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Accelerating Energy Efficiency Through Financial Structures
February 28, 2023To achieve the energy and climate goals set by countries around the world, it is crucial to look for new ways to transform the energy sector, which is responsible for three-quarters of global emissions. How can financial institutions drive energy efficiency solutions? At this training, co-organized by the Alliance for Green Commercial Banks and Citi, Marshal Salant, Global Head of Clean Energy Finance Group at CIti, shared the overview of energy efficiency financing, how financial institutions overcome the current financing hurdles, and future financing trends.
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Carbon markets have been seen as a tool to help mobilize resources to give companies and businesses the space to smooth the low-carbon transition for decades. Purchasing high-quality verified emissions reductions in the form of carbon credits has become another effective alternative for businesses, governments, and organizations to offset carbon emissions and reach their ambitious climate goals. This Alliance's fireside chat discussed the latest developments in voluntary carbon markets (VCM), and what it would take to strengthen VCM so they can support climate action on a large scale.
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As major contributors to economic and social development, private sector companies are agents of change in achieving green and low-carbon development targets. At this webinar, co-organized with the Institute of Public & Environmental Affairs (IPE), international green finance leader and the Founding Director of IPE, Ma Jun, shared the latest developments in IPE’s Blue Map database, CITI index 2022, and CATI index 2022 and how companies can build up corporate accountability through digital solutions.
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The green energy transition is foundational for global sectors to meet the Paris Agreement goals. As key frontier technologies, clean hydrogen and carbon capture utilization and storage (CCUS) will play crucial roles to accelerate this transition. The roundtable, as the second part of the seminar co-organized by the Alliance for Green Banks and Bank of China (Hong Kong), discusses how the financial sector help will drive green transition, through different financing strategies and frameworks, and support clean hydrogen and CCUS’s market development.
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For financial institutions to support the low-carbon journey, a fundamental understanding of their own carbon footprint must be established before developing pathways and trajectories towards carbon neutrality targets. This training, co-organized by the Alliance for Green Commercial Banks and the Carbon Trust, explores the importance of establishing a robust and reliable baseline footprint and the different approaches to carbon footprint measurement.
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Roundtable | Becoming A Green Bank
September 14, 2022The financial sector has a critical role to play in the transition to net zero and mobilizing the resources needed for investments in climate mitigation. Now is the time to design pathways to fulfill the commitments that have been made. In this roundtable, co-organized by the Alliance for Green Commercial Banks and HSBC, industry experts discussed the practicalities of greening financial institutions and the opportunities it may bring.
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In this training co-organized with Bank of China (Hong Kong), experts presented an overview of clean hydrogen and carbon capture utilization and storage (CCUS), the key developments, and the roles banks can play in driving the transition to a sustainable economy. The training will be followed by a roundtable discussion which will take place on October 27th, 2022.
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The knowledge session discussed the overview of international standardization on sustainable finance, how standardization will support the transition to carbon neutrality, and how standardization instruments will ultimately enhance the sustainability performance of companies. The session was co-organized by the Alliance, China National Institute of Standardization (CNIS) and TC/322 (the technical committee responsible for the development of ISO standards relating to sustainable finance).
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This in-depth roundtable takes a deeper dive into the latest developments and the future of sustainable finance. Issuers, investors, regulators and Standard Chartered's industry experts will share insights from different lens, including the evolution of their segments over recent years and the challenges ahead, providing a holistic picture of the market, and more importantly, a vision of the golden opportunities ahead in Asia's sustainable finance landscape.
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Training | Green and Sustainable Capital Market Evolution
March 24, 2022A training session, co-organized by the Alliance for Green Commercial Banks and Standard Chartered, explores the different types of ESG-labelled bonds and loans, ranging from use of proceeds instruments, where proceeds are used to finance or refinance specific green, social or transition activities, to sustainability-linked instruments, in which the financial characteristics of the instrument are tied to achievement of specific sustainable performance objectives within a defined timeframe.
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