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Air pollution spoils the view from a high-rise building in Petaling Jaya, Malaysia

As toxic smoke from burning peatlands billows across Southeast Asia, environmental campaign group Greenpeace has called on the region's governments to introduce domestic laws to combat transboundary a...

3 Oct 2023

...smallholders get access to agricultural services, financial services, markets. Independent smallholder oil palm farmers – that is, smallholders not affiliated to any particular company or mill – acc...

30 Aug 2022

Perpetua George, outgoing sustainability head at Wilmar International

The general manager of group sustainability for Singapore-headquartered food processing and investment holding company Wilmar International, Perpetua George, has left the company after more than eight...

21 Aug 2023

The world is heating up, and Asia remains the fastest-warming region, with temperatures rising more rapidly than the global average. The continent is also the world’s most-disaster affected due to wea...

3 Jul 2024

USAID Philippines humanitarian assistance

The world has been reeling from the devastating impact of United States president Donald Trump’s abrupt suspension of foreign aid since end-January. While the Trump administration has claimed that it ...

16 Apr 2025

Even before geopolitics and cultural polarisation made environmental, social and governance (ESG) a touchy subject, the concept had become "very muddled", observes Ankit Todi, chief sustainability off...

8 Apr 2025

...smallholders’ land contract rights must be maintained to protect equity. If such transfers were made easier, then an increase in income of only 200 yuan per mu from dry-cultivation would be significan...

9 Feb 2023

Negotiators and activists preparing to attend the upcoming United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP28) in Dubai are grimly aware that there is no realistic chance of limiting global warming to 1...

27 Nov 2023

Illegal oil palm plantations spanning an area one and a half times the size of London have been amnestied under an Indonesian government program that critics say incentivizes large corporations over t...

9 May 2023

...smallholders and also some producers that will keep deforesting. It’s part of their rotation system…So zero deforestation, I think, is something hard to reach. But I think we can have deforestation at...

29 Nov 2024

Despite the year 2024 promising a fresh start for the world, the challenges experienced in the first three years of the decade continue to linger. The aftermath of the Covid-19 pandemic, geopolitical...

9 Jan 2024

Panellists at Google Sustainability Summit – Net Zero Through Digitalisation in Singapore

According to a Google Cloud Sustainability Survey, sustainability dropped from being the top organisational priority last year to being the third priority this year. The study, which polled almost 1,...

13 Jun 2023

An Indian export ban on non-basmati rice has spurred calls to pursue greater self-sufficiency among rice-consuming countries and expand rice production to new areas such as Africa for increased food r...

14 Nov 2023

...smallholders. The role of climate change Climate scientists have said that the rainfall that caused last year’s floods may have been around 50 per cent more intense thanks to climate change. However, ...

16 Jan 2023

Cleantech solutions, like those developed by the fifteen finalists of this year’s Earthshot Prize, tend to be risk- and capital-intensive. To develop their technology and scale impact, startups in the...

16 Oct 2024

Haze air pollution from burning peatlands blankets the landscape in Riau

...smallholders and the presence of large agribusiness firms operating on drained peatlands posing a chronic haze risk. The coming months will serve as “a good test” of the government’s peatland restorat...

9 Aug 2023

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19 Oct 2022

Across fast-growing Southeast Asia, Singapore’s push to build itself as a global hub for alternative proteins might have received the most attention, but over the past year, the sector has started to ...

8 Dec 2023

In October 2021, two tractors with a large chain stretched between them cleared more than 2,000 hectares of forest in the Brazilian Cerrado, one of the world’s most biodiverse areas. Tragically, such ...

24 Aug 2022

CIMB sets 2030 targets for palm oil and power, advancing its sustainability journey towards net zero by 2050

...smallholders, and workers are safeguarded. CIMB is the first bank globally to have announced a science-based Net Zero decarbonisation pathway for the Palm Oil sector. As part of the process, CIMB acti...

24 Nov 2023

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