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Greenwashing Risks in the Corporate Green Bond Markets: An Expenditure-Based Analysis
The green bond market has witnessed remarkable growth in recent years, channelling billions of capitals into climate finance. Yet, greenwashing risk—where issuers make unsubstantiated claims about their environmental commitments—remains a major challenge to market credibility and the allocative efficiency ...
https://iems.ust.hk/events/academic-seminar/2026/keith-jin-deng-chan-greenwashing-risk
Beyond Carbon: Nature, biodiversity, and the financial risks shaping global markets
Corporate sustainability reporting has traditionally focused on carbon-related disclosures, while considerations of nature and biodiversity have remained relatively underexplored. However, ecosystem services contribute to more than half of global GDP, and their rapid decline is increasingly creating material financial ...
https://iems.ust.hk/events/academic-seminar/2026/ewan-jones-beyond-carbon
Greenwashing Risks in the Corporate Green Bond Markets: An Expenditure-based PDF & Additional Materials Measurement
The corporate green bond market has expanded rapidly, from USD 1 billion in 2012 to over USD 1.8 trillion in 2023, growing from below 0.01% to almost 5% of the global corporate bond market. Green bonds theoretically reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions by channeling resources into environmental initiatives. Across ...
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Fintech RE in Hong Kong: Opportunities and Challenges for Green Finance and Decentralised Energy
Financial instruments must be designed to attract investors and support renewable energy (RE) systems to sustain micro-scale distributed systems. Fintech RE presents an opportunity to bridge actors in the energy transition, finance, and digital industries, but challenges exist, particularly related to ...
https://iems.ust.hk/publications/thought-leadership-briefs/delina-fintechre-in-hong-kong-opportunities-challenges-green-finance-decentralised-energy-tlb83
Fintech RE: The benefits and challenges of digital financing for decentralised and distributed renewables in Hong Kong
This seminar will explore the innovative concept of fintech RE in the context of Hong Kong, a global financial centre striving to become a hub for green finance. Fintech RE refers to the digital financing of decentralised and distributed renewables, such as solar photovoltaic or wind installations with ...
https://iems.ust.hk/events/academic-seminar/2024/fintech-re-the-benefits-and-challenges-of-digital-financing-for-decentralised-and-distributed-renewables-in-hong-kong-delina
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