The lack of financing for sustainability transition across companies in emerging markets (EMs) has created a critical gap. With EM corporates facing limited access to dedicated funding pools, it is vital to channel capital into companies that are actively implementing ambitious and measurable sustainability initiatives. By supporting businesses on their journey towards sustainable practices, investors may catalyse positive environmental and social change while generating long-term financial returns.
Over the last decade, EMs and developing economies (EMDEs) have accounted for two-thirds of the world’s energy-related carbon-dioxide (CO2) emissions and 95% of the increase in emissions. Many emerging governments now have decarbonisation goals and are pursuing increasingly credible and ambitious policies to achieve them, but they are held back by an acute shortage of finance. Recognising that investors in EM corporates can make an outsize contribution to global sustainability, HSBC Asset Management has created the GEM Corporate Sustainable Bond Strategy to help fill this funding gap.
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