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Climate adaptation and resilience need its own investment language: MAS
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.
A study of local businesses by UN Global Compact finds a three-year downward trend in transparency on sustainability goals. Three in four Singaporean firms have delayed targets or made revisions, but most say sustainability remains a priority.
Polisi & Kewangan
ISSB unveils new tool to guide regulators in standards adoption
The tool launches as companies struggle to measure and report Scope 3 emissions due to a lack of established methodologies.
Polisi & Kewangan
Trade wars have made Europe and the US ‘higher risk’ markets – and it’s all to do with labour, says LRQA
Studio EB
“Homeshoring”, or moving production back to a company’s home country, to counter geopolitical tensions is driving demand for low-cost migrant workers, raising labour risks in markets once deemed “low risk”, says the global assurance firm.
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‘Heat is no equaliser’: Women and households may be forced to bear cost of Super El Niño
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US tech leaders are urgently calling for rules on AI – China already has them
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Asia Pacific sees highest heat-related productivity losses at US$2.4 trillion: MSCI study
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Taiwan’s tea growers rethink farming as climate pressures intensify
Alishan, a mountain region in central Taiwan, is famous for producing the prized high-mountain tea, but its tea …
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