[Feb 21, 2024 – Beijing] The first monthly webinar hosted by the Capacity-building Alliance of Sustainable Investment (CASI) was held on Wednesday February 21st, 2024. Entitled “2024 Sustainable Financial Market and Policy Outlook”, the webinar attracted over 110 participants from global financial firms, financial associations, international organizations, service providers and universities.

In this two-hour event, speakers from both advanced and emerging markets were invited to share their insights, through keynote speeches and a panel discussion, on the latest market trends for sustainable finance products as well as policy and regulatory outlook. 

In the keynote speeches, top experts in global sustainable finance sector, including Dr Ma Jun, Chairman of CASI and President of IFS; Sean Kidney, CEO of Climate Bonds Initiative; Jingdong Hua, Vice-Chair of ISSB and Nicholas Pfaff, Deputy CEO of ICMA, shared the latest international trends and innovative practices in sustainable finance.

Their speeches covered different perspectives of sustainable finance, including policy frameworks, standards, green bonds, capital markets and sustainable disclosures, while all of them called for enhanced international cooperation and emphasized the importance of capacity building, especially in the emerging markets and developing economies where CASI is actively engaged to promote green finance and sustainable investment.

In the panel discussion, panelists from both advanced and developing economies shared valuable insights on sustainable finance trends and market expectations from the perspectives of banks, asset managers and industrial associations. They also shared concerns about the risks of greenwashing given their roles as market participants of sustainable finance.

A summary of discussions will be posted on CASI’s website, which is  under development and scheduled for launch in March. At the event, CASI Secretariat also indicated co-hosting opportunities in future Monthly Webinar/Seminars and announced the next event scheduled for March 25th in Hong Kong. CASI will also update other upcoming events and activities on its website, including the first major in-person event in Sao Paulo, Brazil for Latin America in early April and second one in Hong Kong for Asia in June.

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The Capacity-building Alliance of Sustainable Investment (CASI) is an international cooperation platform aiming to deliver higher-quality and higher-impact sustainable finance capacity building services for developing countries. As a global aggregator and distributor of sustainable finance knowledge, CASI is dedicated to delivering sustainable finance capacity building services in various formats, including monthly seminars, with the ambition of training 100,000 individuals by 2030. Since its official launch during COP28 in Dubai, 50 Chinese and global leading institutions in sustainable finance have joined CASI as members.

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