Sustainability

Bank Negara Malaysia (BNM) and Malaysia International Islamic Financial Center (MIFC) Leadership Council have teamed up to launch Global Impact Challenge 2025 to call for impact-driven financial solutions with propositions to strengthen social resilience and address climate challenges.

Singapore and the United Kingdom (UK) have announced a collaboration on last Sunday to drive clean energy transition and advance the development of sustainable infrastructure across Southeast Asia.

Following the success of previous editions, Net Zero Challenge 2025, Vietnam’s largest climate innovation competition, has officially launched its third edition.

The Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) and the People’s Bank of China (PBC) reaffirmed their commitment to advance cooperation in green and transition finance between Singapore and China at the 3rd Singapore-China Green Finance Taskforce (GFTF) meeting on last Thursday.

Indonesian sovereign wealth fund Danantara Indonesia has inked a landmark memorandum of understanding (MoU) with the Japan Bank for International Cooperation (JBIC), paving the way for financing opportunities aimed at accelerating Indonesia’s transition toward a green, digitally connected economy.

Sirsak, an Indonesia-based business to business (B2B) packaging waste management startup, has raised $600,000 in pre-seed funding to expand its flagship Packaging Recovery Program (PRP) technology and accelerate packaging waste collection and recycling across Indonesia.

Malaysia-based Yinson Production Ghana has entered into a strategic research and development partnership with the Department of Petroleum Engineering at Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST), reinforcing its commitment to environmental sustainability and local capacity development in Ghana.

The ASEAN Business Advisory Council (ASEAN-BAC) Malaysia, the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants (ACCA), and their partners in the ASEAN Sustainability Reporting Advocacy Collaborative (ASRAC) have on Wednesday unveiled a landmark regional policy statement that charts a unified path forward for sustainability reporting across Southeast Asia,…

Singapore-based Keppel Ltd., through its fund management and investment platforms, has signed a strategic partnership agreement with the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB) to facilitate and mobilize up to $1.5 billion worth of sustainable infrastructure investments and financing opportunities in the Asia Pacific (APAC) region.

The Advisory Committee on Sustainability Reporting (ACSR), chaired by the Securities Commission Malaysia (SC), published on Wednesday a consultation paper to seek public feedback on the proposed framework for sustainability assurance.