About Us

Company Profile

Established in 2009, Eco-Business is Asia Pacific’s leading business intelligence and advisory platform dedicated to advancing sustainable development.

We produce trusted, high-quality multimedia content exploring the world’s most pressing challenges—and the solutions driving change. Our work is aligned with the 17 United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and supported by a 15-year archive of news, analysis, research, and events on sustainable development topics.

Beyond journalism, we deliver research, consulting, and thought-leadership platforms that create strategic value, inform policy, strengthen business practice, and enable cross-sector collaboration. Our work has earned international recognition and multiple regional and global awards.

Headquartered in Singapore, we have a presence in Manila, Kuala Lumpur, Jakarta, Bangkok, Hong Kong, Beijing, and London. Our partners include Fortune 500 companies, multinationals, governments, multilateral institutions, civil society organisations, and philanthropic foundations committed to shaping a more sustainable future.

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Mission

We are a purpose-driven enterprise dedicated to advancing sustainable development. With a global readership and a strong editorial focus on Asia Pacific, our mission is to generate positive impact for both society and the natural world.

Through our platforms, we bring together businesses, governments, NGOs, research institutions, and think tanks—amplifying their stories, sparking dialogue, and sharing best practices that drive awareness and action on the world’s challenges.

In 2019, Eco-Business helped to launch EB Impact, an independent Singapore-registered charity delivering youth and education programmes aligned with the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). We actively support its mission and are formally committed to contributing at least 5 per cent of our resources in pro-bono services each year to EB Impact and its partners.

People

At Eco-Business, we bring together some of the brightest minds and passionate talent across the industry, all united by a shared commitment to our mission. Our core team is supported by a dynamic network of writers, photojournalists, analysts and experts across the Asia Pacific, whose deep expertise strengthens our content and thought leadership initiatives.

Our senior leadership is guided by an international advisory board made up of global pioneers in business and sustainable development, ensuring that Eco-Business remains at the forefront of thought leadership, credibility, and impact.

ESG Intelligence

Our research, advisory, and training division delivers in-depth market intelligence and consulting services that help organisations understand their industries and the critical issues shaping them.

We also design tailored capacity-building programmes and strategy sessions for boards and management teams of governments, listed companies, and private enterprises across the region. These highly confidential engagements provide well-informed guidance to support pivotal business decisions on a wide spectrum of sustainable development challenges.

Flagship events

Explore our flagship forums:
Unlocking capital for sustainability
Cities: Possibilities
Sustainability Leadership A List

Thought leadership dialogues

We design and deliver bespoke thought-leadership events and initiatives across the region, both online and in person. Our team provides end-to-end support—from concept development and content creation to speaker curation, audience engagement, and full project management.

Our strength lies in curating cutting-edge agendas and producing compelling content that resonates with influential audiences, driving meaningful dialogue and actionable outcomes. Consistently covered by leading local and international media, our events foster progressive discussions on critical issues while enabling clients to connect with key stakeholders, build influence, and unlock new business opportunities.

Innovation

The Liveability Challenge (TLC) is an annual global initiative that seeks innovative, groundbreaking solutions to address urban challenges in the tropics. It crowd-sources the world for the best sustainability solutions and provides both the funding and ecosystem support required to take these ideas from laboratory to market.

Presented by Temasek Foundation and organised by Eco-Business, TLC was established in 2018 and has since grown to become Asia’s largest sustainability solutions platform with a global reach and a reputation for helping companies — whose innovations are disrupting industries to create significant positive impact for society and planet — achieve success.

Find out more at The Liveability Challenge.

Accolades

Over the past decade, our stories and initiatives have gained international recognition and won multiple regional and international awards.

2024: Our "Decoding Sustainable Finance" series won the Society of Publishers Asia (SOPA) awards for excellence in explanatory reporting. The team also received an honorable mention in the Excellence in Video Reporting category for their 360-degree documentary short Wasted: 360, highlighting immersive storytelling on the waste sector in Asia.
2023: Eco-Busines picked up three awards at Asian Digital Media Awards 2023, with its podcast series on 'The Future of Food' winning the top prize for ‘Best Podcast’, and a bilingual podcast recorded in Bahasa Melayu and English that featured a group of Orang Asli filmmakers picking up the runner-up prize. It also won the runner-up prize for Best Sponsored Content Campaign for a year-long partnership with Fair Finance Asia, which spotlight issues in financing a just and equitable energy transition in Asia.
2023: Eco-Business also earned a Honourable Mention nod at the Society for Publishers of Asia (SOPA) 2023 Awards for its coverage of the controversy surrounding sand extraction in the region.
2022: Eco-Busines clinched the Gold Award under the category of Best News Website or Mobile Service at the Asian Digital Media Awards 2022, organised by World Association of Newspapers and News Publishers (WAN-IFRA), and the Silver Award in the Best Data Visualisation category for Tracking the Malaysia floods – a visual story.
2021: Eco-Business won two awards for Best Project for News Literacy at the Asian Digital Media Awards 2021, organised by World Association of Newspapers and News Publishers (WAN-INFRA).
2020: Eco-Business was a winner of The Peak Power List 2020 by The Edge.
2020: Eco-Business won two awards for Best native advertising/branded content and Best use of online video at the at the Asian Digital Media Awards by the World Association of Newspapers and News Publishers (WAN-INFRA).
2019: Eco-Business won an award for Best Site / Mobile Site at the Asian Digital Media Awards by the World Association of Newspapers and News Publishers (WAN-INFRA).
2018: Eco-Business won a Wild Jackson Award for its documentary, From Asia to Antarctica
2013: Eco-Business won the Lee Foundation Excellence in Environmental Reporting by a Media Organisation Merit Award at the Asian Environmental Journalism Awards.

Carbon neutral

Eco-Business has been carbon neutral since 2017. Each year, we produce an impact report and reduce our emissions across our business as much as possible. We purchase renewable energy offsets for emissions we cannot avoid.