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Jeffrey Sachs_Eco-Business podcast

Carbon & Climate

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

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.
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

Having "stretch targets" can spur innovation, says the sustainability chief for one of Hong Kong's largest real estate firms in the latest episode of "On the frontlines". He also shares why the firm has chosen to publish the draft of its net zero plan for open discussion of its climate targets.
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

In the latest episode of 'On the frontlines', the real estate giant's ESG head tells the EB Podcast that while there has been no pushback on climate action by corporate India, questions remain over whether the booming real estate sector is decarbonising fast enough.
Christer Gaudiano EB Podcast

Energy

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

The ESG head of the Philippine power company arm tells the EB Podcast that sustainability needs to be communicated not as a “progressive idea” but a business strategy that benefits the bottom line.

All #emissions Podcasts

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

21 January 2025

Tsim Tsa Tsui in Hong Kong

Cities

Decarbonising Asia’s sprawling built environment – mission impossible?

14 October 2024

Airplane-contrails2

Carbon & Climate

The case for carbon offsets as interim solution for aviation emissions

31 July 2024

CDP CEO EB Podcast Logo

Policy & Finance

‘We can’t keep asking more questions’: CDP acknowledges it needs to do more with less ESG data

25 June 2024

A protest for climate justice in the Philippines

Policy & Finance

'Businesses fear regulation on transition-washing': Environmental lawyer Joyce Melcar Tan

20 November 2023

Manila, Philippines

Green Buildings

'Sustainability must be accessible': Arthaland's CSO on making sustainable real estate in the Philippines a norm

26 October 2023

IP Tebtebba

Policy & Finance

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

16 August 2023

"We are already at 1.1°C of warming – a matter of life and death for the Global South", says Professor Winston Chow, the recently appointed co-chair of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change's working group on impacts, adaptation and vulnerability.

Carbon & Climate

‘A 1.1°C warmer world is already a matter of life and death’: Climate scientist Winston Chow

7 June 2021

Google moonshot

Energy

Google's moonshot quest for carbon free energy

3 June 2021

The Eco-Business Podcast

Energy

End fossil fuel extraction now: What IEA's net-zero alert means for the climate fight

24 February 2021

Where is the smart money going in renewables?

Energy

Mission net zero: Is the world banking on the right innovations?

8 February 2021

Malampaya natural gas2

Energy

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

14 October 2020

Air pollution in Beijing

Carbon & Climate

How has the pandemic really affected air pollution?

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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