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Opinion / Corporate Responsibility

While governments take a Covid-induced time out from sustainability, businesses should not

...carbon footprint. Southeast Asian businesses from Vietnamese Nike suppliers to agro-industrial Thai company Betagro invest in renewables to help cut electricity costs in the long-term. Tech companie...

14 Oct 2020

While governments take a Covid-induced time out from sustainability, businesses should not

Six tunnel heads, each weighing 4,650 tonnes, will be lifted into position at Hinkley Point

News / Energy

China’s cash for UK nuclear plants is in doubt

...carbon emitter, Johnson needs it onside if he is to have a chance of making COP26 the success it must be to avert catastrophic climate change. The problem over funding the nuclear programme arises bec...

17 Aug 2021

China’s cash for UK nuclear plants is in doubt

News / Corporate Responsibility

How companies can avoid greenwashing: Do it before talking about it

The corporate world has unleashed a torrent of sustainability claims in the wake of the Covid-19 pandemic, as brands have scrambled to be part of the conversation about tackling the problems that the ...

21 May 2021

How companies can avoid greenwashing: Do it before talking about it

News / Carbon & Climate

How do we avert global warming and pandemics? New app has answers

...carbon storage and absorption. The authors also note that restoration of degraded areas could help meet carbon sequestration and wildlife conservation goals. Dinerstein and his colleagues write that t...

7 Sep 2020

How do we avert global warming and pandemics? New app has answers

A woman of the Dayak Iban tribe in West Kalimantan, Indonesia

News / Carbon & Climate

'Expertise' on climate crisis dominated by West, too few Asian and African voices, say just transition activists

...carbon capture technology to avert climate calamity. “Asian and African farmers and fishermen have known for a long time that the climate is changing in a disastrous way. It’s very important to reinte...

12 Apr 2021

'Expertise' on climate crisis dominated by West, too few Asian and African voices, say just transition activists

coral reef landscape in Komodo National Park in Indonesia

News / Policy & Finance

Wealth inequality fuels flow of wildlife from poor countries to rich, says new analysis

...carbon credits, where richer countries that purchase carbon credits finance programmes that keep trees standing in developing countries. Demand reduction should be an equal priority, they add. Not eve...

19 May 2021

Wealth inequality fuels flow of wildlife from poor countries to rich, says new analysis

News / Corporate Responsibility

Corporate Citizenship acquired by environmental consulting firm SLR

Corporate Citizenship (CC), a consultancy that specialises in sustainability reporting and strategy, has been acquired by global environmental engineering and consulting firm SLR. The deal sees SLR, a...

13 Apr 2021

Corporate Citizenship acquired by environmental consulting firm SLR

Press Releases / GAIA Asia Pacific

Extinguishing waste-to-energy incineration myths

...carbon emissions per kWh that coal, oil or natural gas.” They also undermine clean renewable energy sources such as solar and wind. In the Philippines and the rest of Asia, Dr. Emmanuel notes t...

26 Nov 2021

Extinguishing waste-to-energy incineration myths

News / Food & Agriculture

Asian companies trail in sustainable palm oil adoption

Efforts by businesses to switch to purchasing sustainable palm oil are falling short of what is needed to reduce the harmful impacts of the cash crop on people and the planet, with Asian firms the slo...

30 Sep 2021

Asian companies trail in sustainable palm oil adoption

News / Policy & Finance

Advertisements harm the planet, researchers say

Part and parcel of modern society, advertisements are so familiar in the background of most of our lives that we probably scarcely notice them. That’s a pity, because − if a new report is right − thei...

30 Nov 2020

Advertisements harm the planet, researchers say

News / Carbon & Climate

China and EU appetite for soy drives Brazilian deforestation

...carbon dioxide. China was the largest importer of Brazilian soy during the study period which ran from 2010 to 2015, and responsible for 51 per cent of associated carbon dioxide emissions, while the E...

25 Jun 2020

China and EU appetite for soy drives Brazilian deforestation

Opinion / Policy & Finance

Getting to zero deforestation in the Amazon by 2030

...carbon dioxide, disrupting hydrological cycles, evapotranspiration, and ocean currents. The agro-industrial sector could collapse, and the loss of biodiversity could be staggering. Hydroelectric facil...

29 Apr 2021

Getting to zero deforestation in the Amazon by 2030

Corporations including two of the world's biggest carmakers, search engine giant Google and electronics manufacturer Samsung have signed a statement opposing the mining of the deep sea-bed floor.

News / Manufacturing

Samsung, Google, BMW and Volvo join call to ban deep sea-bed mining

Four multinational corporations that use rare metals for the electronic components in their products have called for a temporary ban on deep sea-bed mining, because of the environmental impact that mi...

1 Apr 2021

Samsung, Google, BMW and Volvo join call to ban deep sea-bed mining

Press Releases / CapitaLand

CapitaLand unveils S$50 million innovation fund and crowns winners of first CapitaLand Sustainability X Challenge

...carbon concrete. Designed and engineered by Pan-United, the low-carbon concrete allows natural light to pass through, saving electricity, energy and maintenance costs. Shaped as an ‘X&rsqu...

11 Jun 2021

CapitaLand unveils S$50 million innovation fund and crowns winners of first CapitaLand Sustainability X Challenge

News / Corporate Responsibility

WWF Singapore comms manager Janissa Ng joins PR agency Spurwing

Janissa Ng, senior manager of strategic communications at conservation group World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) Singapore, has moved to public relations firm Spurwing Communications. She takes on the ro...

11 Jan 2021

WWF Singapore comms manager Janissa Ng joins PR agency Spurwing