Government bonds make up a large proportion of the secondary market, with a total value of $22.116 trillion across the world as of September 2018. ~ Yahoo! Finance The market for green bonds—i.e., bonds issued to fund climate and environmental improvements — where the level of capital mobilized globally has risen from $87 billion to $167 billion in the last two years alone*. * Green Bonds: Key Numbers and Trends, Moody’s Investor Service, 2018. The green bond market is growing at a fast pace and has already reached over $240 billion. While Africa and the Association of Southeast Asian Nations, or ASEAN, are recognized as the most promising markets for green bonds, the issuance volume remains comparably low due to the lack of trust and clear guidelines on green bonds issuance, as well as a lack of investor awareness. The logic of any existing or future green bond framework or methodology can be described in the form of smart contracts and their integration with impact monitoring solutions. The impact is then automatically monitored, recorded on a blockchain with high transparency and immutability, and then attributed to the relevant financier. This opens doors to the issuance of programmable SDG bonds and blended finance instruments with their financial parameters linked to the impact data acquired directly from the project site. https://cointelegraph.com/news/finding-digital-answers-to-global-sustainability-threats ---------------------------- While Malaysia and the World Bank had successfully launched and proceed with a Green Bond project on Solar Energy farm, it is time for us to move further by implementing Emerging Technology to the working of it. The key is to get a pilot project on this and deliver the PoC asap so we can move to the real market use on a wider scale.