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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.
Luck Now Farmers Market

Lifestyle

Is green living a myth? Why individual action won’t save the planet

Former Yale-NUS environmental social sciences professor Michael Maniates tells the Eco-Business Podcast that individual actions like going vegetarian, reducing plastic use or avoiding air travel are not only insufficient to address the climate crisis – they are counterproductive.
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

At the close of COP30, nations agreed to triple adaptation finance by 2035, while the fund for loss and damage appeared to remain sidelined. Lidy Nacpil, a long-time attendee of the climate conference, explains why.
Typhoon Wipha flooding_Philippines

Cities

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

The chief of a Manila-based nonprofit that advocates for climate finance transparency tells the EB Podcast that so-called Filipino resilience to natural disasters should not be an “excuse” for developers to dodge accountability for substandard flood control projects.

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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

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

19 March 2025

EB Podcast cover_climate journalists

Carbon & Climate

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

7 January 2025

EB Podcast - climate children's books

Carbon & Climate

How children's books are raising environmental awareness in Indonesia

2 August 2024

EB podcast Goumbook 02

Water

Only deserts, with nothing to conserve? Social enterprise Goumbook on why the Middle East needs an oceans initiative

12 July 2024

Clover Hogan, climate activist, speaking in 2019

Carbon & Climate

'The problem is not that young people are eco-anxious. It's that people in positions of power are not': activist Clover Hogan

26 October 2023

IP Tebtebba

Policy & Finance

‘Never give in to fear’: Nobel peace prize nominee and Filipino Indigenous leader Vicky Tauli Corpuz

17 May 2023

Action against greenwashing in Asia

Policy & Finance

Is Asia slower to tackle greenwashing because it is conflict avoidant?

23 March 2022

land reclamation SG

Water

Shifting sands: the environmental controversy beneath your feet

8 February 2021

Malampaya natural gas2

Energy

Gas is still needed in the Philippines’ clean energy transition: PEIC chief Don Paulino

30 October 2020

Coal-fired power planet

Policy & Finance

Asia’s net zero goals — how realistic are they?

6 October 2020

coal mining aus

Policy & Finance

Mining and the cost of the energy transition

20 September 2020

Izzy Raj-Seppings

Carbon & Climate

The law firm fighting climate crime

25 August 2020

Filipino commuters during Covid. Image: Commuters of Metro Manila

Policy & Finance

How can the Philippines make a green recovery in the Covid era?

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