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Green and Sustainable Finance Assessment and Verification Service

Responsible investment and Green Finance have been growing rapidly in the global market. To cope with the trends, HKQAA offers a range of Green and Sustainable finance assessment and verification services to suit different needs of issuers, borrowers and financial institutions.

Services:

Service name	Criteria	Deliverable
Use of proceeds instrument
1. Greenness assessment for green loan	Alignment with APLMA, LMA, LSTA Green Loan Principles	Assessment Conclusion
2. Second-party Opinion on Green/ Sustainable Finance Framework	Alignment with Green/ Social Loan/ Bond Principles; or Sustainability Bond Guidelines	Second-party Opinion Report
3. Green/ Sustainable Finance Report Verification	The issuer’s Green/ Sustainable Finance Framework	Verification Report and Verification Statement
General Corporate Purposes Instrument
4. Sustainability-linked Loan (SLL) Assessment	Alignment with APLMA, LMA, LSTA Sustainability-linked Loan Principles	Assessment Conclusion
5. Second-party Opinion on Sustainability-linked Loan (SLL)/ Sustainability-linked Bond (SLB) Framework	Alignment with APLMA, LMA, LSTA Sustainability-linked Loan Principles or ICMA Sustainability-linked Bond Principles	Second-party Opinion Report
6. SLL/ SLB Report Verification	The definitions of KPI specified in the legal documentation or Framework	Verification Report and Verification Statement

Benefits:

Demonstrate issuers or borrowers' effort in improving and promoting sustainability environments;
Enhance the transparency and stakeholder confidence on the green or sustainable debt instrument via independent, impartial third-party conformity assessments;
The use of debt for improving the sustainability profile of the issuers or borrowers may result in secondary financial benefits such as lower operating costs;
Enable companies better communicate their sustainability strategy to relevant stakeholders.