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Climate comedian Stuart Goldsmith says that humour can unlock tricky sustainability problems by "saying the unsayable".

Carbon & Climate

‘Comedy can say the elephant in the room’: Why climate action needs a sense of humour

Climate comedian Stuart Goldsmith tells the EB Podcast why jokes might be the most powerful tools for solving sustainability problems.
Anita Neville On the frontlines

Food & Agriculture

‘I want others to own sustainability too – but letting go is hard’: Golden Agri CSO Anita Neville

Unless sustainability heads allow other functions to lead ESG, it will never be fully integrated into a business, the CSO of the world's second-largest palm oil company tells the EB Podcast. But in doing so, how confident can they be that the business will stay on the right path?
L'Occitane's Asia Pacific director of sustainability Venisa Chu

Corporate Responsibility

Refill fountains may not be effective at reducing waste: L’Occitane Asia sustainability chief Venisa Chu

The Asia Pacific ESG head of the B Corp-certified cosmetics firm says refill stations have been disappointing and getting suppliers on board with decarbonisation is difficult, but her team has not been affected by the ESG backlash.
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

Former United Nations policy analyst and sustainability consultant John Pabon tells the EB Podcast how Australia became Asia Pacific's most progressive country in holding green claims to account.

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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

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

23 May 2025

Christer Gaudiano EB Podcast

Energy

Philippine firms not dismantling climate policies despite US influence: MGEN sustainability chief Christer Gaudiano

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

23 April 2025

Hurricane Katrina by satellite

Carbon & Climate

America's attack on climate science could affect adaptation capacity in Asia: climate scientist Ben Horton

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

19 March 2025

EB Podcast cover_climate journalists

Carbon & Climate

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

18 February 2025

Singtel's Andrew Buay

Corporate Responsibility

To fight ESG scepticism, build alliances: Singtel’s Andrew Buay on the survival secrets of a chief sustainability officer

22 March 2023

Pretending to be an ESG guru while actually knowing little or nothing about environmental or social issues is known as competency greenwash

Carbon & Climate

Competence greenwashing: Are questionable ESG credentials putting climate goals at risk?

28 July 2022

Gojek vehicle in Indonesia

Transport

'Net-zero regulations are welcome': GoTo sustainability chief Tanah Sullivan

17 June 2022

Greenwashing has become a growing problem

Corporate Responsibility

'We have reached peak greenwashing': what to do about the sustainability marketing tsunami?

21 March 2022

Paper sustainable packaging by RyPax

Manufacturing

Sustainable packaging is here — but who will pay for it?

10 November 2021

Taboo subjects

Policy & Finance

How can NGOs tackle taboo subjects like human rights in Singapore?

7 June 2021

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Energy

Google's moonshot quest for carbon free energy

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