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This week from 23 to 29 April, about 170 countries will continue the negotiations for a Global Plastics Treaty to end plastic pollution. Will this international legally binding instrument save future ...

23 Apr 2024

In response to criticism for not disclosing its Scope 3 emissions as part of its net-zero pledge, Malaysia’s national oil company Petronas says that it will first need regulatory support to mandate em...

11 Sep 2023

Rich countries attain record human development, but half of the poorest have gone backwards: UNDP

Uneven development progress is leaving the poorest behind, exacerbating inequality, and stoking political polarisation on a global scale. The result is a dangerous gridlock that must be ur...

18 Mar 2024

How can a domestic "helper" run for legislative office? Does she know her job as a Member of Parliament is different from cleaning a parliamentary office? These were some of the questions people poste...

11 Mar 2024

Ten countries to bag UNDP's 2023 Equator Prize

The UN Development Programme (UNDP) and partners announce the winners of the 14th Equator Prize, acknowledging Indigenous peoples and local communities from ten countries. Selected from a pool of...

15 Aug 2023

Women working on a palm oil plantation in Riau, Sumatra, Indonesia.

Women are often the forgotten link in the sustainable palm oil value chain. Female oil palm farmers typically work in low-pay jobs, weeding, spraying fertiliser, tending to seedings or collecting loos...

4 Mar 2024

This story is part of our Decoding Sustainable Finance series, where we attempt to break down complex terminology surrounding the latest regulations and trends in sustainable finance. In 2015, “blende...

13 Sep 2023

Boundary Dam Power Station carbon capture facility 2

In March, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) published its “synthesis report,” the final section of its sixth assessment report (AR6). Based on thousands of peer-reviewed articles b...

8 May 2023

Cities: Possibilities 2024 spotlights public-private finance partnerships and stronger governance models for climate-resilient cities

...Equities Research and Stewardship, AIA Investment Management; Sarah Winbur, Senior Portfolio Manager Real Estate, APG Asset Management; Maria Atkinson, Chairperson of the Board, Holc...

28 Oct 2024

As Malaysia’s ministry of natural resources and environmental sustainability (NRES) races to table a national climate change bill in Parliament next year, contentions about carbon regulation and how m...

9 Feb 2024

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Recognising the “urgent and existential threat” facing the world, the International Court of Justice (ICJ) concluded that those harmed by human-caused climate change may be entitled to “reparations”. ...

28 Jul 2025

Concern is growing among Indigenous communities in the Malaysian state of Sarawak that newly proposed nature-based carbon projects, backed by local timber giants, would result in unevenly distributed ...

19 May 2024

People living with HIV are living longer nowadays, thanks to several factors, including the successful implementation of public health interventions and campaigns, advances in science and technology, ...

1 Dec 2023

...equities and bonds linked to the oil and gas industry, and to a much lesser degree the coal industry. The good thing is that many of the partners we insure such as Tenaga Nasional and Petronas have ma...

16 Oct 2023

Asia-Pacific countries adopt 10 UN resolutions reaffirming commitments to protect the planet and its people

Governments from across Asia and the Pacific today endorsed a UN resolution to take urgent action to combat climate change and its impact. They re-committed to immediately curb greenhouse gas emission...

23 May 2023

Some data sources indicate that greenwashing could be declining after years of rising incidences of problematic sustainability claims.

Is it the beginning of the end of the greenwashing era? Cases of exaggerated or false sustainability claims fell for the first time in six years in 2024, according to a 13-country study published in ...

17 Apr 2025

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The new study develops the idea of “planetary boundaries“, first set out in an influential 2009 paper. The paper had defined a set of interlinked thresholds that it said would ensure a “safe operating...

6 Jun 2023

Climate tech venture builder Wavemaker Impact hits US$60M hard cap in remarkable fund close

Wavemaker Impact (WMI), Southeast Asia’s first climate tech venture builder, announced the final close of its debut fund dedicated to driving large-scale decarbonisation efforts in the region. ...

5 Dec 2023

The prospect of mining the ocean floor for transition minerals is being called into question by financial market observers who warn of the growing biodiversity risk in deep-sea mining for investors. R...

7 Aug 2023

As Australia prepares to vote on whether to constitutionally recognise its Indigenous people, supporters of a change say a win in the Oct. 14 referendum would bring the country into line with those t...

4 Oct 2023

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