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Manufacturing

Indonesia can build a green steel industry, but only if the government creates the market

Green steel faces weak domestic demand in Indonesia, as prices remain 30 to 60 per cent higher than conventional alternatives.
Telok Ayer, Singapore

Corporate Responsibility

ESG is fragmenting – how should businesses respond?

ESG is meant to align environmental, social and governance priorities. But companies are increasingly being forced to choose between competing issues as ESG starts to break apart. How should companies rethink their approach?
Osaka_Skyline_Trees

Policy & Finance

Sustainable economies will own the future

The Covid-19 pandemic and the wars in Ukraine and Iran have reframed the issue of sustainability, which is now as much about sovereignty and economic security as it is about planetary health. Countries and companies that fail to recognise this have everything to lose in the coming years.
Hòa Bình Dam in Vietnam

Corporate Responsibility

Sustainability reporting tools must bridge impacts of local businesses and Earth’s limits

Sustainability standards and ratings do not generate enough information for businesses to understand their environmental impacts across scales and create mitigation plans to avoid further transgression of planetary boundaries.

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Policy & Finance

While the West retreats, Asia powers ahead on sustainable finance

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Corporate Responsibility

Can ethical supply chains survive the tariff storm?

19 August 2025

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Corporate Responsibility

Building inclusive economies: Lessons from East Asia’s social innovation ecosystems

18 August 2025

China Development Bank

Policy & Finance

China’s lending to the Global South has been growing more commercial

25 July 2025

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Policy & Finance

Nature risk is financial risk

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Policy & Finance

Asian universities rise in global sustainability leadership rankings

22 July 2025

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Energy

Rethinking energy security in a net zero world

25 June 2025

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Policy & Finance

Trump's assault on ESG is not killing it. It is forcing it to evolve

17 June 2025

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Policy & Finance

Political changes don’t weaken the case for green business

26 March 2025

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Policy & Finance

A critical year for finance could shape fairer, more sustainable mining

25 March 2025

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Policy & Finance

Central banks must stem the nature crisis

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Carbon & Climate

Sustainability in an unstable world

17 March 2025

AIIB headquarters in Beijing, China

Policy & Finance

If US attempts World Bank retreat, the China-led AIIB could be poised to step in – and provide a model of global cooperation

14 February 2025

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Policy & Finance

Trump’s second term is not the end of ESG, but a crossroads moment

27 January 2025

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Policy & Finance

The Fed is running scared of Trump

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