142+ Best Cross-Cutting ESG Resources
Frameworks, reports, newsletters, guides and templates curated for sustainability professionals across Asia Pacific and beyond.
Newsletter#135 Nature Finds Its Reporting Line: Two Years On, the TNFD Moves From Framework to Practice
Two years after publishing its recommendations, the Taskforce on Nature-related Financial Disclosures has moved from an emerging framework to an increasingly established part of corporate reporting. Its first status report captures the shift, while subsequent adoption figures suggest the momentum is continuing to build.
Newsletter#136 Citi Reaches $647 Billion as Sustainable Finance Shifts Toward Resilience
Citi is nearing two thirds of its trillion dollar goal as the definition of sustainable finance expands.
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ArticleA Practical Framework for Sustainable Innovation: From Challenge to Lasting Impact
Sustainability produces plenty of pilots but far fewer lasting results. The gap is process. A professional's guide to a five-step framework for sustainable innovation, from asking the right question to scaling what works.
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ArticleTwo Approaches to Sustainability Reporting: Compliance vs Business Growth
There are two ways to do sustainability reporting: to satisfy regulators, or to run a better business. A professional's guide to the difference between compliance and strategic ESG reporting, and why the leaders do both.
Newsletter#134 Temasek's Pragmatic Ambition on Sustainability
Temasek invested S$5 billion in sustainable assets this year, taking that portfolio to S$49 billion. Emissions held at 21 million tonnes for a third year, and 19 companies account for 88% of them.
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ArticleClimate Change: A Ripple Effect Across Society, From Environment to Economy
Climate change never stays environmental. It ripples outward into health, migration, inequality, prices, and growth. A professional's guide to how climate impacts cascade across society, and how to build resilience at every layer.
Newsletter#130 Natural Capital Investing: The Multi-Revenue Model
Private capital committed to nature grew fivefold in a decade. The bigger change is in the deals themselves: managers now combine timber, carbon, and ecosystem-service income on the same ground, and a few have rebuilt their funds to hold land for the long term.
Newsletter#128 LCAW 2026: Climate's Language Has Shifted to Execution. The Capital Hasn't.
London's eighth climate week recast the energy transition as a question of security, competitiveness and methane rather than ambition. The vocabulary has shifted towards delivery. Whether capital, grids and enforcement follow is what COP31 will decide.
Newsletter#126 Decathlon Sustainability: SBTi Targets, Circularity and the Growth Paradox
A retailer's emissions and its revenue both rise with the number of products it sells. Decathlon, the world's largest sporting-goods retailer, has committed to cutting one while growing the other, pledging net zero by 2050 against a business built on volume. We examine its science-based targets, its bet on circularity, and the credibility gap its sustainability claims must still close.
Newsletter#124 Brambles: The Most Sustainable Company You've Never Heard Of
Brambles moves much of the world's goods on shared pallets that almost nobody notices. Its rise to the top of global sustainability rankings carries a practical lesson for every company struggling with Scope 3.
Newsletter#122 What the World’s Largest Sovereign Wealth Fund Expects From Companies
Norges Bank Investment Management owns close to 1.5% of the world's listed equity. Through published expectations on climate, nature, human rights and governance, backed by scoring, voting and divestment, NBIM increasingly sets the standard companies are measured against. Is it stewardship, or quiet regulation?
Newsletter#121 11 questions every CFO should be asking about nature
A new TNFD guide reframes nature as a finance question, not only a sustainability one. Here is what it asks CFOs to consider, and why the timing matter