The report sets out cost projections for elevating ports in Asia Pacific to withstand climate change risks from rising sea levels and greater storm intensity. It finds costs between US$31 billion and US$ 49 billion for...
Asia Pacific Land Use Forum 2017 Report
The Asia Pacific Land Use Forum (APLUF) was conceived by Credit Suisse to explore potential collaboration opportunities to scale land use planning and management solutions. The inaugural APLUF was held in Bangkok, Thailand on 23 November...
Empty Nets: Overfishing Risks
The world’s fishing stocks are depleting, but does this environmental crisis play out in the financial world? We identified 228 companies listed on the world’s stock markets with exposure to seafood production. This instigated the process...
Factory Farming in Asia
Investors in Asia view animal protein consumption as an indicator of rising middle-class incomes across the region. Asian meat, egg, fish and dairy industries face a range of poorly managed sustainability risks that could derail returns....
Seafood Sourcing Risks
This briefing for investors and companies sets out the major categories of seafood sustainability risks. It presents the results of a disclosure review of the steps that leading retailers and hotels from Asia-Pacific, the EU, and...
Time Out: Coal Capex in China
In 2016, seven leading Chinese power companies planned to spend an estimated CNY 238 billion on 89 coal power plants to drive China’s economy forward. Will these plants be able to make decent returns as China...
CG Watch 2016
ACGA’s eighth CG Watch survey in collaboration with CLSA and the first to include Australia. If there is a single message for this survey, it is that the ecosystem of corporate governance in any market is...
Investing for the Climate in Asia
Are “green finance” and climate change gaining traction in the Asian financial sector? We reviewed the practices of 88 leading financial institutions across Asia-Pacific to find out. We discovered growing momentum: 28% of banks and 30%...
Palm Conundrums: Ranking Consumer Companies on Sustainable Palm Oil Use
Southeast Asia’s 2015 haze highlighted one of many problems with the expansion of palm-oil production. While the industry has become controversial, it also has great sustainability fundamentals such as poverty alleviation and higher land yields than...
Sustainable Path: Who Is Leading Palm-Oil Reform?
Constant criticism of plantation companies has seen a major shift in attitude among the leading players. Having previously regarded sustainable practices as a chore, they now promote them as a key differentiating factor in marketing their...
