The 2025/2026 edition of the annual Asia-Pacific Trade and Investment Trends: Asia-Pacific Foreign Direct Investment Trends and Outlook (henceforth referred to as the “Brief”), prepared by the United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (ESCAP), presents macro-level trends in Greenfield foreign direct investment (FDI) specifically across ESCAP member States. The Brief intends to provide a macro-level overview of regional inward and outbound Greenfield FDI trends, with insights on subregional-, intra-regional and sectoral developments and is structured as follows.