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News / Carbon & Climate

How can journalists effectively tell the climate story in Asia?

...Asia Although environmental problems such as air pollution, plastic waste and global warming are growing ever more visible and climate change has emerged as the biggest story of the century, journalis...

11 Jun 2019

How can journalists effectively tell the climate story in Asia?

Plastic litter washed up on the coasts of Sabah, Malaysia. Image: WWF-Malaysia

News / Waste

Malaysia to ban single-use plastic

...plastic in Southeast Asia. Beating plastic pollution in Southeast Asia With Malaysia now cracking down on single-use plastic, will its neighbours follow in toughening their policies against plastic po...

26 Sep 2018

Malaysia to ban single-use plastic

News / Waste

Plastic bans—the least effective way to solve Southeast Asia's plastic pollution problem, food industry study finds

...plastic bag use, reducing plastic packaging and redesigning products for recyclability have minimal impact in reducing the plastic waste that enters Southeast Asia's seas. That was the conclusion from...

5 Oct 2018

Plastic bans—the least effective way to solve Southeast Asia's plastic pollution problem, food industry study finds

Press Releases / USAID

Southeast Asian women champion sustainability

...Asia is a flagship climate finance initiative that partners with companies and investors to unlock investment into sustainable agriculture/forestry and reduce carbon emissions in Southeast Asia. USAID...

8 Mar 2019

Southeast Asian women champion sustainability

A PET bottle being recycled at a recycling plant. Image: EVRYTHNG

News / Waste

Could a digital barcode on consumer products enable the circular economy?

...Asia? It will for two reasons. First, because there’s a huge amount of supply chain production that comes from China and Southeast Asia. Second, because engagement between smartphone users and the phy...

6 Mar 2019

Could a digital barcode on consumer products enable the circular economy?

Opinion / Lifestyle

In the world of sustainability, colonialism is not dead

...plastic-choked oceans in Asia while spotlighting environmental movements in the West that want to wipe out plastic straws and switch to more durable, dearer items—lifestyle practices that are out of r...

13 Feb 2019

In the world of sustainability, colonialism is not dead

News / Waste

Thailand to ban plastic waste imports by 2021

...plastic. We will ban [plastic waste] within two years.” After China shut its doors to foreign waste in January, the United States shipped nearly half of all its plastic waste to other Asian countries ...

17 Oct 2018

Thailand to ban plastic waste imports by 2021

News / Policy & Finance

Asian voters want environmental action, but are politicians listening?

...Southeast Asia, Eco-Business finds out whether climate change and sustainable development rank high on the priorities list for the countries' political candidates. “ How the sustainability agenda wi...

16 Apr 2019

Asian voters want environmental action, but are politicians listening?

News / Waste

World's biggest plastic polluters revealed

...plastic pollution in Southeast Asia. The study suggested that reducing plastic packaging and redesigning products for recyclability have minimal impact in cutting the plastic waste that enters the oce...

9 Oct 2018

World's biggest plastic polluters revealed

Waste collector in Indonesia segregating trash

News / Waste

Plastic producers pool US$90m to tackle ocean pollution

...Asia found that poor rubbish collection systems in Southeast Asia were the main reason for plastic leaking into the ocean—Kaplan said the informal nature of the sector in developing countries make it...

26 Oct 2018

Plastic producers pool US$90m to tackle ocean pollution

The Eco-Business team and friends celebrate EB's 10th anniversary

News / Corporate Responsibility

Eco-Business turns 10: A decade of reporting on sustainable development in Asia

...Southeast Asia was mainly being driven by the corporate world. "It's starting to happen [the clean energy transition], including in Asia, and it's being driven by consumers and businesses more than by...

30 Apr 2019

Eco-Business turns 10: A decade of reporting on sustainable development in Asia

News / Waste

On Thai island, hotel guests check out of plastic waste

...plastics," said Anthony Lark, president of the Phuket Hotels Association and managing director of the Trisara resort. "Every resort in Southeast Asia has a plastic problem. Until we all make a change,...

21 Aug 2018

On Thai island, hotel guests check out of plastic waste

News / Waste

Southeast Asian nations grapple with worsening plastic trash crisis

...plastic waste, the Southeast Asian nations have lagged behind China, which in January banned all imports of plastic waste. But when it comes to combating the hazards caused by plastic waste, the Sout...

30 Jul 2018

Southeast Asian nations grapple with worsening plastic trash crisis

News / Corporate Responsibility

Meet the Eco-Business A-Listers: Dr Lee Hui Mien, responsible tourism steward

...Southeast Asia when the opportunity came along. Four years later, Lee joined Temasek-owned Mandai Park Development, which is turning the Mandai area of Singapore into an eco-tourism hub. It was a peri...

23 Jan 2020

Meet the Eco-Business A-Listers: Dr Lee Hui Mien, responsible tourism steward

Opinion / Policy & Finance

The rising tide of regulations on business and human rights: Could Asia be next?

...Asia’s economic role is ever-growing in the world. Asian countries’ investments outside and inside the region are expanding significantly. Golda Benjamin, Southeast Asia researcher, Business and Human...

13 Feb 2019

The rising tide of regulations on business and human rights: Could Asia be next?

Greenpeace investigation into plastic waste in Malaysia

Videos / Waste

Malaysia—the new dumping ground for the world's plastic waste

...Southeast Asia has become the new destination of choice for the world's trash. One of the biggest new waste importers is Malaysia, and an investigation by Greenpeace has revealed that much of the wast...

28 Nov 2018

Malaysia—the new dumping ground for the world's plastic waste

Electronic waste being processed in an informal setting in Thailand. Image: Basel Action Network

News / Waste

E-waste smuggling ring in Thailand signals failure of Basel Convention

...Southeast Asia say. The region's e-waste sector has been under the spotlight since news broke in May last year of an e-waste smuggling ring in Thailand. One firm implicated in the incident was Singapo...

27 Mar 2019

E-waste smuggling ring in Thailand signals failure of Basel Convention

Opinion / Policy & Finance

Deep clean: How ‘blue finance’ can save our oceans

...Asia-Pacific region alone. By 2052 oceans might contain more plastic than fish by weight and 90 per cent of coral reefs may be lost. The “blue economy”, which includes livelihoods and other economic b...

3 May 2019

Deep clean: How ‘blue finance’ can save our oceans

Houston, you have a problem. Flooding caused by Hurricane Harvey

News / Carbon & Climate

Be afraid—11 scary facts, stats and lies about our planet this Halloween

...Southeast Asia, is twice as sunny as Northern Europe. Yet Southeast Asia is the world's laggard for renewable energy. Go figure. 8. The collapse of ecosystems is beginning The collapse of eco systems...

31 Oct 2018

Be afraid—11 scary facts, stats and lies about our planet this Halloween

News / Lifestyle

How to solve Asia's 'lazy' overtourism problem

...Asian tourists. Khiri and Yaana are frontrunners in sustainable travel in Southeast Asia. What drew you to sustainability? Community-based tourism was how we got into sustainability and we got into ...

29 Oct 2018

How to solve Asia's 'lazy' overtourism problem

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