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Green Finance progress report

The G20 Green Finance Synthesis Report adopted at the G20 Leaders Summit in Hangzhou in September 2016 set out seven options identified by the G20 Green Finance Study Group (GFSG) to accelerate the mobilization of green finance.

Key points
  1. Provide strategic policy signals and frameworks
  2. Promote voluntary principles for green finance
  3. Expand learning networks for capacity-building
  4. Support the development of local green bond markets
  5. Promote international collaboration to facilitate cross-border investment in green bonds
  6. Encourage and facilitate knowledge-sharing on environmental and financial risk
  7. Improve the measurement of green finance activities and their impacts

This paper highlights some of the progress made against these seven options in G20 members and internationally since June 2016.

Progress observed and reported in this paper indicates that momentum is growing in mainstreaming green finance into the architecture and practice of financial and capital markets. This momentum has directly resulted in an increased mobilization of green finance. UN Environment tracks a range of green finance measures including, for example, green financing mobilized, policies, regulations, standards, guidelines, principles and fiscal incentives. This report shows that more measures related to green finance have been introduced since June 2016 compared with any other one-year period since 2000.