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Pat Dwyer, founder of The Purpose Business, and Outi Grüner

News / Corporate Responsibility

Hong Kong sustainability consultancy The Purpose Business opens Singapore office

The Purpose Business (TPB), a Hong Kong-based sustainability consultancy, has opened a Singapore office and appointed former Asian Venture Philanthropy Network (AVPN) executive Outi Grüner as sustaina...

29 Sep 2022

Hong Kong sustainability consultancy The Purpose Business opens Singapore office

News / Policy & Finance

CDP's new global focus does not change that Asia is central to our strategy: impact chief Nikki Bartlett

A recent restructure of global not-for-profit CDP was not designed to see power shift away from Asia Pacific – a region that has been growing in strategic importance – but to ensure that APAC staff ar...

14 Mar 2024

CDP's new global focus does not change that Asia is central to our strategy: impact chief Nikki Bartlett

Press Releases / Forum for the Future

As social, climate crises intensify, sustainability movement must move beyond ‘short-term and piecemeal fixes’

International sustainability non-profit Forum for the Future has today announced its 2023-2025 strategy outlining three pivotal "transitions" that it will focus on in its efforts to create a "just and...

6 Sep 2022

As social, climate crises intensify, sustainability movement must move beyond ‘short-term and piecemeal fixes’

News / Policy & Finance

India’s green bonds framework comes with a lot of promise, but also grey areas

India released the framework for its Sovereign Green Bonds scheme last month. The objective of the scheme, announced first by finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman in the 2022 budget speech, is to f...

19 Dec 2022

India’s green bonds framework comes with a lot of promise, but also grey areas

Opinion / Policy & Finance

Lessons from COVAX could help vaccine equity

Most early deaths caused by COVID-19 happened in developing economies. The global scale of the pandemic made clear where most vaccines are distributed and who bears the disproportionate health burden ...

25 Apr 2022

Lessons from COVAX could help vaccine equity

News / Energy

Malaysia lifts renewable energy export ban, move welcomed in Singapore

The Malaysian government has lifted its ban on renewable energy exports, a much-anticipated move that experts say will boost the local renewables sector and benefit neighbouring Singapore. In a slew o...

10 May 2023

Malaysia lifts renewable energy export ban, move welcomed in Singapore

News / Policy & Finance

Corporate governance structures in Asia: Does where the sustainability function sits affect a company’s climate strategy?

One way to tell if a company is prone to greenwashing is to look at where the sustainability function sits in the corporate structure. If the sustainability team is more closely linked to the communic...

29 Aug 2023

Corporate governance structures in Asia: Does where the sustainability function sits affect a company’s climate strategy?

News / Food & Agriculture

Palm oil buyers compromise no-deforestation pledges by sourcing from conglomerates with logging, mining assets

Consumer goods firms, retailers and banks with commitments to cut deforestation out of their supply chains and financial portfolios risk tarnishing their green pledges by buying from Southeast Asian c...

17 Jan 2023

Palm oil buyers compromise no-deforestation pledges by sourcing from conglomerates with logging, mining assets

Press Releases / Asian Development Bank

ADB, Indonesia partners sign MOU on retirement of first coal power plant under Energy Transition Mechanism

The Asian Development Bank (ADB) today joined with key partners in Indonesia to sign a memorandum of understanding (MOU) to jointly explore the early retirement of the first coal-fired power plant own...

14 Nov 2022

ADB, Indonesia partners sign MOU on retirement of first coal power plant under Energy Transition Mechanism

News / Policy & Finance

‘Scarcely any firms’ in Southeast Asia received sustainable financing: World Bank

Fewer than 100 firms across five Southeast Asian countries have tapped into sustainable financing over the past five years, according to a new report by the World Bank, with small and medium-sized ent...

30 Nov 2022

‘Scarcely any firms’ in Southeast Asia received sustainable financing: World Bank

Press Releases / ESG DAO

NEAR Protocol partners with ESG DAO to support creation of 'OpenESG,' an open and credibly neutral ESG scoring system

Zug, Switzerland: ESG DAO, the United Kingdom entity that is building a global, decentralised and real-time Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) rating protocol, has partnered with NEAR Protocol...

25 Nov 2022

NEAR Protocol partners with ESG DAO to support creation of 'OpenESG,' an open and credibly neutral ESG scoring system

News / Energy

Weaning Philippine banks away from coal cannot be done overnight—Central Bank chief

Philippine banks continue to finance coal despite making pledges to stop funding coal-power projects because reducing dependency on the fossil fuel cannot be done immediately, according to Bangko Sent...

23 May 2022

Weaning Philippine banks away from coal cannot be done overnight—Central Bank chief

Press Releases / Protenga

Protenga welcomes The Yield Lab Asia Pacific support in expansion of smart insect farm production platform

As we look back onto an eventful and successful 2022, we are delighted to welcome The Yield Lab Asia Pacific as our latest investor in Protenga, with the first close of our current funding round. SEED...

4 Jan 2023

Protenga welcomes The Yield Lab Asia Pacific support in expansion of smart insect farm production platform

Press Releases / Suryanesia

Suryanesia raises $2 million to drive commercial, industrial adoption of solar power in Indonesia

Suryanesia, an Indonesian clean energy company, today announced the completion of a US$2 million seed round of financing led by Intudo Ventures, with participation from a number of angel investors tha...

4 Jan 2023

Suryanesia raises $2 million to drive commercial, industrial adoption of solar power in Indonesia

News / Policy & Finance

Fossil fuel financing decline in 2022 a 'blip' as oil majors plot expansion

...equities in 2022 from the world's top 60 banks, down from US$801 billion in 2021, the study titled Banking on Climate Chaos found. There were significant declines in financing for coal power, with Chi...

18 Apr 2023

Fossil fuel financing decline in 2022 a 'blip' as oil majors plot expansion

News / Food & Agriculture

Will EU deforestation law save trees or marginalise poor palm oil farmers?

Officials from Indonesia and Malaysia are currently locked in heated talks with their counterparts from the European Union (EU) over a law designed to stop deforestation-linked products from entering ...

27 Jun 2023

Will EU deforestation law save trees or marginalise poor palm oil farmers?

News / Policy & Finance

India’s rejection of global environment report ‘perilous’

The principal investigator of a key environmental report that ranked India as the least environmentally sustainable country in the world has criticised the country’s dismissal of the findings. Reactin...

21 Jun 2022

India’s rejection of global environment report ‘perilous’

News / Energy

India has big clean energy goals – so why is it banking on coal?

As scientists and activists urge rapid cuts in the use of climate-heating coal for power production around the world, new projections from India show that coal will remain its biggest source of elect...

29 May 2023

India has big clean energy goals – so why is it banking on coal?

News / Carbon & Climate

As media coverage of ESG grows, climate doomism is making room for solutions journalism

Media interest in environmental, social and governance (ESG) issues has surged over the past year, and the editorial focus has started to shift from problems to solutions — carbon markets being the ne...

1 Jul 2022

As media coverage of ESG grows, climate doomism is making room for solutions journalism

News / Energy

Analysis: China remains key to success of Southeast Asia’s energy transition

“Accelerating just and inclusive energy transition” was a key action given by leaders in their statement at the 43rd summit of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (Asean) in September. It was a...

10 Oct 2023

Analysis: China remains key to success of Southeast Asia’s energy transition