EB Studio
Southeast Asia's digital economy is booming. Keeping its environmental footprint in check will require innovative solutions to build, operate and decommission data centres sustainably.
As Asian firms scale up disclosures, the International Auditing and Assurance Standards Board (IAASB)'s guidance – effective from December 2026 – could help curb greenwash if backed by strong regulatory frameworks, say industry players.
SGX RegCo's mandatory climate reporting rules – effective from 2025 – exclude a fixed timeline for reporting Scope 3 emissions, or indirect value chain emissions, after a public consultation found that issuers might not be ready for it.
The Singaporean palm oil exporter plans to announce more details in early October. This comes after its Malaysia-based counterpart SD Guthrie got its climate goals verified by the Science Based Targets initiative in end-2023.
Carbon capture and storage has been hailed as a potential way to reduce emissions, but it is more likely to increase them by boosting oil and gas extraction. The cheaper and more effective solution is to move to cleaner forms of energy.
By
Kevin Morrison
Beyond investors, consumers should also be empowered to critically use sustainability reports to assess a company's sustainability credentials. Here are five steps they can take to start reading reports using GRI standards.
By
Hendri Yulius Wijaya
The climate non-profit's head Sherry Madera insists there are just 450 questions, not over 5,500 as some industry players have cited, in its new questionnaire, which has faced pushback for failing to ease disclosure burden as intended.