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References & recommended reads

Where the analysis comes from.

Key reports from leading institutions that shaped the Landscape 2025 edition, plus the books we returned to.


Source reports

General

Southeast Asia's Green Economy — Unlocking Systems for Growth and Impact (2025)
Bain & Company, GenZero, Google, Standard Chartered, Temasek
What accelerating systems-level solutions could achieve by 2030. Why adopt an integrated systems approach now to unlock value, ensure energy security, and drive lasting climate impact.
Southeast Asia's Green Economy — Moving the Needle (2024)
Bain & Company, GenZero, Standard Chartered, Temasek
Priority actions: focus attention on investable decarbonisation ideas; promote innovation in finance; take action today while working on structural constraints.
Decarbonisation pathways in Southeast Asia: A stocktake of progress and potential (2025)
Climateworks Centre
Assesses the current landscape of decarbonisation pathways in Southeast Asia, including pathways across multiple nations and the region as a whole.

Nature, Agriculture & Food

Drawdown Roadmap for Food, Agriculture, and Land Use in Southeast Asia (2025)
Project Drawdown
A science-based portfolio of actions detailing what is needed, when, and where, to maximise the impact of greenhouse gas reduction efforts in Southeast Asia.
Asia-Pacific Climate Report 2025 — Unlocking Nature for Development (2025)
Asian Development Bank
Proposes a high-level, 10-year road map to guide policymakers in integrating nature into core economic and financial systems.
Decarbonising Food Systems: Opportunities for a Concerned ASEAN (2025)
ASEAN Studies Centre at ISEAS-Yusof Ishak Institute
What is involved in decarbonisation, the options available, challenges faced, and suggested regional-level actions to reduce GHG emissions.

Energy Transition

ASEAN Energy in 2025 — Key insights about ASEAN Energy Landscape and Predictions (2025)
ASEAN Centre for Energy (ACE)
Energy-climate nexus; market-based instruments for leveraging additional financial resources; tracking national energy policies; ASEAN energy priorities 2024–2025.

Built Environment

Global Status Report for Buildings and Construction 2024/2025 (2025)
UN Environment Programme (UNEP) and GlobalABC
Annual snapshot of the progress of buildings and construction. Reviews policies, finance, technologies, and solutions to monitor sector alignment with the Paris Agreement.
ConTech landscape in Southeast Asia (2024)
Zacua Ventures
Main Construction Segments & Growth Drivers, Key Challenges and Opportunities, Opportunities for ConTech, Funding Landscape.
The Green Data Centre (DC) Roadmap (2024)
Infocomm Media Development Authority
Charts a sustainable pathway for the continued growth of DCs in Singapore to support digital economy ambitions.

Transportation & Logistics

Global EV Outlook 2025 (2025)
International Energy Agency (IEA)
Outlook for electric mobility in road transport over the period to 2030, exploring prospects based on market trends, policy drivers, and technology developments.
Maritime Forecast to 2050 (2025)
DNV
Key trends shaping the future of shipping: increasing capacity for alternative fuels, fuel demand vs. supply reality, emerging technologies.
The DHL Logistics Trend Radar 7.0 (2024)
DHL
In-depth analysis of 40 logistics trends, their impact, and opportunities. Two trends stand out: AI and sustainability.
2025 Asia Pacific Logistics Occupier Survey (2025)
CBRE
Insights from over 380 corporate real estate executives on business outlook, growth plans, strategic opportunities, and challenges.

Circular Economy & Waste

Integrative Report on Implementation of the Circular Economy in ASEAN (2024)
Economic Research Institute for ASEAN and East Asia (ERIA) / ASEAN Secretariat
Overview of circular economy implementation across ASEAN: policy, waste management, CE practices, barriers and opportunities.
The Secrets to Unlocking the Next Frontier for a Circular Economy in the Asia-Pacific (2024)
UN ESCAP
Broad policy and business-model framework for CE in Asia-Pacific, including circularity initiatives, regulation, supply chains, reuse/repair/refurbish, industrial symbiosis.
From Waste to Wealth: Advancing ASEAN's Circular Economy through EPR Alignment (2025)
EU-ASEAN Business Council / ASEAN Business Advisory Council
Focus on Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR) in ASEAN: packaging waste, regional harmonisation, business-case and policy design.
Towards sustainable growth in ASEAN — Circular Economy Research Report (2024)
PwC (Asia-Pacific)
Macro-analysis of resource use, waste, recycling, and circular-economy potential in ASEAN; market and business-opportunity lens.

Industrial Decarbonisation

Decarbonising ASEAN's Hard to Abate and High Emitting Sectors (2025)
ERIA, Asian Development Bank (ADB)
Reviews the current landscape, identifies challenges, and highlights emerging practices for mobilising transition finance in Southeast Asia.
Pathways to decarbonisation (2024)
Deloitte Southeast Asia
Hard-to-abate industries: current situation and specific challenges; regulatory landscape; key technological levers; success factors.

Recommended reads

Abundance

Ezra Klein and Derek Thompson

"Abundance is a once-in-a-generation, paradigm-shifting call to renew a politics of plenty, face up to the failures of liberal governance, and abandon the chosen scarcities that have deformed American life."

Not the End of the World

Hannah Ritchie

"Data scientist Hannah Ritchie argues that if we zoom out, a very different picture emerges. In fact, the data shows we've made so much progress on these problems that we could be on track to achieve true sustainability for the first time in human history."