Hong Kong to host sustainable finance training event for Asian policymakers, regulators and finance professionals

Institute of Finance and Sustainability, HKMA and CASI, will co-organise the green and sustainable finance training event in the city in June

CASI will organise a similar event in Brazil in April, targeting the Latin America region, and one in the Middle East and Africa region in the second half of the year

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(L to R) Ma Jun, Founder and President of Institute of Finance and Sustainability (IFS); and Paul Moody, CFA Institute Managing Director, Global Partnerships & Client Solutions, at Henley Building in Central. Photo: Jonathan Wong

Published: 2:00pm, 4 Feb 2024

Hong Kong will play host to a green and sustainable finance training event in June for several hundred policymakers, regulators and finance professionals in dozens of developing nations.

Beijing-based Institute of Finance and Sustainability will join financial regulator Hong Kong Monetary Authority (HKMA) and international cooperation platform Capacity-building Alliance of Sustainable Investment (CASI), in hosting the three-day event aimed at helping emerging markets advance their knowledge and skills in sustainable finance, said Ma Jun, president of the institute.

The institute is a policy and product think tank and an international cooperation platform for green finance and sustainable development both in China and abroad.

“After many years of sustainable finance development, globally we see that the majority of the sizeable transactions are happening in the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development countries (OECD) and China,” Ma told the Post.

“The rest of the emerging markets are lagging behind in terms of capacity, which has held back their development of sustainable finance.”

Ma Jun, Founder and President of Institute of Finance and Sustainability (IFS), at Henley Building in Central. Photo: Jonathan Wong

Last year, the G20 nations’ sustainable finance working group called on the international community to strengthen capacity-building efforts in developing nations, to support an orderly, just and affordable climate transition, that requires trillions of US dollars of annual investment.