The development of the green bond market helps fill this gap by giving capital market investors a standardized asset to add to their portfolios. This program will focus on developing and scaling green bond markets, including trends, challenges, and opportunities, illustrated through sample transactions. Financing a country’s shift to a greener path of growth can often be a challenge. Private investors frequently have both the capacity and appetite to invest in climate-smart projects, but may lack frameworks and data analytics to support climate-friendly investment decisions. Governments, too, are increasingly looking for tools to help fund their low-carbon investments. 
 
Session I: Opportunities, Trends and Challenges for Green Bond Issuance for financial institutions in Asia.
 
Session II: The Role of Regulators.

Session III: Amundi Planet Emerging Green One (EGO): The One Year Mark

This plenary brings together leaders from the carbon markets of China, Korea and Saitama to share lessons and achievements from each and to provide a window into how they expect the role of their respective markets to evolve. The session will also explore the contribution of Asia’s carbon markets into the broader global context of the use of market mechanisms to achieve greenhouse gas mitigation.
 
Session I: How China, Korea, Tokyo, and Saitama Use Markets to Drive GHG Mitigation?   Operators’ perspective.
 
Session II: How China, Korea, Tokyo, and Saitama Use Markets to Drive GHG Mitigation?   Participant’s perspective.

Session III: What could article 6 of Paris Agreement mean for climate markets?