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A beach clean up in Indonesia. Companies pay to have beaches cleaned to offset the plastic they cannot eliminate from their operations. Image: Seven Clean Seas

News / Waste

What is plastic offsetting? And can it really help to fight the plastic crisis?

...carbon. Once this switch in psyche is there, through regulation and consumer demand, we need to see companies appreciate the value in reducing and offsetting plastic. Critics of carbon offsetting say...

13 Mar 2020

What is plastic offsetting? And can it really help to fight the plastic crisis?

News / Corporate Responsibility

World Economic Forum hires Georgie Passalaris as impact measurement lead

Former Diageo sustainability executive Georgie Passalaris has joined the World Economic Forum (WEF). She joins the Geneva-headquartered non-government organisation to drive the impact measurement and ...

3 Jul 2020

World Economic Forum hires Georgie Passalaris as impact measurement lead

Press Releases / Liter of Light

Online campaign unites Filipinos to continue fighting energy poverty from the safety of their homes

...carbon emissions by 1000 kg over five years by replacing traditional forms of lighting like burning kerosene, which are hazardous and expensive to use. The campaign is part of a broader strategy for ...

30 Jun 2020

Online campaign unites Filipinos to continue fighting energy poverty from the safety of their homes

News / Transport

US slaps sanctions on China oil giant over South China Sea activity

The United States on Thursday blacklisted Chinese oil giant CNOOC and slapped visa restrictions on officials of the Chinese navy, ruling party and state-owned enterprises over land reclamation and “co...

19 Jan 2021

US slaps sanctions on China oil giant over South China Sea activity

People using ATM machines in Singapore. Image: Robin Hicks/Eco-Business

Podcasts / Policy & Finance

Green finance: Will banks tell us how they spend our money?

Do people in Asia know or care where their banks invest their money? Most banks in Asia, the world's largest region for financial services, use their customers' money to make investments in funds lin...

21 Aug 2020

Green finance: Will banks tell us how they spend our money?

News / Policy & Finance

UN's battle against climate hazards undermined by a devastating pandemic

The United Nations has been at the forefront of an ongoing battle against the growing hazards of climate change, including the destruction of different species of plants and animals, the danger of ris...

7 Jun 2021

UN's battle against climate hazards undermined by a devastating pandemic

Some of Henkel's top laundry and home care brands. Image: Henkel

News / Corporate Responsibility

Plastic and palm oil problems: How will consumer goods giant Henkel hit its sustainability targets?

...carbon footprint of alternatives, plastic often has the lowest carbon footprint. The carbon footprint of our plastic products is actually tiny. But we know that plastic is top of consumers' minds, and...

4 Mar 2020

Plastic and palm oil problems: How will consumer goods giant Henkel hit its sustainability targets?

Opinion / Carbon & Climate

Carbon offsetting: the frequently asked questions

...carbon dioxide (CO2), methane (CH4), and nitrous oxide (N2O) – existed before we came along, but our activities are increasing them. Others – like the perfluorocarbons (PFCs), the hydrofluorocarbons (...

8 Oct 2019

Carbon offsetting: the frequently asked questions

News / Corporate Responsibility

Janet Neo to lead sustainability at Lazada

Janet Neo, a board director at the philanthropic arm of Singapore state investment company Temasek, has joined Lazada to spearhead the e-commerce firm's sustainability ambitions. Neo has relocated fro...

15 Sep 2020

Janet Neo to lead sustainability at Lazada

News / Energy

Bangladesh’s half-hearted move away from coal slowed by poor planning and lobbying: Experts

Bangladesh scrapped 10 coal power plants on Sunday, but it could proceed with up to eight other coal ventures and convert several cancelled projects to natural gas. This tentative transition away from...

29 Jun 2021

Bangladesh’s half-hearted move away from coal slowed by poor planning and lobbying: Experts

News / Green Buildings

Standing tall: How green buildings are adapting to the post-Covid era

...carbon footprint and aid in disease prevention by maximising natural ventilation or making use of innovative ventilation systems that are already deployed in cities such as Singapore, the experts adde...

15 Jun 2020

Standing tall: How green buildings are adapting to the post-Covid era

News / Food & Agriculture

Plant-based Bambara milk could launch in Singapore in Q2 of 2021

Oat, soy, almond, rice… and Bambara? Drinkers of plant-based milk may have a new option in 2021, with food technology firm NamZ set to launch a product made from the Bambara groundnut, a hardy legume...

13 Jan 2021

Plant-based Bambara milk could launch in Singapore in Q2 of 2021

Press Releases / LYS Energy Group

LYS Energy Group obtains S$14 million green loan from UOB

...carbonised economy and to increase our involvement in the clean energy sector. The COVID-19 pandemic, with its sudden outbreak and its ferocity, forces us to realise how fragile we are as human bein...

1 Apr 2020

LYS Energy Group obtains S$14 million green loan from UOB

Antonio Guterres and Patricia Espinosa COP25

News / Policy & Finance

What’s at stake at the COP25 climate conference?

...carbon credits bought by developed nations need to be removed from the carbon accounts of developing ones.Disagreements over this remain. Brazil has numerous carbon sequestration targets and hopes to ...

3 Dec 2019

What’s at stake at the COP25 climate conference?

News / Policy & Finance

Geopolitical standoff in South China Sea results to environmental fallout

...carbon sequestration, PhilSA said. Amid the ongoing territorial and maritime disputes in the region — largely driven by Chinese expansionism, but with overlapping claims also being made by Vietnam, Ma...

13 Aug 2021

Geopolitical standoff in South China Sea results to environmental fallout

News / Lifestyle

Do mobile payment games spur green living?

...Carbonstop, an emissions management consulting service, pointed out that Ant Forest's way of carbon accounting was lopsided. While low-carbon activities such as cycling are recorded, high-carbon ones ...

21 Nov 2019

Do mobile payment games spur green living?

Opinion / Transport

Self-driving cars will not fix our transportation woes

...carbon emissions as a byproduct of their construction. These processes could, theoretically, be carbon-neutral, but that may not occur quickly enough. The safe bet is to reduce the number of kilometre...

6 Jan 2020

Self-driving cars will not fix our transportation woes

News / Carbon & Climate

Launching a new movement for sustainability innovation: IxSA

In recent years, sustainability and innovation have grown in importance as businesses find new ways to balance their long-term success with making a positive impact on the environment and society. As ...

2 Jun 2021

Launching a new movement for sustainability innovation: IxSA

News / Policy & Finance

Policies for building back better are ‘a matter of political will’: UN chief economist

...carbon energy, but probably want to take a gradual approach. “Maybe in the next five or 10 years, I think this will happen,” Zhang said. An encouraging sign in China—the world’s largest producer and c...

11 Sep 2020

Policies for building back better are ‘a matter of political will’: UN chief economist

Boon Rueang Wetland Forest Conservation Group Thailand

News / Cities

With social media and academics, Thai villagers save ancestral forest

...carbon, researchers say. Along coastlines, they provide a buffer against storms and surges. Yet across Asia, demand for land for housing and farming has led to wetlands being destroyed, even as more i...

30 Sep 2020

With social media and academics, Thai villagers save ancestral forest

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