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News / Waste

Open burning of plastic poses rising risks to public health, experts say

...Malaysia. Overwhelmed by a flood of plastic trash, Malaysia banned the import of plastic waste from the United States in July 2025. The European Union ships around 50 per cent of its plastic waste abr...

21 Jul 2025

Open burning of plastic poses rising risks to public health, experts say

Opinion / Transport

Vehicle emissions are polluting Malaysia's cities

...Malaysia’s air, especially in its cities. As Malaysia grapples with these challenges, it will need forward-looking new initiatives – including policies to reduce greenhouse gases and air pollutants – ...

9 Jan 2024

Vehicle emissions are polluting Malaysia's cities

A pregnant woman visits a doctor for a check up in Attapeu province, Laos.

News / Carbon & Climate

Extreme heat caused by climate change is threatening pregnancies: study

...Malaysia (35 out of 38 days). City-wise, Indonesia's Batam, which borders Singapore, was found to be the region's most dangerous for pregnant women, followed by neighbouring Singapore and Zamboanga in...

14 May 2025

Extreme heat caused by climate change is threatening pregnancies: study

Solar panels on a commercial building in Penang, Malaysia.

News / Energy

Falling technology costs and rising corporate demand make clean energy financially viable for businesses in Asia Pacific

...Malaysia are increasingly exploring CPPA opportunities as they have committed to carving out a portion of their electricity market for direct private sector deals between renewable energy generators a...

7 Nov 2025

Falling technology costs and rising corporate demand make clean energy financially viable for businesses in Asia Pacific

News / Carbon & Climate

Trust issues, lack of verifiable credits slowing investment in Singapore's carbon market: study

...Malaysia's carbon exchange, launched earlier this year, has been sluggish. Malaysia has also proposed an Asean standard for carbon projects, which a Malaysian minister suggested could ensure the credi...

13 Sep 2024

Trust issues, lack of verifiable credits slowing investment in Singapore's carbon market: study

News / Energy

Singapore prime minister signals republic’s growing interest in deploying nuclear power in budget speech

...Malaysia to import clean power and has expanded the capacity of a power trading initiative with Laos, Thailand and Malaysia. Sustainability-related announcements made at Budget 2025, at a glance. Im...

19 Feb 2025

Singapore prime minister signals republic’s growing interest in deploying nuclear power in budget speech

News / Carbon & Climate

'Tough decisions ahead': Malaysia must harmonise state and federal jurisdictions over carbon ahead of climate change bill

...Malaysia comprises 14 states, 13 of which have elected governments independent of the federal government. “Globally, we speak about common but differentiated responsibilities … but even within Malaysi...

9 Feb 2024

'Tough decisions ahead': Malaysia must harmonise state and federal jurisdictions over carbon ahead of climate change bill

Press Releases / UOB

Temasek-backed impact investment firm ABC Impact, DBS and UOB partner on sustainability-linked subscription loan facility

...Malaysia, Thailand and Vietnam, UOB has a global network of more than 470 branches and offices in 19 markets in Asia Pacific, Europe and North America. Since its incorporation in 1935, UOB has grown ...

14 Oct 2025

Temasek-backed impact investment firm ABC Impact, DBS and UOB partner on sustainability-linked subscription loan facility

News / Food & Agriculture

Sabah is creating forest corridors to save the now-endangered Borneo elephants. Will they work?

...Malaysia have looked into is establishing wildlife corridors through the vast oil palm plantations – a solution supported by IUCN too – as these connectors can join forested patches, allowing the elep...

23 Jul 2024

Sabah is creating forest corridors to save the now-endangered Borneo elephants. Will they work?

News / Food & Agriculture

Practising human rights due diligence in the palm oil industry

...Malaysian Sustainable Palm Oil Production (MSPO) certification scheme, owned by the Malaysian Palm Oil Certification Council (MPOCC), is endorsed by the Malaysian government for oil palm management an...

3 May 2024

Practising human rights due diligence in the palm oil industry

News / Waste

Where do Singapore's old ‘sexy shorts’ go?

...Malaysia (LLC Malaysia), a used textiles processing firm, collects discarded clothing from. It is a statistical trend that LLC Malaysia has observed and that has stayed constant, so there is common u...

30 Jan 2024

Where do Singapore's old ‘sexy shorts’ go?

News / Transport

Singapore-flagged palm oil tanker dumping oily waste in Malaysian waters reveals pollution law flaw

...Malaysian Maritime Enforcement Agency, Malaysia's coast guard, said it takes legal action against marine polluters, but did not comment specifically on potential action it might take against Theresa A...

24 Jul 2024

Singapore-flagged palm oil tanker dumping oily waste in Malaysian waters reveals pollution law flaw

News / Cities

India’s coasts are eroding as states fail to plan properly

...Malaysia’s coastline faces erosion; and 50 per cent of mapped areas in the Philippines are retreating. Some countries are taking informed action. Malaysia’s Integrated Shoreline Management Plan is bei...

24 Jan 2025

India’s coasts are eroding as states fail to plan properly

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

News / Food & Agriculture

Cancellation of Sarawak conservation project raises fears over future of Malaysian state's last intact primary forest

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

Cancellation of Sarawak conservation project raises fears over future of Malaysian state's last intact primary forest

News / Carbon & Climate

Emissions of planned Southeast Asia fossil fuels projects tracked by Malaysian watchdog

...Malaysia's ability to meet its Nationally Determined Contributions to the Paris climate accord, and for Malaysian companies to meet their climate targets. The watchdog hopes that the database can be u...

20 Feb 2024

Emissions of planned Southeast Asia fossil fuels projects tracked by Malaysian watchdog

Opinion / Carbon & Climate

Southeast Asia’s growth strategies: business-as-usual, 'degrowth' or a third way?

...Malaysia’s. The HDI score can also be adjusted for climate impacts by deducting more points in countries that register more negative “planetary impacts”. Malaysia slips 11 places, and Thailand improve...

3 Jun 2024

Southeast Asia’s growth strategies: business-as-usual, 'degrowth' or a third way?

News / Carbon & Climate

Analysis: China’s clean-energy exports in 2024 alone will cut overseas CO2 by 1%

...Malaysia, Thailand, the Philippines, Indonesia and Vietnam. Solar manufacturing plans play the largest role in Malaysia, while imports of solar power equipment are the largest category in the other co...

30 Jul 2025

Analysis: China’s clean-energy exports in 2024 alone will cut overseas CO2 by 1%

News / Cities

Myanmar quake relief slowed by info blackout, red tape

...Malaysia, said: “The ability to deploy assessment teams and, ideally, surgical capacity, are critical in the first hours and days after any earthquake if we hope to respond with life and limb-saving s...

23 Apr 2025

Myanmar quake relief slowed by info blackout, red tape

News / Policy & Finance

Net-zero banking group's 'pragmatic reset' would open doors for once-sceptical lenders to join: UOB's Melissa Moi

...Malaysia has set strong targets, Thailand has introduced new targets, and Singapore has doubled down on its commitment to decarbonisation. They have not wavered on their energy transition commitments....

24 Jun 2025

Net-zero banking group's 'pragmatic reset' would open doors for once-sceptical lenders to join: UOB's Melissa Moi

Farmer working on a rice field in Bali, Indonesia.

Opinion / Food & Agriculture

La Niña: boon or bane for Southeast Asia’s food security?

...Malaysia’s state weather bureaus are monitoring potential storms and flood risks which are projected to start in August, and in the case of the Philippines, increased tropical cyclone occurrence. Clim...

23 Aug 2024

La Niña: boon or bane for Southeast Asia’s food security?