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A small-scale miner in Bicol, Philippines

Carbon & Climate

We don’t want others to take advantage of Asean’s rich mineral resources: Philippine environment policymaker

Critical minerals will be central to this year’s Asean meetings, said environment assistant secretary Noralene Uy, as the Philippines ushers the region towards domestic processing as summit chair.
Frank Phuan co-founded Sunseap in 2011

Energy

Cross-border clean energy projects are hard – but the returns are worth the pain: Sunseap co-founder Frank Phuan

As Southeast Asia eyes regional power trading to accelerate decarbonisation, veteran solar entrepreneur Frank Phuan unpacks the political, economic and logistical hurdles of moving clean energy across borders.
Jeffrey Sachs_Eco-Business podcast

Carbon & Climate

Jeffrey Sachs: China is unequivocally the world’s climate power today. Asean’s opportunity is next.

Exclusive The economist and president of the UN Sustainable Development Solutions Network told the Eco-Business Podcast how China’s green industrial and financial capabilities can help accelerate Southeast Asia's transition to net zero.
A flaring oil plant in Malaysia

Energy

‘Regulation, measurement needed to curb methane emissions’: Experts on abating potent greenhouse gas

EB Studio Capping methane release in the oil and gas sector is one of the fastest – and cheapest – ways to tackle climate change. But measurement mandates are first needed to abate the dangerous climate agitant in Southeast Asia, Viknesh Andiappan and Shareen Yawanarajah tell the EB Podcast.

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19 November 2025

Asean chair handover to PH

Energy

Asean must connect energy planning with environmental protection: Philippines energy director

6 November 2025

Bristol climate strike

Carbon & Climate

How middle income countries are reshaping climate leadership ahead of COP30, with WRI chief Ani Dasgupta

5 November 2025

COP30 podcast cover

Carbon & Climate

'Money has always been the big fight': assessing COP30's key battlegrounds with Third World Network's Meena Raman

6 October 2025

Typhoon Wipha flooding_Philippines

Cities

‘Resilience has limits’: ICSC’s Kairos dela Cruz on Filipinos fighting back against flood control corruption

6 September 2025

Australia's action against greenwashing has been driven largely by consumers, says John Pabon, author of The Great Greenwashing

Corporate Responsibility

How Australia took the lead in policing greenwashing

26 August 2025

Solar installation in the Philippines

Energy

Power and economic strength are now determined by who can harness solar and batteries fastest: Assaad Razzouk

19 August 2025

Trash piled high at the Bantar Gebang landfill in Bekasi, near Jakarta.

Waste

We don't need a plastics treaty for nations to enact polluter-pays laws now: Doug Woodring

12 August 2025

A beach in Balikpapan, Indonesia's "oil city", is covered in plastic trash.

Waste

Southeast Asia has too much to lose – we need an ambitious plastics treaty: Singapore campaigner Terese Teoh

6 August 2025

John Haffner, deputy director of sustainability, Hang Lung Properties, says internal advocacy has been key to driving the sustainability agenda. Image: ReThink 2

Green Buildings

Are our climate targets too weak or too ambitious? Hang Lung Properties' sustainability chief John Haffner

18 June 2025

A report by WWF finds that Hong Kong could lose 25 per cent of its biodiversity to new developments such as the North Metropolis.

Cities

'Listen to ecologists – don't bury nature under cement': Hong Kong faces acute biodiversity loss as megaprojects loom

30 May 2025

Sustainability professional should not be prescriptive with their solutions, says Aun Abdullah of real estate company Lodha.

Green Buildings

Inaction is not an option for companies in climate-vulnerable nations like India: Lodha ESG chief Aun Abdullah

30 April 2025

Hendrik Rosenthal, sustainability director, CLP Power

Carbon & Climate

Just another cost centre? CLP Power's Hendrik Rosenthal on justifying sustainability in turbulent times

17 April 2025

Some data sources indicate that greenwashing could be declining after years of rising incidences of problematic sustainability claims.

Corporate Responsibility

Is greenwashing really in decline?

15 April 2025

Ani Dasgupta, CEO of World Resources Institute

Policy & Finance

Tariffs will stifle green growth in the Global South: WRI CEO Ani Dasgupta

8 April 2025

Ankit Todi, CSO, Mahindra Group

Corporate Responsibility

ESG in retreat? In India more companies see climate action as strategic: Mahindra CSO Ankit Todi

19 March 2025

EB Podcast cover_climate journalists

Carbon & Climate

The challenges of the environment beat: A conversation with journalists in Southeast Asia

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