The UK Mission to ASEAN officially launched the Green Finance portfolio of the ASEAN–UK Green Transition Fund (GTF) during the ASEAN Business and Investment Summit (ABIS) 2025 in Kuala Lumpur. The launch aims to mobilise green finance to accelerate ASEAN’s transition to a low-carbon, climate-resilient economy.
The Green Finance Pillar of the ASEAN–UK GTF provides targeted support including project preparation assistance, matchmaking for financing, voluntary carbon market ecosystem support, capacity-building for financial institutions’ nature-related disclosures, and development of transition finance plans aligned with the ASEAN Regional Investment Promotion Action Plan.
Her Excellency Helen Fazey, UK Ambassador to ASEAN, said, “Green investment can drive core ambitions: mitigating climate change and biodiversity loss; unlocking more climate and development finance and mobilising the private sector to help deliver growth and jobs. Our work under the ASEAN–UK Green Transition Fund is gathering momentum.”
Rifki Weno, Executive Director of the ASEAN Business Advisory Council, welcomed the UK’s support for the ASEAN business community, while panel discussions at the event highlighted the need to connect high-quality climate projects with financing and investment. Experts also emphasised how transition finance plans and disclosure standards by financial institutions could strengthen finance for nature projects.
The launch reinforces the UK’s commitment to facilitating sustainable investments in ASEAN through technical assistance, capacity-building, and strategic financing partnerships.
