Eco-Business

Cities: Possibilities Forum Insights 2024

This special report explores the pressing challenges facing the built environment sector – from decarbonising the property value chain and greening urban infrastructure, to regenerative nature-based solutions and unlocking long-term …

20 Nov 2025

Transitioning industrial clusters: Decarbonising Asia’s economy via digitalisation

This special report explores how transitioning industrial clusters can play a pivotal role in achieving net zero ambitions in Malaysia, why digital transformation is central to this shift, and what …

4 Nov 2025

Unlocking capital for sustainability Insights Report 2024

The world is just five years away from a deadline to implement the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, part of a comprehensive global blueprint to reconcile economic progress with environmental …

17 Mar 2025

On November 27, 2024, Fair Finance Asia (FFA) launched a new report, Towards a Gender-Transformative Energy Transition in Asia, which reveals critical gaps in the consideration of gender equality and …

5 Dec 2024

S&P Global CSO roundtable: Insights report

Nature and biodiversity risk has been rising up the agenda for sustainability executives since a landmark agreement was reached at COP15 to protect 30 per cent of the Earth’s land …

2 Oct 2024

Rethinking Plastics: How the Extended Producer Responsibility Act will pave the way towards circularity in the Philippines

Filipinos consumed 2.15 million tonnes of plastic in 2019. Of this, only around 9 per cent were recycled, with 33 per cent being sent to sanitary landfills and open dumpsites. …

10 Oct 2023

Generative AI’s incredible speed of sinking into our everyday lives came in like a tsunami. At a record-breaking, tech-pandemic’ish growth rate, OpenAI’s ChatGPT registered users reached 1 million within 5 …

1 Mar 2023

On greener pastures: Global Sustainability Funds Development 2021-2022

Global sustainability assets saw a bumper year in 2021, up US$1 trillion to reach a total of US$2.74 trillion. While Europe still dominates the sustainable investment space with 80% of …

14 Oct 2022

In this report, we reviewed the developing trends of China's sustainable funds. We found the sustainability-focused funds in China shrank 11% in the first half of 2022 compared with the …

14 Oct 2022

Banking Asia’s future: how to align with national climate plans

Asia's governments have declared long-term net-zero targets and are introducing regulation to spur action in the short to medium term across the region's economies. Asia's banks have a choice. They …

5 Apr 2022

Are "green finance" and climate change gaining traction in the Asian financial sector? We reviewed the practices of 88 leading financial institutions across Asia-Pacific to find out. We discovered growing …

30 Jul 2021