Eco-Business

Brazil and Canada are some of the countries strengthening Indigenous rights. As Australia's referendum nears, will it follow suit?

The University of Oxford botanist shares how he worked with fellow scientists, park rangers and Indigenous Peoples across Southeast Asia to prove that the rare tropical flower is under threat.

More than half of the world's largest proprietors of shipping vessels are from Asia. Eco-Business explores what the region's biggest maritime companies are doing to lower their environmental impact.

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?

Oleh Ng Wai Mun

Oleh Rhick Lars Albay

Oleh Hannah Alcoseba Fernandez

Oleh Samantha Ho

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Notably absent from the Climate Ambition Summit in New York was US President Joe Biden, raising questions on the nation's climate commitments and delivery of its green finance obligations. Oleh Lidy Nacpil

Founder and managing director Jessica Cheam investigates the relationship between business and our natural world, and shares about the genesis of Eco-Business in this book chapter contribution to 'Peace and Nature', a book compilation of 50 essays and edited by Professor Tommy Koh, Lye Lin Heng and Shawn Lum launched in Singapore recently. Oleh Jessica Cheam

Concerns grow that the summit, hosted by a fossil fuel nation, may fall short for the communities worst-hit by climate devastation. Oleh Debbie Hillier dan Barbara Rosen Jacobson

Children on railway damaged by Pakistan floods 2010

Forced migration is a major cause of language extinction. Environmental disasters are driving these displacements in the very regions richest in languages. Oleh Anouschka Foltz

Oleh Mirza Sadaqat Huda

Oleh Elyssa Kaur Ludher

Oleh Katherine Dafforn

Oleh C. Peter Timmer

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The veteran journalist talks to Eco-Business about how his Emmy-nominated documentary depicts the lives of environmental crusaders in Asia's deadliest country for guardians of the seas and forests.

Video footage appears to show protestors, who were demonstrating against mining operations, being dragged away by police near Ipilan Nickel Mine in Brooke’s Point, Palawan. Mining insiders are calling for maximum tolerance in similar standoffs.

A coalition of scientists and environmentalists found “widespread economic impacts” for communities in the Philippine province, heightening calls for accountability from the sunken tanker reportedly chartered by a San Miguel Corp subsidiary.

Mining operations at Altai Philippines Mining Corporation have been suspended for now, after week-long protests from locals of Sibuyan Island in Romblon, who claimed the extraction of nickel ore will disrupt the island’s intact ecosystems.

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The Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas assistant governor tells the Eco-Business Podcast about the regulator’s maiden sustainability report that features an empirical study of climate impacts on banks as well as the nation’s first taxonomy.

Studio EB Covid-19 didn't kill events, but it did change them. Teymoor Nabili and Veemal Gungadin tell the Eco-Business Podcast how a pandemic transformed the way sustainability events are conceived and organised.

Greenwashing has become a growing problem

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.

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