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...16, has kicked off this week in Colombia, a nature hotspot described as one of the world’s 17 “megadiverse” countries. More than 23,000 representatives from governments, civil society, media and beyon...

25 Oct 2024

...155 million per month (US$2.7 million) while the oil spill cleanup is ongoing, affecting the livelihood of some 46,000 fisherfolk. This is on top of the estimated P1.21 billion (US$21 million) in dam...

5 Aug 2024

...133,858 tonnes of fish caught in 2022, down from 141,581 tonnes in 2021 and 244,325 tonnes about a decade ago, according to government data. Marine heatwaves, or extreme spikes in ocean temperatures, ...

12 Dec 2024

...1.11 and 3.34) per working day. In most provinces, the allowance is between CNY 10 to 13 (US$1.39 and 1.81). Beijing’s heat allowance is no less than CNY 180 (US$25) per month for outdoor workers, wh...

15 Jul 2025

US$300 million ADB loan to boost Philippines' financial inclusion goals

...17 to 51 per cent 2021. Hastened by the Covid-19 pandemic lockdowns, the Philippines nearly doubled the number of financial institution or mobile money accounts for the bottom 40 per cent of the popul...

10 Oct 2023

...1.2C since preindustrial times. The World Meteorological Organization has said global average temperatures are more likely than not to breach 1.5°C - the most ambitious goal of the 2015 Paris Agreeme...

7 Jun 2023

Sustainability startups Cricket One and GAFT win S$1 million prize each at The Liveability Challenge 2024

...17 April 2024 – Cricket One and GAFT have emerged as the top winners at The Liveability Challenge (TLC) from a record-breaking number of more than 1,000 entries across 100 countries.&n...

17 Apr 2024

...1,400 Malaysian firms – comprising some 1,000 listed companies and around 400 private companies with revenue ofRM2 billion (US$424 million) and above – are subject to the new disclosure requirements, ...

25 Mar 2024

Countries resolve to leverage innovation, promote digital inclusion for those furthest behind

...10 per cent of the digital foreign direct investment inflows and account for less than 1 per cent of the region’s exports of digitally deliverable services. The study calls for a balanced stra...

29 Apr 2024

Tomakomai carbon capture and storage plant in Japan

...1,221.9 and 10.3 times, respectively. US$88.7 trillion of investments – just 20 per cent above what is currently pledged – will be needed by 2050 for Asia to meet the Paris Agreement goal of limiting ...

17 Oct 2024

"Organic beef", "GMO-free" and "100 per cent natural" are just some of the countless claims designed to attract the eyes of eco-conscious consumers in the supermarket. Yet while people are increasingl...

17 Oct 2024

ESGpedia adopts Simplified ESG Disclosure Guide in supply chains to facilitate ESG reporting among Malaysian SMEs

...14064 methodologies to attain an automated carbon calculation and greater insights into their GHG emissions. This enables Malaysian SMEs to leverage digitalisation to easily kickstart their ESG repor...

28 Jan 2024

...11th Technical Expert Dialogue (TED) and the third meeting under the Ad Hoc Work Programme (AHWP) on NCQG held in Baku, Azerbaijan in 12 to 19 September. Image: UNFCCC Although the structure of the N...

20 Sep 2024

...1 per cent of aviation fuels in 2021, according to the International Energy Agency. What are governments doing about it? Governments in Europe have started to explore steps to reduce private jet fligh...

27 Jun 2024

COP28_president_SultanalJaber_UAE_Brussels

...119 billion), Qatar (US$116 billion), Kuwait (US$98 billion), Norway (around US$174 billion), and Saudi Arabia (US$311 billion) would raise roughly US$25 billion in total – a sum not that much larger ...

12 Oct 2023

Singapore Marina Bay Finance Centre Towers

...10 between 2013 and April 2019, to 41 in the three years that followed, according to the think tank Institute for Energy Economics and Financial Analysis (IEEFA). As banks and big energy companies div...

9 Nov 2023

...13 to 2021, the latter half of his time there as global head of sustainable finance. Klier was a partner at consultancy McKinsey & Company from 2005 to 2013. He is currently on the board of the GR...

29 Feb 2024

...1 trillion, while the voluntary carbon market is worth US$2 billion. “I would not be doing justice to this panel as a Malaysian banker from an Asean bank if I did not shed light on the financing ecosy...

19 Aug 2024

Workers installing power transmission line in Jakarta, Indonesia

...100, a global initiative comprising companies committed to 60 per cent renewable electricity by 2030 and 100 per cent by 2050. RE100 has 121 members operating in Indonesia. However, these companies st...

8 Oct 2024

...100 most sustainable firms. Australian metals recycler Sims Limited was ranked first in the latest Global 100 Index, a ranking exercise that Canada-based media and research firm Corporate Knights has ...

18 Jan 2024

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