【About this report】
CSRone Intelligence Platform has conducted an annual survey and analysis of sustainability information disclosure in Taiwan since 2013, with results regularly published in March. Starting in 2018, the database for the report expanded its collection to include the sustainability reports of the top 10 companies from 10 countries and regions in the Asia-Pacific, including China, Japan, India, South Korea, Hong Kong, Malaysia, Singapore, Taiwan, and Australia.

The research led by senior consultants Richard Chen, Alice Chang, and Tracy Ni with a research team, sets out six major research hypotheses and uses 185 indicators, sets out six major research hypotheses and uses 185 analysis indicators. It deeply deconstructs the differences between "disclosure transparency" and "management proactiveness" while examining the relationships among national regulations and between companies/industries. The report analyzes information on sustainability performance, net-zero strategies, SDGs, DEI, legal regulations, and industry trends. This report enables stakeholders to understand how companies in the Asia-Pacific region practice sustainable development, making it one of the best guides for understanding sustainability trends in this region.

【Key Findings】
1  Northeast Asian enterprises take Top 3 of the Top 10 Regional Sustainability Results! Asia-Pacific ESG standards reach over 550, but overall disclosure performance average decreases by 6.9%.
2  Value chain decarbonization era is here! 56.2% of Asia-Pacific enterprises have not included Scope 3 in their net-zero targets.
3  T-x-FD multiverse! 12.5% of enterprise management expands vision to “natural capital” and sets biodiversity targets.
4  “DEI+J” shifts sustainability perspective from Environment to Social, up to 92.7% of enterprises publicly explain their “social justice and human rights”.
5  SDGs washing becoming a trend? Singapore has the highest level of management activeness while China and Hong Kong have high responses but are less capable of taking action.