In recent years, the COP21 Paris Agreement, the UN Sustainable Development Goals, the increasing severe weather, and forest fires have pushed climate change towards the top of the investor agenda. The financial services sector has a critical role to play in mobilising capital to meet this challenge. Leading capital market institutions are defining how they can move beyond incremental to transformational transactions and sustainable finance can form part of their day-to-day strategic activities. (source: Ireland for Finance: The strategy for the development of Ireland’s international financial services sector to 2025)