ESG: What Must Financial Markets Do to Solve the Climate Crisis – Markets and Securities Services Outlook

There’s a lot of pressure from a variety of stakeholders to consider ESG and sustainability when investing. However, the practical steps on how net-zero targets can be enabled through investment choices is less often discussed. In this podcast, Chris Johnson talks to Patrick Kondarjian, Head of EMEA Wealth Sales and Global ESG product at HSBC Global Markets, Farnam Bidgoli, Head of ESG Solutions at HSBC, and Michael Ridley, Senior Responsible Investment Specialist at HSBC Global Asset Management.

These HSBC experts look at the vast change that’s needed in the real economy, the deployment of capital at scale from the public and private sectors and the shift by issuers towards measuring ESG and sustainability outcomes. They discuss innovative new vehicles to raise financing, how the “greenium” can be overcome and what type of regulatory intervention could be effective in powering change.

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This episode was recorded on 9 June 2021.

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