22+ ESG & Sustainability 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#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#133 Mapping Nature Risk Across the Supply Chain: Insights from Natcap’s assessment for a global food & beverage company
A global food and beverage company knew its supply chain depended on nature, but had never measured where that dependence became a financial risk. With Natcap, it traced the risk to its producers, deepening its understanding of its exposure as a buyer. The case study shows how supply-chain nature risk is located, why soil quality was the surprise, and why the hardest part was never the analysis.
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#127 TNFD Alternative Fuels Guidance: The Nature Test
TNFD's June 2026 sector guidance says cutting emissions is no longer enough. For alternative fuels, the next credibility test is nature, not carbon.
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
Newsletter#120 Kristina Wyatt on Climate, Nature and the Business Case for Resilience
Kristina Wyatt discusses why climate and nature can no longer be treated separately, and how companies can connect sustainability, conservation and resilience to practical business value.
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#112 How Danone Is Rebuilding Food Sustainability Around Health, Farmers and Nature
The French food group has just opened the second phase of its sustainability roadmap, backed by one of the strongest sets of external sustainability credentials in the sector. The question now is whether the next five years can match the ambition of the last.
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#101 Agriculture Is the Real Climate Battleground
The gap between recognition and action in food system emissions is now the single largest structural weakness in global climate strategy.