Issuances of SDG bonds across Southeast Asia are still only a fraction of what is needed. This is a result of many prospective SDG bond issuers, or project sponsors in Southeast Asia, being regarded as risky or difficult by potential global financiers, because of capacity issues, financial risks, legal complications, etc. These perceptions constrain the upscaling of such bonds.

Our team at the ACGF proposes a new, de-risked way of issuing SDG bonds to address this need. We call it the SDG Accelerator Bond, or SAB.