Can Singapore’s new taxonomy fill the regulatory vacuum in ‘transition finance’ for Asia and beyond?

While the EU Taxonomy is the “gold standard” for green finance, an equivalent for transition finance is notably absent. Market participants have welcomed the new guide from Singapore’s central bank, but whether it emerges as a widely used standard remains to be seen.

Singapore’s central bank has become among the first in the world to define what counts as “transition” investments with its recently launched sustainable finance classification system, or taxonomy.

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