#sustainable development Berita
The prevalence of a "sachet economy" is stretching waste management capabilities in the country. Lawmakers are suggesting an amendment of the current Extended Producer Responsibility Act to expand its coverage to include medium-sized firms.
Kebijakan & Keuangan
How do you get climate funding to conflict-hit nations?
With some of the world's most climate-vulnerable people living in fragile countries, finding ways to get help there is crucial.
Indonesia's new capital, Nusantara, has an opportunity to be the country's first city to pioneer progressive waste management and circular economy principles. But limited transparency casts a cloud over plans to create a zero waste capital.
Pangan & Agrikultur
With sustainable cotton in fashion, Indian farmers seek fair price
As fashion brands heed environmental concerns, demand rises for greener cotton but small-scale farmers need support to tap benefits.
#sustainable development Opini
Kebijakan & Keuangan
Responsible ESG investing in the Global South requires overcoming the Global North’s saviour complex
Ego could be getting in the way of doing business for good. Funders need to check that money is going where needed and be more aware of postcolonial power imbalances.
Pangan & Agrikultur
Bridging the gap for smallholders amidst tightening regulations
Studio EB
The Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil's Guntur Cahyo Prabowo argues why certified smallholders should be able to sell their produce under the European Union's new deforestation regulation, including via a RSPO smallholder credits system.
In Indonesia and in other Southeast Asian nations, multilayer sachets are at the core of the plastic crisis. If companies such as Unilever and Procter & Gambles are serious about being part of the solution to the plastics crisis that they has helped create, they must commit to banning sachets – a desired outcome of the The Global Plastics Treaty.
Karbon & Iklim
India’s energy transition requires a delicate balancing act
The most important issue for India is to grow sustainably while adhering to its international climate commitments and keeping its energy constraints in mind.
Kebijakan & Keuangan
Heat on UAE to give COP28 ambitious edge we need
Kebijakan & Keuangan
Who pays and how: the COP28 dilemma of debt and equity
Kebijakan & Keuangan
The Global North must follow the Global South's lead
#sustainable development Video
Kebijakan & Keuangan
Tackling climate change in a mosaicked Asia
Studio EB
Asia's green transition pathways need to be socially inclusive given huge differences in economic development across the region, says experts at the Boston Consulting Group. State-owned enterprises have an "outsized" role to play, they add.
Gaurav Sant, founder of startup SeaChange, tells Eco-Business about a technology he hopes will give the world's oceans the capacity to absorb additional carbon dioxide from the atmosphere.
Karbon & Iklim
Climate spiral: what 141 years of global warming looks like
As planetary temperatures reach an all-time high, a climate scientist has designed a new way to show how global temperatures have changed every month since the start of the industrial revolution and 2021.
Pangan & Agrikultur
Singaporeans love food, but are they valuing food enough?
Studio EB
Singaporeans are well-known foodies, but around 800,000 tonnes of food is wasted every year. Why is so much food wasted, and what can consumers do about it?
#sustainable development Podcasts
Bangunan Ramah
‘Sustainability must be accessible’: Arthaland’s CSO on making sustainable real estate in the Philippines a norm
Studio EB
If a real estate development can reduce energy and water consumption – and emit fewer carbon emissions – it is built to last, Oliver Chan tells the Eco-Business podcast. The key, however, is to first educate future homeowners and businesses that going green does not mean breaking the bank.
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.
Kebijakan & Keuangan
‘Never give in to fear’: Nobel peace prize nominee and Filipino Indigenous leader Vicky Tauli Corpuz
In celebration of Indigenous Peoples' month in the Philippines, the former United Nations special rapporteur tells the Eco-Business Podcast about her lifelong work to empower communities in Asia’s most dangerous country for environmental defenders.
Kebijakan & Keuangan
‘We do not just adopt global standards, we respond to domestic challenges’: Philippine central bank exec Lyn Javier
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.
#sustainable development Rilis Pers
Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific
Leading executives meeting at UN forum point the way towards green, sustainable businesses in Asia and the Pacific
#sustainable development Riset
Eco-Business, supported by Boehringer Ingelheim
Moving towards a rabies-free Southeast Asia
Eco-Business & Regional Project Energy Security and Climate Change Asia-Pacific of the KAS
Ocean of Solutions: Protecting biodiversity in the blue economy
SolAbility
Laos leads the Natural Capital Index 2021
Asia Research and Engagement
Seafood sourcing risks in Asia
