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Unlocking Capital for Sustainability

Stories inspired by Eco-Business's annual green finance event, Unlocking Capital for Sustainability.

UOB chief sustainability officer Eric Lim

Transition finance is critical to help companies decarbonise, and time is running out.

13 Oct 2022

Financial institutions need to work with emitters instead of jettisoning them to green their portfolios, said panellists at the Unlocking Capital for Sustainability event organised by Eco-Business.

Labourers carry baskets of coal in Tamil Nadu, India.

Atom-splitting could help India 'leapfrog' fossil fuels, according to Delhi-based climate entrepreneurs. One investor at the Unlocking Capital for Sustainability event said the risk of nuclear accidents was 'overblown'.

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The country’s largest bank pledged that it will reduce its coal exposure by half by 2033, though it qualifies that this does not include short-term working capital “that companies will need to transition out of the coal business”. It says it has not been financing any new capacity since 2019.

7 September 2022

Coal power plant, Indonesia, Korean-backed

2 September 2022

Flooding in Mentakab Town central Pahang, Malaysia, in December 2021.

11 September 2020

10 September 2020

6 March 2020

A coal-fired power station on Lamma Island, Hong Kong. Image: Robin Hicks/Eco-Business

21 February 2020

60 per cent of Prudential Singapore's staff are women. A higher female ration has helped the company in two key ways: collaboration and relationship-building. Image: Prudential Singapore

8 February 2019

Brian Reilly, founder and chief executive of Revolv, talks on a panel at Unlocking Capital for Sustainability. Reilly raised US$500,000 from Hong Kong-based hedge fund Sylebra and is looking to secure more funding to aid the company’s launch in Singapore. Image: Eco-Business

24 January 2019

Opening plenary at Unlocking capital

14 February 2018

Eco-Business managing editor Jessica Cheam, Moxie Future founder Jessica Robinson, Standard Chartered Bank executive director, capital solutions, Rahul Sheth, and Georg Kell, chairman, Arabesque, and founding executive director, United Nations Global Compact. Image: Eco-Business

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