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Issue 164: Hong Kong eyes South-east Asia sustainable finance prize; Singapore buys first Article 6 carbon credits

This week in ESG: Report finds growing activity in green Asean; Singapore awards contracts to four nature-based projects

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Kenneth Lim

Kenneth Lim

Published Fri, Sep 19, 2025 · 07:00 PM
    • Global climate funds significantly shifted allocations to Europe and the Asia-Pacific in the first half of 2025, an MSCI analysis shows.
    • Global climate funds significantly shifted allocations to Europe and the Asia-Pacific in the first half of 2025, an MSCI analysis shows. ILLUSTRATION: KENNETH LIM

    Sustainable finance

    South-east Asia heats up

    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,” says 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.

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