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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.
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.
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.

All #sustainable finance Podcasts

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 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

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

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

5 February 2025

Jessica Cheam, Mervyn Tang and Jocelyn Dove speaking at the Sharpening the ESG focus 2025 event

Policy & Finance

As US pulls back, 'huge opportunity' for Asia to lead in global transition

21 January 2025

Tsim Tsa Tsui in Hong Kong

Cities

Decarbonising Asia’s sprawling built environment – mission impossible?

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

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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