Eco-Business

...netising this waste from the palm oil industry that is decimating the remaining natural forests. Imported Indonesian and Malaysian PKS is the main biomass used in Taiwan’s garment industry, which lack...

10 Feb 2025

Better choice for the Earth: low-carbon functional socks from Taiwan

...net zero emissions by 2050, the Small and Medium Enterprise and Startup Administration, Ministry of Economic Affairs (SMESA) actively assisted SMEs in keeping pace with the international trend of net ...

27 Nov 2023

...net-zero by 2050 emissions pathways set out by the International Energy Authority (IEA) and the Network for Greening the Financial System (NGFS). Source: MSCI's APAC Climate Action Progress Report "E...

29 May 2024

...net zero emissions. But analysts say she has a complicated path ahead. She must balance promises to increase popular welfare policies while inheriting the largest budget deficit since the 1980s and la...

6 Jan 2025

...net zero targets or offset their carbon tax obligations in June last year. (It also just signed a memoradum of understanding with neighbour Malaysia this week for international carbon trading under Ar...

8 Jan 2025

...zero carbon emissions. IEA findings also noted that the chemicals sector’s emissions must peak in the next few years and decline by roughly 15 per cent relative to current levels by 2030 to meet net z...

8 Jul 2024

...net-zero emissions without faster progress in this region. At the same time, Asia Pacific can play an outsized role in developing net-zero solutions. Many of its largest economies have committed to ac...

7 Dec 2023

Business executives convene at the Green Zone at the COP28 climate talks in December.

...net-zero 2050 target, Accenture's Europe chief executive Jean-Marc Ollagnier said. Only 7 per cent of the biggest firms are on track to achieve net-zero targets for Scope 1 and Scope 2 emissions. Even...

23 Jan 2024

...net-zero targets. Singapore and Japan lead the region for the credibility of net-zero targets, with more listed firms in those countries with SBTi-approved net-zero goals. Not a single listed firm's n...

13 Jun 2023

Donald Trump 2024 election campaign materials.

...net-zero targets validated by the Science Based Targets initiative (SBTi), a standard for Paris-aligned corporate decarbonisation, might do a U-turn. "Will net-zero targets still matter if Trump wins?...

20 Feb 2024

...Net Zero The state of CO2 removal Dr Steve Smith – the executive director of Oxford Net Zero and CO2RE – kicked off the conference in the opening plenary. Smith is the lead author on the second “Stat...

18 Jul 2024

...net-zero target last year, our sustainability journey started in 2015 long before the net-zero movement, with the construction of our new "green" head office in Boyolali, Central Java. It is platinum ...

14 Aug 2023

...Netherlands where campaigners successfully compelled the government to reduce emissions, sparking a wave of climate litigation worldwide. Legal actions and arguments In 2022, a second lawsuit was fron...

5 Jul 2024

Mastercard to eliminate first-use PVC plastics from payment cards by 2028

...net zero emissions and leveraging our network and scale to accelerate the transition to a low-carbon, regenerative economy,” said Ellen Jackowski, Chief Sustainability Officer for Mastercard. D...

2 May 2023

...net-zero emissions by 2060. Elsewhere in East Asia, Japan, South Korea, Taiwan – which saw the biggest jump in air pollution in East Asia –Hong Kong and Macau all recorded deteriorating air quality in...

20 Mar 2024

Singapore Marina Bay Finance Centre Towers

...net zero lounge that launched in Helsinki airport after they worked with the group to track its emissions. “A lot of the more interesting stuff happens after the investment period on the asset managem...

9 Nov 2023

...netary health. Human activity is altering the state of the Earth to the point where we are reaching an unofficial new geological era, the Anthropocene. We will have to learn to respect planetary bound...

11 Mar 2024

...Taiwan and the US’s technological decoupling.” Talks on methane emissions, clean power, the circular economy and urban climate action were planned for September 2022, but the visit by Nancy Pelosi, sp...

6 Jul 2023

...net zero emissions by 2050. Given the substantial upfront costs of investing in clean energy assets like wind and solar, widespread access to low-cost debt will be pivotal for the clean energy transit...

17 Mar 2023