"The SITAWI team then identified in early 2021 ten trends that will emerge or solidify on the ESG agenda.

1. Performance-based sustainable debt instruments will outpace resource-related instruments

2. Banks become relevant issuers of ESG bonds

3. Sustainable funds grow, diversify and attract investor attention

4. Impact assessment will be increasingly present in ESG analysis frameworks

5. Increased volume of ESG resources starts to move capital and prices in the economy

6. Climate change on the way to compliance by Financial Institutions

7. Brazilian companies respond to Brazil's loss of environmental prestige

8. Positioning of investors facing social, environmental and climate challenges

9. Alignment of executive compensation with sustainability goals

10. ESG themes enter in a structured way in boards and committees"