Michelle Quah
EDITOR, STRATEGIC PROJECTS (EIC)
Michelle Quah is a senior correspondent with The Business Times, with years of experience covering accounting, legal and corporate governance issues. She now focuses on environmental, social and governance concerns in the corporate realm.
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Emerging-market IPOs set for good year
Baker & McKenzie says cross-border IPOs from emerging-market issuers have seen a 154% rise in capital raised in the first three-quarters of...
Asia-Pacific’s top companies need to address crucial gaps in sustainability reporting
As the push towards net zero intensifies, top companies in Asia still aren’t investing the efforts needed to attain such aims. Only...
Funding, including subsidised help from wealthy nations, key to Asia’s green transition: panel
SUBSIDISED support from wealthier nations and public-private partnerships such as blended finance are key to helping Asia transition to a cleaner and...
Further help on the way to drive Singapore businesses to be more water-efficient
Greater support for businesses to become more water-efficient is underway in Singapore, including raising the funding cap for water-recycling projects to five...
Green skills’ training in Singapore burgeons in popularity
Knowing how to identify and pick the right course to meets one’s needs, however, remains tricky
Better analysis of corporate sustainability data now available to banks with upgraded platform
SMEs will also have digitalised and simplified self-assessment tool to kick-start their sustainability journey
Carbon credits: knowing how to pick the right investments
Low-quality projects do more harm than good, but knowing how to differentiate them from high-quality credits can be tricky
Companies’ legal exposure to greenwashing claims set to rise
Absence of a unified definition of greenwashing, evolving regulatory developments and “greenwashing by association” complicate management of the threat
Greenwashing by association – the new threat facing corporates
Companies need to realise they can be accused of greenwashing even if they do not make false or misleading green claims
Sustainability-linked loans’ targets increasingly sophisticated, science-based
Two-way adjustments, dynamic goals, indirect emissions being explored, industry players say.
