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Hong Kong Launches International Carbon Marketplace, Singapore Introduces ESG Hub

Posted on November 7, 2022
Posted in Environmental, Social, and Governance

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.

HKEX hopes that Core Climate will support the global energy transition by facilitating an effective and transparent trading of carbon credits. Participants on the Core Climate platform will be able to trade, hold, settle, source, and retire voluntary carbon credits, and the platform’s carbon credits will come from internationally certified projects around the world, including carbon avoidance, reduction, and removal projects. All projects listed on Core Climate are verified against international standards, but whether HKEX will publish a specific list of international standards acceptable for this purpose is not clear at this stage.

Greek Sustainability Initiative Promotes Cooperation Between Competitors

Posted on October 2, 2020
Posted in Environmental, Social, and Governance, European Environmental and Public Law

The initiative includes a competition law sustainability “sandbox” in which market participants could team up to work on sustainable business projects.

By David Little and Pierre Bichet

The Greek Competition Authority (HCC) has announced a public consultation on how competition law rules might be adapted to promote more sustainable business practices. The HCC published a Staff Discussion Paper and held a digital conference to launch the consultation.

The HCC’s exploratory proposals outline a number of novel concepts, including: (1) the creation of a competition law sustainability “sandbox” in which market participants could team up to work on sustainable business projects with some measure of protection from competition rules; and (2) the establishment of an “Advice Unit” comprising experts from different regulatory authorities who could provide informal advice on sustainability-related initiatives. The proposals also envisage the publication of general guidelines defining the contours of legitimate cooperation between rivals on sustainability projects.

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