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Corporate & Investment Banking
Industries in Transition
Uncover new insights as businesses and sectors transition towards more sustainable practices.
Featured insights
Industries in Transition explores the latest perspectives as businesses and sectors across Asia, Africa and the Middle East transition towards more sustainable business practices. Discover the latest trends, from energy security to carbon markets, as organisations decarbonise and invest in long-term value creation.
Building a low-carbon steel corridor
The Middle East and Europe are shaping a low-carbon steel corridor. Explore what businesses need to turn this cross-regional opportunity into reality.
Unpacking the role of carbon markets
What are the differences between mandatory and voluntary carbon markets, and how can organisations engage in opportunities across each?
Powering sustainability in Singapore
Discover how private capital can help facilitate sustainable outcomes in Singapore.
Supporting carbon removals
Carbon removals offer significant potential for scale as appetite for innovative solutions grows.
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Episode 5
Power and utilities: clean energy trajectories amid a rapidly changing global trade environment
As the demand for energy continues to grow, the power and utilities sector is transforming and the experience of renewable energy projects around the world is varied. In this episode of Industries in Transition, Standard Chartered’s Isabelle Chastagner, Leah Li Zhang and Abbas Husain discuss how innovation, policy shifts and investment in low-carbon technologies are driving progress.
Developed by Bain & Company, GenZero, Google, Standard Chartered, and Temasek, The SEA Green Economy report 2025 identifies how systems-level solutions, key enabling solutions, and collaboration with APAC markets could unlock emission reductions and deliver new economic value and jobs for the region by 2030.
Episode 4: GenZero
Developing interoperable carbon markets
What are the barriers to scaling carbon markets and developing interoperable carbon markets across Southeast Asia? Hear from Justin Ma, Executive Director of Sustainable Finance for ASEAN and Anshari Rahman, Director of Policy and Analytics at GenZero as they discuss strategies to develop the policies and infrastructure that are necessary to scale carbon markets in the region.
Episode 3
Technologies to reduce carbon today
Experts from Cur8 and Puro earth unpack the carbon removal solutions making an impact.
Client stories
What Chint did in improving renewable energy in Portugal
How we supported Chint with EUR420m financing, securing 5.5GW new solar …
Case study: USD280 mn green loan for AI-ready data centre
The rapid growth of artificial intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (M…
Case study: Catalysing cleantech with private capital
To achieve net zero emissions by 2050, Asia needs USD37 trillion worth o…
Mobilising capital to support the transition
We develop solutions that meet diverse financing needs for our clients and across our markets, mobilising capital to finance new technologies and low-carbon infrastructure projects that facilitate and scale growth.
Standard Chartered has an important role to play in supporting our clients, sectors and markets to deliver net zero, but to do so in a manner that supports livelihoods and promotes sustainable economic growth. We currently provide financial services to clients, sectors and markets that contribute to greenhouse gas emissions however we’re committed to net zero in our own operations by 2025 and in our financed emissions by 2050.