34+ ESG & Sustainability Resources
Frameworks, reports, newsletters, guides and templates curated for sustainability professionals across Asia Pacific and beyond.
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.
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#131 Samsung and SK Hynix Lead South Korea's $518B Chip Plan
Seoul and its two chip champions are betting that industrial growth and clean power can advance together. Whether they can will depend on grid and water infrastructure that mostly does not exist yet.
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#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#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#119 Ecosperity Week 2026: Asia's Sustainability Agenda Moves From Ambition to Execution
At Ecosperity Week 2026 in Singapore, Asia's sustainability agenda moved from commitments to delivery, with finance, nature and credible execution at the centre of the conversation.
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#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#110 - ReconKering and Responsible Luxury
The luxury group is closing one of fashion's most ambitious sustainability roadmaps just as a new chief executive tries to stop the bleeding at Gucci. Whether its climate credentials hold up through the next two years will say a great deal about how durable corporate ESG commitments actually become under pressure.