Mitigating climate change impacts is becoming a critical business priority, and the pressure to achieve corporate sustainability objectives is mounting as investment-focused regulations.
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If the SDGs are to be achieved, climate finance will have to expand and reach the regions where it is needed most, especially to developing countries in Asia and the Pacific. Capital markets can act as effective conduits, channelling capital toward climate-transition projects. What five actions would better align capital markets to meet climate-finance shortfalls?
Japan's big increase in sustainable investment assets from 2016 to 2020 means it accounts for 8 percent of the $35.3 trillion from the five major markets of Europe, the United States, Canada, Australasia and Japan.