The Covid-19 pandemic highlights the importance of ESG and sustainable finance, with inflows into high-ESG products globally up 40% in Q1 2020 as ESG continues to become mainstream. At the same time, climate risks are rising in Asia, with Bangladesh, China, Indonesia, Japan, India and Vietnam all particularly exposed to rising sea levels and with potential exposure to higher credit risk. Negative environmental and social impacts are starting to become evident in some sectors; therefore ESG monitoring is becoming increasingly critical to management of financial risk also.