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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.
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.
Bristol climate strike

Carbon & Climate

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

With clear climate policies and actions, nations across Asia, Africa and Latin America are filling the vacuum left by the United States. This article features the second half of a conversation with two veteran attendees of the climate COPs.
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.

All #sustainable development Podcasts

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

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

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

21 January 2025

Tsim Tsa Tsui in Hong Kong

Cities

Decarbonising Asia’s sprawling built environment – mission impossible?

14 November 2024

EB Podcast camel herders in Alasha

Food & Agriculture

Faraway tale of pastoralist struggles spotlights China’s green growth complexities

12 August 2024

The heat is on Formula 1 to curb its carbon footprint.

Transport

‘Decarbonisation does not cost seconds on the track’: Mercedes F1 sustainability head on the race to net zero

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

4 July 2024

Climate tech podcast with Steve Melhuish

Carbon & Climate

'Five years ago, everyone wanted to be Elon Musk': Where is climate tech in Southeast Asia now?

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