Asia in focus

A just green transition should widen routes to a dignified life, not merely swap old environmental costs for new social ones.

As extreme weather worsens, central banks must use their monetary and regulatory tools to actively accelerate the region’s decarbonisation and build resilience to climate risks.

Climate finance has more than doubled yet uncertainties remain on its real impact. AI and other technologies could help change that, argue Tianyin Sun and Yuan Zheng. …

Hailed as a world-first, Japan’s sovereign transition bond has funded industries with little evidence of reducing emissions, says energy analyst Noriaki Oba.

With two different systems for assessing emissions data, aligning the frameworks is essential to achieve policy objectives, says economist Sayuri Shirai.

Government direction has spurred PBoC to adopt green monetary policy measures, argue economists Mathias Larsen and James Jackson.

Indonesia is forging ahead with transition plans but financial companies are still in the early stages of developing theirs, say Valentina Bellesi and Yuki Yasarani.

Authorities must revise capital frameworks and integrate resilience into monetary operations to tackle challenges, say Aziz Durrani and Julia Bingler.

Despite implementation delays, upcoming disclosure rules will give Singapore and other Asian countries a competitive advantage, say Xpansiv’s Adam Kirkman and Ben Stuart.

India’s net-zero transition must be designed so people and communities are not left behind, say policy experts Gaurav Upadhyay and Sangeeth Selvaraju.