Financing sustainability: Asia Pacific embraces the ESG challenge
Financing sustainability: Asia Pacific embraces the ESG challenge
Financing sustainability: Asia Pacific embraces the ESG challenge is an Economist Intelligence Unit report, sponsored by Westpac. It explores the drivers of sustainable finance growth in Asia Pacific as well as the factors constraining it. The analysis is based on two parallel surveys—one of investors and one of issuers—conducted in September and October 2019.
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Financing sustainability: How do investors and issuers in APAC's sustainable finance market view the present market opportunities and constraints?
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Infrastructure | How will covid-19 reshape key Australian industries?
Critically, when the pandemic broke out, construction was declared an ‘essential service’ by the federal government. Work was permitted to continue, with social distancing measures applied. This came as a relief to many in the infrastructure and construction sectors, as site workers cannot work remotely, and many construction projects were being halted globally. New Zealand and Singapore, for example, took a stricter view of ‘non-essential’ projects, allowing only those that supported critical infrastructure or related to immediate health or life safety risks to continue.
The federal government elected not to issue a shut-down order in recognition of construction and infrastructure’s critical contribution to Australia’s economy. Construction is the nation’s third largest industry and accounted for 8% of Australia’s gross value added in 2018-19 for a value of A$32.9bn (US$23bn) in the first quarter of 2020.2 It also employs 9% of working age Australians.3
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1 Record infrastructure spend the new normal, 2019 Australian Infrastructure Audit warns, Infrastructure Australia, The Australian Government, 13th August 2019 2 Australian System of National Accounts 2018-2019, Australian Bureau of Statistics 3 Australian Government Labour Market Information PortalCan disruptive technologies bolster the competitiveness of North American Banks?
Can disruptive technologies bolster the competitiveness of North American Banks?
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