News
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Meet the Eco-Business A-Listers: Janice Lao, hospitality trailblazerJanice Lao, who steered the Hongkong and Shanghai Hotels Group's shift away from single-use plastics last year, talks about being a sustainability leader, supporting her daughter's burgeoning awareness of climate change, and her unsustainable guilty pleasure. -
Meet the Eco-Business A-Listers: Esther An, CDL's ubiquitous partnership builderEsther An spearheaded multiple initiatives to help foster responsible business and partnerships last year. Her efforts secured her a place in Eco-Business A-List of the region’s most influential sustainability executives. In this interview, she reflects on her career and the challenges she faced in 2019.
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Hong Kong power giant CLP quits coalWhile other power companies have made similar pledges, CLP's announcement goes further—the Hong Kong-based firm will pull out of new coal power projects it has already committed to. -
Meet the Eco-Business A-Listers: Simon Bennett, shipping decarboniserSimon Bennett was one of Asia Pacific’s biggest agitators for low-carbon shipping in 2019, hence his selection for the Eco-Business A-List of the region’s most influential corporate sustainability executives. In this interview, Bennett talks about why his job is so easy, radical decarbonisation, role models, and a penchant for Scottish whisky.
Opinion
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What makes for happier business in the Asian Century?– The Asian miracle has seen living standards rise – but citizens aren’t getting any happier. Companies can help by measuring and improving how people feel about life, writes Richard Hardyment. -
What using single-use plastic says about you and your business– Businesses that use single-use plastic show ignorance of important global issues and a lack of care for the communities they serve, argues Doug Woodring. -
Why is business so resistant to talking about climate resilience?– The Purpose Business founder and director, Pat Dwyer, reflects on why business is not talking about climate resilience, and why it needs to start—fast.
Videos
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Creating a better world: The Eco-Business story– An independent media organisation in a tough industry, Eco-Business has striven to be Asia Pacific’s go-to source for all things sustainable business. To mark our seventh birthday, we've put together a video about our work and how we define purposeful journalism.
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Hong Kong to ban ivory trade by 2021– Hong Kong government’s three-step plan to ban ivory trade by 2021 received the go-ahead from the Chief Executive in Council, and the legislature amendments will be tabled before the Legislative Council in the first half of 2017.
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Hong Kong’s ivory smuggling haven exposed– Non-profit groups WildAid and African Wildlife Foundation have released a video containing undercover footage, exposing ivory laundering in Hong Kong and the loopholes in its regulations on smuggled tusks.
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Singapore's approach to sustainability 'its most influential characteristic'– Weber Shandwick’s new study examined eight cities in Asia Pacific and how the 'soft power' attributes of cities exert influence and attract people, with Singapore topping the list for its innovative approach to sustainability and the environment.
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