Blue Finance
Description
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.
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Persons
Charbel Salloum - EM Normandie Business School, France
Professor of Finance and Academic Director (M2 Finance and M2/MSc in ESG and Sustainable Finance) whose research covers corporate governance, entrepreneurship, CSR/CSiR, leadership, and gender diversity. Dr. Salloum combines academic leadership with consulting for organisations in Europe and the Middle East. His publication record and citations reflect broad engagement with governance and sustainability topics.
Adel F. Al Alam - Nova Seed, France
Visiting Professor of European Business Schools and Vice President at Nova Seed, bridging physics and finance. Dr. Al Alam research spans corporate innovation, behavioural finance, blockchain, and fintech, reflected in numerous peer-reviewed publications. He teaches finance and quantitative methods.
Pascal Nguyen - University of Montpellier, Montpellier Management (MOMA), France
Professor of Finance at the University of Montpellier, where he is in charge of the Master's program in finance & green finance and head of the finance research group. Dr. Nguyen is also an associate editor of Business Research Quarterly. Before taking up his current position, Pascal was Dean for Faculty and Research at ESDES (Lyon Catholic University), Professor at NEOMA Business School, and Senior Lecturer and Director of the Honours program at UTS (Sydney). His research focuses on CEO and board characteristics, ownership structures, and corporate social responsibility. His most recent works have appeared in the Journal of Accounting and Public Policy, European Financial Management, Energy Economics, and Journal of Business Research.
Taher Hamza - EM Normandie Business School, France
Professor of Finance whose work spans corporate finance, mergers and acquisitions, ESG, and equity pricing. Dr. Hamza recent publications examine institutional investor horizons, stock price synchronicity, and how corporate social responsibility and industry competition shape firm efficiency.
Amir Hasnaoui - Excelia Business School, France
Professor of Finance, Associate Dean and Head of the Finance Department at Excelia Business School. Dr. Hasnanoui research examines fintech, electronic payment systems, and the appropriation of information systems in finance; he also holds school leadership roles. He teaches finance and information systems.
Content
Defining What Counts as Blue: Taxonomies, Safeguards, and Investable Use Cases.- Blue Bonds and Loans.- Structuring Sovereign and Municipal Blue Deals.- Debt for Nature and Blue 2.0: Guarantees, Exchanges, and Conservation Fund Governance.- Financing Maritime Transition.- Financing Fisheries and Aquaculture.- Funding Wastewater and Plastics Abatement: Utility Finance, Circularity, and Outcome-Based Payments.- Paying for Coastal Resilience: Parametric Protection, Resilience Bonds, and Avoided-Loss MRV.- Data and Digital MRV for Blue Finance: Satellites, AIS, Port Data, and Covenant-Linked Verification.- Building EMDE Blue Finance Pipelines: Blended Finance, MDB and DFI Roles, and Replicable Term Sheets.