This guide explores ways to get started in and transition into sustainable finance careers. It focuses on how professionals can build foundational knowledge, apply transferable skills, and take opportunities to create impact. Through expert insights it highlights strategies to navigate evolving roles and align finance with real sustainability outcomes.

The Modern Slavery Goals and Actions Bank helps finance professionals design and oversee credible approaches to identifying, preventing, and addressing modern slavery risks. It provides structured goals, practical actions, and resources to strengthen governance, transparency, accountability, and human rights due diligence across operations, supply chains, and investment decision-making.

This commentary assesses risks of a self-reinforcing “hothouse Earth” trajectory driven by accelerating warming, feedback loops and tipping points. It reviews evidence on climate sensitivity, overshoot scenarios and cascading tipping elements, warning that current emissions pathways heighten irreversible risks and require urgent mitigation and precautionary governance.

Phase 2A of the Hong Kong Taxonomy for Sustainable Finance sets out detailed criteria for classifying environmentally sustainable activities, aligned with international taxonomies. It covers additional sectors, technical screening thresholds, and transition activities, aiming to enhance transparency, comparability and capital allocation towards climate mitigation and adaptation in Hong Kong.

This paper estimates that global temperature increases have far larger macroeconomic damages than local measures suggest. Using time-series evidence and a neoclassical growth model, it finds a 1°C rise reduces world GDP by over 20% long term, implying substantial welfare losses and a high social cost of carbon.

Hong Kong Monetary Authority (HKMA) is Hong Kong’s central banking institution and de facto central bank, established in 1993. It maintains currency stability under the Linked Exchange Rate System, supervises banking and financial institutions, promotes financial system integrity, manages the Exchange Fund and supports Hong Kong’s role as an international financial centre.

Hong Kong Monetary Authority (HKMA) is Hong Kong’s central banking institution and de facto central bank, established in 1993. It maintains currency stability under the Linked Exchange Rate System, supervises banking regulation and financial infrastructure, manages the Exchange Fund and supports Hong Kong’s role as a leading international financial centre.

Top1000funds.com is a market-leading news and analysis platform for institutional investors, focusing on global investment strategies, governance, asset allocation, portfolio management, fees and sustainable investing. It features insights, case studies and investor profiles tailored to pension funds, sovereign wealth funds and other large asset owners.

Top1000funds.com is a market-leading news and analysis site for the world’s largest institutional investors, offering original coverage on investment strategy, governance, portfolio construction, fees, sustainability and asset allocation. It features case studies, research and investor profiles tailored to pension funds, sovereign wealth funds and global asset owners.

Equator Principles is a global risk management framework for financial institutions to identify, assess and manage environmental and social risks when financing large projects. It sets baseline standards for responsible project finance and supports sustainable investment decisions across industries, helping lenders integrate environmental, social and governance (ESG) risk criteria.