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News / Southeast Asia

16 November 2018

wonderfruit

Lifestyle

Wonderfruit 2018 to inspire sustainability through architecture

9 November 2018

palm oil plantation worker

Food & Agriculture

How do companies benefit from sustainable palm oil certification?

8 November 2018

National University of Singapore's straw-free campaign

Waste

Singapore university's plastic straw ban sparks backlash from students: 'I've been greatly inconvenienced'

5 November 2018

plantations aerial grid

Food & Agriculture

Why is it so hard to sell sustainable palm oil?

31 October 2018

laos power plant emissions

Carbon & Climate

What stands in the way of Southeast Asia's low carbon transition?

hdb night

Energy

Plugging into green power in Singapore

30 October 2018

top brands plastic pollution

Waste

NGOs call out 'vague' pledge by 250 companies to tackle plastic pollution

29 October 2018

Tourists on a biking tour

Lifestyle

How to solve Asia's 'lazy' overtourism problem

25 October 2018

woman farmer in uganda

Food & Agriculture

World hunger has risen for three straight years, and climate change is a cause

23 October 2018

Plastic waste on a beach in Haiti, where Dell launched its ocean-bound plastic pilot project.

Corporate Responsibility

HP joins rival Dell's consortium to turn ocean-bound plastic trash into products

9 October 2018

Coca-Cola is the world's biggest plastic polluter, according to 239 cleanups and brand audits conducted in 42 countries by Greenpeace. Image: Justin Hofman / Greenpeace

Waste

World's biggest plastic polluters revealed

6 October 2018

Greenpeace activists paint "Stop Deforestation Now" onto the hull of a palm oil tanker at the Wilmar International refinery in Bitung, North Sulawesi.

Food & Agriculture

Wilmar aims for deforestation-free supply chain by 2020 after protests

5 October 2018

palm oil fruit bunch in truck

Food & Agriculture

Major brands break ties with Indonesian palm oil giant

plastic pollution bali

Waste

Plastic bans—the least effective way to solve Southeast Asia's plastic pollution problem, food industry study finds

4 October 2018

haze singapore's CBD skyline

Policy & Finance

Lost business to the haze? There’s insurance for that—and payouts are triggered by air pollution

3 October 2018

Eileen Rockefeller Growald

Energy

Western governments and philanthropists pump $20m into Southeast Asian clean energy

solar rooftop installation in Samar

Energy

7 ways to speed up Southeast Asia's switch to renewable energy

29 September 2018

Plastic trash piles on top of a rubbish bin in downtown Singapore.

Waste

Singapore MP calls on government to curb single-use plastic and introduce 'selective' charge for carrier bags

28 September 2018

Singapore uses more airconditioning per person than any country in Southeast Asia, and energy expended on ai 73 per cent more energy on cooling more by 2030, to a total of 666,748 terrajoules. Image: Eco-Business

Green Buildings

Air-con addicted Singapore seeks new ways to escape urban heat trap

26 September 2018

Plastic litter washed up on the coasts of Sabah, Malaysia. Image: WWF-Malaysia

Waste

Malaysia to ban single-use plastic

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