Green Bond Market Maturing, May Expand to Hundreds of Billions After 2020

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Green bonds may shake off their infancy over the next few years and grow exponentially into a $1 trillion conduit for global climate investments, Citigroup Inc. banker Michael Eckhart said June 14. Market issues linked to the debt including certification, investment guidelines and analytic methodologies still need fine-tuning over the next two or three years, said Eckhart, global head of environmental finance at Citi. Quicker growth for green bonds is the "end game" of a 40-year evolution of clean-energy finance, he said.