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How are our clients transitioning to a more sustainable future?
As the world changes, we understand our customers have evolving needs to unlock opportunity for sustainable growth and a need to act with our ecosystem of resources, tools, relationships and solutions.
Sustainability for Businesses
Our sustainability strategy has, at its core, a commitment to support our customers understand and act on their transition to lower emissions and to help them achieve their wider sustainability ambitions.
Sustainable finance is not one size fits all.
The customer stories in this booklet are examples of how we work in partnership with our customers across a wide range of sectors and geographies, mobilising finance and accelerating innovation to realise the opportunity to build a more sustainable, resilient, and prosperous future.
Today we finance a number of industries that significantly contribute to greenhouse gas emissions. We have a strategy to help our customers to reduce their emissions and to reduce our own. For more information visit www.hsbc.com/sustainability
In the guide:
- Bangladesh’s first gender equality indexed loan
- The first social loan principles-based financing in Bangladesh
- Mauritius’ first green bond for socially responsible investments
- Sustainability-Linked Loan for a vegetable grower and trader in New Zealand
- Sustainable commercial Letter of Credit to fund wind farms in the Philippines
- Green trade loan for installation of solar panels across Sri Lanka
- Tailored sustainable finance solution for a garment maker in Taiwan
- The world’s first sustainable exchangeable bond in Vietnam
- Green building loan to support a green development project in Macau
With our global scale, deep expertise and strong presence in emerging markets, we’re playing an important role in the transition to a more sustainable world and through policy and partnerships. We are committed to:
- Aiming to provide USD750bn – USD1trn of sustainable finance and investment to support customer transitions and a sustainable future
- Accelerating new climate solutions in areas such as nature, clean technology, and sustainable infrastructure
- Inspiring and partnering with our customers to invest to support positive change
- Influencing the global policy agenda to promote a just and inclusive transition
- Aligning our financed emissions – the greenhouse gas emissions of our portfolio of clients – to net zero by 2050
Whether you need guidance, financing or insights, we can support your business to prepare for the transition.
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