Attaining net-zero for the planet will be impossible if companies don’t reduce their carbon footprint. Still, the transition journey is complicated and financing can be especially tricky. That is where sustainability-linked bonds can prove useful. SLBs are a nascent instrument yet in a short time the market has taken off. Asia Pacific saw US$0.2bn of deals sold in 2020, but by last year the volumes had grown more than 70 times to US$15.1bn-equivalent.1 Companies’ interest in sustaina