What Is El Niño—and Why Is It Back in the Boardroom Conversation? El Niño is no longer just a scientific term reserved for climate experts; it has become a boardroom issue with real financial implications. The latest El Niño cycle, intensifying through 2024–2025, has already been linked to record-breaking global temperatures, with 2024 confirmed as the hottest year on record. (and most likely 2026 will break the historical records again soon...) This warming phenomenon disrup

Why nature risk is turning into a finance conversation in APAC This topic echoes a question a university student asked me during an ESG sharing session: beyond climate, what should we pay more attention to in 2026? Biodiversity and nature-related risk has moved beyond “ESG reporting” and into the practical mechanics of credit . In APAC, the link is especially direct: several economies depend heavily on land, water, fisheries, forestry, and agriculture, while rapid urban growt

For years, climate has been the center of gravity in corporate sustainability. That’s changing fast. In 2026, “nature” ( biodiversity, land use, water, and deforestation ) is moving from a specialist conversation into mainstream risk and strategy—because companies are realizing a simple truth: climate resilience depends on healthy ecosystems, and many supply chains depend on nature whether or not it appears on a balance sheet. This is why nature-related disclosure and due dil

The LEAP process in ESG and sustainability (especially in frameworks such as the Task Force on Nature‑Related Financial Disclosures [TNFD] and broader environmental‑risk management ) stands for a structured approach used by organizations to identify, assess, and manage nature‑related or sustainability‑related impacts, dependencies, risks, and opportunities . It serves as a practical method for integrating environmental and social considerations into business strategy and

The TNFD stands for the Taskforce on Nature‑related Financial Disclosures . 🌿 What It Is The TNFD is a global initiative that helps organizations understand, manage, and disclose their nature‑related risks and opportunities — similar to what the TCFD (Task Force on Climate‑related Financial Disclosures) does for climate. It provides a framework for companies and financial institutions to integrate biodiversity and ecosystem health into financial and strategic decisi