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Green bond standards tighten – but is it enough?

Some investors in the market are champing at the bit for tougher standards - but others caution against 'making the perfect the enemy of the good'

Green bond standards tighten – but is it enough?
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Green bonds - an $80bn-a-year market in making capitalism more environmentally friendly - are getting a harder edge. But not everyone thinks it is yet hard enough.

Green bonds, such as the $1bn blockbuster raised by Apple this week, allow governments and companies to raise money for projects or business-lines that have environmental aims and objectives.

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