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'Stop the chop': Demonstrators rally against deforestation in Sarawak, Malaysia

...Malaysian Timber Certification Scheme (MTCS), and buried legitimate complaints under a layer of corporate indifference. This remote region holds the largest expanse of unprotected primary forest in th...

20 Feb 2025

In a move to strengthen its governance structure, Climate Governance Malaysia (CGM) has appointed palm oil industry veteran Henry Barlow the new chairperson of its newly-established independent, non-e...

15 Jan 2025

Global AI for energy leader Univers to launch Malaysia’s first Net Zero Centre of Excellence

...Malaysia’s first Net Zero Centre of Excellence in Kuching, Sarawak. The new Centre will serve as a hub for innovation, bringing together digital intelligence and climate ambition to accelerate ...

3 Jul 2025

...Malaysian federal government for nature conservation. Nearly every year since 2019, Malaysia’s federal government has been transferring money to state governments under a mechanism known as the Ecolog...

8 Apr 2025

Anti-corruption rally in KL - January 2025

...Malaysia have legal frameworks criminalising foreign public officials and private sector bribery. Last week, the Malaysian government challenged a recent legal campaign to allow the former prime minis...

11 Feb 2025

...Malaysia, Vietnam, Brunei — have LNG reserves, giving them capacity to produce nitrogen fertiliser (urea) and even export to other AMS. There is no significant production in Asean of phosphate and pot...

11 May 2026

...Malaysian publication The Edge, Davis Chong, president of the Malaysia Photovoltaic Industry Association, described Chinese-owned firms in the country as having already been almost “killed off” by pre...

5 May 2025

...Malaysia, on efforts by PT Malinau Hijau Lestari to deforest thousands of hectares to grow biomass for coal-fired power plants. Indonesia’s central government is also forging ahead with plans to const...

17 Apr 2025

...Malaysia and Thailand had pavilions in the entrance hall of COP30's Blue Zone, which is the official site for negotiations, meetings and country pavilions. Image: Samantha Ho/ Eco-Business Australia,...

15 Nov 2025

Tengah, the site of the most secondary forest loss in Singapore's recent history.

...Malaysia and Indonesia) it is nevertheless losing forest cover at a speed noticeable to its residents. Forest loss rates in Singapore since 2001 [click to enlarge]. Source: Global Forest Watch Thes...

1 Dec 2025

Living reefs at Pulau Hantu in Singapore

...Malaysia. The bulk of its existing carbon trading partners – Papua New Guinea, Ghana, Bhutan, Peru, Chile, Rwanda and Paraguay – are currently located in Latin America and Africa, he noted. None have ...

16 Jul 2025

Workers in an electronic manufacturing factory in a Philippine Economic Zone Authority (PEZA) area in Laguna.

...Malaysia is aiming to consolidate productive clusters. These are not merely different priorities; they reflect fundamentally different positions in the global production hierarchy. Middle-income count...

30 Apr 2026

Plastic waste from Severe Tropical Storm Wipha

...Malaysia, Indonesia, and the Philippines. The positions of South Korea, Japan and the Pacific Small Island developing states also have to be taken into consideration. Such diversity does not exist in ...

29 Jul 2025

...Malaysia has required all public listed companies to do so since 2016, as did Vietnam. Last year, Malaysia took further steps to mandate sustainability reporting for large non-listed companies with an...

19 Feb 2025

Joel Jay Soriano, First Gen's head of strategy and planning, speaking at the Asian Clean Energy Summit

...Malaysia would be challenging, because it would require submarine cables and there would be significant transmission losses. If we were to import electricity from Sabah or Sarawak [both located in Mal...

11 Dec 2025

Indonesia International Sustainability Forum 2024 - announcement of cross border power deal with Singapore

...Malaysia-based clean energy firm Solarvest. For example, Asean member countries had pushed for the Laos-Thailand-Malaysia-Singapore Power Integration Project (LTMS-PIP), Lim said. Since there is inten...

8 Jan 2025

Microsoft CEO announcing first data centre in Thailand 2024

...Malaysia, Singapore and Hong Kong, and signed Malaysia's first data centre virtual power purchase agreement (PPA) to procure 30 MW of renewable energy from German solar developer ib vogt in March. La...

30 Apr 2025

...Malaysia, noted how extreme heat is “very likely to rival or even exceed the death toll from typhoons, but it remains largely invisible in the statistics.” "What makes heat particularly dangerous is t...

18 Aug 2026

...Malaysia, RimbaWatch and Klima Action Malaysia, SAM has called on the Malaysian government to stop approving CCUS projects. A statement from the groups cited United Nations secretary general Antonio G...

14 Oct 2024

Upon graduating, many university students from rural Malaysia dream of leaving their villages and starting a new life in the city. But for Juanan Jamulan, returning to his home town has made his life ...

13 Jun 2025

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