DISCLOSURE > Opinions & Expert Views

  • Redefining Fiduciary Responsibility

    Are investors and businesses acting prudently? Lisa Genasci says it’s about time we redefined fiduciary duty … more

  • Footprinting – Making its Mark in China?

    Alec Tang of ERM explains the growing trend of water footprint reporting in China and what it could mean for sustainability. … more

  • New Strategies to Tackle Pollution

    With new 12th FYP pollution targets, the World Resource Institute explains why strategies must be cost-effective and comprehensive … more

  • Water Risks in The Mining Sector – Still Murky And Getting Critical

    World Resource Institute’s Amanda Sauer explains hidden water risks in mining and ‘Mine the Gap’, a tool to connect water risks & disclosure. … more

  • Toxic Fallout

    Hong Kong listed Zijin Mining’s epic toxic spill may have opened a new chapter for environmental protection. Christine Loh explains. … more

  • Zijin: Emblematic of China’s Mining Industry?

    Chris Nolan, extractions expert at Business for Social Responsibility, examines this within the context of the industry’s global environmental management trends to tease out an answer. … more

  • SEC’s Climate Change Guidance Could Mean Increased Scrutiny of Overseas Supply Chains

    Ceres’ Jim Cobourn provides insight into the usefulness of the guidance, its impact on companies and the next steps for securities regulators. … more

  • The Imperfect Science of Water Risks

    Piet Klop of WRI debates whether companies are better off investing in water technologies than water disclosure frameworks. … more

  • Moving From Curiousity to Integration: an Investors’ Journey

    Shally Venugopal, reviews key lessons learnt whilst working with analysts and investors on research to include environmental risks; in particular the World Resources Institute’s work with HSBC on the effects of climate change on South and SE Asia’s F&B and power sectors. … more

  • Sinohydro’s IPO: An Opportunity For Environmental Reform

    International Rivers’ Peter Bosshard talks about Sinohydro, the world’s foremost dam builder’s listing on the Shanghai Exchange and its opportunity to adopt a world class environmental policy. Sinohydro controls 70% of the Chinese and 50% of the global hydropower market. The company not only acts as a contractor, but is also a developer, operator and owner of power plants. … more

  • Fighting Water Pollution With Data

    Greenpeace China’s Wu gives us the hard truth about China’s water problems and the limitations of COD as a measurement of water pollution and the need to monitor individual pollutants such as phosphorous and nitrogen. … more

  • Water, Investors And China—When Will The Investment Case Come Into Focus?

    Melissa Brown discusses the investment case for water: “blue gold” growth vs. a strategic issue for industries and companies that will re-shape competitive outcomes as scarcity sets in. … more

  • A Watershed Moment

    Christine Loh reminds us not to overlook or discount its importance – water is the source of life, as China takes stock of its wastewater pollution targets at the end of the 11th Five Year Plan in 2010. … more