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Issue 201: WWF-Singapore CEO on coalitions; Corsia could be big business

This week in ESG: Market veteran Chew Sutat takes reins of nature non-profit; aviation’s carbon credits scheme could create US$1.6 billion of value for S-E Asia

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Kenneth Lim

Kenneth Lim

Published Fri, Jul 3, 2026 · 07:00 PM
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    • Philanthropic foundation gifts to climate mitigation have grown since 2020, but still form a fraction of all giving.
    • Philanthropic foundation gifts to climate mitigation have grown since 2020, but still form a fraction of all giving. ILLUSTRATION: KENNETH LIM

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    WWF-Singapore’s Chew on building coalitions

    As Chew Sutat takes on the task of leading the Singapore chapter of the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF-Singapore), he tells The Business Times that scaling up support for nature and climate issues means framing challenges in ways that resonate with the motivations of different stakeholders.

    Chew knows a little something about what matters to different stakeholders. After all, he has been many of those stakeholders at some point in a career that he likes to describe as having taken him “from profit, to people, to planet”.

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