With the increasing awareness of climate change, Sustainable Finance and Green Finance have become a hot topic in the city. However, some people may find it difficult to distinguish them. Green Finance refers to all financial instruments that help improve the environmental performance through decarbonization such as projects facilitating clean energy provision, water quality improvement and product recycling, while Sustainable Finance includes both elements of environment and society, which are difficult to be managed at the same time as some social elements cannot be quantified.

Learn more from the full article (in Chinese only) written by Kenny Siu, Senior Advisor of AEC Group, published on Sing Pao on 22 November.