Polisi & Kewangan 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.
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.
To prepare for climate-fuelled floods and heat, Bangladesh's garment factories are using new data sources, including worker input.
A Singapore government-backed project to build a large language model inclusive of Southeast Asian data has drawn fans and critics.
Polisi & Kewangan
Despite war, Indians rush to fill Israel's construction jobs gap
Polisi & Kewangan Pendapat
Makanan & Pertanian
A call to financial institutions: Work with palm oil stakeholders to scale climate action
Studio EB
Mutual benefits are assured when the financial sector collaborates with palm oil stakeholders. FIs can help smallholders secure credit, while getting access to data and insights required to make sound and profitable investment decisions.
Given the escalating climate crisis, multilateral lenders must urgently adopt an approach to development aid that emphasises prevention. By incorporating structural vulnerabilities into their allocation formulas, the World Bank and others can strengthen poor countries' resilience and increase fairness, efficiency, and transparency.
The United States' decision to pause permits for new liquefied natural gas (LNG) export facilities does not threaten Asia’s energy security or decarbonisation goals.
Polisi & Kewangan
Matchmakers for the green transition
Mobilising new climate-finance flows requires identifying less gargantuan, but no less important, green projects that are attractive to a wide range of investors, both geographically and in terms of size. Digital platforms that offer these matchmaking services will be crucial to meeting our climate commitments.
Polisi & Kewangan
Climate disclosure rules are expanding. Companies need to keep up
Polisi & Kewangan
Realising the potential of the climate loss and damage fund
Polisi & Kewangan
COP28 outcome makes green skills business-critical
Makanan & Pertanian
Women bear the brunt of Asia's climate failures
Polisi & Kewangan Video
Karbon & Cuaca
Greenpeace activists block Shell facility in Philippine port to demand climate reparations
The action comes despite the oil giant suing the environmental group for US$2.1 million after demonstrators boarded the company’s vessel at the Atlantic Ocean in January.
Polisi & Kewangan
‘Environmental defenders are the glue of the Philippines’ democracy’: Delikado director Karl Malakunas
The veteran journalist talks to Eco-Business about how his Emmy-nominated documentary depicts the lives of environmental crusaders in Asia's deadliest country for guardians of the seas and forests.
Polisi & Kewangan
Tackling climate change in a mosaicked Asia
Studio EB
Asia's green transition pathways need to be socially inclusive given huge differences in economic development across the region, says experts at the Boston Consulting Group. State-owned enterprises have an "outsized" role to play, they add.
Polisi & Kewangan
As anti-mining protests heighten in the Philippines, industry observers call for ‘prudence’ in police intervention
Video footage appears to show protestors, who were demonstrating against mining operations, being dragged away by police near Ipilan Nickel Mine in Brooke’s Point, Palawan. Mining insiders are calling for maximum tolerance in similar standoffs.
Polisi & Kewangan Audio
Tenaga
Scrutiny, Scope 3 and Asian realities: Petronas sustainability chief on climate action at COP28
The oil and gas sector needs to cut operational emissions faster, Charlotte Wolff-Bye tells the Eco-Business podcast. But slashing fuel output won’t do for the Asian supplier, and it welcomes respectful debate at the climate summit.
Polisi & Kewangan
‘Never give in to fear’: Nobel peace prize nominee and Filipino Indigenous leader Vicky Tauli Corpuz
In celebration of Indigenous Peoples' month in the Philippines, the former United Nations special rapporteur tells the Eco-Business Podcast about her lifelong work to empower communities in Asia’s most dangerous country for environmental defenders.
Polisi & Kewangan
‘We do not just adopt global standards, we respond to domestic challenges’: Philippine central bank exec Lyn Javier
The Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas assistant governor tells the Eco-Business Podcast about the regulator’s maiden sustainability report that features an empirical study of climate impacts on banks as well as the nation’s first taxonomy.
Polisi & Kewangan
Is Asia slower to tackle greenwashing because it is conflict avoidant?
Japan-based academic Kim Schumacher, who coined the term "competence greenwashing", believes that the pursuit of societal harmony might be standing in the way of Asia calling out greenwashing. He tells the Eco-Business Podcast how exaggerated ESG claims are likely to be tackled in 2023 and beyond.
Polisi & Kewangan Siaran Akhbar
United Nations Development Programme
New GEF funds scales up ambition to get ahead of the triple planetary crisis
Asian Development Bank
Asian Development Bank commits record climate finance of almost US$10 billion in 2023
Polisi & Kewangan Penyelidikan
Plastic Credit Exchange (PCX)
How plastic credits are supporting the Global Plastics Treaty
MioTech
ChatGPT on financial reporting
MioTech
Are EVs meeting ESG standards?
