Eco-Business

Plastic trash litters a beach in Balikpapan, Kalimantan.

...2025 is financial targets, not environmental targets," he told Eco-Business. POP has been offering discounts to buyers to sustain demand for recycled PET. While the price of recycled PET has been rela...

11 Feb 2025

Asia-Pacific region to chart bold path for migration governance

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10 Feb 2025

One in four countries report backlash on women’s rights in 2024

...2025 marks 30 years of progress since the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action, the most visionary roadmap on women’s rights. The “Women's Rights in Review 30 Years After Beijing&rd...

10 Mar 2025

Asean leaders call for increased investment in care economy to empower women, boost inclusive growth

...2025. The data snapshot shows that women’s participation in the region’s labour force is systematically lower than men’s partly due to women’s unequal share of care respo...

24 Aug 2024

IFC graphic on sustainability disclosures

...2025, and will require listed companies to report on Scope 1 and Scope 2 greenhouse gas (GHG) and incorporate IFRS Sustainability Disclosure Standards. Lloyd shared that more than 1,000 companies hav...

27 May 2025

...2025. Studies have shown that developing countries need trillions of dollars annually to support climate action. According to one report, implementing their national climate plans will cost between US...

18 Nov 2024

Asia-Pacific policymakers call for urgent action to bridge financing gaps for sustainable development

...2025. Going forward, ESCAP, as the regional arm of the United Nations system in Asia and the Pacific, can strengthen the regional follow-up process, chart out regional priorities and needs, and work ...

7 Jan 2025

...2025. “To achieve the 2025 energy-intensity-reduction target means that at least a 4.5 per cent decline is needed in each of this and next year,” Myllyvirta told China Dialogue. “And significantly mor...

18 Mar 2024

...2025, based on responses from over 500 businesses, the share of firms that view limited green finance as a barrier to sustainability has fallen from last year. A key shift over the past year though wo...

2 Dec 2025

...2025, the area encompassing Bikar and Bokak was declared a marine sanctuary, adding 48,000 square kilometres to the Marshall Islands’ protected areas. But the Bikar and Bokak atolls account for just o...

17 Jun 2025

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4 Mar 2025

...2025. The China Iron and Steel Industry Association projects that by 2035, the share of electric arc steelmaking could exceed 30 per cent. Meanwhile, researchers from the Huaxia Dual Carbon Energy Res...

27 Jun 2024

...2025. That figure is 10 times the RM250 million (US$55.9 million) EFT funds allocated in 2025. “I empathise with state governments when they come to us saying, ‘You don’t want to cut down trees – what...

10 Apr 2025

...2025. In 2022, the government set a target of limiting DWF catch to around 2.3 million tonnes by 2025, aiming to curb the industry’s expansion and drive “high-quality development”. With declining mari...

19 Sep 2024

...2025 has the people of Uttarakhand on edge. India has witnessed another dry winter season (January- February) this year, with 89 per cent of districts suffering from deficient or no rainfall, making i...

8 Apr 2025

...2025”. The plan proposes using approximately 60 hectares of land for infrastructure development through to 2025; the study identified approximately 58 hectares in Sonamarg that had already been used f...

23 Oct 2024

Citizens in Tuvalu wait for cargo to be unloaded

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29 Jan 2025

...2025 – had been raised. This is partly because the margins on PLN projects, which dominate the market, are low and investors tend to get low returns, Tumiwa said. "That makes projects unbankable, so ...

26 Mar 2025