China Berita
A Singapore government-backed project to build a large language model inclusive of Southeast Asian data has drawn fans and critics.
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.
A survey in southern China’s Pearl River Delta, a region prone to flooding and storm surges, provides insights into climate adaptation strategies.
Makanan & Pertanian
Seaweed ‘could survive nuclear war, avert famine’
China Pendapat
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
Developing countries need debt relief to act on climate change
Climate change is not some distant menace; its effects are already being felt worldwide, especially in climate-vulnerable developing economies.
Polisi & Kewangan
How a man’s world systematically neglects women
When half the global population is treated as an afterthought, research is less accurate, policy is less effective, and welfare is diminished.
Polisi & Kewangan
How the EU can secure a sustainable supply of critical minerals
Neglecting to address the mining industry’s human rights violations and environmental destruction could undermine the bloc’s efforts to ensure access to raw materials and to mitigate climate change.
Karbon & Cuaca
What does China want from COP28?
Polisi & Kewangan
APEC faces up to the China challenge
Polisi & Kewangan
Who pays and how: the COP28 dilemma of debt and equity
Polisi & Kewangan
How the Indo-Pacific can beat the SDG cash crunch
China Video
Makanan & Pertanian
For Southeast Asia’s migrant fishers, modern slavery is still alive on the high seas
On International Human Rights Day, Greenpeace releases shocking testimonies from Southeast Asian migrants working on board foreign fishing vessels, plying the remote waters to meet Asia's surging demand for seafood.
Studio EB
What makes cooling such a hot topic when it comes to climate change? This year's #Innovate4Climate summit will look at the problem and potential of sustainable cooling.
There are large financial and environmental benefits from reducing waste, says a recent report from the Ellen MacArthur Foundation.
Polisi & Kewangan
How is China’s overseas energy investment impacting the Global South?
China has provided huge funding supposedly to help developing countries mitigate and adapt to climate impacts, but it is also financing coal projects included in the Belt & Road Initiative (BRI). What do recipient countries make of this?
China Audio
Karbon & Cuaca
‘A 1.1°C warmer world is already a matter of life and death’: Climate scientist Winston Chow
The Singapore scientist, recently elected to the UN's top climate body, tells the Eco-Business Podcast about the precarious state of climate adaptation in developing Asia. The region is not well-prepared to manage the cascading risks of extreme climate events, he says.
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.
Greenwashing has become a big problem for consumers, investors and regulators as brands spend millions on marketing their sustainability credentials. Eco-Business asked expert communicators Janissa Ng and James Lorenz why greenwashing is so dangerous, and what can be done to stop spin in sustainability communications.
Studio EB
The built environment's sprawling carbon footprint can be reined in by giving old buildings a 'climate makeover' as cities grow. The Eco-Business Podcast talks to Vinod Jethani about the benefits and challenges of retrofitting old buildings.
China Siaran Akhbar
Asian Development Bank (ADB)
Developing Asia’s 2023 growth outlook upgraded to 4.9 per cent: ADB
The World Bank
East Asia and Pacific: Sustained growth, momentum slowing
Asian Development Bank
Higher rates remain a risk for emerging East Asia borrowers
Asian Development Bank (ADB)
ADB maintains growth forecast for Asia and the Pacific
United Nations Development Programme
25 countries halved multidimensional poverty within 15 years, but 1.1 billion remain poor
China Penyelidikan
Eco-Business & Regional Project Energy Security and Climate Change Asia-Pacific of the KAS
The value of biodiversity for Asia's megacities
Asia Research and Engagement
Time out: Coal Capex in China
Centre for Asian Philanthropy and Society (CAPS)
Public-private partnerships for social good
