32+ ESG & Sustainability Resources
Frameworks, reports, newsletters, guides and templates curated for sustainability professionals across Asia Pacific and beyond.
Newsletter#158 South Korea's $747 Billion Test of Transition Finance
South Korea’s $747 billion K-GX plan puts transition finance behind heavy-industry decarbonisation, with steel, hydrogen and clean technology at the centre.
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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.
Newsletter#154 Italy's green bond paid off, just not in basis points
Rome sold €8bn of 12-year green debt on a bad day for its public finances and drew almost 14 times that in orders. The label saved almost nothing on price. It did bring steadier buyers and a public record of where the money goes, and both gains depend on the spending holding up.
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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#149 Climate Adaptation Finance in the EU: Who Pays the Bill?
Spain wants the EU to build a climate adaptation fund. The financing rules buried in the same proposal could reshape how Europe pays for anything built to last.
#141 The $3 Billion ESG Rebound Was Really a $3.1 Billion Grid Trade
US sustainable funds returned to positive flows in Q2 2026 after almost four years of withdrawals, but one smart-grid ETF accounted for more than the category’s entire net inflow.
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?