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Policy & Finance

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.
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Corporate Responsibility

Fewer Singaporean firms are declaring sustainability targets amid delayed reporting rules

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.
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Policy & Finance

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.
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Policy & Finance

Trade wars have made Europe and the US ‘higher risk’ markets – and it’s all to do with labour, says LRQA

EB Studio “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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