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News / Southeast Asia

15 June 2023

Benchmark in Dictionary Highlighted in Green

Policy & Finance

Can the Asean Taxonomy help achieve the region's sustainability ambitions?

COVID_Orphans_Indonesia

Cities

Covid orphans face grief and poverty as world moves on

14 June 2023

Singapore at night

Carbon & Climate

As net-zero pressure mounts, Singapore corporates grapple with setting 2050 targets without visibility

13 June 2023

The Petronas Towers in Kuala Lumpur

Carbon & Climate

Asian companies are not telling the full story of their carbon footprint: study

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

Energy

Google Sustainability Summit 2023: How can technology be a force for good?

12 June 2023

Lazada_delivery_Vietnam

Lifestyle

Lazada appoints Gladys Chun as new ESG lead

Dr Siti Maryam Yaakub, Conservation International

Carbon & Climate

Conservation International hires Siti Maryam Yaakub to run new blue carbon institute

Tobacco_Man_Smoking

Policy & Finance

WHO calls on Asian countries to quit tobacco farming

9 June 2023

Shanty_House_Manila

Policy & Finance

World's slum populations set to surge as housing crisis bites

8 June 2023

The Liveability Challenge tropies 2023

Carbon & Climate

Carbon capture and oral vaccine for farmed fish win The Liveability Challenge 2023

7 June 2023

School_Children_Philippines

Policy & Finance

Put Asia’s children at centre of climate action: UNICEF

6 June 2023

Luhut Ecosperity 2

Energy

Indonesia minister floats net-zero emissions by 2055

5 June 2023

Standard Chartered Bank, Singapore

Policy & Finance

Standard Chartered Bank hires Jannelle Ang from UBS sustainable finance team

Factory hens on the production line/Jollibee logo

Food & Agriculture

Asia's fastest growing restaurant chain faces pressure over animal cruelty

Haze Indonesia 2019

Policy & Finance

Asean still lacks legal redress against transboundary haze, in focus ahead of leaders' meeting

3 June 2023

A shoe collection in an average household.

Waste

A door-to-door solution for donating unwanted items to charity has come to Singapore

1 June 2023

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Carbon & Climate

India’s heat action plans overlook the vulnerable

31 May 2023

Coal power plants in Asia

Policy & Finance

Saying ‘no new coal’ is not enough: Singapore’s central bank puts managed coal phase-out high on agenda

Hanoi air con

Energy

As Asian heatwaves require burning more fossil fuels, fears of a slower transition grow

Singapore is home to the Global Centre for Technology, Innovation, and Sustainable Development, a hub for developing sustainability solutions in areas such as digital finance, urbanisation, climate resilience and digital public goods.

Cities

UNDP appoints new head for sustainable innovation hub in Singapore

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