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SOEs Undermine Credibility of China’s Green Bonds

Chris Hall

The IEEFA’s Christina Ng says China’s state-owned enterprises continue to allocate up to half of their green bond proceeds to non-green projects. . China’s ambition to green its financial market has been making significant progress. SOEs accounted for about half the onshore green issuances from 2019 to 2022.

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Take Five: Green Bonds Scale New Peaks  

Chris Hall

This week, green and blue debt were in focus around the world, while the US courted further climate controversy. New peaks – Green bonds and other sustainability-related instruments demonstrated their resilience this week. The act also kickstarted an era of green investment competition.

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China’s ESG Policy Dash  

Chris Hall

For insurance companies it means they need to consider ESG and green finance issues when selling their insurance products and consider it in their asset management arm as well.” ChinaSIF estimates that the size of China’s ESG market in 2022 was RMB 24.6 trillion (US$3.57 trillion) growing from RMB 18.4 trillion in 2021.

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