💸 USD 1.1 trillion, 232 million 🕶 jobs: The Adaptive Economy is South East Asia’s Next Big Wave 🌊.

New reports from World Economic Forum show a USD 1.1 trillion, 232 million jobs creation potential: this is the ROI opportunity of investing now in The Adaptive Economy in South East Asia.

Dear Adaptive Economy readers,

This is a great time for The Adaptive Economy in South East Asia. This month, Dow Jones Sustainability Indices welcomes 24 Thai companies, Singapore announced a target of two million tonnes of CO2 capture by 2030, Asia-Pacific is becoming the highest revenue contributor to the global $261B solar farm market. In the meantime, Asia Pacific is at the heart of the global biodiversity crisis. Fighting climate change through energy innovations is critical, but will not be enough to address the biodiversity crisis. Where are the business opportunities and how can the investments required to be unlocked to support a nature-positive Adaptive Economy in the region? 

In this newsletter, we will do a South East Asia-focused deep-dive from the World Economic Forum's The Future of Nature and Business report published last year.

Business-as-usual would mean that up to 42% of all biodiversity in Southeast Asia could be lost by 2100, half of which would be global extinctio…