The Eco-Business Sustainability Leadership A-List award recognises Asia Pacific’s outstanding sustainability leaders with a particular focus on their contributions to changes in policies and business practices.
The Seoul-based advocacy group has seen its profile grown over the years after securing some climate wins – including getting the government to halt coal financing and backing the country’s first youth-led climate lawsuit. It now wants to replicate its working model in Japan and Taiwan.
Alan To, chief executive officer of Climate Finance Asia, shares how his weekend activities of urban farming and organising community events translates into advocating for a just transition.
Singapore’s textile recycling rate was 3.4 per cent last year – but all the waste is exported, with a bulk going into the secondhand market. The only way to ensure proper processing is to build local recycling capacity, says Tan Yin Ling, who co-founded the fashion social enterprise.
The Eco-Business Sustainability Leadership A-List Youth winner says that education among waste collectors is key to her ambition for Daya Selaras Group to become the top B2B circular economy platform in Indonesia.
A year-long government “sandbox” study identifies recurring conflicts in solar, aquaculture-solar, micro-hydropower and geothermal projects, prompting policy reforms …