Berita / Karbon & Cuaca
‘Tough decisions ahead’: Malaysia must harmonise state and federal jurisdictions over carbon ahead of climate change bill
Over the next three months, Malaysia's environment ministry will consult state and federal actors, as well as industry and civil society groups as it prepares a draft of the bill.
Berita / Sisa Kumbahan
Indonesian organic waste recycler Temesi closes, co-founder blames ‘unfair’ fertiliser subsidies
The company partly financed by carbon credits was producing 30 tonnes of compost a day, but couldn’t sell it, said co-founder Sean Nino.
Pendapat / Makanan & Pertanian
A call to financial institutions: Work with palm oil stakeholders to scale climate action
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Berita / Pembuatan
Can better data protect fashion workers from climate risks?
To prepare for climate-fuelled floods and heat, Bangladesh's garment factories are using new data sources, including worker input.
Berita / Bandar-bandar
Biased GPT? Singapore builds AI model to ‘represent’ Southeast Asians
A Singapore government-backed project to build a large language model inclusive of Southeast Asian data has drawn fans and critics.
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Berita / Polisi & Kewangan
Life insurer Prudential makes key APAC appointments with revamp of sustainability strategy
Berita / Karbon & Cuaca
Microsoft appoints William Hudson as Asia Pacific sustainability policy director
Berita / Karbon & Cuaca
CDP restructure sees power shift away from Asia as regional roles axed
Acara Akan Datang Lebih Banyak Acara →
Kekal Dikemaskini
Berita Terkini
Thailand’s movement to protect LGBTQ+ rights has brought economic as well as social benefits. However, the country's draft marriage equality bill must first get passed by a conservative senate.
Karbon & Cuaca
Analysis: China’s steel industry needs time to transition
Energy transition expert Kou Jingna explores the low-carbon marathon being run in China’s steelmaking powerhouse, Shanxi province.
Polisi & Kewangan
Despite war, Indians rush to fill Israel’s construction jobs gap
Thousands are applying for jobs in Israel, where building sites have been short of workers since the start of the Hamas conflict.
Polisi & Kewangan
Analysis: How green are Pakistan’s political manifestoes?
Tumpuan Industri
Karbon & Cuaca
South Pole’s regional policy director on how Asia is leveraging its growing carbon markets to raise climate ambition
In the wake of the world’s first Article 6 transaction between Thailand and Switzerland South Pole’s regional policy director Karolien Casaer-Diez reflects on how the rise of carbon markets in Asia, combined with effective regulation, may hold the key to reducing the region’s carbon emissions.
Berita / Polisi & Kewangan
‘Green is not enough’: UOB chief sustainability officer on mainstreaming transition finance
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- 'Tough decisions ahead': Malaysia must harmonise state and federal jurisdictions over carbon ahead of climate change bill
- Analysis: China’s steel industry needs time to transition
- Microsoft appoints William Hudson as Asia Pacific sustainability policy director
- Pan Brothers is first Indonesian manufacturing firm to get net zero targets approved by SBTi
- Biased GPT? Singapore builds AI model to 'represent' Southeast Asians
- Analysis: To help Chinese communities adapt to climate change, listen to them
- Sustainability Leadership A-List 2023: Asia Pacific's most impactful changemakers
- From local to global: Meet the most impactful young sustainability leaders in Southeast Asia
- No ambition: Youth bemoan green pledges ahead of Indonesia poll
- Clean energy challenge needs tech innovation, not hype over ‘poster child’ solutions: entrepreneur Vijay Prateik
- India’s hydropower ambition dampened by protests, cost overruns and accidents
- Analysis: Clean energy was top driver of China’s economic growth in 2023
- A call to financial institutions: Work with palm oil stakeholders to scale climate action
- Indigenous activist on how to confront powerful forces to protect Malaysian forests and people – and win
- Indian farmers are killing themselves in record numbers. Is climate change to blame?
- Jokowi's land reform initiative hits roadblock as conflicts nearly double, report shows
- 'Sustainability must be accessible': Arthaland's CSO on making sustainable real estate in the Philippines a norm
- Singapore's new AI utility to tap national green building data for combatting greenwash concerns on financing
- Singapore nudges phaseout of gas cookers in new buildings
- HK property firms object to proposed SBTi rule change; say it will make net-zero targets ‘impossible to achieve’ in Asia
- Can better data protect fashion workers from climate risks?
- What walking the ‘China tightrope’ means for global businesses and climate
- Extreme heat and flooding could cost Asian apparel manufacturing hubs US$65 billion in earnings: study
- ‘Decarbonisation cannot cost us business growth’: Pan Brothers sustainability chief on the net-zero challenge
- Life insurer Prudential makes key APAC appointments with revamp of sustainability strategy
- Despite war, Indians rush to fill Israel's construction jobs gap
- Bursa Carbon Exchange aims to trade Malaysia's first nature-based carbon credit by first half of 2024
- Analysis: How green are Pakistan’s political manifestoes?
- Indonesian organic waste recycler Temesi closes, co-founder blames 'unfair' fertiliser subsidies
- Where do Singapore's old ‘sexy shorts’ go?
- Recycled plastic at virgin prices? Asian recyclers say market volatility making it hard to meet brands' demands
- New scheme to up plastic recycling rates in Hong Kong gets broad support, but consumers want higher rebates: survey
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Pendapat
The Just Energy Transition Partnership is not the triumph the current president claims it is. It is a debt trap. The new president should turn their back on a flawed energy transition legacy and adopt a bolder path towards net-zero that leaves no one behind.
Karbon & Cuaca
This election year, let’s talk climate
With over 2 billion people set to vote, 2024 will be a critical year for climate action. News outlets need to step up to help the electorate understand what is at stake.
Indonesia's soaring post-pandemic digital economy is being powered mainly by coal. The archipelago needs to find ways to decouple rapid data centre growth from carbon emissions.
Polisi & Kewangan
Harmonising global green taxonomies cannot come soon enough
Polisi & Kewangan
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‘Sustainability must be accessible’: Arthaland’s CSO on making sustainable real estate in the Philippines a norm
If a real estate development can reduce energy and water consumption – and emit fewer carbon emissions – it is built to last, Oliver Chan tells the Eco-Business podcast. The key, however, is to first educate future homeowners and businesses that going green does not mean breaking the bank.
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Berita / Bandar-bandar
Sustainability Leadership A-List 2023: Asia Pacific’s most impactful changemakers
Faced with extreme weather events, the region's urban centres were affected by record temperatures. This year's list – which includes a city mayor and a chief heat officer – demonstrates the importance of local governance and leadership.
Berita / Bandar-bandar
From local to global: Meet the most impactful young sustainability leaders in Southeast Asia
The Eco-Business Sustainability Leadership Youth A-List 2023 features young activists and innovators who are coming together locally to make a difference globally. From fighting to keep a province in the Philippines coal-free to paving more sustainable roads using plastic waste, this year’s winners are “staying with the trouble” on the frontlines of the climate crisis.
Berita / Sisa Kumbahan
Where do Singapore’s old ‘sexy shorts’ go?
Follow the region's used textiles on a journey through sorting, upcycling and recycling as they are diverted from the landfills.
Berita / Polisi & Kewangan
‘Silicon Bali’: Asia’s paradise for sustainability startups?
As the island recovers from a pandemic-induced slump, it is trying to diversify its economy beyond tourism and attract green business. But can eco-startups scale or is Bali more beach than business?
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Polisi & Kewangan
Tackling climate change in a mosaicked Asia
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World Economic Forum
Landmark pledge to help meet US$1.125 trillion needed to fund social innovation globally
The Schwab Foundation’s Global Alliance for Social Entrepreneurship launches the Rise Ahead Pledge to support the building of a more just, sustainable and equitable world.
United Nations Development Programme
New GEF funds scales up ambition to get ahead of the triple planetary crisis
ASEAN Centre for Biodiversity
World Wetlands Day 2024: Securing the health and wellbeing of Asean communities
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China Supply Chain Carbon Neutrality Summit 2024
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2nd Europe Green Packaging Innovation Summit 2024
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Navigating ESG reporting challenges through innovation and collaboration
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