The Country Progress Report - Vietnam situates Vietnam's sustainable banking journey within Sustainable Banking Network's Global Progress Report framework. The report assesses the country's emerging banking sector and calls for developing more practical guidance and encouraging local banks to learn from international good practices with regard to E&S risk management to further promote Vietnam's sustainable finance agenda.
The Sovereign Green Bonds Briefing is the latest in a new series of Climate Bonds publications analyzing contemporary developments in the green bond market. The focus is on sovereigns, new issuers in the green bond space, and their key role in growing local markets and meeting national climate targets.
The Hong Kong Green Bond Market Briefing 2018 provides an overview of the booming market bolstered by policy support and incentives and growing momentum from the private sector. It examines a range of green bond deals from domestic issuers and also analyses emerging market dynamics from a broader perspective. The Climate Bonds Initiative's first Hong Kong Briefing Paper was produced in partnership with HSBC, and supported by the Hong Kong Monetary Authority (HKMA) and the Hong Kong Green Finance Association.
In this report, Banque de France identifies climate‑related risk as a source of financial risks, assesses their potential financial and macroeconomic impacts, and highlights the opportunities associated with financing a transition to a low-carbon economy.
The Renewables 2019 Global Status Report marks 15 years since Bonn2004, the landmark international conference that gave rise to the Renewable Energy Policy Network for the 21st Century (REN21). Then, a “coalition of the willing” came together with one objective in mind: to support and accelerate the development of renewable energy. From the outset, REN21’s mandate has been to collect, consolidate and synthesise a vast body of renewable energy data to provide clear and reliable information on what is happening in real time. This mandate still holds today.