Financial and non-financial corporates represent less than half of current outstanding green bonds.
A credible forward-looking alternative for business planning does not yet exist.
The lack of a common language and framework has slowed the growth of responsible investment.
The real estate sector accounts for more than one-quarter of global carbon emissions.
The 100 largest asset owners are responsible for over 35% of all global asset owner capital.
Investors prefer green bonds where available and competitively priced over vanilla equivalents.
Global stock of green bonds could total $1.5 trillion by 2024.
Asset managers find voluntary frameworks fall short.
MSCI will license indexes for listed ESG equity index derivatives and total return futures.