24+ Best Environmental ESG Resources
Frameworks, reports, newsletters, guides and templates curated for sustainability professionals across Asia Pacific and beyond.
Newsletter#144 Why Coffee Is Getting More Expensive
A potentially very strong El Niño, a shrinking Colombian crop and a retail price that never fully came down. Coffee is not running out, but producing it predictably is getting harder.
Newsletter#142 Why Carbon Footprints Mislead and What Investors Should Measure Instead
David Russell, Chair of the Transition Pathway Initiative (TPI), discusses why a company’s historical carbon footprint is a poor guide for investors, and why credible, financed transition plans matter more than backward-looking emissions data.
Newsletter#138 MSCI Upgraded Williams to AAA. Its Scope 1 and 2 Emissions Are Back at 2023 Levels.
Williams cut methane for a second straight year while moving 60 per cent more energy than in 2018. Its absolute operational emissions have not followed the same downward path.
Newsletter#132 Buildings Already Have the Technology. What They Lack Is Trustworthy Data.
Commercial real estate now has the economic, regulatory, and technological foundations to reduce energy waste. But according to Mike Zatz, former EPA ENERGY STAR leader and now at Measurabl, the biggest barriers are no longer technical, they're access to performance data, limited capacity to act on it, and weak incentives to share it.
Newsletter#123 The Quiet Engine of Building Decarbonization
Heat pumps are becoming one of the most important tools for building decarbonization. As policies tighten and emissions reporting expands, the technology offers a proven pathway to reduce heating-related emissions, improve energy efficiency, and support long-term net-zero goals.
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?
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#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.
Newsletter#105 - Are We Funding Net Zero or Delaying It?
Record clean energy investment. Record fossil fuel financing. Both happened in the same year. The transition is moving just not fast enough, and not to the right places.
Newsletter#98 Heathrow’s Green Transition
Can the world's most connected airport expand and decarbonise at the same time? Heathrow is pushing a £49bn third runway while chasing net-zero. SAF sits at 0.2% of global fuel, hydrogen planes are a decade late, and a new runway could add 9.43m tonnes of CO₂ a year.
Newsletter#96 Volvo Group’s 2040 Net-Zero Roadmap
Volvo Group faces heavy transport's decarbonization crunch: diesel fleets drive emissions, yet uptime is non-negotiable. Its 2025 ESRS-aligned report charts a net-zero value chain by 2040, with 31% lower use-phase emissions since 2019, 3% electric sales, and 93% supplier sustainability assessments. CEO Lundstedt and CSO Svensson spotlight partnerships as key. Progress is real, gaps remain.
Newsletter#90 Heidelberg Materials And The Hard Road To Net Zero Cement
Heidelberg Materials is testing what a credible net zero strategy looks like in cement, blending science based targets, circular products and bold CCUS bets while grappling with policy, technology and economics in a genuinely hard-to-abate sector.