ESG

Rajah & Tann's Sustainability Practice brings to you the inaugural issue of the Sustainability Updates which shares with you insights distilled from conversations between our Sustainability Partners and experts across sectors and domains on key environmental, social and governance ("ESG") developments and trends. In this issue, Lee Weilin and Soh Lip San, our Partners with the Sustainability Practice, explore ESG issues in infrastructure projects by speaking with Seth Tan, Executive Director of Infrastructure Asia ("InfraAsia"), on his views on green and sustainable infrastructure and ESG factors for bankable projects in the region.

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APREA advocates the adoption of ESG and Sustainability Best Practices in the real assets industry. Making sustainable investment decisions is increasingly a part of APREA members’ DNA, and APREA is committed to be at the forefront of that transition to a net-zero world.

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Now more than ever sustainability and ESG topics are coming to the forefront across the globe from a diverse group of stakeholders including employees, customers, suppliers, communities, investors and regulators. Driven in part by the Covid-19 pandemic, there is a focus on employee health & safety, supply chain resilience, and corporate culture, along with growing concerns on climate risk to reputation and the associated impact on corporate value creation.

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Many institutional investors are facing their greatest challenges for many years. They are transforming their investment processes at high speed to reflect today’s imperatives, such as environmental, social and governance (ESG) investing, innovative technology, ever-shifting regulations and demands for greater transparency. Yet they must do this in a complex and unstable financial environment. I compare this challenge to changing the sails and masts of a ship as it is battered by a storm. For this report, we surveyed 200 asset owners (pension funds, insurers, sovereign wealth funds and endowments/foundations) owning assets of around $18 trillion. Reading it, I was struck by how the pandemic has further accelerated the shift to ESG. Asked for the top 3 trends that will affect their organization over the next three to five years, 62% cited either climate change or the increasing complexity of ESG measurement — far ahead of other themes such as market volatility and regulation. But it is not the only transformation. A new wave of data technologies is bringing very significant changes to investment processes. These technologies open the door to new ways of understanding markets and increasing efficiency.

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