Mobilising Finance: Accelerating investment for transition
Finance is a critical enabler for solving climate change and speeding up low-carbon transition. The industry is working collaboratively to accelerate financing in a consistent manner, while continuing to work individually on new products to deliver a low-carbon economy.
Unlocking Technology for the Global Goals
As part of Frontier 2030: Fourth Industrial Revolution for Global Goals Platform
10 February 2020
Sustainable Finance: Five Themes to Dominate in 2020
Zoe Knight, Managing Director, HSBC Centre of Sustainable Finance
2 January 2020
Investors and Issuers are Switched on to Sustainable Finance
Daniel Klier, Group Head of Strategy and Global Head of Sustainable Finance
4 October 2019
Sustainable Financing and Investing Survey 2019
Markets alert to the environment and society
24 September 2019
Raising Ambition: Finance is the Enabler
By Zoë Knight, Managing Director, Centre of Sustainable Finance, HSBC
18 September 2019
Financing the Low-carbon Future
A private-sector view on mobilising climate finance.
18 September 2019
Moving Green Finance to the Mainstream
By Daniel Klier, Global Head of Sustainable Finance, HSBC.
25 July 2019
Fragile Planet. The Politics and Economics of the Low-carbon Transition
HSBC Global Research's assessment of the institutional framework and economic potential of 67 countries to deliver the transition to a low-carbon economy.
22 May 2019
Is the Greater Bay Area at the Forefront of China's Green Growth?
Since 2000, China's industrial output has grown 8 times, 350 million more people are living in cities, and agricultural production has more than quadrupled.
14 May 2019
The Turning Point
Green growth recommendations for China's Greater Bay Area by HKQAA. Report available in English and Chinese.
7 May 2019
Financial Risks from Climate Change: A Call to Action
By Zoë Knight, Managing Director, Centre of Sustainable Finance, HSBC.
29 April 2019
Mobilising Capital: Blending Finance to Deliver the Low-carbon Transition
This report examines the current landscape for blended finance and discusses how to unlock the potential so as to mobilise capital through a range of institutions such as banks, asset managers, insurers, pension funds, and foundations at scale.
29 April 2019
A Call for Action: Climate Change as a Source of Financial Risk
This report is a call for action from the Network for Greening the Financial System (NGFS) to central banks and financial supervisors and outlines six recommendations for assessing climate change as a source of financial risk.
29 April 2019
Mobilising Capital: Blending Finance to deliver Low-Carbon Transition
By Zoë Knight, Managing Director, Centre of Sustainable Finance, HSBC.
9 April 2019
Collaborating for Growth: Sustainable Finance in Asia
By Ben Caldecott, University of Oxford.
12 March 2019
CBI: China Green Bond Market 2018
Climate Bonds Initiative briefing outlining growth and major developments in China's green bond market.
26 February 2019
CBI: Hong Kong Green Bond Market 2018
Climate Bonds Initiative briefing outlining growth and characteristics of Hong Kong's green bond market.
25 February 2019
Green Bond Insight
HSBC's Global Research Fixed Income team examines factors driving supply and demand and the evolving green bond market.
30 January 2019
Creating Green Financial Centres: A toolkit
This report presents a toolkit for financial centres to rapidly support low-carbon transition.
18 January 2019
Sustainable Finance: Five themes to dominate in 2019
By Zoё Knight, Group Head of the Centre of Sustainable Finance.
5 January 2019
Sustainable finance can tackle climate change
On paper, solving the climate-change problem is straightforward.
9 October 2018
Managing financial system stability and climate change - A preliminary guide
This report by Zoё Knight and Gaurav Ganguly discusses how banks can apply climate lens to risk management and scenario analysis for financial stability.
5 October 2018
Bonds and Climate Change
This report presents the findings of the Climate Bonds Initiative research of climate-aligned issuers up until June 2018. HSBC commissioned the report.
1 October 2018
A Report from the Bank of England
Transition in thinking: The impact of climate change on the UK banking sector.
26 September 2018
Sustainable Financing and ESG Investing report
This report presents East & Partners’ update on issuer and investor approaches to sustainable finance. HSBC commissioned the report.
5 September 2018
Fragile Planet: Scoring climate risks around the world
An HSBC Global Research report ranking 67 countries based on their vulnerability to climate change, and the risk for investors as countries move toward a lower carbon future.
4 April 2018
Greening the belt and road initiative
WWF's recommendations for the finance sector – in conjunction with HSBC.
1 January 2018