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Climate change is disturbing wind patterns across the globe in dramatic ways. And when combined with land-use change and desertification, these changes are spawning immense sand and dust storms that p...

6 Nov 2025

...carbon-polluting fuels by hiking prices. Experts surveyed by Context on their expectations for climate action in 2024 urged policy-makers to avoid putting the financial burden of a green shift on thos...

10 Jan 2024

CIMB sets 2030 targets for palm oil and power, advancing its sustainability journey towards net zero by 2050

...carbonisation, establishing a target for its power portfolio, emphasising a transition towards cleaner, renewable energy sources. These commitments are an extension to last year's milestone ...

24 Nov 2023

Climate campaigners hold a protest action near the US embassy in Manila

Last week, the World Leaders Climate Action Summit took place within the framework of the ongoing United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP29) in Baku, Azerbaijan. But the gathering attracted less...

20 Nov 2024

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...carbon, restoring topsoil, improving biodiversity and reducing fertiliser and pesticide use. A recent academic study found adding livestock to oil palm plantations also enhances food security through ...

7 Oct 2024

...carbon footprints to materiality assessments, echo our findings. (A materiality assessment is a formal process of identifying the ESG issues that affect a firm and its stakeholders.) These challenges ...

8 Jan 2024

...carbon sequestered from any forests conserved within a concession and from the oil palms themselves. It calculates net greenhouse gas emissions by subtracting sequestered carbon from emitted carbon. T...

21 Jun 2023

Southeast Asia stands at a crossroads in its energy transition. Rapid economic growth, volatile fossil fuel markets and intensifying climate risks are pushing governments to rethink their energy strat...

5 May 2025

...carbonise without being part of SBTi,” he said. “Your local or value chain stakeholders are way more important in galvanising action than SBTN or SBTi.” Earlier this week, SBTi proposed more flexibili...

22 Mar 2025

Indigenous Penan communities protested against logging activity in Ba Data Bila, territory within the protected Upper Baram Forest Area (UBFA), in August 2024.

The cancellation of a high-profile, Indigenous-led conservation project in Sarawak has cast doubt over the future of the heavily-logged Malaysian state's last patch of intact primary forest. Forest De...

21 Oct 2024

Executives gather for the formal application of Astra Agro Lestari for membership of the Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil in July.

A group of 32 non-government organisations has issued an open letter to the Roundtable for Sustainable Palm Oil (RSPO), calling on the standards body for the palm oil trade to block Indonesia's second...

5 Aug 2024

...carbon dioxide and other planet-heating gases released from activities such as coal-fired power production. At last year's climate summit in Egypt, COP27, almost 200 nations confirmed their intention,...

8 Nov 2023

The World Coal Association, the trade body for the coal industry, has changed its name in a bid to revamp the image of the dirtiest fossil fuel and attract new members. At a press conference in Delhi,...

21 Nov 2023

...Carbon Brief. Coal generation in the bloc fell 23 per cent (-49TWh), in contrast to the global rise of 1 per cent. This story was published with permission from Carbon Brief.

11 Oct 2023

Pioneering carbon neutrality in agriculture: Empowering sustainable solutions for the future

...carbon sequestration rates across different land uses. Dr Ming-Jer Tsai and Dr Bonnet Chiang shed light on Taiwan's forest carbon sink and its contribution to achieving the Sustainable Development Goa...

26 May 2023

Corporations hiring sustainability personnel from consultancies could be creating a gulf in consulting expertise for companies to tap into, a recruiter suggested at a business summit in Hong Kong last...

19 Sep 2024

Over the past two months, six successive tropical cyclones have battered the Philippines, displacing over 2.9 million people, destroying 79,000 homes, schools and health facilities, and causing 174 fa...

11 Dec 2024

Luxurious resorts, pristine beaches and lush forests define the popular image of tropical islands. But behind this idyllic facade, a quiet land crisis is unfolding, compounding the threat posed by ris...

6 Jan 2025

...carbon trading. Then, in October 2024, the Digoel Agri group saw its licenses to the two concessions revoked by the local government and handed over to ASS and PAM. ASS reportedly began engaging with ...

18 Mar 2025

Microsoft CEO announcing first data centre in Thailand 2024

United States president Donald Trump's sweeping tariffs are threatening the greening of Asia's grid, which large multinationals and tech giants have made big bets on to power massive data centres, als...

30 Apr 2025

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