Climate change ambassador Ravi Menon set out a three-pronged strategy to scale nature-based carbon markets in Southeast Asia, as corporates like CDL and Olam Agri told a panel at SGX Centre that nature disclosures are starting to unlock cheaper loans and shape investment decisions.
Ramon “Chin-Chin” Uy Jr is a sustainable food entrepreneur based on Negros Island in the Philippines, which recently hosted the global “good food” movement Slow Food’s first-ever regional conference in Asia and the Pacific.
Palm oil players welcomed the new standard, which also covers traceability requirements for Scope 3 emissions. However, it does not cover the measurement of forest carbon yet, which the standard setter said it needs more time to develop.
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As the Philippines prepared to release its updated nationally determined contributions in April, officials ordered further consultations after …