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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. Clean hydrogen has increasingly taken a central role in the energy market for its low carbon emissions, infinite source, and higher energy density. According to International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA), hydrogen will meet up to 12 percent of the final energy demand by 2050. How can clean hydrogen help balance security, affordability and sustainability while supporting the economic growth and meeting international climate goals? In the session, experts will speak about the challenges and developments in clean hydrogen and CCUS, hydrogen refueling stations, green hydrogen refining, and green financing vehicles.
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The journey towards a low-carbon future in Asia has been accelerated by a growth in national ambitions to achieve carbon neutrality and net zero emissions. For banks to support this journey, a fundamental understanding of their own carbon footprint must be established before developing pathways and trajectories towards carbon neutrality targets. In this virtual event, experts from the Carbon Trust deep dived into 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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How can clean hydrogen help balance security, affordability and sustainability while supporting the economic growth and meeting international climate goals? In the session, experts spoke about the challenges and developments in clean hydrogen and carbon capture utilization and storage (CCUS), hydrogen refueling stations, green hydrogen refining, and green financing vehicles.
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International standards are crucial to set out principles, practices, and taxonomies to support financial institutions to enable positive environmental and social outcomes, address risk mitigation, and drive sustainable value. Through this session featuring a panel of experts from ISO/TC322 - the technical committee responsible for the development of ISO standards relating to sustainable finance - you will become familiar with the international standardization providing structure, transparency, and credibility on 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, 2022In the sustainable bond space, the market has seen record-breaking growth, crossing the US$1 trillion milestone in terms of issuances in 2021. This training session, co-organized by the Alliance and Standard Chartered, explored the different types of ESG-labelled bonds and loans, ranging from use of proceeds instruments to sustainability-linked instruments. The discussion offered perspectives on establishing a corporate sustainable financial framework and explores reporting and monitoring commitments under such a framework.
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Climate Risk in Action: A Conversation with Practitioners
November 16, 2021Addressing climate risks, together with measuring and disclosing, has become a critical aspect for financial institutions. In this training, speakers from HSBC, Moody’s, and Suisse Re focused on the need to translate climate change information into financial impacts, strengthen accountability and mandatory reporting of climate-related data, and stop segmenting climate finance as an opportunistic investment strategy.
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Climate Risk Management For Financial Institutions
September 16, 2021Two major impediments for commercial banks to manage climate risk are the unfamiliarity of regulatory guidelines and the un/underdeveloped capacity to measure climate risk. This panel discussion addressed the most often asked questions from commercial banks - how to integrate climate risk management into their business, and whether there is a global standard to measure climate risk for financial institutions.
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Climate Risk From the Regulatory Perspective
August 31, 2021Climate change is disruptive for the banking sector in terms of the risks that banks need to manage, the opportunities that it brings, and the responsibilities that banks face with their stakeholders. Banking regulators around the world are formalizing new approaches to integrate climate risk considerations into their regulatory framework. Experts from the World Bank and national regulators analyzed climate-related financial risks, the latest development on the global regulatory landscape, and case studies from the Philippines and South Africa.
