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‘Businesses fear regulation on transition-washing’: Environmental lawyer Joyce Melcar Tan
The new head of Japan and Southeast Asia for ClientEarth tells the Eco-Business Podcast how the law can be used to hold polluters to account in the world's biggest emitting region. She also says it's time the legal profession faced scrutiny for greenwashing.
Kebijakan & Keuangan
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.
Eco-Business talks to Peter Kiernan, lead energy analyst for the Economist Intelligence Unit, to unpack a new landmark report from the International Energy Agency, which proposes an immediate ban on fossil fuels extraction to curb global warming.
Kebijakan & Keuangan
Asia’s net zero goals — how realistic are they?
China, Japan and Korea have just announced exciting decarbonisation targets. On the Eco-Business podcast, Dr Frank Rijsberman, director general of the Global Green Growth Institute, talks about what these targets mean for the region's development and our climate.
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Berita / Kebijakan & Keuangan
MUFG sustainability-linked loans financed deforestation in Indonesia: NGO
The mechanism is meant to incentivise borrowers to improve their environmental performance. But an NGO argues that the … -
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Berita / Kebijakan & Keuangan
Q&A: ‘The window of opportunity is there, but closes a little every day’
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Berita / Manajemen Sampah
Managing Asia’s healthcare waste and emissions remains challenging amid increasing climate risks
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Berita / Pangan & Agrikultur
Five charts: How climate change is driving up food prices around the world
Global food prices have seen huge fluctuations in recent years, soaring to record highs in 2022 before dropping … -
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Berita / Kebijakan & Keuangan
‘Second-party opinions’: a greenwash safeguard or just for show?
The unregulated product is increasingly offered by ESG raters to gauge how “green” a bond or loan is. … -
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Berita / Kebijakan & Keuangan
B Lab Singapore ‘evaluating best team structure’ after latest staff exit
Post-restructure, the organisation that runs the B Corp certification scheme has seen two executives appointed to head up …
