Sustainable finance opportunities are heating up in South-east Asia
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THE Asia-Pacific is growing as a climate finance hotspot as investors look for new frontiers of green growth amid a US pullback.
Fund managers are attracted to the region’s “growing pipeline of clean-energy and infrastructure projects, favourable demographics and strengthening policy support for green development,” said a new report authored by MSCI Sustainability Institute, the Hong Kong Financial Research Institute of Bank of China and the University of Hong Kong Business School’s Jockey Club Enterprise Sustainability Global Research Institute.
Greening business
A key data point is that global climate fund allocations shifted by about six percentage points to the Asia-Pacific region in the first half of 2025.
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