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cblr-13004	Hunt, John Patrick 	Green Bond Reporting: John Patrick Hunt	2024	112	.pdf	application/pdf	30172	1253	52	See id. No. 1] GREEN BOND REPORTING 235 Year of Issuance Number of Green Issues Green Issue Index (6/1/19- 5/31/20 = 100) Green Amount Issued Total (billions) Green Amount Issued Index (6/1/19- 5/31/20 = 100) Green Share of Total US Corporate USD Issu- ance Green Share Index (6/1/19- 5/31/20 = 100) 6/1/19- 5/31/20 34 100 $19.6 100 0.8% 100 6/1/20- 5/31/21 53 156 $28.9 147 1.0% 133 6/1/21- 5/31/22 68 200 $42.9 219 2.0% 259 Even so, green bonds are still a relatively small proportion of U.S. issuance; over the three-year period in question, green issuance accounted for about 1.2% of the dollar volume of US issuers’ USD-denominated corporate bond issuance.140 C. Pre-Issuance Verification in the U.S. Green Bond Market As noted, much of the law-review literature on green bonds to date has focused on “pre-issuance verification,” that is, analysis before the bond is sold of whether the issuer’s state- ment of intended uses of bond proceeds matches a green framework (typically the ICMA Green Bond Principles) and of whether the issuer has systems and processes to allocate bonds proceeds as planned, track their use, and report on them.141 The dataset here contains some evidence on pre-is- suance verification in the U.S. corporate green-bond market, discussed below. ARTICLE GREEN BOND REPORTING John Patrick Hunt* Are green bonds really “green”?	cache/cblr-13004.pdf	txt/cblr-13004.txt