Calvin Quek
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Executive Director, Nature Finance, Oxford Sustainable Finance Group. Director, Transition Asia
Joined December 2008
Funny and witty! The résumé inflation report via @FT “Former investment banker” almost invariably means “was on an Analyst programme”, just like “former McKinsey consultant” means “didn’t make partner”.
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The older you get, the better you used to be
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ASPI’s Critical Technology Tracker: 2025 updates and 10 new technologies | The Strategist
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ASPI’s Critical Technology Tracker now covers global research efforts into 74 technologies, giving policymakers, industry and partners the clearest, most current picture of the tech race for strate...
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For the SEA Iron & Steel conference a few weeks ago, I presented my views on "Green Steel developments in China & the role of Transition Finance". Here's a piece I wrote on the topic:
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I was talking to a relative about this, and he raised an interesting point: Singapore’s history is very young, and like how many people today barely remember Malaysia’s founding leader Tunku Abdul Rahman, important parts of Singapore can fade quickly. Even if Lee Kuan Yew
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Singapore riven over fate of founding father’s home https://t.co/fMMF0rk2jb via @ft
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Government’s move to preserve historic bungalow contravenes Lee Kuan Yew’s wishes and public opinion
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Great article - How the world’s biggest mining project is a win for China https://t.co/CV1te4mgZT via @ft
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The $23bn Simandou mine in Guinea has taken almost three decades to begin operating but could tilt the balance of power in the global iron ore market
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Love your podcast @gideonrachman but the new image makes you look like Ganesh 😆 I’m being cheeky. Keep up the good work!
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An excellent commentary on the repercussions on Norway’s decision to suspend the Oil fund ethics framework by Martin Sandbu.
How Norway jeopardised its integrity overnight https://t.co/QByQ1aHj6s | opinion
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How Norway jeopardised its integrity overnight https://t.co/QByQ1aHj6s | opinion
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Oslo abruptly changed the ethics rules for the world’s largest sovereign wealth fund
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China's State Council Information Office on Saturday released a white paper titled "Carbon Peaking and Carbon Neutrality China's Plans and Solutions." EN: https://t.co/uI7P4Njd8D CN:
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UN climate summit looks to China as latest data shows flat emissions trend via @FT
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The absence of the US at COP30 has put the focus on the world’s other big emitters
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UN climate summit looks to China as latest data shows flat emissions trend via @FT
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The absence of the US at COP30 has put the focus on the world’s other big emitters
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Can anything halt the decline of German industry? via @FT
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Europe’s manufacturing champion is in free fall. Economists are suggesting radical steps to save what is left
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Good piece. On the surface, it might have suggest that ESG issues is off the table, but instead, companies are becoming much more strategic and hard-nosed about the extent to which these issues are material. Hence the increased integration of the ESG/CSO role into strategic/legal
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ESG teams are having to adapt fast to survive the age of Trump
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"The triangular challenge of maintaining a stable fleet with capped growth, serving a clientele sensitive to price hikes, and operating a for-profit business under heavy sustainability regulations seems nearly impossible to resolve. For operators like Meituan, what keeps shared
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This is an interesting read about China's shared bike sector and how it has "grown up" and become more sustainable:
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“Bike graveyards,” unpaid deposits, and chaotic streets—these were the global headlines a few years ago when China’s brightly colored, mobile phone-activated, dockless shared bikes appeared in major...
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“Trump is compelling friends like Japan to bet heavily on whether they can be strategically irrational longer than they can stay diplomatically solvent.” Japan’s adventures in Trump’s irrational-rational land via @FT
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A shiny Ford pick-up truck has become the symbol of Sanae Takaichi’s diplomatic dance with the US
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Superb reporting and outstanding visuals - End of The Line: how Saudi Arabia’s Neom dream unravelled https://t.co/j5OwzNTpuS via @FT
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Mohammed bin Salman’s utopian city was undone by the laws of physics and finance
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