USAID Announces Renewable Energy Transaction Assistance for Vietnam
Vietnam’s current investment in energy, infrastructure, and health is insufficient to meet the country’s growth and development objectives.
Why Sustainability Has Become Key to Retaining Manufacturing Talent
Employees are growing increasingly unafraid of bringing their personal values to work, and companies that do not respect their concerns are at risk of being considered unattractive employers.
Exparts Show Resilience and Optimism for the Future Globally
The key reason driving optimism is their hope to live ‘normally’ again (75%), but six in ten (61%) are also feeling positive because of the quality of life they will be able to enjoy.
ADB Raises 2019–2030 Climate Finance Ambition To $100 Billion
In 2018, ADB committed to ensuring at least 75% of the total number of its operations support climate action and its own climate finance resources reach at least a cumulative $80 billion by 2030.
Vietnam’s Development Agenda Receives Additional Boost by Australia, World Bank Group
The ABP will continue its work on gender equality and the sustainable development of the Mekong Delta.
HSBC Blows its Green Support to Wind Energy Sector of Vietnam
In this very first cooperation, PCC1 has been working closely with HSBC Vietnam to go through HSBC’s stringent credit approval and management process of sustainable financing controlled by HSBC Asia Pacific Sustainable Loans Committee.
Standard Chartered Lowers Vietnam’s 2021 Growth Forecast to 2.7%, Maintains 2022 Forecast at 7%
The economist anticipates the State Bank of Vietnam (SBV) to keep its policy rate on hold at 4.0% to support credit growth and remain vigilant against inflation risks, which are driven by supply-side factors.
Reforms Could Ensure Higher Growth Rates as Vietnam’s Population Ages
With falling birth rates and a rising life expectancy, Vietnam’s elderly are expected to account for between 10% to just under 20% of its population by 2035.
New U.S.-funded Project to Promote Vietnam's Economic Growth through Technological Transformation
After decades as one of the world’s fastest-growing economies, Vietnam’s industry and services sectors are entering a new phase of growth propelled by the brain power of an expanding young workforce.
HSBC and Temasek Launch Partnership to Catalyse Sustainable Infrastructure Projects in Asia
HSBC and Temasek will invest up to a combined US$150 million of equity to fund loans, working alongside the platform’s strategic partners in the initial phase.
Vinpearl Successfully Issued the World’s first Exchangeable Sustainable Bond
As Sole Sustainability Structuring Bank, HSBC supported Vingroup in developing its inaugural Sustainable Finance Framework (the “Framework”), which includes six green and two social project categories across Vingroup's business segments.
The Global Supply of Coffee Constrained by Lockdowns in Vietnam, Fitch Says
Vietnam’s COVID-19 lockdown has constrained the global supply of coffee — and coffee prices could remain “relatively high” through 2022, said Fitch Solutions on an article released by CNBC.