debt practice. It sets out how to design and execute green and sustainability-linked borrowing; build credible KPIs and targets; verify, report and assure; and deploy disaster or pause clauses where they add value. Moving beyond transactions, it links risk to budget tagging and PFM, and shows how swaps, guarantees and other state-contingent features rebalance sovereign and municipal balance sheets. Cases from advanced and emerging economies demonstrate issuance strategy, investor communication and audit-ready controls that align budgets, bonds and resilience.