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15 May 2024

water scarcity malaysia

Water

Malaysia likely to face water crisis by 2030 amid growing demand: officials

CSO_burnout

Lifestyle

Chief sustainability officers are burning out. Has the role become unsustainable?

14 May 2024

Japan oil rig

Energy

Japan megabanks, government are biggest funders of Southeast Asia’s gas expansion

Womens_Rights_Economy_Vietnam

Policy & Finance

'Everyone around you loses': How domestic abuse hurts economies

10 May 2024

A protest banner reading “Food Estate Feeding Climate Crisis” lies on land cleared for food estate project in Kalimantan in 2022.

Food & Agriculture

Prabowo administration signals hard stance on illegal deforestation in Indonesia as it plots food estate expansion

Flooding in Mentakab Town central Pahang, Malaysia, in December 2021.

Carbon & Climate

Four Asean countries among the world's top emitters at high risk of climate disaster

8 May 2024

Heat_Waves_Health_India

Cities

In South Asia, heat stress kills without a heatwave

Petrol pump in Malaysia

Energy

Fossil fuel subsidy cuts will posit Malaysia as clean energy leader, but require phased approach: experts

7 May 2024

Singapore Airlines_aviation_fuel

Transport

Singapore Airlines purchases 1,000 tonnes of sustainable aviation fuel from Neste

3 May 2024

Bails of paper await processing at Tay Paper Recycling's facility in Tuas, western Singapiore.

Waste

Singapore recycling firm Tay Paper set to close

A steel manufacturing plants in Indonesia

Manufacturing

Carbon pricing is seen as a 'way out' for the Malaysian steel industry to cut emissions

Sime Darby plantation workers' houses

Food & Agriculture

Practising human rights due diligence in the palm oil industry

29 April 2024

A family living in the northern part of Jakarta, the world’s fastest sinking metropolis, gets on with life as their home is flooded.

Cities

Stay or go? Jakarta's coastal communities mull adaptation or migration as the city sinks

Desmond Lee Andie Ang Sankar

Cities

Tighten legal ambiguity, protect more forests: Singapore conservationists issue wishlist to government

Singapore's Extended Producer Responsibility scheme will require all importers and manufacturers of beverage containers in Singapore to collect most of the products they sell to consumers. Industry players led by Coca-Cola have opposed the scheme, citing cost and other concerns.

Waste

Singapore's polluter-pays scheme faces further delay amid concern over industry stalling tactics

26 April 2024

UNEA PH opening plenary i

Waste

Philippine government split on joining coalition to cut plastic production: UN treaty participants

25 April 2024

WAN-IFRA Awards 2024

Corporate Responsibility

Eco-Business wins WAN-IFRA Asian Digital Media Awards for revamped 'Insights' newsletter

19 April 2024

China offshore wind

Energy

Asian wind power development faces growing storm with local communities

18 April 2024

Solar_Installation_Panels

Energy

Asean could save up to US$800 billion on decarbonisation costs through fully interconnected grid, study shows

Floating_Solar_Lake_China

Energy

Is China ready to put solar panels out at sea?

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