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The road toward sustainability is not linear, and companies are encouraged to think critically about their sustainability strategies to be resilient against policy and market changes. Getting used to the business as ‘unusual’ is key; so is engaging with consumers along their sustainability journey.
In recent years, sustainability has increasingly had to cope with toughened market conditions, policy, and geopolitics. Meanwhile, despite technological advancements, many clean-energy options remain costly to deploy. All these factors are affecting how companies execute transition plans, requiring them to think more critically about their sustainability strategies.
That is reflected in this year’s New York Climate Week, where participants went beyond emphasising ambition and achievements to discussing what challenges we face to accelerate the energy transition and what innovative solutions we can embark on.
An insightful aspect to many New York Climate Week conversations centred on disruptive ways of doing business: committing to sustainability means getting used to the business as ‘unusual’, whether it is exploring the unknown, managing trial and error, or engaging in difficult but constructive conversations with clients. These changes may be costly to invest in and challenging to implement at the beginning. But in the long term, business as ‘unusual’ in sustainability can transform burden into benefits, as evidenced in later analyses.
The road toward sustainability is never linear, complicated by frequent policy and market disruptions. This therefore requires companies to practice sustainability with constantly refreshed minds. Sustainability goes beyond compliance to managing risks, harnessing opportunities, aligning customer demand, and creating value.
Policy is crucial in facilitating the energy transition, as it can support nascent technologies, more properly price dirty economic activities, harmonise industry practices, and create level playing fields. As we have pointed out in many analyses, the US’ energy transition largely relies on incentives (carrots) to scale up the production of clean technologies, whereas the EU relies relatively more on standards and mandates (sticks) to steer demand toward a greener direction.
A topic we heard companies and investors talk about during the climate week is how to effectively enhance the demand for clean energy. On the one hand, if producers cannot secure long-term offtake agreements in large amounts, then it is hard for projects to advance even if the necessary technology, resources, and infrastructure are all available. On the other hand, if regulations and demand-side mandates are unrealistic, then there can be excessive non-compliance that defeats the purpose of regulation. The best ratio might be different across regions, but each jurisdiction needs a combination of carrots and sticks in terms of policy for decarbonization. Overly relying on one and ignoring the other will not yield optimal results.
Companies have emphasised the importance of pursuing environmental stewardship, which lies beyond adhering to the most used sustainability measurements such as emissions reduction and renewable energy usage. And the notion of stewardship can be highly industry specific. In the food and agriculture sector, stewardship can represent strengthening soil health and improving water availability and quality. Doing this can not only enhance crop output and resiliency, but also prevent land degradation. This does not mean that the emissions metric should be discarded; rather, a wider range of considerations can together lead to a more holistic approach to sustainability that highlights sector materiality.
Some jurisdictions are encouraging this holistic thinking through sustainability disclosure requirements. The EU’s soon-to-be-mandatory Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive (CSRD), for example, requires some 50,000 EU companies and at least 10,000 foreign companies to report in phases on sustainability metrics such as water, biodiversity, and circularity. In addition to complying to the law, companies can also benefit from using their own ESG data to refine sustainability strategies. These include improving sustainability strategy through gap analyses and increasing internal business efficiency. Standardized disclosure, coupled with enhanced ESG strategy, can also help companies enhance the access to capital.
According to a global study conducted by Bain & Company, around 60% of consumers have become more concerned about climate change in the past two years, with packaging and recyclability emerging as two main major considerations. This means that companies, especially those in the consumer goods and retail sectors, would appeal to sustainability-conscious consumers by closing the loop for the full product life cycle.
Respondent answers to the question of ‘How have your climate change concerns have changed over the past two years?’
Meanwhile, however, anecdotal evidence shows that sustainability can move down the priority list if sustainable products are too costly or inconvenient to use. While it is debatable how much more expensive sustainable products can be and who should be bearing that cost increase, sustainability should not derail from being consumer-centric.
In the automotives industry, for example, companies can design electric vehicles (EVs) through leveraging their brands’ traditional selling points, whether it be luxury, coolness, or ease of use. While creating luxury/cool EVs relies on product design, one way to boost the ease of use is to partner with restaurants, shops or office buildings for EV charging. This can help consumers overcome their unwillingness to wait a long time charging EVs and narrow the infrastructure gap that countries like the US are facing.
On top of that, communication is key. Companies would benefit from laying out how their products are sustainable to consumers, as opposed to only having a sustainability label or certificate. Moreover, companies are starting to link sustainability with other benefits consumers care about. For instance, real estate sustainability efforts are being communicated to customers as a means to ensure economic security through increased energy efficiency. Real estate companies are also exploring the ‘S’ aspect of ESG through boosting affordable housing and creating value for local communities. All in all, sustainability is about operating businesses in ways toward consumers’ long-term wellbeing.
Committing to sustainability is committing to the business as unusual. Given the uncertain and ever-evolving nature of climate change, companies would need to take on a comprehensive approach to sustainability in their decision-making processes, which often involves challenging the existing energy system. All these cannot be achieved without collaboration and dedication despite the many challenges ahead.
Japanese restaurant operator Food Innovators Holdings plans to raise $3.1 million through listing on the Singapore Exchange (SGX) Catalist board.
The proceeds of the initial public offering will go towards introducing new Japanese brands and concepts in Singapore and Malaysia and buying the rights to operate more themed restaurants in Japan and overseas, it noted on Oct 9.
The company also hopes to ride the growing wave of popularity of Japanese culture and food in Singapore and Malaysia, said chief executive Kubota Yasuaki, through an interpreter.
Mr Yasuaki told The Straits Times: “We think that Singapore is the central hub of the Asian economy. Our plan is to operate food and beverage restaurants in Japan and also outside Japan, mainly in Asia. Singapore is a multicultural country, so we think that Singapore is a good place to be listed.”
He added that being listed here will help the company to be more well known in Asia and increase its credibility in Japan, enabling it to raise debt financing from Japanese banks.
The plan is to eventually list on the SGX mainboard in several years, he said.
Food Innovators Holdings is offering 14 million shares – 13 million placement shares and one million for public subscription at 22 cents apiece.
If all shares are fully subscribed, the group will have a market capitalisation of $24.9 million upon listing.
The company runs 10 outlets in Singapore such as tempura rice bowl restaurant Tendon Kohaku, unagi eatery Man Man, Japanese skewers bar Yatagarasu, Hokkaido barbecue joint The Hitsuji Club and beef grill The Ushi Club. These are collaborations with local Japanese restaurant operators.
It also operates four restaurants in Malaysia, a bakery cafe and a central kitchen facility.
It has 12 restaurants in Japan, including a Moomin-themed character eatery in Karuizawa, as well as a restaurant leasing and subleasing business.
The firm noted that it holds the Moomin brand licence in Japan and is looking to buy operating rights of other characters.
“Driven by the widespread popularity of anime culture in Japan, demand for anime-themed restaurants has also been on the rise,” it said in a statement.
“Looking to replicate the success (of Moomin), part of the gross proceeds will be utilised to acquire operating rights to more themed restaurants of popular anime and other characters.”
Mr Yasuaki added: “With decades of deep expertise in Japan’s food service industry, (we are) poised to enter an exciting new phase of growth.
“Our extensive experience has given us a unique understanding of market dynamics, allowing us to strategically leverage favourable trends and scale our Japanese food restaurant network both domestically and internationally.”
The group began in Japan in 2011, but was only incorporated in Singapore in 2019.
Applications for shares close at noon on Oct 14 with the stock expected to begin trading at 9 am on Oct 16.
Crypto ownership has significantly increased among retail investors since 2020, says the Board of the International Organization of Securities Commissions (IOSCO), which called for more investor education about the space.
Fifteen out of 24 surveyed jurisdictions reported up to 10% or more of retail investors owned crypto last year, while six jurisdictions reported up to 30% or more crypto ownership, according to an Oct. 9 IOSCO report.
It’s a steep increase from 2020 when half of the responding jurisdictions estimated between 1% to 5% or less of investors owned crypto.
“Since 2020, the crypto-asset space has continued to evolve,” IOSCO wrote.
“Despite volatility in the market, which experienced a major downturn during the 2022 ‘crypto winter,’ retail investors, in both advanced economies and emerging market jurisdictions, continue to invest in the crypto-asset market,” it added.
IOSCO said there are still risks and concerns over crypto market volatility, lack of investor understanding, lack of regulations, and scams and fraud.
These concerns remained similar to those identified in the 2020 report, it noted.
The report also highlighted the increased risks and challenges in the crypto market since 2020, emphasizing the need for stronger investor protection and education measures.
Over the past four years, there have been several high-profile failures and bankruptcies, a long bear market with markets plunging 73% from their previous highs, and a surge in scams, hacks, and investor losses — all alongside increased regulatory and enforcement actions in the crypto space.
Despite this, retail investors remain keen on crypto assets, IOSCO said.
“Over the last four years, numerous surveys, studies, and reports have found increasing interest by investors, particularly new investors, in crypto-assets.”
Retail investors who have bought crypto tend to be younger — typically under 40 years old — and male, the report noted.
In the United States, for example, nearly three in five investors under 35 years old considered a crypto investment, while over half had already invested.
Around 44% of the Gen Z cohort in America — 18 to 25-year-olds— started by investing in crypto, the report said.
New to the scene investors are also more likely to invest in crypto, compared to established investors, IOSCO noted.
IOSCO’s report cited the main motivations for investing in crypto as fear of missing out (FOMO) or speculation, low cost of entry, and advice from friends and social media.
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