As industrialisation, digital infrastructure and climate pressures reshape demand, companies are being pushed to look beyond how much water they consume and ask whether the wider systems they depend on can sustain long-term growth.
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.
Speaking at Unlocking capital for sustainability Singapore 2026, Minister for Transport and Second Minister for Finance Jeffrey Siow said Singapore remains committed to its climate targets even as geopolitics fractures the rules-based order.
As Southeast Asia’s climate risks intensify, The Liveability Challenge is backing ocean-based innovations to help close the region’s funding gap for climate resilience and emissions reduction.