10+ Best Cross-Cutting ESG Resources
Frameworks, reports, newsletters, guides and templates curated for sustainability professionals across Asia Pacific and beyond.
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ReportPDFWhat We Heard: Canada’s Sustainable Finance Taxonomy – Methodology Report
Business Future Pathways’ 2026 report summarizes stakeholder feedback on the methodology for Canada’s Sustainable Finance Taxonomy, including green and transition activities, technical screening criteria, Do No Significant Harm and Minimum Social Safeguards. It also examines transition finance, Indigenous rights, FPIC, biodiversity, climate adaptation and safeguards intended to support credible climate-aligned investment in Canada.
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ReportPDFLandscape of Climate Finance in Latin America and the Caribbean 2026
Climate Policy Initiative’s 2026 report provides a comprehensive assessment of climate finance in Latin America and the Caribbean, tracking public and private investment across mitigation, adaptation and dual-benefit activities from 2020 to 2024. It examines climate finance needs, renewable energy, AFOLU, resilient infrastructure, sustainable finance, private capital mobilization and regional financing gaps across the Caribbean, Central America, Mexico, South America and Brazil.
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ReportPDFClimate Governance Under Pressure: The Anti-ESG Movement’s Impact on Canadian Institutional Investors
This 2026 report from the Institute for Sustainable Finance and Canada Climate Law Initiative examines how the U.S. anti-ESG movement is affecting climate governance among Canadian institutional investors. It analyzes cross-border proxy voting, fiduciary duty, climate disclosure, sustainable finance regulation, greenwashing rules and the resilience of Canada’s climate-risk governance framework.
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ReportPDFPhasing Out Coal, Phasing In Justice: Roadmap for Financing Responsible Regional Coal Phase-Out in Asia
Fair Finance Asia and I-JET’s 2026 report examines coal phase-out policies, coal financing and just transition pathways across Asia, with detailed analysis of six Southeast Asian countries. It assesses financial flows, sustainable finance taxonomies, early coal retirement mechanisms and social safeguards while proposing a Paris-aligned framework for governments and financial institutions to support a responsible coal phase-out. Report_Phasing-out-coal-phasing…
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ReportPDFESG Still “In Favour” in ASEAN
Maybank’s ESG Still “In Favour” in ASEAN report examines ESG risk, market performance and sustainable finance trends across ASEAN-6 markets. Using Sustainalytics, Morningstar and other market data, it analyses low- and medium-ESG-risk companies, ESG-linked indices, sustainable fund flows, sustainability bonds and loans, and the development of voluntary and compliance carbon markets across Southeast Asia.
Newsletter#139 Sustainability AI in 2026: What Works, What Doesn’t and Why It Matters
AI is now part of the conversation across almost every sustainability team, but many are still working out where it fits in practice. This week, we feature a practical guide from Watershed and a live webinar with practitioners who have already used these tools in real sustainability work.
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.
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#7 Green Isn’t Always Clean
Not all that’s labeled “green” is truly sustainable. As ESG certifications and ratings flood the market, many finance and sustainability professionals are beginning to ask tough questions. Why do some green bonds fund fossil fuel-linked projects? How can a company score high on ESG while harming the environment? In this editorial, we explore how current frameworks and certifications often miss the mark—and how that gap fuels widespread greenwashing.
Newsletter#6 The Data Drought in Green Finance
Every sustainability report, every green bond, every ESG rating rests on one thing: data. Yet across the financial world, we keep running into the same problem—the data just isn’t there. It’s incomplete, inconsistent, or outright missing. Whether you're managing a climate fund, structuring a green loan, or tracking emissions targets, you've probably felt it too: the frustration of making decisions in the dark.