Sustainable finance
Articles tagged “Sustainable finance” (2). Topic tags support on-site filtering and discoverability; they are not social-media hashtags.
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After CASG: sustainable finance is no longer a single product name
Backdrop: May 2020 establishment of the Green and Sustainable Finance Cross-Agency Steering Group (CASG); clearer direction for incorporating TCFD elements into the HKEX ESG framework
When regulators, the Exchange and monetary authorities coordinate under one steering architecture, green loans, sustainability bonds and ESG reports can no longer talk past each other.
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2018: three things issuers had to learn as green-finance infrastructure took shape
Backdrop: 2018 progress on the Government Green Bond Programme — Budget announcement and LegCo borrowing-ceiling authorisation; green financing moves from policy language into executable market infrastructure
Once sovereign and public issuers put green frameworks into the market, a private issuer’s “green” title faces the same questions: where proceeds go, how they are reported, and whether they match the internal project list.