#supply chain Berita
Kebijakan & Keuangan
Climate ‘loss and damage’ should include supply chain impacts
Ensuring funds reach countries most in need, quickly and equitably, is climate finance’s biggest challenge.
Plastic waste will soar to unprecedented levels without action, as UN plastics treaty remains elusive.
India's shift to licensed recycling to gain critical minerals takes away work from informal hubs like Delhi's Seelampur district.
For a globally just energy transition, companies must meaningfully engage with communities.
Kebijakan & Keuangan
Q&A: Give workers a say in AI rollout, says union head
#supply chain Opini
The fashion industry business will not come from diplomacy or presidential handshakes, but from trust-based relationships built on fair purchasing practices, sustainability concerns, and other ethical commitments.
Manufaktur
Getting to greener steel
Coalbed methane is an underappreciated problem of global steel production. While cutting methane emissions in the steel supply chain will not produce green steel overnight, it could reduce the sector’s emissions by the equivalent of a billion tons of carbon annually, and at little cost.
Pangan & Agrikultur
Reimagining agriculture for young people
An ageing agricultural workforce bodes ill for our ability to feed the world. To entice young people to work in food systems, policymakers should demonstrate the industry’s breadth, while providing them with the resources and skills to modernise farming and build sustainable, innovative agribusinesses.
The treaty negotiations risk repeatedly stalling unless the decision-making process is overhauled, argues INC-5 observer Terese Teoh.
Kebijakan & Keuangan
Can Europe and China forge a climate connection?
Pangan & Agrikultur
A food security imperative for the Johor-Singapore SEZ blueprint
Kebijakan & Keuangan
Nature risk is financial risk
#supply chain Video
Kebijakan & Keuangan
Simplifying sustainability reporting for SMEs
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.
As Singapore-based salad bar chain SaladStop! marks its 10th anniversary, co-owner Katherine Desbaillets talks to Eco-Business about phasing out meat, food waste and single-use packaging, and dealing with customers who refuse to pay 10 cents for a plastic bag.
In the first in a new video series where sustainability leaders interview each other about the toughest things about their jobs, Simon Lord of Malaysian palm oil giant Sime Darby Plantation went head to head with Pamela Mar of Hong Kong-based textile and apparel giant Fung Group.
Studio EB
What does it mean to build a clean and fair palm oil supply chain? For drivers in Indonesia used to unsafe working conditions, this is what it could look like.
#supply chain Podcasts
Kebijakan & Keuangan
‘We can’t keep asking more questions’: CDP acknowledges it needs to do more with less ESG data
The climate non-profit's head Sherry Madera insists there are just 450 questions, not over 5,500 as some industry players have cited, in its new questionnaire, which has faced pushback for failing to ease disclosure burden as intended.
Karbon & Iklim
Seeing through the haze – is palm oil still to blame?
Studio EB
Transboundary haze pollution is back with a vengeance in Southeast Asia. The Eco-Business Podcast talks to RSPO CEO Joseph D'Cruz about what the palm oil sector can do to put out the peatland fires that have burned annually for four decades.
Karbon & Iklim
Competence greenwashing: Are questionable ESG credentials putting climate goals at risk?
Former Monetary Authority of Singapore sustainability chief Darian McBain and recruiter Paddy Balfour tell the Eco-Business podcast why people are exaggerating their ESG expertise and why that's a problem in a key region for sustainable development.
Why is there so much secrecy and controversy around sand extraction? Eco-Business speaks to Madhumitha Ardhanari to find out more about the narrative surrounding sand in Singapore, the largest importer of sand in the world.
#supply chain Rilis Pers
Plastics Industry Development Center
Breaking tradition, SECAO cacao shell fabric leads the way in sustainable circular economy
Asian Development Bank (ADB)
ADB lowers economic growth forecast for Asia and the Pacific
UN Trade and Development (UNCTAD)
Commodity dependence runs deep, developing countries must add value to turn the tide
United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (ESCAP)
Navigating trade headwinds: Asia and the Pacific must reinforce trade resilience amid global uncertainty
#supply chain Riset
CapitaLand Group
Cities: Possibilities Forum Insights 2024
MyDIGITAL Corporation
Transitioning industrial clusters: Decarbonising Asia’s economy via digitalisation
S&P Global Sustainable1
Supply chain sustainability practices in Japan
