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AAIB, Amundi launch climate investment framework

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 3 SEP 2020  |  NEWS
... integration of climate change by companies and the financial sector across Asia, which jeopardises the success of green finance globally. "This is an important wake-up call to the industry," said Stefen Shin, AIIB principal investment officer, capital ...

HKEX, SSGA join Climate Bond Initiative Partners Programme

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 26 JUN 2020  |  NEWS
... Sustainable and Green Exchange (STAGE), a first of its kind data and information platform focusing on sustainable and green finance investments in the region, another step in Hong Kong's development as a green finance hub. STAGE will promote the visibility ...

Hong Kong regulators establish sustainable finance steering group

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 8 MAY 2020  |  NEWS
... executive officer, SFC. "The SFC is pleased to have initiated this Cross-Agency Steering Group to coordinate Hong Kong's green finance strategy and to enhance its leading role in the global effort to ensure that companies disclose the impact of climate ...

Vietnam a source of green infrastructure projects, pipeline: CBI

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 1 MAY 2020  |  NEWS
... growth. It provides a new platform for engagement between governments, development banks and global investors around green finance to fund new infrastructure." The report notes that regionally, Vietnam has one of the highest percentages of infrastructure. ...

ASEAN green bond issuance reaches US$7.8bn: Climate Bond Initiative

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 17 APR 2020  |  NEWS
... Initiative. Sean Kidney, CEO, Climate Bonds Initiative Climate Bonds Initiative, supported by HSBC, launched the ASEAN Green Finance State of the Market 2019 report, looking at the issuance of green bonds and green loans in Southeast Asia, covering Brunei ...

CCA publishes climate policy toolkit for transition to net-zero economy

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 20 MAR 2020  |  NEWS
... climate finance capacity mean we are well placed to become a major investor in low-emissions opportunities and a green finance hub for the region." The report notes that although investment in low-emissions activities is growing "at a rapid rate", that ...

Frasers Property Australia establishes Sustainable Finance Framework

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 14 FEB 2020  |  NEWS
... Property Treasury Pte Ltd. The decision to develop a whole of business framework for addressing green development and green finance is part of the company's business strategy, Boyd said. "We've raised a number of loans that in this space," he said. "This ...

Genex Power closes $192 million certified green debt funding package

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 20 DEC 2019  |  NEWS
... but what it opened up is that it allows us to tap into the huge appetite of banks and equity companies to provide green finance," he said. "We found that if you can be independently certified as being green, banks are very keen to lend to us, and because ...

Amundi focuses on green private credit market

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 20 SEP 2019  |  NEWS
... with other stakeholders to develop standards to define green credit. This will consist of a scientific committee of green finance to "define and promote environmental guidelines for these three markets in line with international best practice and legislation ...

Foresight Group launches Foresight Renwable Energy Income Fund

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 13 SEP 2019  |  NEWS
... the Carbon Trust. "The transition to a low carbon sustainable economy will require significant access to new and green finance, so it is particularly exciting to see an innovation in the market that allows wholesale individual investors to participate ...