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WHO says Covid-19 global health emergency is over, but its impact lingers on for Asia

...Malaysia and Singapore to take the lead where the traditional leaders in North America and Europe are limited by political issues and unable to provide clear scientific leadership. Dr Paul Tambyah, pr...

18 May 2023

WHO says Covid-19 global health emergency is over, but its impact lingers on for Asia

News / Carbon & Climate

10 devastating extreme weather events in 2022

...Malaysia A flooded area in Kuantan, Pahang, a state in Malaysia, during the December 2021 floods. Image: Twitter users @xchipsmore and @thelivingtr/Wikimedia Commons Malaysia’s monsoon rains, which ...

21 Dec 2022

10 devastating extreme weather events in 2022

Asian People's Movement on Debt and Development protesting against coal financing in Japan

News / Policy & Finance

Asia’s top banks are still financing coal due to massive loopholes: report

...Malaysia, Philippines, Singapore, South Korea, Taiwan and Thailand. Most Asian banks whose coal investment policies were evaluated across five criteria (projects, expansion, relative threshold, absol...

23 Jan 2024

Asia’s top banks are still financing coal due to massive loopholes: report

News / Carbon & Climate

Why progress beats perfection in safeguarding nature and biodiversity among Asean businesses

...Malaysia has pledged to keep at least 50 per cent of its land area under natural forest cover, while the Philippines has promised to replant trees on all remaining degraded former forestlands by 2028....

7 May 2024

Why progress beats perfection in safeguarding nature and biodiversity among Asean businesses

Opinion / Policy & Finance

Southeast Asia’s need to bridge the climate financing gap

...Malaysia, the Philippines and Vietnam have developed taxonomies that establish a common language for green investment. The 2023 G20 meetings suggest that US$1.8 trillion of sustainable infrastructu...

13 Oct 2023

Southeast Asia’s need to bridge the climate financing gap

News / Food & Agriculture

Palm oil buyers compromise no-deforestation pledges by sourcing from conglomerates with logging, mining assets

...Malaysia, the report argues. Malaysian conglomerate Samling, which has business interests in property, forestry and palm oil, is one example of where scrutiny of a firm's entire group operations has h...

17 Jan 2023

Palm oil buyers compromise no-deforestation pledges by sourcing from conglomerates with logging, mining assets

Opinion / Carbon & Climate

COP28: Say climate crisis, think health crisis

...Malaysia. Tony Capon is a professor of planetary health in the Faculty of Medicine, Nursing and Health Sciences, and director of the Sustainable Development Institute at Monash University. Originally ...

12 Oct 2023

COP28: Say climate crisis, think health crisis

News / Manufacturing

Rare earth mining in Malaysia's Perak forest raises environmental and health concerns

...Malaysia’s most important tropical ecosystems. It is flanked by the riverdam town of Kenering in the east, and peninsular Malaysia's largest and oldest continuous forest complex, Belum-Temenggor, in t...

29 Jun 2022

Rare earth mining in Malaysia's Perak forest raises environmental and health concerns

Press Releases / EB Impact

EB Impact’s Sustainability Media Academy returns for the third edition

...Malaysia, we continue to expand and engage new markets. About Vero Vero is an award-winning communications consultancy advising some of Southeast Asia’s leading brands, corporation...

17 Jul 2024

EB Impact’s Sustainability Media Academy returns for the third edition

News / Energy

Stars aligning for rooftop solar push amid recession fears

...Malaysia and Australia to work on carbon capture projects in recent years. Separately, Malaysia’s Petronas is developing what could be the biggest offshore carbon capture and storage project near one ...

10 Jan 2023

Stars aligning for rooftop solar push amid recession fears

News / Policy & Finance

Southeast Asia could earn US$2t yearly from protecting nature: report

...Malaysia study said. Lim said that the recommendations were broadly valid, but more attention should be placed on protecting animals that move across borders, such as elephants between Malaysian and I...

20 Jun 2022

Southeast Asia could earn US$2t yearly from protecting nature: report

News / Corporate Responsibility

Eco-Business wins SOPA 2023 media award for podcast on secrecy surrounding sand extraction in Singapore

...Malaysia, Vietnam, and Indonesia. The duo discussed how land reclamation became a huge part of Singapore's growth story, and the narratives that surround sand in Singapore, including how growth is oft...

21 Jun 2023

Eco-Business wins SOPA 2023 media award for podcast on secrecy surrounding sand extraction in Singapore

Opinion / Waste

Inside Asia's plastic waste crisis: finding sustainable solutions in a fragmented market

...Malaysia has established its first EPR association that wants to reach a minimum recycling rate of 25 per cent of packaging volumes by 2025. Above and beyond national regulations, major producers are ...

29 Sep 2023

Inside Asia's plastic waste crisis: finding sustainable solutions in a fragmented market

A palm oil plantation next to tropical forests in Indonesia.

News / Food & Agriculture

Palm oil plantations absorb more carbon than tropical forests, claims Indonesian palm lobbyist

...Malaysia-European Union Task Force, which was set up in June to address concerns over the implementation of the EUDR. Palm oil industry supporters say the regulation will marginalise smallholders unab...

2 Aug 2023

Palm oil plantations absorb more carbon than tropical forests, claims Indonesian palm lobbyist

News / Carbon & Climate

In pictures: COP28

...Malaysia, the Philippines and more. Vietnam's prime minister Pham Minh Chinh announced that the country would receive US$15.5 billion from investors, mostly from G7 countries, to wean itself off of co...

13 Dec 2023

In pictures: COP28

News / Carbon & Climate

Cutting methane emissions is key to slowing down climate change: EDF president Fred Krupp

...Malaysia. This 18-month initiative, in which EDF is a key stakeholder, will focus on capacity building to help strengthen Asean companies' plans, targets and financing options in reducing methane emis...

11 Aug 2023

Cutting methane emissions is key to slowing down climate change: EDF president Fred Krupp

News / Food & Agriculture

Singapore should set its sights on becoming a net food exporter: ComCrop chief Peter Barber

...Malaysia become our customer? What can we start to do so that it goes the other way around? There would be some things that we can do better than Malaysia. For example, technology. If Malaysia was to ...

19 Oct 2022

Singapore should set its sights on becoming a net food exporter: ComCrop chief Peter Barber

News / Policy & Finance

WHO calls on Asian countries to quit tobacco farming

...Malaysia and the Philippines did not respond as of press time to SciDev.Net’s queries regarding WHO’s calls for a reduction in tobacco farming in the Western Pacific region. Diptendra Kumar Sarkar, pu...

12 Jun 2023

WHO calls on Asian countries to quit tobacco farming

Press Releases / Southeast Asia Tobacco Control Alliance

Asia Pacific cities gear up for more effective smoke-free implementation

...Malaysia and Iloilo City, Philippines narrated how they ensure public compliance with smoke-free ordinances. Ma-Ayon, Capiz and Baguio City highlighted strategies on sustaining their respective smoke...

4 Nov 2022

Asia Pacific cities gear up for more effective smoke-free implementation

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

Opinion / Food & Agriculture

Borderless haze threatens Southeast Asia

...Malaysia and Singapore, according to studies. And recent research suggests people regularly exposed to significant levels of air pollution can be more susceptible to diseases such as Covid-19. With S...

10 Aug 2022

Borderless haze threatens Southeast Asia

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