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In key cities across the Philippines like Cebu, Iloilo and Cagayan de Oro, consumers have found it hard to quit their reliance on single-use packaging for even the most basic daily commodities, and la...

5 Dec 2023

...carbonisation efforts. Locking Asia into high emissions Opponents argue that using gas as a transition fuel to replace coal will lock in costly and carbon-intensive infrastructure. The notion that ...

21 Apr 2022

For a business that wants to improve both its environmental impact and resilience, hiring someone to achieve that objective would on the face of it, seem like the most logical decision to make. But at...

15 Mar 2023

Southeast Asia’s third largest lender United Overseas Bank (UOB) laid out its interim and 2050 decarbonisation targets for six top polluting sectors on Monday. Among its wider commitments, it pledged ...

31 Oct 2022

...carbonisation in developing countries, more financing for adaptation and progress on the NCQG towards an ambitious new goal reflective of the true needs of the developing world. Beyond climate financ...

6 Jun 2023

...carbon footprint to act as an example of what institutions can do; integrating mitigation and adaptation goals into regional policies and sectoral targets; and strengthening political dialogue among m...

18 Nov 2022

...carbon-absorbing forests and build livelihoods that rely on keeping trees alive. The festival in Lukaiya, in Dhanbad district, started in 2005, when then-divisional forest officer Sanjeev Kumar brough...

12 Oct 2022

...carbonise as far as is possible before purchasing carbon offsets. Sullivan insists that company growth will not derail GoTo's ambition to decarbonise. "We are not going to prioritise [business] growt...

28 Jul 2022

Mark Watson, APAC head of ESG advisory, Teneo

Mark Watson, the former head of sustainability for John Swire & Sons, has joined leadership consulting firm Teneo as head of environmental, social and governance (ESG) advisory for Asia Pacific. W...

15 Aug 2022

...carbon dioxide, particulate matter and other emissions compared to the Euro 6 standards that India is moving to enforcing. “These are the elites,” Alam told The Third Pole, referring to vehicle owners...

24 Feb 2023

...carbon credits, renewable energy certificates and other “environmental attributes” across independent carbon markets and registry systems around the world. IHS Markit already announced its plans for s...

28 Jan 2022

Only 1 in 2 Singaporeans confident organisations will meet climate goals: Schneider Electric survey

...carbon footprint, and more preferring to live or work in green buildings. These are positive developments that we hope will also motivate organisations to reduce emissions more aggressively, through g...

10 Oct 2022

Some 50,000 wild species provide for many of the world’s people, according to a recent report from the Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES). But tod...

11 Aug 2022

...carbon market — one positioning China well for the adoption of a particulate pollution trading scheme — in July last year, signs point to the state largely continuing its top-down approach for environ...

28 Jun 2022

Joe Blommaert, ExxonMobil's president of low carbon solutions

...carbon capture network idea work, the region's governments would need to set a transparent price on carbon to trade it across borders, Blommaert said. He cautioned that globally the carbon price varie...

25 Oct 2021

Smoke from forest fires pollutes populated areas without regard for international boundaries

...carbon-rich soil dries out quickly and becomes extremely fire-prone. Fires occur intentionally (to prepare the land for planting) and accidentally (from lightning or cigarette butts). Peat fires can ...

10 Aug 2022

...carbon footprint, eyeing natural gas to "hold the key in the interim." He shared his plan for the enactment of an enabling law for the natural gas industry and providing incentives to liquefied natur...

26 Jul 2022

DNV to assess the viability of blending hydrogen into South Korea’s gas transmission network

...carbonised energy future,” said Dr. Lim Dong Ho, South Korea Market Area Manager, Energy Systems at DNV. "Our global hydrogen network of multidisciplinary experts, which has grown in Asia ...

8 Feb 2023

As you walk down this particular wide but cracked road in a West Bengal village, it is evident that something catastrophic has happened here. There are crumbling houses all around. But one house, in p...

7 Sep 2023

Ten countries to bag UNDP's 2023 Equator Prize

The UN Development Programme (UNDP) and partners announce the winners of the 14th Equator Prize, acknowledging Indigenous peoples and local communities from ten countries. Selected from a pool of...

15 Aug 2023

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