Issue 160: Money still king in Asia’s transition investing; Singapore, Thailand ink carbon deal

This week in ESG: Standard Chartered surveys high-net-worth investors on brown-to-green investing; South-east Asian neighbours reach carbon credit trading agreement

Sustainable investing

Overcoming transition investing’s barriers

Ask a stranger to help those in need, and the answer will be yes most of the time. But if you keep digging to arrive at an actual act of charity, it becomes more complicated very quickly. What does helping entail, exactly? Where’s the threshold for being in need? And how do we know the recipient actually meets that threshold?