{"id":549855,"date":"2023-01-25T09:42:10","date_gmt":"2023-01-25T04:12:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=549855"},"modified":"2023-01-25T10:55:39","modified_gmt":"2023-01-25T05:25:39","slug":"indias-first-green-bond-sale-to-command-greenium-on-strong-demand","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/indias-first-green-bond-sale-to-command-greenium-on-strong-demand\/","title":{"rendered":"India&#8217;s first green bond sale to command &#8216;greenium&#8217; on strong demand"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(Reuters) &#8211; The Indian government expects to issue its first green bonds at a &#8216;greenium,&#8217; with yields below prevailing market rates, and has identified 400 billion rupees ($4.92 billion) in projects that can be funded with the proceeds, said two government sources.<\/p>\n<p>The government plans to raise 160 billion rupees through green bonds for the current fiscal ending March 31, with the first tranche of 80 billion rupees scheduled for auction on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>The proceeds would be used for &#8216;green&#8217; projects such as solar power, wind and small hydro projects and other public sector projects that help reduce the economy&#8217;s carbon footprint.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Reuters) &#8211; The Indian government expects to issue its first green bonds at a &#8216;greenium,&#8217; with yields below prevailing market rates, and has identified 400 billion rupees ($4.92 billion) in projects that can be funded with the proceeds, said two government sources. The government plans to raise 160 billion rupees through green bonds for the current fiscal ending March 31, with the first tranche of 80 billion rupees scheduled for auction on Wednesday. The proceeds would be used for &#8216;green&#8217; projects such as solar power, wind and small hydro projects and other public sector projects that help reduce the economy&#8217;s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[135,130,232],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-549855","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business-standard-newspapers","category-newspapers","category-power-business-standard-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/549855","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=549855"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/549855\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=549855"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=549855"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=549855"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}