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Filipino journalists attend a workshop discusing respnosible AI.

Policy & Finance

Philippine anti-online disinformation bill feared to threaten freedom of speech, as calls grow for AI governance

Media advocates urge lawmakers to prioritise instead a comprehensive framework for responsible AI use, with safeguards on transparency, privacy, discrimination, labour impacts and environmental compliance.
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Policy & Finance

Climate litigation can strengthen accountability as Malaysia weighs constitutional environmental rights: lawyer

Despite the absence of an explicit constitutional right to a healthy environment, former Malaysian Bar Council president Ambiga Sreenevasan said the courts are becoming more receptive to public interest litigation, strengthening avenues for citizens to seek accountability over environmental and climate-related decisions.
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Carbon & Climate

Malaysia risks missing crucial reforms as delay to climate change bill creates uncertainty

Former environment minister Nik Nazmi Nik Ahmad warned prolonged delays to Malaysia's climate change bill and carbon pricing risk undermining investor confidence, while other panellists called for climate change to be treated as a national security issue and greater investment in adaptation.
A forest in Bandung, Indonesia

Policy & Finance

Carbon markets alone won’t keep Southeast Asia’s forests standing: report

About 42 million hectares of forest remain within logging, oil palm, timber, and rubber concessions across the region, a new report finds. Conserving them through carbon markets alone would require carbon prices far above current levels.

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4 August 2026

Robin Hodess, CEO, GRI

Policy & Finance

'Companies are not going to be reporting less': GRI chief on the future of sustainability disclosure

3 August 2026

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Policy & Finance

Behind the race to host the high seas treaty

31 July 2026

UCFS MY 2026 breakout session

Waste

Malaysia’s EPR rollout must move beyond voluntary action to create a level playing field, says expert

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Policy & Finance

Is climate finance reaching local and Indigenous communities in Nepal?

27 July 2026

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Carbon & Climate

Pax Silica must not deepen inequality as the Philippines pursues AI ambitions, women in energy transition say

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Corporate Responsibility

Global sustainability hiring holds steady despite tougher business climate, survey finds

19 July 2026

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Carbon & Climate

Fossil fuel free zones: A path to a cleaner future, if governments heed them

16 July 2026

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Policy & Finance

What London’s climate week revealed about UK-China green finance work

15 July 2026

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Cities

Polluted urban inlet offers blueprint for waterway renewal

14 July 2026

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Policy & Finance

Malaysia’s top institutional investors lead Asia on climate investment commitments: report

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Carbon & Climate

AI should draw on Indigenous values to tackle environmental challenges: researchers

13 July 2026

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Energy

Vietnam’s gas projects stall amid investor claims of unbankability and a renewables pivot

7 July 2026

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Water

Declining carp stocks leave Bangladesh fishers struggling

3 July 2026

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Carbon & Climate

Inside the energy transition’s new scientific advice panel

The South Korean study is among the first attempts to quantify the long-term nature loss associated with major domestic companies using the TNFD’s LEAP methodology

Cities

South Korea’s top firms linked to nature loss equal to five times Seoul area, study finds

2 July 2026

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Water

Seafood trade nearly equals meat trade worldwide, FAO finds

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