Eco-Business

The Swedish furniture giant is backing a new research initiative with local and academic partners after more than 25 years of restoring degraded forests in the state of Sabah.

A decades-long community effort has protected Cambodia’s Chom Penh forest, but the Kuy say expanding agribusiness threatens their ancestral lands and cultural identity.

Small-scale farmers who underpin Thailand’s lucrative natural rubber industry are under pressure to prepare for the EU Deforestation Regulation (EUDR), due to take effect at the end of the year.

Human and natural disturbances have driven global declines of mangrove forests, which serve as critical protection for coastlines and fisheries.

Oleh Siva Selan

Oleh Taejun Kang

Oleh Hannah Alcoseba Fernandez

Oleh Samantha Ho

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Workers’ suffering is an integral part of the fisheries system, say four experts. Oleh Abdirahim Sheik Heile, Daniel Salas, Matthew A Schnurr dan Kate Swanson

Taiwan’s energy challenges highlight the limits of fossil fuel–based energy security as geopolitical tensions reshape global energy markets and supply chains. Oleh Philippe Le Billon

Connecting communities that protect their coasts can yield huge benefits but funding is not flowing to the right places. Oleh Adam Miller

As Laos prepares to graduate from the United Nations’ least developed country category, the bigger challenge is no longer escaping poverty but building a future defined by clean space and green growth. Oleh Anoulak Kittikhoun

Oleh Vinod Thomas

Oleh Firdausi Suffian

Oleh Danutcha Catriona Singh

Oleh Aryanto Nugroho dan Angela Asuncion

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Studio EB 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.

Watch our panelists discuss the current landscape and challenges of Scope 3 disclosures, and the enabling role of technology and organisational buy-in to close the reporting gap.

NGOs urged the government to improve forest data transparency by making maps of protected areas publicly available, and to channel funds to frontline communities living near forests.

Studio EB 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.

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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.

Studio EB 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.

Government must call on development finance institutions to tap on risk management tools to make the capital-intensive technology more investible, Global Wind Energy Council’s Ann Margret Francisco tells the EB Podcast.

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