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Climate financing

Opinion & Features

Asia’s path to climate leadership is clear – now the capital must align

The Net Zero Challenge 2025 awarded 20 billion dong (S$991,730) in catalytic grants and investment prizes to three projects focused on renewable energy, sustainable agriculture, and circular economy solutions.
ASEAN Business

Touchstone Partners launches US$10 million green fund, tapping Net Zero Challenge to attract global startups to Vietnam

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ESG

Regulators, industry groups may need to fill gap left by closure of climate banking alliance, say observers

Developed countries committed US$26 billion of adaptation finance for developing nations in 2023, says Unep.
ESG Insights
ESG Insights

Issue 171: COP30 turns spotlight on adaptation; MAS pushes forward on transition credits

View of the logo of COP30 UN Climate Change Conference, in Belem, Para state, Brazil, taken on November 6, 2025. (Photo by Ludovic MARIN / AFP)
ESG

COP30: Adopting an outcome on climate adaptation is a start for financing to flow towards Asean

The COP29 gathering in Baku ended with developed nations agreeing to provide US$300 billion annually in climate finance to poorer countries by 2035, a figure criticised as way below what is needed to meet the challenge.
ESG

World has tools to unlock US$1.3 trillion in climate finance: COP30 report

Ravi Menon, Singapore's ambassador for climate action, says the assumption that adaptation projects do not typically generate a revenue stream should be challenged.
ESG

Growing awareness that Asean needs to collectively tackle food and water security, flood risks: Ravi Menon

More than national assets, Indonesia's forests are a global climate stabiliser. They store nearly 80 billion tonnes of carbon and host one-tenth of the world's remaining tropical rainforest biodiversity.
Opinion & Features
THE BROAD VIEW

Why Indonesia must seize the Tropical Forests Forever Facility

The region’s carbon markets have grown but at an uneven pace.
Opinion & Features

South-east Asia’s emerging carbon markets could be Singapore’s defining opportunity

The Petronas twin towers and shopping centre Suria KLCC, taken at Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
ESG

Asean banks make green strides, but gaps remain in fossil-fuel financing: report

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