Cover Andrew Chan, sustainability and climate change leader, PricewaterhouseCoopers
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With guidance from environmental officers, corporations are placing sustainability at the heart of their strategies
In the fight against climate change, big businesses find themselves in a unique position. Because of their footprint, which often spans borders and includes a workforce of thousands, their actions regarding the environment have an outsize effect. Thankfully, more corporations recognise their role in solving the world’s most pressing challenge. With guidance from these leaders on Asia’s Most Influential who are working in the sustainability arena, companies have taken up the call toward net-zero emissions, reducing their carbon footprint, reworking supply chains and embracing sustainability as a core tenet of their strategies. Ultimately, these sustainability leaders are reshaping the way businesses think by fostering a new paradigm where environmental stewardship goes hand in hand with value creation.
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Esther An, chief sustainability officer, City Developments Limited (Singapore)
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Esther An, the chief sustainability officer of City Developments Limited (CDL), champions the environment not just within the real estate company but also in Singapore’s business community at large. An’s work has helped CDL rise to the 22nd spot of Corporate Knights’ Global 100 ranking of the world’s most sustainable companies in 2024, making CDL the most sustainable company in Singapore, as well. The company’s 2024 Integrated Sustainability Report presented its progress toward its net-zero goal, indicating a 14 per cent reduction in carbon emissions across its operations.
An also established Women4Green, CDL’s collaboration platform for female leaders working for the global climate agenda. “Speaking from the perspective of a working mother and sustainability practitioner, there is abundant evidence that women’s full participation in climate policies leads to not only fairer but better results on the international level,” she said.
Beyond CDL, the leader chairs the Sustainability Reporting Advisory Committee, which has been tasked to help develop a sustainability reporting roadmap for Singapore companies and advise on the suitability of implementing international standards in the market.
Andrew Chan, sustainability and climate change leader, PricewaterhouseCoopers (Malaysia)
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As the leader in charge of redefining value creation at PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) Malaysia, Andrew Chan spearheads the company’s sustainability and climate change services in the region. Recognising the role it can play in the world’s transition to a sustainable future, PricewaterhouseCoopers has instituted a robust sustainability practice that helps organisations plan, finance and measure sustainability programmes such as net-zero transformations, sustainable supply chains and sustainability reporting.
For its part, the business advisory firm has also committed to achieving net zero through a global strategy that focuses on reducing its impact on the environment by, for example, decarbonising its operations and supply chains. Its 2023 Network Environment Report details the company’s goals, which includes using 100 per cent renewable electricity in all its territories (PwC is already at 91 per cent of this target) and reducing greenhouse gas emissions from business travel by 50 percent by 2030.
Nikki Ng, group general manager, Sino Group (Hong Kong)
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“Sustainability is the key to a better future. We need to be able to provide for present needs without compromising the needs of future generations,” said Nikki Ng, group general manager of Sino Group, to Tatler. With net zero in mind, the property developer has implemented its Sustainability Vision 2030, which “maps a clear path for green living, innovative design and community spirit” and introduced several programmes such as the Sino Sustainability Academy, its groupwide platform that provides guidance on issues such as climate change.
Ng herself champions Farm Together, the group’s integrated green community project that has nurtured over 380 plant species in 19 farms in Hong Kong and its farm in Singapore. The group general manager, whose interest in urban farming began after reading the book Growing Your Own Food in Hong Kong, adds that Sino Group’s community farms also “...promote sustainable living concepts, cultivate green habits in the community and allow our stakeholders to explore a variety of species while learning about organic farming”. Spanning orchid and fruit farms and edible and butterfly gardens, the green centres produce 1,000 kg of crops every year.
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