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
Southeast Asia's Green Economy — Unlocking Systems for Growth and Impact
(2025)
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)
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)
Assesses the current landscape of decarbonisation pathways in Southeast Asia, including pathways across multiple nations and the region as a whole.
Drawdown Roadmap for Food, Agriculture, and Land Use in Southeast Asia
(2025)
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)
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)
What is involved in decarbonisation, the options available, challenges faced, and suggested regional-level actions to reduce GHG emissions.
ASEAN Energy in 2025 — Key insights about ASEAN Energy Landscape and Predictions
(2025)
Energy-climate nexus; market-based instruments for leveraging additional financial resources; tracking national energy policies; ASEAN energy priorities 2024–2025.
Global Status Report for Buildings and Construction 2024/2025
(2025)
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)
Main Construction Segments & Growth Drivers, Key Challenges and Opportunities, Opportunities for ConTech, Funding Landscape.
The Green Data Centre (DC) Roadmap
(2024)
Charts a sustainable pathway for the continued growth of DCs in Singapore to support digital economy ambitions.
Global EV Outlook 2025
(2025)
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)
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)
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)
Insights from over 380 corporate real estate executives on business outlook, growth plans, strategic opportunities, and challenges.
Integrative Report on Implementation of the Circular Economy in ASEAN
(2024)
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)
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)
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)
Macro-analysis of resource use, waste, recycling, and circular-economy potential in ASEAN; market and business-opportunity lens.
Decarbonising ASEAN's Hard to Abate and High Emitting Sectors
(2025)
Reviews the current landscape, identifies challenges, and highlights emerging practices for mobilising transition finance in Southeast Asia.
Pathways to decarbonisation
(2024)
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."
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