A ground-breaking new report and technical appendix, Unlocking Capital: Aligning Asia Pacific’s Green Building Rating Tools to the ASEAN Taxonomy for Sustainable Finance, provides the first focused analysis of how green building certification systems align with sustainable finance principles and the ASEAN Taxonomy’s environmental objectives (technical screening criteria and do no significant harm criteria). The report goes deeper than any before offering a credit-by-credit analysis of 32 rating tools across 16 schemes, covering all of Asia Pacific and beyond.
Developed by the World Green Building Council’s (WorldGBC) Asia Pacific Regional Network (APN) and OCBC, this report fills a critical knowledge gap between technical building performance and investor expectations
The comprehensive technical appendix offers an unprecedented level of transparency and granularity, mapping each tool’s criteria, credit by credit, against the ASEAN Taxonomy’s Technical Screening Criteria and “Do No Significant Harm” principles. This detailed alignment provides stakeholders with exceptional visibility into how the built environment can meet sustainable finance expectations. As such, the appendix serves as an un-paralleled and invaluable resource for stakeholders across geographies seeking to advance green buildings and mobilise capital for the transition.
