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Maggie Lee, United Nations Environment Programme

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UNEP Southeast Asia plastics project lead Maggie Lee returns to WWF

...plastic and marine litter programme for Southeast Asia. She has moved to World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF), where she worked before moving to UNEP in 2019, and is now contracted as Asia Pacific lead fo...

4 Jan 2021

UNEP Southeast Asia plastics project lead Maggie Lee returns to WWF

News / Waste

Circular economy consultancy GA Circular to scale back operations

...Southeast Asia. Among its most notable studies was Southeast Asia's first region-wide report on the realities of plastic bottle recycling in the region, for client Coca-Cola, in 2018. The research fo...

11 Dec 2020

Circular economy consultancy GA Circular to scale back operations

News / Policy & Finance

How tourism fuels Southeast Asia’s wildlife trade

...Southeast Asia have been fuelling the illegal wildlife trade by facilitating consumption by tourists, several investigations show. Prior to Covid-19, shops trading wildlife items, from ivory bangles t...

30 Sep 2021

How tourism fuels Southeast Asia’s wildlife trade

A GrabFood driver riding an e-scooter in Little India, Singapore.

News / Transport

Grab is hatching a carbon-cutting plan

...Southeast Asia. The app is positioned as "an everyday, everything super app" which offers a range of services beyond transport, including food delivery, online banking, mobile payments, insurance, and...

5 Mar 2021

Grab is hatching a carbon-cutting plan

News / Waste

Seven Clean Seas staffs up as plastic offsetting firm adds auditing capability

...plastic offsetting to become a major income stream for the firm, which "supports exponential project growth" across rural and island waste management systems in Southeast Asia, Peacock-Nazil said. "It...

3 Mar 2021

Seven Clean Seas staffs up as plastic offsetting firm adds auditing capability

News / Policy & Finance

AIA appoints Amita Chaudhury from Unilever to lead sustainability

...Southeast Asia and Australasia, and before that, global director of diversity and inclusion director, based in London and Singapore. She joins AIA a month after the Hong Kong-based company, which is A...

5 May 2021

AIA appoints Amita Chaudhury from Unilever to lead sustainability

SeaChange, the winners of the 2021 The Liveability Challenge

News / Carbon & Climate

Carbon capture idea wins The Liveability Challenge 2021

...Southeast Asia’s fast-growing cities. SeaChange emerged ahead of a group of six finalists to claim the top prize of S$1 million (US$735,000) in funding for their project from the backer of the contest...

28 Jul 2021

Carbon capture idea wins The Liveability Challenge 2021

Opinion / Waste

How can Asia build a circular economy in its post-Covid recovery?

...Southeast Asia is pushing ahead with plans to develop a National Circular Economy Roadmap, and recently launched a study, led by Bappenas—the country’s development ministry—and the United Nations Deve...

29 Apr 2021

How can Asia build a circular economy in its post-Covid recovery?

Opinion / Waste

Waste not want not: Malaysia moves to become a leader in tackling plastic waste

...plastics—plastic bags to hold the noodles and soup separately, another small plastic package for chili sauce, a plastic spoon, chopsticks packed in plastic, and a bigger plastic bag to hold all the se...

3 Feb 2021

Waste not want not: Malaysia moves to become a leader in tackling plastic waste

Robert Downey Jr at the launch of Footprint Coalition at Davos

News / Policy & Finance

Robert Downey Jr's new green tech fund invests in The Liveability Challenge winner RWDC Industries

...plastics substitute firm RWDC Industries. RWDC makes a bio-based plastic alternative made by feeding used cooking oil to microbes, and was the winner of the inaugural edition of The Liveability Challe...

1 Feb 2021

Robert Downey Jr's new green tech fund invests in The Liveability Challenge winner RWDC Industries

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As G20 chair, coal-heavy Indonesia sends mixed signals on green transition

...Southeast Asian nation plans to phase out coal for electricity by 2056 and has brought forward its net-zero emissions target from 2070 to 2060 or sooner - but weaning itself off the dirty, climate-hea...

13 Apr 2022

As G20 chair, coal-heavy Indonesia sends mixed signals on green transition

News / Waste

Uneven efforts by world’s top waste exporters to reduce and recover waste, new study shows

...plastic pollution. Around 4.7 billion plastic straws, 1.8 billion plastic-stemmed cotton buds and 316 million plastic stirrers are used in England each year.

20 Oct 2020

Uneven efforts by world’s top waste exporters to reduce and recover waste, new study shows

A recycling centre in Lang Khoai, Vietnam, where 1,500 work in the informal recycling sector. Image: CL2B

News / Waste

Covid-19 has hobbled Asia's recycling trade as demand for recycled plastic dips and recyclers face ruin

...Southeast Asia during and post lockdown (click to enlarge). Image: Safeguarding the plastic value chain Insights from COVID-19 impact in South and Southeast Asia In the most extreme case, the recycli...

30 Aug 2020

Covid-19 has hobbled Asia's recycling trade as demand for recycled plastic dips and recyclers face ruin

How Biden's climate agenda aims to trigger a 'good-paying' jobs boom

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Biden’s pivot to Asia challenged by China’s rise, climate change and trade tensions

...Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN). As part of efforts to revive US influence in Asia, President Biden has filled his team with veterans of Asian affairs, including Kurt Campbell — who served as assistan...

5 Apr 2021

Biden’s pivot to Asia challenged by China’s rise, climate change and trade tensions

Plastic water bottles await collection for recycling in Africa.

News / Waste

What's wrong with plastic credit and offset schemes?

...plastic, or generate offset credits for recycled plastics. Like carbon offsets, plastic offsets enable companies to provide credit holders the right to offset their consumption of virgin plastic. The ...

16 Feb 2021

What's wrong with plastic credit and offset schemes?

News / Carbon & Climate

Explainer: Avoided emissions and how not to overclaim them

...Southeast Asia, about 200 companies report their emissions through disclosure platforms like CDP, an increase from 53 in 2016. In Singapore, adoption of climate change reporting based on the TCFD fra...

3 Dec 2021

Explainer: Avoided emissions and how not to overclaim them

Plastic awaits recycling in Bali, Indonesia. Image: Alvaro Aguilar

News / Waste

Are big brands failing in their commitments to use recycled plastic?

...plastic. Recyclers in South and Southeast Asia are facing ruin as buyers opt for virgin plastic, which is now roughly half the price of post-consumer content as the Covid-19 pandemic keeps oil prices ...

30 Oct 2020

Are big brands failing in their commitments to use recycled plastic?

What are the sustainability risks ahead for business sectors in 2022?

News / Corporate Responsibility

From food to finance: expert views on sustainability risks and predictions for 2022

...Asia Pacific chief executive of financial services group, Cantor Fitzgerald We asked Rousseau Anai, former Asia Pacific chief executive of financial services group, Cantor Fitzgerald. What is the big...

5 Jan 2022

From food to finance: expert views on sustainability risks and predictions for 2022

Sual 1 coal plant Pangasinan, Philippines

Opinion / Policy & Finance

What the Philippines needs to do in 2021 to deliver its climate pledges

...plastic reduction roadmap With the Philippines ranking third among the world’s top plastic polluters, a comprehensive bill banning single-use plastic packaging and products must be enacted this year. ...

19 Jan 2021

What the Philippines needs to do in 2021 to deliver its climate pledges

News / Waste

River vessels that sweep up marine trash to be built in Malaysia

...plastic than fish, by weight, by 2050. The Ocean Cleanup aims to deploy its Interceptors at 1,000 of the most polluting rivers in the world, many of which are in Southeast Asia, China and India. The I...

11 Dec 2020

River vessels that sweep up marine trash to be built in Malaysia

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