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News / Carbon & Climate

Citizen lawsuit seeks accountability for haze-causing fires in Sumatra

...Malaysia. The citizens won their lawsuit in 2018, but the government appealed the case all the way to the Supreme Court, which in 2022 ruled that President Joko Widodo was not liable for the 2015 fire...

11 Sep 2024

Citizen lawsuit seeks accountability for haze-causing fires in Sumatra

Press Releases / United Nations

There is no solution to climate change, biodiversity loss without healthy forests

...Malaysia, while reporting that over 54 per cent of his country’s land remains covered by forests, nevertheless stated: “The lack of adequate financial resources and technol...

12 May 2025

There is no solution to climate change, biodiversity loss without healthy forests

Indonesia stands out among tropical countries for reducing deforestation, the main driver of which is now mining. Image: IndoMet in the Heart of Borneo, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Flickr.

News / Food & Agriculture

Tropical forest loss is accelerating, but Indonesia and Malaysia are keeping deforestation to near-record lows

...Malaysia – the world's two biggest palm oil-growing nations – have managed to keep rates of primary forest loss to near record-low levels, according to GFW data. Indonesia has seen deforestation fall ...

3 Jul 2023

Tropical forest loss is accelerating, but Indonesia and Malaysia are keeping deforestation to near-record lows

Opinion / Food & Agriculture

Making AI work for food security in Asean

...Malaysia) are prime examples of how AI technologies can help farmers to identify plant diseases and pests, and to find treatment options. Producers have used AI to improve livestock farms, by providin...

21 Mar 2024

Making AI work for food security in Asean

Opinion / Policy & Finance

Anwar Ibrahim has been slow to protect press freedom

...Malaysia, the current administration is taking its time for reform. Malaysia's prime minister, Anwar Ibrahim is known as the face of freedom fighters for his 'reformasi' (reform) movement during the ...

2 May 2023

Anwar Ibrahim has been slow to protect press freedom

Opinion / Policy & Finance

China’s environmental focus in South China Sea: questionable motivations

...Malaysia (83 acres or more than 62 football fields) and the Philippines (40 acres or more than 30 football fields). Not surprisingly, China has dismissed these findings as neither factual nor verifiab...

8 Aug 2024

China’s environmental focus in South China Sea: questionable motivations

Opinion / Energy

Rethinking coal: lessons from the Song Hau 2 termination

...Malaysian firm and Eximbank Malaysia – citing unresolved financing issues. Just weeks before the termination, the Energy Shift Institute warned that the project threatened Vietnam’s Just Energy Transi...

4 Sep 2024

Rethinking coal: lessons from the Song Hau 2 termination

Opinion / Policy & Finance

Malaysia’s new voluntary carbon market disappoints

...Malaysian carbon market ecosystem, this also signals its limitations. At best, the BCX will represent only a small slice of total carbon credit trading in Malaysia. While Bursa Malaysia's attempts to ...

23 Mar 2023

Malaysia’s new voluntary carbon market disappoints

News / Energy

Petronas, Pertamina among national oil companies at highest risk of not generating public returns in net-zero world

...Malaysia’s federal budget, compared to less than 10 per cent for Indonesia. The Malaysian government expects this percentage to decline to 23 per cent this year. “We noticed a general rise in state in...

9 Dec 2023

Petronas, Pertamina among national oil companies at highest risk of not generating public returns in net-zero world

News / Water

Less politics more marine diplomacy – a fix for South China Sea?

...Malaysia, the Philippines and Vietnam. A 2016 ruling in the Hague voided China's sweeping claims, a victory for the Philippines. Beijing refuses to recognise the tribunal ruling. China, in turn, says...

26 Sep 2024

Less politics more marine diplomacy – a fix for South China Sea?

News / Policy & Finance

BCSD Malaysia appoints Hei Zel Tan as programme director and advisor

...Malaysia. Tan, who has her own legal practice, holds dual qualifications in the United Kingdom and Malaysia. In a press statement released on 10 March, BCSD Malaysia said that Tan brings with her expe...

12 Mar 2023

BCSD Malaysia appoints Hei Zel Tan as programme director and advisor

News / Policy & Finance

'ESG was already ailing': Asia chief sustainability officers jittery about Trump 2.0's impact on green agenda

...Malaysia-based academic Dr Pieter E. Stek observed in an opinion piece for Eco-Business that while momentum for sustainable practices has gained momentum in the European Union, China, and among many U...

12 Nov 2024

'ESG was already ailing': Asia chief sustainability officers jittery about Trump 2.0's impact on green agenda

News / Energy

Malaysia lifts renewable energy export ban, move welcomed in Singapore

...Malaysian energy trading platform Asia CarbonX Change. Prior to the announcement, quotas for renewable energy were set by national grid operator Tenaga Nasional under the Net Energy Metering scheme. M...

10 May 2023

Malaysia lifts renewable energy export ban, move welcomed in Singapore

Tomakomai carbon capture and storage plant in Japan

News / Carbon & Climate

Transport and storage to be ‘a major bottleneck’ in Asia’s CCUS scale-up: study

...Malaysia – which aims to develop three CCUS hubs with a shared storage capacity of up to 15 million tonnes per annum by 2030 – plans to pass its own CCUS bill by year-end. In the study's net zero scen...

17 Oct 2024

Transport and storage to be ‘a major bottleneck’ in Asia’s CCUS scale-up: study

News / Waste

Bamboo tissue company founder David Ward steps down after 10 years

...Malaysia, said he is seeking "immediate" paid work elsewhere, in a business-building role in the sustainability sector. The Briton told Eco-Business that he had been unable to attract investment to sc...

23 Jul 2023

Bamboo tissue company founder David Ward steps down after 10 years

News / Energy

Malaysia reviewing export ban on renewable energy

...Malaysia's economic and trade ministries, he said. “The discussions are happening now. I will be presenting a paper [to Cabinet] soon,” Nik Nazmi told reporters on the sidelines of a launch event of M...

10 Mar 2023

Malaysia reviewing export ban on renewable energy

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News / Policy & Finance

Rare win for Indigenous peoples at COP16 but biodiversity financing remains elusive

...Malaysia, Thailand and Vietnam submitted their updated conservation commitments before talks concluded in Cali. The CBD’s media portal shows that so far only 44 out of 196 of its party nations have s...

7 Nov 2024

Rare win for Indigenous peoples at COP16 but biodiversity financing remains elusive

News / Transport

How European companies feed the global shadow fleet

...Malaysia. Within minutes, flames engulfed both vessels, sending thick plumes of toxic smoke into the air. Several crew members were airlifted to safety, while others remained on board Ceres I to battl...

4 Feb 2025

How European companies feed the global shadow fleet

A smallholder farmer on a plantation in Indonesia

News / Food & Agriculture

CIMB sets science-based targets for palm oil sector

Malaysian financial services group CIMB has updated its decarbonisation plan with industry-first targets for the palm oil industry. Southeast Asia’s fifth-largest bank is aiming to reduce the emission...

28 Nov 2023

CIMB sets science-based targets for palm oil sector

Philippines oil and gas company Flying V held a Tiktok dance competition that invited consumers to share videos of themselves dancing at a petrol station.

News / Carbon & Climate

Asian PR and advertising firms under spotlight for working for fossil fuels firms

...Malaysia (2 accounts) • Petronas• Shell Chudenkbs, a Japanese independent communications agency (2 accounts) • Chubu Electric Power Co.• JERA Media Buffet, an Indonesian independent PR firm (2 account...

25 Oct 2023

Asian PR and advertising firms under spotlight for working for fossil fuels firms

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