ESG / Sustainability

ESG / Sustainability

UK Environment Agency Launches Economic Crime Unit

By Editors | 06/02/2024

The unit will boost the Environment Agency’s efforts to tackle money laundering and carry out financial investigations in the waste sector.

ESG / Sustainability

New Climate Risk Data Platform for FIs Goes Live in Taiwan

By Editors | 01/02/2024

The FSC said the platform will help FIs in developing models, disclosing information, conducting scenario analysis, and performing stress tests.

ESG / Sustainability

IESBA Proposes Ethics Standards to Improve Sustainability Reporting

By Ranamita Chakraborty | 31/01/2024

The global standard-setting board conducted extensive outreach, including roundtables in Singapore and Sydney last year, for the development of new standards.

ESG / Sustainability

STACS Joins Malaysia’s SEDG Adopter Programme

By Ranamita Chakraborty | 29/01/2024

Capital Markets Malaysia developed the programme last October to guide local SMEs in disclosing ESG data from their supply chains.

ESG / Sustainability

Taiwan to Launch Certification System for Sustainable Finance

By Editors | 26/01/2024

The certification is divided into two stages, the first for obtaining “basic abilities” and the second for “advanced abilities” in sustainable finance.

ESG / Sustainability

IIGCC Publishes Scope 3 Emissions Paper

By ESG Investor | 26/01/2024

The paper outlines investor perspectives on the importance and complexity of investee companies’ emissions in the context of achieving net zero portfolios.

ESG / Sustainability

Hong Kong to Launch New Subsidy Scheme for Green Fintech

By Manesh Samtani | 26/01/2024

The scheme will provide early-stage funding for pre-commercialised green fintech companies, said Hong Kong official Salina Yan.

ESG / Sustainability

China Relaunches Voluntary Carbon Credit Market

By Manesh Samtani | 26/01/2024

The revamped CCER scheme, which was initially launched in 2012 but then shelved in 2017, allows any enterprise to purchase carbon credits.

ESG / Sustainability

Singapore Launches New Association to Drive Sustainable Finance Collaboration

By Ranamita Chakraborty | 25/01/2024

The Singapore Sustainable Finance Association aims to support the low-carbon transition and sustainable economic growth in the APAC region.