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Carbon & Climate

‘Resilience is not a buzzword’: Palm oil leaders call for industry reset amid global shocks

In the inaugural episode of Eco-Business's new Resilience podcast series, industry leaders say the palm oil sector's ability to weather disruption will depend not on certification alone, but on rethinking the relationships that underpin the entire supply chain.
Luanne Sieh has been group chief sustainability officer at CIMB Bank for the last eight and a half years

Policy & Finance

‘Show me the money’ – this is what sustainability has become: CIMB CSO Luanne Sieh

The Malaysia-headquartered bank's sustainability chief tells the EB Podcast about the discipline's mandate to prove value, wrestling with NGOs, and greenwashing in finance.
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Energy

De-risking offshore wind could put Philippines ahead in clean energy race: GWEC’s Ann Francisco

Government must call on development finance institutions to tap on risk management tools to make the capital-intensive technology more investible, Global Wind Energy Council’s Ann Margret Francisco tells the EB Podcast.
TLC podcast

Carbon & Climate

Despite US rollbacks, Asia’s climate innovators push ‘hard tech’ forward

In the latest episode of the Climate Tech in Asia series, we speak to Breakthrough Energy and Green COP about what the shifting geopolitical landscape means for the climate tech ecosystem in Asia.

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3 February 2026

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

13 January 2026

Jeffrey Sachs_Eco-Business podcast

Carbon & Climate

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

9 January 2026

A flaring oil plant in Malaysia

Energy

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

26 November 2025

Typhoon Fung-wong_L&D

Policy & Finance

‘We don’t want to pit adaptation and loss and damage funds against each other’: veteran COP observer

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

29 October 2025

Asean logo

Policy & Finance

Asean must learn how to 'flex' on global finance and sustainability standards: policy expert

13 October 2025

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

6 October 2025

Typhoon Wipha flooding_Philippines

Cities

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

26 September 2025

EB podcast_kitty bu

Energy

The Asean energy ministers meeting – what's at stake?

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

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

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 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

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