The main objectives of the summit are to:
- Promote green finance as a way to combat climate change.
- Help scale up the market and assist more issuers come to market with green bonds.
- Enable interested parties tap into the growing global market for green bonds.
- Explore the potential of green bonds to mobilise new sources of climate finance.
- Facilitate knowledge-sharing across this region.
- Assist with building the capacity of potential players.
- Encourage direct investments in climate mitigation and adaptation projects.
- Analyse the potential contribution that bonds can make to a low-carbon transition.
- Provide recommendations to policy makers.
- Boost the local market.
- Raise awareness among local investors of social or environmental issues, especially where these issues still tend to be absent from investment decisions, and
- Encourage to increasingly integrate SRI criteria in their investment guidelines.
- Consider scenarios for future market evolution.