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- DBS issued a new climate policy to coincide with Singapore’s Year of Climate Action. But gaps in the policy for coal plants in developing markets reveal a strategic disconnect.
- Short-term profits from coal-related activities may prevent DBS from capitalising on longer-term strategic opportunities and raise long-term risks to its reputation and potentially to its loan book.
- This briefing provides background information for investors to work with senior DBS management to review strategic options.