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Innovation in sustainability
New ideas, tech solutions and business models are key to scaling opportunities. Explore our video series.
Standard Chartered established four Innovation Hubs to help advance emerging areas of sustainability that offer significant potential for scale. Led by subject matter experts, the Innovation Hubs help to drive sustainability ecosystem development and identify breakthrough opportunities and solutions for our clients and markets across four core themes.
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Adaptation Finance
Alex Kennedy, Head, Sustainable Finance Solutions, Adaptation and Resilience, explains how we can help businesses and communities adapt to climate change.
Blended Finance Programmes
John Murton, Senior Sustainability Advisor, explains why we need public and private capital to help bridge the sustainable development financing gap.
Carbon Markets
Chris Leeds, Head, Carbon Markets Development and Zarak Pasha, Head, Carbon Finance, outline the potential of high-integrity carbon markets.
Nature Positive Solutions
Oliver Withers, Head, Nature, outlines why we need to further integrate nature and biodiversity into financial products and decision making.
How we approach sustainability
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.