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Year in review 2025
Eco-Business looks back at 2025 – a year marked by record-breaking weather extremes, breakthroughs in climate innovation and mounting scrutiny of greenwashing across Asia and beyond.
News / Corporate Responsibility
20 brands called out for greenwashing in 2025
This year, ‘greenrinsing’ – shifting climate targets after luring investment – cast a shadow over corporate decarbonisation efforts, while fossil fuel firms leaned on carbon capture technologies to justify ongoing expansion and promoted natural gas as "clean".
News / Carbon & Climate
‘Climate whiplash’: Asia’s worst extreme weather events of 2025
From submerged heritage towns to burning forests, 2025 laid bare how “climate whiplash” is reshaping Asia’s weather and way of life.
News / Lifestyle
Rewilding travel: Southeast Asia’s top ecotourism destinations
From Thailand’s elephant plains to the Philippines’ coral sanctuaries, these destinations share one belief: that tourism must give back more than it takes. In Southeast Asia, ecotourism isn’t just about seeing nature – it’s about keeping it alive.
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News / Corporate Responsibility
20 brands called out for greenwashing in 2025
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News / Energy
Decarbonisation in the Philippines is a ‘balancing act’: First Gen strategy head Joel Jay Soriano
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News / Energy
Renewable energy boomed in 2025, but so did fossil fuels
A solar boom, Donald Trump's 'national energy emergency' and AI demand marked a landmark year. -
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News / Policy & Finance
South Korea to ban labels on bottled water from 2026 in push to cut plastic waste
Seoul expects more than 2,200 tonnes of plastic savings a year as QR-code packaging becomes standard. -
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Opinion / Food & Agriculture
India’s food waste is turning into an environmental time bomb
India’s colossal food waste problem is both a symptom and a significant accelerator of the climate crisis. -
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