The green finance market has reached its most substantial milestone yet, with USD 1.002 trillion in cumulative issuance since market inception in 2007, according to the Climate Bonds Green Bond Database. An encouraging characteristic of the green finance market has been the remarkable growth of green debt instruments. Global annual issuance has increased each year since 2007 to the record of USD266.1bn (adjusted from USD255bn) in 2019. Read more here: https://www.climatebonds.net/2020/12/1trillion-mark-reached-global-cumulative-green-issuance-climate-bonds-data-intelligence
Learn more how new regulations and market-level guidance is enabling rapid growth and innovation in green bond issuance by downloading the SBN’s report “Creating Green Bond Markets, Insights Innovations and Tools from Emerging Markets”: http://www.ifc.org/sbngreenbond
