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...Asia. While emissions from the medical industry comprise around 8.5 per cent of the United States’ total and roughly 5 per cent of Europe’s emissions, Asia’s healthcare sector accounts for about 30 p...

27 Aug 2024

...Southeast Asia’s Coral Triangle, Derawan – often called the “Amazon of the Seas” for the richness of its biodiversity – teems with marine life, from hammerhead and whale sharks to green and hawksbill ...

10 Mar 2025

...plastic waste, says Lung, as they can prevent waste plastics from leaking into and polluting the environment. “Excessive plastic waste is often broken down into microplastics over time, which harm bio...

29 Feb 2024

Innovation and inclusion drive impactful, record year for IFC in Asia Pacific

...Southeast Asia. IFC provided financing and advisory services to financial institutions across the region that are expected to improve access to finance for micro, small and medium-sized enterprises (...

18 Nov 2024

...Southeast Asia, adoption of the TNFD guidelines which were launched in 2023 have lagged the wider Asia Pacific region. Asia has the highest TNFD adoption by region, but nearly 140 out of the 245 adopt...

22 Jan 2025

...Southeast Asia’s largest market, which could accelerate if the Trump administration maintains its high tariffs. However, civil society groups have accused some firms of dumping their own waste into th...

28 May 2025

Casnadi, who works Southeast Asia's largest landfill near Jakarta, Indonesia

...plastic crisis – the waste collectors who process up to 90 per cent of Southeast Asia's plastic waste, said Aguilar. Factories in Indonesia have been unable to shift stock of recycled plastic, so have...

30 Jan 2024

...plastic production will stop plastic pollution, prevent biodiversity loss, and limit global warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius. Respondents from China, the world's biggest plastic producer, were also keen...

19 Apr 2024

...plastics and other materials in 2018. China's decision disrupted the global plastic recycling industry by diverting waste shipments to developing economies in Southeast Asia, including Malaysia. Altho...

7 Jun 2024

Greenpeace and other environmental groups are demanding that governments ban single-use plastic sachets by 2030.

...Southeast Asia we are faced with the plastic crisis every day. Discarded single-use plastic has become ubiquitous and commonplace. One could say ASEAN citizens have grown accustomed, if not numb, to s...

6 Nov 2023

...Southeast Asia. This species is exported in large quantities to the Japanese, Chinese and U.S. markets due to its rich carrageenan content. Ibu Mitri also speaks of a concerning virus wiping out seawe...

18 Jun 2025

Rainforest in Pesisir Barat regency, Lampung province, Indonesia

...Southeast Asia, have been called the “lungs” of our Earth. They absorb carbon dioxide from the air while releasing water vapour and oxygen via photosynthesis – the process by which plants take in carb...

16 Jan 2025

Youth recipients of the first-of-its-kind sustainability education grant unveiled

...Asia Pacific (DJSI Asia Pacific) since 2019, the only Singaporean transport company in the index. About Meta  Founded in 2004, Meta’s mission is to give people the power to build communi...

6 Nov 2024

...Southeast Asian nation to record better air quality in 2023 than in 2022, with a 10 per cent drop in PM2.5 levels. Indonesia was by some margin Southeast Asia's most polluted country in 2023, a year w...

20 Mar 2024

Sustainability Leadership Youth A-List 2023

...Southeast Asia witnessed record-breaking heat waves in the past year, another record was being shattered: the number of fossil fuel representatives at the United Nation's annual international climate ...

1 Feb 2024

...plastic waste imports, leaving Vietnam, alongside other Southeast Asian nations like Thailand and Indonesia, vulnerable to becoming new dumping grounds. In 2018, Vietnam saw a 62 per cent surge in pla...

27 Nov 2023

Plastic waste clogging a beach head in Jakarta

...plastic industries to greenwash themselves, or to suggest that they are helping to fix the plastic waste issue in Southeast Asia – ocean plastic in particular, which is where I think the most greenwas...

29 Sep 2023

...Southeast Asia, I don't think I know of an innovative textile recycling plant. This is also why we have changed [the collection criteria] from all conditions to usable conditions. “ A lot of people h...

30 Jul 2025

...plastics recycling in Asia, how is it progressing, and what does the regulatory landscape look like? Current state of the Asia’s plastics recycling capabilities There is a growing demand for recycled ...

29 Sep 2023

...Southeast Asia, although existing momentum in private markets could carry the region through the next five years, bolstered by China's support. Another Trump-related development: A US-spearheaded pol...

10 Jan 2025

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