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Ivy Wong moves on from the grant-making foundation after eight years. She joins carbon finance company Permian Global as Malaysia CEO.
Perkotaan
‘Frugal innovation’ and ‘boring solutions’ can best accelerate climate action, say experts
Companies should approach climate solutions as a “portfolio management exercise”, and look for short-term wins by tweaking their operations, said industry leaders.
The Philippines' first real estate investment trust, or REIT, focused on clean energy made its debut on the country's stock market last year. China now has its eye on the financing channel too. Does this new mechanism come with drawbacks?
Kebijakan & Keuangan
Finance veteran Vikas Arora joins AVPN as impact investing chief
Arora joins from Japanese bank MUFG with a brief to drive the organisation's impact investing strategy.
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Singapore student activists question ExxonMobil backing of low carbon solutions lab
Students say there is a conflict of interest in the oil major's involvement in the low carbon solutions … -
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Berita / Lingkungan
Chief sustainability officers are burning out. Has the role become unsustainable?
A growing number of pressures is pushing CSOs to the limit as the sustainability function expands and evolves. … -
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Berita / Karbon & Iklim
1.5°C on a precipice: Do we need to rethink communications on warming limits?
Surface temperatures have exceeded the 1.5°C limit for over 10 months, leading to more calls for climate action. … -
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Sarawak forest carbon projects face pushback over Indigenous land rights
Communication and baseline setting for local community impact has been a key challenge despite almost two years of … -
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Singapore's DBS Bank is newly listed among the top 60 banks globally which committed US$705 trillion into fossil … -
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Malaysia lost an estimated US$1.7 billion in wasted water between 2018 and 2022. The perceived low cost of …
