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Cebu Pacific Foundation
Cebu Pacific launches foundation to help build stronger, more resilient communities
As Cebu Pacific (PSE: CEB) marks its 30th anniversary, it is extending its long-standing spirit of connection beyond air travel with the launch of Cebu Pacific Foundation Inc. (CPFI).
Villgro Philippines
£6.25M prize calls on innovators to tackle snakebite’s 16,000 annual deaths
Across Southeast Asia, an estimated 242,000 people are bitten by venomous snakes every year, and around 16,000 of …
United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP)
Guiding light: How solar power is providing a lifeline to blackout-prone Asian villages
Like many in the central Philippines village of Tabon, Analyn Fedelis makes a living fishing at night. That’s …
350.org Asia today launched REImagine Asia, a campaign for community-led renewable energy, emphasising the need for rich countries …
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15 April 2025
United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (ESCAP)
Rethinking climate finance to work for women in Nepal’s coffee, pashmina value chains
18 October 2024
Inner Mongolia Autonomous Regional Committee
Integrated ecological efforts assist green development in China's western region
17 August 2024
United Nations Environment Programme
As landscapes heal, Nepal’s most iconic animals stage a comeback
24 June 2024
Energy Development Corporation (EDC)
Macquarie confers ESG Award for social impact to EDC
16 February 2024
United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific
New UN report: Along with gender, where people live key factor in determining levels of poverty, inequality in APAC
8 February 2024
ASEAN Centre for Biodiversity
World Wetlands Day 2024: Securing the health and wellbeing of Asean communities
18 December 2023
12 October 2023
13 July 2023
United Nations Development Programme
25 countries halved multidimensional poverty within 15 years, but 1.1 billion remain poor
17 March 2023
25 October 2022
Gree Energy
Gree Energy is B Corp certified
9 June 2022
24 September 2021
International Fund for Agricultural Development
IFAD calls on world leaders for small-scale farmers to receive decent wages
16 June 2021
International Fund for Agricultural Development
Sri Lanka and IFAD partner to reduce poverty and increase food and nutrition security in the face of climate change
15 June 2021
Global Platform for Sustainable Natural Rubber (GPSNR)
GPSNR unveils first ever collective grievance mechanism in the natural rubber industry
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