Joanne Khew, ESG specialist at Eastspring Investments, shares her view on the importance of bondholder engagement, as well as how investors in green, social, sustainability and sustainability-linked (GSSS) bonds can stimulate discussions around the Paris Agreement and the UN's Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).
She was speaking on the sidelines of Environmental Finance's ESG in Fixed Income Asia 2022 conference in Singapore.
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