The world is seeing new hope in combating Climate Change as a growing number of carbon neutrality pledges are announced by both developed economies and emerging markets. In Asia, China took the lead in setting the target to reach peak emissions before 2030 and carbon neutrality by 2060, followed by Japan and South Korea. That said, the decarbonisation journey would not be possible without a gigantic amount of investment in low carbon transitions...

This month we published our latest Policy Brief “Charting a New Path for Latin America’s Electric Utilities after COVID” by our Non-Resident Fellow, Andres Chambouleyron. Chris Sladen, our newest Energy & Sustainability Non-Resident Fellow, contributed the Global Context for the Policy Brief.

Contributions can be made on the BCB website until Friday April 23rd

ISCA will host an online forum to provide updates about our business improvement projects and some of the exciting innovations happening in 2021 - with a particular focus on the work we are doing on the IS Rating Scheme.

The Dubai International Financial Centre (DIFC) launched an initiative to support innovation, creativity and entrepreneurship in the region. Although introduced in August 2020 we are now seeing this licensing model successfully in operation for numerous clients.

In a world that faces critical environmental and social challenges, the importance of finance, and more specifically of sustainable finance, is being recognized globally as it plays a key role in attaining the sustainable development global goals and it gives market participants the opportunity to act in a responsible way. Sustainable finance approaches and instruments are fundamental to incentivise the transition to more sustainable practices,...

As Mainland China managed to achieve a V-shape recovery in the economy post Covid-19, the burst in M&A activities since the second half of last year helped record a 52.6% full year increase compared to 2019. Deal-making in Mainland China in 2020 alone, mounted 56.5% year-on-year to USD 463.9bn, while Hong Kong M&A activity increased by 0.7% year-on-year to USD 22bn over the same period.

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The Department for Trade & Investment – South Australia in partnership with the Annual Investment Meeting (AIM), invites you to join the Invest in South Australia – Opportunities Webinar.

EGYPT – IFC, a member of the World Bank Group has partnered with ALEXBANK, an Egyptian private bank to provide financing to farmers to enable them transition to use of sustainable irrigation systems.