The South Asian country's decades-long conservation efforts, bolstered by Restore Bhutan’s goal of bringing 50,000 hectares of degraded landscapes back to health by 2030, have earned the kingdom a place among the 2026 Earthshot Prize finalists.
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As industrialisation, digital infrastructure and climate pressures reshape demand, companies are being pushed to look beyond how much water they consume and ask whether the wider systems they depend on can sustain long-term growth.
Investors need a clearer way to measure and value resilience as Asia faces rising climate risks, according to Singapore's financial regulator, with the absence of a common metric making adaptation harder to finance at scale.