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Trust and influence may have already shifted to social media, where fossil fuel interests are backing creators. Climate organisations must catch up.

An estimated 97 per cent of the country’s biodiverse Marine Protected Areas are at risk of extinction from existing and planned oil and gas projects, according to new analysis by Rimbawatch.

Major insurers from the region, including MS&AD, SOMPO, and Tokio Marine still back liquefied natural gas projects in the global epicentre of marine biodiversity, despite mounting risks to coastal communities and the clean energy transition, warned campaigners on World Oceans Day.

Khushi Baby is a 10 year-old digital health non-profit that tracks maternal and child health in rural India.

After a brutal period that hurt startups and companies with exposure to the US, green shoots are emerging in Asia in some sectors.

By Hannah Alcoseba Fernandez

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A widening gap between renewable energy supply and electricity demand threatens TSMC’s climate goals, customer expectations and long-term strategic resilience

Despite ambitious climate targets, the chipmaker faces a widening renewable energy shortfall that could undermine competitiveness, supply-chain resilience and Taiwan’s energy security. By Chia-Wei Chao, Taiwan Climate Action Network

As countries scramble to secure the minerals needed for clean energy, digital technologies, AI, and defence industries, the new era of resource competition implies both great promise and grave peril. By Helen Clark

AI will mostly benefit those already well positioned to leverage it – men. Businesses and governments cannot afford to overlook gender as they invest in talent policies for the AI age. By Megan Willis, Noemie Viterale, Steven Okun

To accelerate the retirement of coal, we need a scalable incentive framework that offers equitable participation and fair distribution of costs and benefits. By Mike Ng

By Gabriela Figueiredo Dias

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By Steven Okun, Megan Willis, Noemie Viterale

By C. Kendra Gotangco Gonzales, Aryanie Amellina and Beatrice Crona, Giorgio Parlato, Ingo Fetzer, Lan Wang-Erlandsson and Nitin Chaudhary

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EB Studio Singapore's rapidly expanding digital economy is driving a surge in data centre energy consumption, creating new challenges for the country's low-carbon ambitions. This Eco-Business video explores how green software and efficient digital infrastructure can support sustainable digital growth.

Unpacking Asia's plastic pollution problem

Exclusive Tune in to this webinar where our guest speakers discuss the region's plastic crisis, the state of play on the Global Plastics Treaty and circular economy strategies for businesses.

EB Studio As Malaysia forges ahead with its 2050 net zero climate ambition, businesses must reshape their supply chains for a low carbon future. This Eco-Business video looks at how SMEs can adapt to new sustainability reporting requirements.

A growing number of companies are admitting that they can't meet their sustainability targets. Has the era of "corporate vulnerability" begun, where companies are more honest about their sustainability progress?

While some companies greenhush, others are upfront about their inability to meet sustainability targets. Eco-Business asked experts at the Ecosperity conference if it pays for businesses to be "vulnerable" about sustainability progress.

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Luanne Sieh has been group chief sustainability officer at CIMB Bank for the last eight and a half years

The Malaysia-headquartered bank's sustainability chief tells the EB Podcast about the discipline's mandate to prove value, wrestling with NGOs, and greenwashing in finance.

EB Studio Critical to the country’s energy security in the 1970s, geothermal is now re-emerging as the Philippines’ biggest clean energy advantage at a time when countries are seeking reliable, round-the-clock renewable power, says Francis Giles B. Puno, president and chief operating officer of First Gen Corporation.

Former Yale-NUS environmental social sciences professor Michael Maniates tells the Eco-Business Podcast that individual actions like going vegetarian, reducing plastic use or avoiding air travel are not only insufficient to address the climate crisis – they are counterproductive.