Financing the future: sovereigns’ strategies for accelerating the energy transition
Theme 3

Energy supply chains
Geopolitical tensions and climate change highlight the need for secure, sustainable energy supply chains, elevating renewables in investors’ priorities.


Alignment with objectives
Sovereign funds and central banks favour direct green infrastructure investments and green bond allocations to align with their objectives.
Green bonds
To tackle greenwashing, investors adopt a proactive stance, embracing development risks and issuing green bonds, ensuring genuine ESG alignment.

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Footnotes
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1 McKinsey & Co as at June 2022. “Value creation in the metaverse: The real business of the virtual world”, page 6. McKinsey & Co is a global management consulting firm.
2 Citi Research as at March 2022. “Metaverse and Money: Decrypting the Future”, page 12. The ‘total addressable market’ (the overall revenue opportunity that is available to a product or service. A device-agnostic Metaverse would be accessible via personal computers, game consoles and smartphones, resulting in a large ecosystem. Using this broad definition, total Metaverse users would number around five billion.
3 The compound annual growth rate, or CAGR, measures the average annual growth rate of an investment over a period of several years.