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Manufacturing
Fighting fires, breathing smoke: Palm oil’s small farmers face the cost of sustainability
Independent growers are helping prevent wildfires even as haze threatens their families and livelihoods, while the costs of sustainable farming remain difficult to bear.
Corporate Responsibility
Asia Pacific leads global sustainability reporting adoption, but resilience gap remains
The region accounts for nearly half of global GDP represented by economies adopting ISSB standards, but ACCA warns that businesses must move beyond compliance to address climate risks, resource pressures and emerging challenges.
Carbon & Climate
Asean risks locking in decades of coal emissions without coordinated, ‘people-centred’ just transition, report warns
EB Studio
Experts say the region's next challenge is turning climate commitments into enforceable coal retirement plans that protect people, local communities, and energy security.
Countries’ climate plans deliver at most a third of the emissions cuts needed by 2035, and every five years of emissions at current levels raises peak warming by around 0.1°C, the UN Environment Programme’s Emissions Gap Report finds.
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Policy & Finance
USAID cuts carry environmental costs, new report finds
30 September 2026
Policy & Finance
Malaysia to launch new sustainability professionals body by end 2026
17 September 2026
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24 August 2026
Corporate Responsibility
ESG downgrades hit shares harder when investor expectations are high, study finds
5 August 2026
Corporate Responsibility
SBTi seeks Southeast Asia input on revised climate standard for forest, land and agriculture
4 August 2026
27 July 2026
Food & Agriculture
Vietnam's coffee boom rooted in decades of deforestation: report
20 July 2026
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