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12. Responsible consumption and production
Decoupling economic growth from resource use is one of the most critical and complex challenges facing humanity today. Doing so effectively will require policies that create a conducive environment for such change, social and physical infrastructure and markets, and a profound transformation of business practices along global value chains.
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Laotian authorities say they’ve seized illegal wildlife products and launched investigations, but conservation groups argue enforcement remains too limited to disrupt the broader network.
Kebijakan & Keuangan
Chinese transition mineral abuses surge 190% overseas, says new study
Allegations jumped from 51 in 2021 to 148 over a five-year period, found a new Business & Human Rights Resource Centre report, with nickel-rich Indonesia topping the list, largely for harms involving local communities, serious risks to workers and water pollution.
Pangan & Agrikultur
Heavily reliant on pesticides, Thai agriculture is ‘trapped in a vicious cycle’
Five years after Thailand banned paraquat and chlorpyrifos, farmers and consumers remain unsafe from the overuse of other dangerous agrochemicals.
Campaigners say the move weakens the EU's flagship anti-deforestation law by exempting a product linked to forest loss in key producer countries.
Kebijakan & Keuangan
Amid Hormuz instability, attention shifts to Pakistan’s Gwadar port
Opini
Manufaktur
Indonesia can build a green steel industry, but only if the government creates the market
Green steel faces weak domestic demand in Indonesia, as prices remain 30 to 60 per cent higher than conventional alternatives.
Southeast Asian countries face two dilemmas in the Sino-US AI chip war: aligning their technology stacks with either of the great powers and preventing the illegal diversion of restricted chips.
Despite being vital to health, security, and economic prosperity, water is often taken for granted. As supplies come under growing strain, water-related considerations will shape economic policy and political decision-making, as well as firms’ investment decisions, risk assessments, and corporate strategies.
Workers’ suffering is an integral part of the fisheries system, say four experts.
Pangan & Agrikultur
What the Iran war taught the world about food security
Kebijakan & Keuangan
How (not) to conserve tropical forests
Video
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.
Industry experts dissect what it means to adopt AI for sustainability, ranging from tackling rising environmental concerns to implementation of responsible governance.
Eksklusif
Tune in to this webinar where our guest speakers discuss the region's plastic crisis, the state of play on the Global Plastics Treaty and circular economy strategies for businesses.
The impact documentary exploring Asia's mounting waste crisis – and its solutions – is now streaming exclusively for Eco-Business subscribers.
Podcasts
Kebijakan & Keuangan
‘Show me the money’ – this is what sustainability has become: CIMB CSO Luanne Sieh
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.
Amid back‑to‑back trash slides and a landfill fire in one of Southeast Asia’s leakiest waste systems, Philippine environment undersecretary Jonas Leones touts new science‑based safeguards for a waste‑to‑energy buildout in the country.
Karbon & Iklim
We don’t want others to take advantage of Asean’s rich mineral resources: Philippine environment policymaker
Critical minerals will be central to this year’s Asean meetings, said environment assistant secretary Noralene Uy, as the Philippines ushers the region towards domestic processing as summit chair.
The Asia Pacific ESG head of the B Corp-certified cosmetics firm says refill stations have been disappointing and getting suppliers on board with decarbonisation is difficult, but her team has not been affected by the ESG backlash.
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