KUALA LUMPUR (Sept 25): Sunway University hosted a week-long festival in support of the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) from Sept 18, bringing together non-governmental organisations, corporate leaders and over 22,000 students from across Malaysia to its campus in Sunway City.

Inspiring youths to take action on sustainability

Private equity (PE) has great potential to achieve large-scale positive impact. PE firms have emerged as major players in the economy, with global assets under management projected to exceed US$11 trillion by 2026. With a business model that largely revolves around creating value in invested companies, PE firms are well placed to unlock the impact potential of their portfolio companies.

How to embed sustainability in a private equity fund

There are many similarities in the two strategic documents that were released in the last month and outline the country’s path forward in the low-carbon global economy.

The National Energy Transition Roadmap (NETR) highlights how Malaysia will reduce emissions from the energy sector in ...

Policy: NETR and NIMP a response to global trends

The late Kofi Annan, who was secretary-general of the United Nations (UN), surprised the world in 1999 when he began pitching for businesses to join the UN in a “creative partnership” that would benefit both parties.

Annan made his points clear: The UN cannot achieve its goals in peacek...

ESG 101: The origins of ESG

The question of whether oil and gas (O&G) companies should exist in an ESG (environmental, social and governance) portfolio almost always incites heated debate.

The sector is a major contributor to greenhouse gas emissions and despite its investments in renewable energy (RE) assets ...

Ratings: Is it too risky to invest in the O&G sector?

An urban design movement to exert control has gained momentum. Known as “hostile architecture”, it is akin to a locked door disguised as an open invitation. It welcomes some while intentionally excluding others, quietly shaping public spaces into unwelcoming landscapes of division rather than uni...

Views: Building equity brick by brick

A boy sits on a swing, which rocks gently. The wind and natural elements around him influence how high the swing goes, alongside the momentum he generates with his body. Now, imagine a bully coming up from behind and pushing him aggressively. The boy grips the swing for dear life, fearful that he...

Science Matters: How El Niño and climate change impact the weather

Since Bursa Malaysia Bhd began making sustainability reporting mandatory for public-listed companies (PLCs) in 2016, one common feedback from industry players is that more support is needed to help them comply.

This was especially after the regulator introduced enhanced reporting requir...

Data: Why Bursa Malaysia wants a central sustainability reporting platform

The “alphabet soup” of sustainability reporting standards and frameworks is a common source of frustration for corporations. To outsiders, the slew of acronyms representing the different frameworks and standards is confusing and almost comical.

But global regulators and industry players...

Cover Story: A game changer for sustainability reporting?

KUALA LUMPUR (Sept 13): For all public-listed companies (PLC) in Malaysia to have 30% women on boards, 351 women are needed to join the boardroom, said Datuk Ami Moris, chair of 30% Club Malaysia and advisor of Maybank Group.

Over 300 women needed to have 30% women on boards of all PLCs

The viability of green assets should be considered in a similar lens with conventional assets by financial institutions, said United Overseas Bank (Malaysia) executive director and chief executive officer Ng Wei Wei at the Sustainability & Renewable Energy Forum (SAREF) 3.0.

Commercial angle of green projects must be considered

Sarawak’s plans to export the green hydrogen it produced will also enable the state to produce sustainable aviation fuel (SAF), said Datuk Dr Muhammad Abdullah Zaidel, deputy state secretary for Sarawak’s economic planning and development unit. He was speaking at the Sustainability and Renewable Energy Forum (SAREF) 3.0.

Sarawak links hydrogen value chain to production of sustainable aviation fuel

KUCHING (Sept 6): Sarawak is in “advanced” stages of negotiations to export renewable energy to Singapore through undersea cables linking it directly to the island-state, said Sarawak Premier Tan Sri Abang Johari Tun Openg.

Sarawak in 'advanced' talk for direct export of electricity to Singapore, says Abang Johari

KUCHING (Sept 6): The United Nations Conference of Parties (UN COP) over the years was designed to bring countries together to make multilateral negotiations and agreements, which culminated in the Paris Agreement in 2015 that acted as a “business plan” to decarbonise the economy, said Dame Christiana Figueres at the Sustainability & Renewable Energy Forum (SAREF) 3.0 here on Wednesday.

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