Enhance your ESG Knowledge

A sharper strategy for a tougher global landscape Hong Kong’s Green and Sustainable Finance Cross-Agency Steering Group (established May 2020) has set out its Strategic Priorities for 2026–2028 , aiming to strengthen Hong Kong’s competitiveness as a sustainable finance hub amid shifting global expectations. What stands out is the move from building the disclosure “plumbing” to accelerating real-economy outcomes —especially on transition finance and adaptation/resilience fina

Green Bond Principles (GBP) are voluntary guidelines that help issuers raise debt financing specifically for environmentally beneficial projects while giving investors a clearer view of where the money goes. Published by the International Capital Market Association (ICMA) , the GBP are widely treated as the market’s shared “rulebook” for green bond credibility—especially at a time when stakeholders are more alert to greenwashing risk. The Four Core Pillars of the Green Bond

Digital red packets ( e-hongbao ) are often framed as an easy Lunar New Year sustainability win: fewer paper envelopes printed, transported, and discarded. (have you ever think about this topic can related to ESG/ Sustainability?) That benefit is real—especially in high-volume corporate gifting where envelope design, specialty paper, and packaging add up fast. But if ESG conversations stop there, we miss the bigger picture. Dematerialisation shifts impact rather than eliminat

Green Asset Ratio (GAR) is a key performance indicator used mainly by banks (and other credit institutions) to show what share of their assets are financing activities that qualify as environmentally sustainable under the EU Taxonomy . In plain terms: it answers, “How much of this institution’s lending and investments are actually funding ‘green’ economic activity as the EU defines it?” (again as finance guys, we need and like ratios for measurement and monitoring..) What G

What EPR (Extended Producer Responsibility) means EPR? not ERP! Extended Producer Responsibility & Impacts to Corporates Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR) is a policy approach that makes producers financially and/or operationally responsible for what happens to their products and packaging after consumers are finished with them . In plain terms: if a company places packaging on the market, EPR aims to make that company help fund—or directly manage—the collection, sorting