99+ Best Environmental ESG Resources
Frameworks, reports, newsletters, guides and templates curated for sustainability professionals across Asia Pacific and beyond.
Newsletter#118 Measuring the State of Nature for TNFD: Inside the NPI pilot with NatureHelm and New Forests
NatureHelm and New Forests put the Nature Positive Initiative's State of Nature metrics to the test across selected assets in five countries. The pilot shows what satellite data can and can't measure at scale, why landscape connectivity became the metric stakeholders cared about most, and what it means for measuring nature across a 4.4-million-hectare portfolio and for TNFD disclosure.
Newsletter#116 Nature's Balance Sheet: How GSK Turned Water Risk Into Pharma's First Science-Based Target
We explore how GSK became the first pharma company with a validated nature target and what that means for the sector. The piece covers the company's water and carbon progress, its plan to cut Ventolin inhaler emissions by 92%, a new global standard for measuring drug footprints, and the challenges that still stand in the way.
Newsletter#114 Iberdrola and the power demand behind AI
Iberdrola has spent years building one of the strongest sustainability records in the power sector. Now it is making a more unusual move: taking equity in AI data centres, not just supplying them with power. At the centre of the story is a bigger question: can clean power keep pace with AI-scale demand?
ArticleResponding to Climate Change: From Drivers and Impacts to Mitigation and Adaptation
Climate change runs on a chain: drivers create impacts, and impacts demand response. A professional's guide to the two essential responses, mitigation and adaptation, why both are needed, and the outcomes they deliver.
Newsletter#113 EU CBAM 2026: A Practical Guide for Exporters Facing Europe's Carbon Border Tax
The EU Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism (CBAM) is now in force. Exporters of steel, cement, aluminium, fertilisers, hydrogen and electricity into Europe face a carbon-linked charge tied to EU ETS prices. This guide breaks down how CBAM works, sector cost exposure for India, China and Southeast Asia, why data quality drives liability, and the transition finance gap for hard-to-abate sectors.
Newsletter#111 Who Pays When the Cloud Gets Heavy: The Electricity Bill of AI
Data center electricity demand surged 17% in 2025, far outpacing global power consumption growth. From Virginia to Dublin, communities are asking who should pay for the grid upgrades these facilities require. This piece examines the rate battles, policy experiments, and corporate pledges shaping the answer, and why getting it right matters for energy affordability everywhere.
Newsletter#109 - The Methane Reckoning: Measured Reality Meets Reported Inventories
Satellite data have exposed a significant gap between reported and measured methane emissions, with some basins running several times higher than official inventories. At the same time, the EU Methane Regulation is turning import access into a compliance question. For sustainability professionals, the numbers underpinning disclosures and the rules governing gas markets are both shifting.
Newsletter#107 - Africa’s Forests Have Switched Sides. The Carbon Math Just Changed.
A landmark study confirms the continent’s forests now emit more carbon than they absorb. For climate policy, carbon markets, and sustainable finance, the implications are far-reaching.
Newsletter#106 Radisson's Net Zero Hotels: What Hospitality Can Teach the Rest of Corporate Sustainability
The hotel group is retrofitting existing buildings to hit net zero, getting them verified by a third party, and finding that guests are actually booking because of it.
ArticleThe Hidden Layers of Sustainability: Why the Surface We See Is the Smallest Part
Most sustainability attention sits on the visible surface: EVs, recycling, net-zero pledges. Beneath it lie the enablers, the lived community outcomes, and the root causes that actually drive change. A professional's guide to acting where the leverage is.
ArticleThe True Impact of Food Waste: The Hidden Footprint Behind Every Wasted Plate
Food waste is not just lost food. It is wasted climate, water, energy, and land. A data-driven guide for professionals on the real footprint of food waste and how to turn it into value.
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ArticleReimagining the Ocean: The Business Case for Marine Protected Areas
This World Ocean Day, the call is to "reimagine" our relationship with the sea through strong Marine Protected Areas. A professional's guide to why ocean protection is shifting from conservation cost to capital-allocation opportunity, and the numbers that make protection pay, with returns of up to $20 for every $1 invested.