Hong Kong’s Core Climate aims to facilitate trading of carbon credits, while the Hub plans to expedite Singapore’s ESG ecosystem growth.

By Farhana Sharmeen, Paul A. Davies, and James Bee

On 28 October 2022, the Hong Kong Exchange and Clearing Limited (HKEX) launched Core Climate, Hong Kong’s International Carbon Marketplace. The birth of Core Climate is a further step toward the growth of ESG initiatives in Asia, which are gaining particular traction among the continent’s stock exchanges.

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