Tag: ESG
Asia still remains behind Europe in ESG investing activities, but the region has made substantial progress to comply with evolving mandatory disclosur… Asia still remains behind Europe in ESG investing activities, but the region has made substantial progress to compl… Asia still remains behind Europe in ESG investing activities, but the region has made substantial progress to comply with evolving mandatory disclosures in the space.
Environmental, social, and governance (ESG) investments have seen a great acceleration in Asian countries throughout the past few years. The current number of PRI signatories in Asia is now at 421—a 23% increase from 2020 and double of what it was in 2017.
Requests for ESG content sets in particular gained momentum on the back of the COVID-19 crisis and the Paris agreement. Asia, one of the most vulnerable regions to the impact of climate change, has seen an increase in pledges, regulations, and policy announcements surrounding climate risk mitigation. Infrastructure and urban areas in some developing areas of Asia are still under construction, providing the opportunity to invest in sustainable infrastructure projects that result in real opportunities for investors in the field. For example, as a result of the Green Investment Principles (GIP) for the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) that was launched in 2018, multiple aspects of sustain…