ESG: Defining Asia Pacific’s Future

In today’s episode, we will be exploring what companies must do to win in this challenging environment, together with our host, Jeremy Prepscius - Managing Director, Asia Pacific Sustainability, Sustainable Supply Chains, PwC Hong Kong - and guest, David Wijeratne - International Growth Practice - Global lead, Partner, PwC Singapore.

In this episode, we look at some real-world examples of how communities that heavily rely on high-emitting industries for employment and incomes can move away from being negatively impacted by both climate change and climate adaptation strategies and towards increased resilience and active participation in the green economy.

Focusing on the role of financial institutions in enabling a just net-zero transition, PwC speaks to Jaclyn Dove, Managing Director of Sustainable Finance at Standard Chartered in Singapore, and Ryuta Suzuki, Director General of the Environmental Assessment Office from the Japanese Bank for International Cooperation.

In this episode we talk about the impacts of the transition to net-zero on people, and in particular, on workforces, including those of contractors and those in value chains with Devika Iyer from the United Nations Development Programme and Parul Munshi, a Partner in PwC's Southeast Asia consulting practise.

This episode focuses on the energy transition and the challenges around managing the shift to net zero in a region experiencing energy security issues and wider social inequities. PwC’s Kirsty Haymon speaks to Charlotte Wolff-Bye, Vice President and Chief Sustainability Officer of PETRONAS and Eric Francia, President and Chief Executive Officer of ACEN Corporation. 

There's an increasing call to action to ensure that the shift to net-zero is fair and inclusive.  In this first episode of the second season, PwC’s Kirsty Haymon speaks with Kate Hughes, Senior Climate Specialist at Asian Development Bank, and Haley St. Dennis, Head of Just Transitions at Institute for Human Rights and Business as they explore how supply chains are evol

How should companies react to and prepare for the imperatives that are driving sustainable supply chains? We hear from Andrew Chan, Asia Pacific ESG Partner at PwC Malaysia, Louise Halliwell, Director at PwC Australia and Kiyoshi Wakai, Director at PwC Japan who unpack the ESG issues of today, what they anticipate for the future, and the ‘best’ practices companies need to have