Upscaling Green Bond Markets: The Need for Harmonised Green Bond Standards

The Briefing Paper Upscaling Green Bond Markets: The Need for Harmonised Green Bond Standards looks at the potential of green bonds and discusses the need to standardise green bonds as well as the possibility of establishing a coherent international framework for green bond standards.

If a 2°C-compatible pathway is to be achieved, an enormous investment gap exists and this will need to be financed both with public and private funds. Green bonds have the potential to assume a crucial role in mobilising financial funds for the low-carbon transition.