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Your insight into sustainable finance
The Green Bond is SEB's research publication that strives to bring you the latest insight into the world of sustainable finance.
Even though the publication covers all kinds of products and developments in the sustainable finance market, we decided to keep its historic name – "The Green Bond” – as tribute to our role as a pioneer in the Green Bond market.
The latest issue of SEB’s The Green Bond report is dedicated to the role of artificial intelligence in accelerating the transition towards a net-zero economy. We think the impact will turn out to be profound, eventually opening the door for a circular production model.
GDP has decoupled from CO2 emissions, but global investment is still too low to halt the increase in the temperature level. Western governments cannot match China's investment levels. However, we think AI can help both reduce emissions and create a more sustainable production model.
Amid fading hopes for interest rate cuts, growth in sustainable borrowing has tapered off. Europe reached record levels in sustainable bond market share in Jan-May 2024, but political headwinds are mounting. In the equity market clean equity prices are decoupling from sustainable fund flows.
China’s 1+N policy framework aims to peak carbon emissions before 2030 and achieve carbon neutrality by 2060. Despite rapid renewable energy growth, coal consumption continues to rise. To achieve its targets, China must increase investments in energy efficiency and industrial electrification, which creates business opportunities for leading global technology providers.
Through autonomous vehicles, humanoid robots, and novel renewable materials, etc., AI holds the potential to become the first major catalyst for systemic transformation, and usher in a paradigm shift from ownership to usership of physical goods and products- prospectively enabling the incentive change needed for a globally scaled circular economy.
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