Transportasi & Logistik Berita
Share At Door Step was founded in India in 2015, and has launched in Singapore in response to high demand for the service, which arranges for pre-loved items to be picked up from people's doorsteps and shuttled to charities.
The firm can't just dictate that drivers go electric, says Sean Gabriel Villoria, who is leading a push for more islands across the Philippines to adopt the use of electric-powered tricycles. It also needs to help raise their incomes.
The 77 year-old Dutchman, who spent 50 years in the shipping trade before pivoting to renewables, explains why the projects he led haven't worked and why the energy transition has been relatively slow in Southeast Asia.
Pangan & Agrikultur
Sustainable food – not more of it – needed as global hunger soars
As climate change and global disruptions worsen hunger, a revamp of food systems is urgently needed, analysts say.
Kebijakan & Keuangan
Wanted: More skills for workers as green jobs grow
Transportasi & Logistik Opini
Kebijakan & Keuangan
Globalisation is greener
The materials, innovation, and capital needed to reach net-zero emissions are not equally distributed and, as a result, must be shared around the world.
Given its rich agriculture resources, biofuel will be vital for the region's net-zero plans. Solving the feedstock crunch is necessary to meet market demands, which requires careful planning and a supply chain strategy.
Malaysia seeks to ensure that the poor benefit from fuel subsidies instead of the rich, but rationalisation can also contribute towards sustainability. Savings from removing fuel subsidies can be used to develop low-carbon alternatives.
It can provide a wider choice of green products such as energy saving appliances, e-vehicles, and sustainable building materials. Government departments can be mandated to purchase such products, and the aggregation of demand can nudge manufacturers to reduce the carbon footprint of their products and seek green certification.
Transportasi
China's fast EV growth should be even faster
Pangan & Agrikultur
How does climate change threaten global food production?
Kebijakan & Keuangan
Why India must account for climate adaptation in its budget
Transportasi & Logistik Video
Transportasi
What makes an electric car clean?
Studio EB
Polestar, a new entrant to Singapore’s electric car market, hopes to woo consumers by going the extra mile in sustainable design.
Pangan & Agrikultur
Pandemics and the exploitation of wildlife — what's the connection?
The origin of Covid-19 is believed to be a market selling live wild animals. Eco-Business asked Anbarasi Boopal of Singapore-based animal welfare charity Acres about the link between the exploitation of animals and pandemics, and what can be done to curb the illegal wildlife trade.
In gridlocked, smoggy Southeast Asian cities, change is afoot to electrify transport and clear some of the world's most polluted skies. This video documents the pockets of hope for e-mobility around the most climate-vulnerable region.
As Singapore-based salad bar chain SaladStop! marks its 10th anniversary, co-owner Katherine Desbaillets talks to Eco-Business about phasing out meat, food waste and single-use packaging, and dealing with customers who refuse to pay 10 cents for a plastic bag.
Transportasi & Logistik Podcasts
Karbon & Iklim
Competence greenwashing: Are questionable ESG credentials putting climate goals at risk?
Former Monetary Authority of Singapore sustainability chief Darian McBain and recruiter Paddy Balfour tell the Eco-Business podcast why people are exaggerating their ESG expertise and why that's a problem in a key region for sustainable development.
Pangan & Agrikultur
Food crisis: how to build resilient supply chains in Asia
Studio EB
Dexter Huerto Jr of engineering firm Danfoss tells the Eco-Business Podcast how food supply chains have been affected by a pandemic and conflict, and how they can be fixed.
GoTo sustainability head Tanah Sullivan tells the Eco-Business Podcast that regulating net-zero claims would decarbonise Southeast Asia faster. Indonesia's biggest internet firm aims to cut emissions to zero by 2030 — a target critics say is unrealistic.
Eksklusif
In this new podcast series 'Climate Tech in Asia', Eco-Business speaks to Gogoro chairman and CEO Horace Luke about the company's recent listing on the Nasdaq and its quest to electrify Asia's ubiquitous two-wheelers and make battery swapping mainstream.
Transportasi & Logistik Rilis Pers
Redwood Logistics
Shippers can now grow green supply chains with Redwood Hyperion
Indonesian Chamber of Commerce and Industry
Kadin Indonesia, Western Australia join forces to develop critical minerals for global battery, electric vehicle industry
The Borneo Project
King Charles III called on to stand up for forests in Sarawak
Transportasi & Logistik Riset
Huawei
Green Development 2030
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
Climate costs for Asia-Pacific ports
British Embassy Manila and Eco-Business
Electric vehicles in the Philippines: Business opportunities, market barriers, and policy signals
Eden Strategy Institute, LLP
Mitigating social impact in a low-carbon Singapore
