Asia Pacific

  • CBAM is focusing Asian companies on carbon, says SeaTown

    17 July 2025

    Exporters in the Asia-Pacific region will have to exceed emissions standards or be best-in-class if they want to remain part of supply chains ahead of the EU's Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism (CBAM), according to Singaporean investor SeaTown.

  • Cleantech Solar secures $70m green loan for APAC developments

    17 July 2025
  • Latest Japan transition bond four-times oversubscribed

    17 July 2025
  • Climate Fund Managers to co-manage $118m Malaysian blended infra fund

    16 July 2025
  • Singapore to release finalise transition credit work

    16 July 2025

    The Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) has announced that it will publish its final transition credit report by COP30 in November.

  • GPIF 'monitoring' stewardship of managers who exited CA100+

    14 July 2025

    The world's largest pension fund said it is "concerned about" widespread departures of asset managers from collaborative engagement initiatives including Climate Action 100+ as it looks to step up its monitoring of stewardship activities of its other managers.

  • BlueOrchard launches listed debt strategy with Japanese insurance funding

    14 July 2025
  • Japan readying auctions of $8.2bn in transition bonds

    10 July 2025
  • Ikeda departs Japan Financial Services Agency

    08 July 2025
  • Japanese ISSB standards will tackle long-standing issues with reporting timeline, L&G says

    08 July 2025
  • Circulate backs two Indonesian plastic recyclers

    04 July 2025
  • 'Pure-play taskforce' launched for green, social loan market

    04 July 2025

    Influential loan market trade associations have convened a 'pure-play taskforce' to develop guidance on how 'green'- and 'social'-focused companies can access the existing labelled sustainable loan market.

  • Australian Taxonomy-linked sustainable bond guidance expected by early 2026

    03 July 2025

    The Australian Sustainable Finance Institute (ASFI) expects to publish dedicated guidance for using the Australian Sustainable Finance Taxonomy in labelled sustainable bond transactions by early 2026 at the latest.

  • ResponsAbility backs clean tech KIS Group with $23m

    03 July 2025
  • Japan's planned ETS has spurred carbon credit price rise, says government agency

    02 July 2025

    High-emitting companies who are set to be in scope of Japan's national emissions trading system (ETS) from next year have already begun buying carbon credits and driven price rises, according to the head of Japan's Green Transformation (GX) Acceleration Agency.

  • Japan hoping asset owners loosen mandates to invest in transition debt

    02 July 2025

    International investors have not bought Japan's world first sovereign transition bonds at the rate the country hoped - partly because of restrictive mandates from asset owners, according to the head of Japan's Green Transformation (GX) Acceleration Agency.