Polisi & Kewangan Berita
Investments from China are driving emissions-intensive steel production in Malaysia's steel sector.
Makanan & Pertanian
Practising human rights due diligence in the palm oil industry
The United Nations Guiding Principles on Business and Ruman Rights (UNGPs) defines HRDD as a process of identifying, preventing, mitigating, and accounting for any human rights violations.
Karbon & Cuaca
China’s draft mining law mandates ecological restoration for first time, but gaps remain
Proposed revisions to China’s mineral resources law could have a global impact as its mining companies expand operations overseas.
Karbon & Cuaca
A decarbonising China needs to talk about justice
There is an urgent need to ensure the energy transition benefits all, write two professors of communication.
Bandar-bandar
How can workers be protected from extreme heat?
Polisi & Kewangan Pendapat
Sisa Kumbahan
Beating plastic pollution in three steps
Asean states need to unite on a common stand to beat plastic waste, but national and local efforts matter too.
Polisi & Kewangan
Delhi’s dilemma: a growing economy and growing unemployment
India is on its way to becoming the third-largest economy in the world, yet unemployment among young people with graduate degrees is at an all-time high.
Karbon & Cuaca
Is climate action China’s trump card?
Chinese policymakers face difficult choices in setting climate goals. Some appear technical but have significant implications for environmental outcomes.
Polisi & Kewangan
The elusive inflection point in impact investing
In Asia, industry experts have noted that there is an urgent need for the region to accelerate sustainable financing efforts to achieve net zero emission targets.
Polisi & Kewangan
Is Southeast Asia's healthcare workforce ready for climate change?
Pengangkutan
Rising costs can encourage a better kind of tourism
Karbon & Cuaca
Climate change poses dire health and human rights risks
Polisi & Kewangan Video
Karbon & Cuaca
Greenpeace activists block Shell facility in Philippine port to demand climate reparations
The action comes despite the oil giant suing the environmental group for US$2.1 million after demonstrators boarded the company’s vessel at the Atlantic Ocean in January.
Polisi & Kewangan
‘Environmental defenders are the glue of the Philippines’ democracy’: Delikado director Karl Malakunas
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.
Polisi & Kewangan
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.
Polisi & Kewangan
As anti-mining protests heighten in the Philippines, industry observers call for ‘prudence’ in police intervention
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.
Polisi & Kewangan Audio
Polisi & Kewangan
The race to insure Southeast Asia against climate risk
Asia lags the world in natural catastrophe protection. Part of the problem could be counting extreme weather losses only after they happen, industry insiders tell the Eco-Business podcast.
Tenaga
Scrutiny, Scope 3 and Asian realities: Petronas sustainability chief on climate action at COP28
The oil and gas sector needs to cut operational emissions faster, Charlotte Wolff-Bye tells the Eco-Business podcast. But slashing fuel output won’t do for the Asian supplier, and it welcomes respectful debate at the climate summit.
Polisi & Kewangan
‘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.
Polisi & Kewangan
‘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.
Polisi & Kewangan Siaran Akhbar
United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (ESCAP)
Countries resolve to leverage innovation, promote digital inclusion for those furthest behind
Polisi & Kewangan Penyelidikan
Plastic Credit Exchange (PCX)
How plastic credits are supporting the Global Plastics Treaty
MioTech
ChatGPT on financial reporting
MioTech
Are EVs meeting ESG standards?
