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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? 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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Fireside Chat with Michael Greenstone on Voluntary Carbon Markets
February 15, 2023From the world’s first emissions trading system (ETS) to the recent Core Climate platform by Hong Kong Exchanges and Clearing Limited (HKEX), carbon markets have been seen as a tool to help mobilize resources 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 to offset carbon emissions and reach their ambitious climate goals. Our speakers dived deeper into what it would take to strengthen voluntary carbon markets so they can support climate action.
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ESG disclosure is crucial to ensuring that investors are given sufficient information to make properly informed investment decisions. Environmental monitoring and data transparency are crucial for environmental pollution governance. The speaker from the Institute of Public & Environmental Affairs (IPE) unveiled how continuous real-time monitoring and reporting have strengthened regulatory enforcement and successfully helped major Chinese cities reduce 56 percent of PM2.5 pollution in the past ten years.
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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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