HSBC: sustainable finance investment

In 2017, HSBC joined a growing number of the world's largest banks in making a financial commitment to sustainable financing and investments to help projects, technologies, and clean energies in delivery of the Paris Agreement and the UN Sustainable Development Goals. HSBC's financial commitment in 2017 came to a total of 100 billion U.S. dollars by 2025 in the form of facilitation, financing and investments. In the four years included since their commitment, HSBC has so far invested a total of 93 billion U.S. dollars.

Value of sustainable finance investments of HSBC bank from 2017 to 2020, by investment type (in billion U.S. dollars)

Characteristic	Facilitation	Financing	Investments
2020	28.9	8	3.7
2019	16.6	6.2	1.1
2018	11.1	5.3	1.1
2017	10.3	0.5	0.2

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2021

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Worldwide

Survey time period

2017 and 2020

Supplementary notes

The source added the following definitions of finance;

Facilitation - "We provide advisory services to facilitate the flow of capital and to provide access to capital markets. Products include: green, social, and sustainable bonds; debt capital markets; and equity capital markets."
Financing - "We provide lending for specific finance activities. Products include project finance (e.g. financing of renewable infrastructure projects), and green loans (e.g. financing of eligible green products)."
Investments - "We provide investments into defined socially responsible investment (‘SRI’) and low-carbon funds."

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