Navigating the Trans-border Economic Climate Collaboration: Lessons from Asia's Leaders
This panel will examine the countries and companies leading the sustainability transformation in Asia, highlighting the challenges they've overcome and the strategies they've implemented. The discussion will focus on how businesses can be incentivized to integrate sustainability for the long term, ensuring a resilient and sustainable future
Outlook for Asia: Driving Green Finance for a Sustainable Future
Exploring how Asia can accelerate green finance adoption by harmonizing standards, addressing data gaps, combating greenwashing, and creating impactful incentives to empower firms to achieve ambitious climate goals and drive sustainable development
Social Justice and Equity in Sustainability: Bridging the Gap Between Environmental Metrics and Social Impact, with a Focus on Inclusivity, Human Rights, and the Informal Sector
Transition Finance: Unlocking the Path to Sustainable Profitability for Carbon-Intensive Sectors
This session will explore the role of transition finance in supporting carbon-intensive industries as they move toward more sustainable practices. The discussion will focus on financial frameworks such as green bonds and renewable energy investments that enable these sectors to shift profitably while reducing their environmental impact. Key insights will be shared on the opportunities, challenges, and strategies for financing the transition to a low-carbon economy
Advancing Sustainable Supply Chains: Climate Adaptation, Circular Practices, and Green Innovation
Accelerating Climate Change Mitigation and Adaptation: Developing and Implementing Actionable Strategies to Enhance Resilience, Reduce Emissions, and Address Environmental Impacts
Exploring the Financially Material Impact of Biodiversity Investing: Strategies, Risks, and Opportunities for Sustainable Returns
Carbon Markets and Business Decarbonization: Feasibility, Strategies, and the Role of a Carbon Tax in Asia
Examine how businesses can embed climate considerations into their operations, transition to circular models, and address carbon footprints across value chains, while exploring the viability and impact of implementing a carbon tax in Asia
Waste Water Management: Reusing Water for Resilience and Sustainability
This session will address the growing water scarcity crisis in Asia, with a focus on innovative solutions to manage and reuse water resources effectively. Experts will discuss the urgent need for water conservation, strategies for mitigating the crisis, and the crucial roles of the public, private, and civil sectors in protecting and ensuring sustainable water use. Participants will explore how technology, policy, and cross-sector collaboration can drive resilience and safeguard water resources for future generations
Building Transparency: Frameworks for Standardized ESG Risk Reporting
Explore strategies for normalizing financial and non-financial disclosures, integrating ESG risk reporting across business departments, and delivering transparent, comparable reports on material ESG risks
Taking Flight Toward Sustainability: Scaling Up Sustainable Aviation Fuel (SAF) and Reducing Costs for a Carbon-Neutral Future in Air Travel
Practical Strategies for Reducing Waste and Boosting Regeneration
This session will explore actionable strategies for transitioning from a linear to a circular model, focusing on reducing waste, enhancing recycling efforts, and fostering regeneration
Restoring Trust: Strengthening Integrity in Asia’s Carbon Markets and Ensuring Credible Carbon Credit Purchases
Examine strategies to rebuild credibility in Asia's carbon markets, address the challenges of dubious credits, and explore regulatory actions to ensure transparency and trust. What should companies consider when purchasing carbon credits to align with genuine sustainability goals
Harnessing Nature-Based Solutions for Climate Change Mitigation: Unlocking Business and Financial Opportunities
This session will explore how nature-based solutions, such as reforestation and wetland restoration, can play a pivotal role in mitigating climate change, restoring biodiversity, and reducing climate-related risks. Discussions will focus on the business and financial cases for investing in nature-based solutions, and strategies for increasing cross-sector and cross-border collaboration to scale up these initiatives. Participants will explore how such solutions can contribute to achieving the global 1.5°C target and enhance resilience in the face of climate challenges
Optimizing the Energy Mix: Bridging the Gap Between Fossil Fuels and Renewables in Asia's Growth
This session will explore strategies to address the challenge of integrating intermittent renewable energy sources into Asia's power grids while balancing the region's reliance on fossil fuels. The discussion will focus on the role of hydrocarbons, such as liquefied natural gas, in the energy transition, and how solar, wind, and other renewables can be scaled to meet sustainability goals without compromising economic growth
Financing the Green Transition: CFOs and CSOs Collaborating to Drive Sustainability and Profitability
This session will explore the evolving roles of Chief Financial Officers (CFOs) and Chief Sustainability Officers (CSOs) as they work together to foster sustainability across organizations. A conversation between a CFO and CSO will delve into how these two leaders align their different metrics and strategies to achieve sustainability goals, and how they collaborate to integrate environmental, social, and governance (ESG) objectives into financial and business strategies. The discussion will also focus on the CSO’s growing influence within the executive team, and how this partnership can enhance the transition to sustainable, profitable business models
The Climate-Tech Trade-Off: Balancing Technological Advancements with Net-Zero Goals
This session will explore the intersection of technology and climate change, focusing on the energy consumption challenges posed by data centres and emerging technologies like AI. Discussing strategies for mitigating the environmental impact of the tech industry’s growing energy use while ensuring that technological advancements continue to drive climate action. The conversation will address how the tech sector, governments, and regulators can collaborate to align innovation with sustainability, safeguarding net-zero emissions targets without compromising progress
Standardizing Sustainability: Harmonizing Taxonomies for Effective Reporting
Addressing the challenges of fragmented environmental reporting, exploring best practices, and charting a path toward unified frameworks to drive sustainable investments and collaboration
Building Resilient Supply Chains: Integrating Risk Management, Sustainable Procurement, and Ethical Oversight
Driving ESG Process Effectiveness: Leveraging Products and Innovations to Enhance Energy Efficiency and Achieve Emissions Reduction Goals
Exploring the challenges of measuring climate risks, the value of scenario planning, and the evolving landscape of ESG reporting to integrate environmental risks into ambition-driven financial strategies
Accelerating Sustainable Transportation: Closing the Infrastructure Gap and Advancing Electric Mobility to Meet 2030 SDG Targets
Integrating ESG into Organizational Culture: Embracing Sustainability as a Core Lifestyle for Long-term Impact and Success
An activity based and interactive session to encourage forward-thinking and make the most of your resources to achieve the said objective for improved results. In this interactive activity, participants in the streams will be divided into teams to brainstorm different standpoints on how to approach challenges with an innovation mindset
Transitioning from a Linear Economy to A Circular Economy
The circular economy is a biomimetic approach inspired by the natural flow of materials and energy in ecosystems. This set of six lesson plans offers an excellent introduction to the circular economy concept.
Mastering Scope 3 Emissions: Strategies for Sustainable Business Transformation
Strategies for Measurement, Reduction, and Integration into Sustainable Business Practices
Roadmap to Social Impact: Your step-by-step guide to planning, measuring and communicating social impact
This step-by-step guide to planning, measuring, and communicating social impact is designed for anyone striving to create positive social change. It outlines key steps to help you understand the context of your work, identify your stakeholders, define the social issue you are addressing, determine your approach, clarify the intended outcomes, measure progress effectively, and communicate your findings. By following this guide, you can continuously refine your efforts and maximize your social impact.