Iceland consistently ranks as the most gender-equal country in the world, according to the World Economic Forum’s Global Gender Gap report. The “land of fire and ice” also has an abundance of renewable energy, with almost 100 per cent of energy consumed by the country coming from renewable sources such as geothermal energy.
But even countries that are in relatively good shape on gender and climate still need to tap the ESG bond markets, as Iceland’s minister of finance and economic affairs, Sigurður Ingi Jóhannsson, told The Banker.