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Improving palm oil awareness in China

...Malaysia. Despite high demand for palm oil, there is little demand in China for the sustainably produced, premium-priced stuff. Only about 1 per cent of China’s palm oil imports are certified as susta...

13 Jun 2023

Improving palm oil awareness in China

Research / DNV

Energy storage systems in the APAC region

...Malaysia, Singapore, South Korea, Taiwan, Thailand and Vietnam.

10 Nov 2021

Energy storage systems in the APAC region

Press Releases / Schneider Electric

Schneider Electric launches SME kickstarter decarbonisation programme supported by Enterprise Singapore

...Malaysia and Brunei, Schneider Electric, said, “Schneider Electric is excited to be partnering with Enterprise Singapore to enable our SMEs to kickstart their sustainability journeys, in support...

10 Oct 2022

Schneider Electric launches SME kickstarter decarbonisation programme supported by Enterprise Singapore

An ukay-ukay stall in Silay City, Negros Occidental, Philippines

News / Waste

Filipinos are most fond of secondhand stuff in Southeast Asia—but not for environmental reasons

...Malaysia, Myanmar, Singapore, Taiwan and Vietnam for one week in the month of June 2021. In the survey, 95 per cent of millennials in Southeast Asia and Hong Kong felt that purchasing pre-owned items...

3 Dec 2021

Filipinos are most fond of secondhand stuff in Southeast Asia—but not for environmental reasons

Joseph D'Cruz, chief executive, Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil (RSPO)

News / Food & Agriculture

RSPO CEO Joseph D'Cruz: we need to get better at telling the sustainable palm oil story

Joseph D'Cruz, the recently appointed chief executive of the Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil (RSPO), grew up in Kuantan on the east coast of Peninsular Malaysia, at a time when oil palm plantations...

20 Jun 2022

RSPO CEO Joseph D'Cruz: we need to get better at telling the sustainable palm oil story

"We are already at 1.1°C of warming – a matter of life and death for the Global South", says Professor Winston Chow, the recently appointed co-chair of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change's working group on impacts, adaptation and vulnerability.

Podcasts / Carbon & Climate

‘A 1.1°C warmer world is already a matter of life and death’: Climate scientist Winston Chow

...Malaysia, Thailand and the Philippines, while Chinese cities were prompted to open air raid shelters to offer its people respite from the searing heat. The heat wave is the latest test of the prepared...

16 Aug 2023

‘A 1.1°C warmer world is already a matter of life and death’: Climate scientist Winston Chow

News / Cities

Cyber criminals hold Asian tech workers captive in scam factories

...Malaysia. Authorities in these countries and United Nations officials have said they are run by Chinese gangsters who control gambling across southeast Asia and are making up for losses during the pan...

2 Nov 2022

Cyber criminals hold Asian tech workers captive in scam factories

Coal power plant, Indonesia, Korean-backed

News / Policy & Finance

Policy inconsistency impeding Indonesia’s green finance drive: experts

...Malaysia, India, Indonesia and the Philippines, and culminates in a two-day hybrid event held in Singapore. The next dialogue on the Philippines will be held on Thursday (8 Sep).

7 Sep 2022

Policy inconsistency impeding Indonesia’s green finance drive: experts

Employees work on their laptops at the Start-up Village, India

News / Policy & Finance

Asian workers pushed to upskill as pandemic quickens digital shift

...Malaysia set up skilling programmes and offered tax incentives and cash subsidies to boost learning in sectors such as information technology, healthcare and the so-called green economy. Technology fi...

8 Mar 2022

Asian workers pushed to upskill as pandemic quickens digital shift

Artist and activist Shaq Koyok (left) with members of the indigenous Temuan community

News / Policy & Finance

'People power works': Malaysian peat forest regazetted after activist pressure

In a rare victory for environmental activism in Southeast Asia, a peat forest in Malaysia has been spared the bulldozers after a public outcry forced legislators to reconsider its fate. A decision to ...

9 Sep 2021

'People power works': Malaysian peat forest regazetted after activist pressure

News / Transport

The place of biodiesel as China eyes carbon neutrality

...Malaysia started researching palm-based biodiesel in the 1980s to reduce reliance on imported crude oil. Today, the country mandates that fuel for its transport sector must have a 15 per cent biodiese...

15 Sep 2022

The place of biodiesel as China eyes carbon neutrality

Press Releases / Sunway Healthcare

GIC invests RM750 million in Sunway Healthcare

...Malaysia’s healthcare industry. Sunway Berhad (“Sunway”) has finalised a deal where an affiliate of GIC Pte Ltd (“GIC”), Singapore’s sovereign wealth fund, wi...

1 Jul 2021

GIC invests RM750 million in Sunway Healthcare

Opinion / Policy & Finance

Investor engagement critical to tackling climate change in Southeast Asia

...Malaysia our team reached out to one company in the healthcare services sector to understand the working conditions of their foreign staff and after numerous meetings with management, that company com...

17 Nov 2022

Investor engagement critical to tackling climate change in Southeast Asia

Press Releases / Sonoco Asia

Sungai Buloh Plant, Malaysia – Sonoco Asia Awarded FSC Certification

SUNGAI BULOH PLANT, MALAYSIA: Sonoco Asia, a unit of Sonoco (NYSE: SON), was recently awarded Forest Stewardship Council® (FSC) Certification. As the leader in packaging solutions, Sonoco is commi...

13 Jul 2021

Sungai Buloh Plant, Malaysia – Sonoco Asia Awarded FSC Certification

Opinion / Policy & Finance

The world needs a digital lifeline

...Malaysia provide low-cost plans for poorer users. Digital access is essential for people all over the world, especially residents of under-connected rural areas, the poor, women, and the displaced. In...

22 Jul 2022

The world needs a digital lifeline

News / Water

24 hours with… Lang Tengah Turtle Watch site manager Jason Gan

...Malaysian interns, which is equally fun, because then we get to meet interns from the different states in Malaysia. 10am: The day begins. We usually walk or cycle to the visitor’s hut, called wakaf i...

17 Jan 2022

24 hours with… Lang Tengah Turtle Watch site manager Jason Gan

Press Releases / Schneider Electric

Only 1 in 2 Singaporeans confident organisations will meet climate goals: Schneider Electric survey

...Malaysia, Brunei, said “The findings show sustainability is high on the agenda for Singaporeans, with many making the effort to reduce their carbon footprint, and more preferring to live or work...

10 Oct 2022

Only 1 in 2 Singaporeans confident organisations will meet climate goals: Schneider Electric survey

News / Carbon & Climate

NGOs alert UN to furtive 2-million-hectare carbon deal in Malaysian Borneo

Organisations in the Malaysian state of Sabah have filed a complaint with the UN Special Rapporteur on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples about a once-secretive deal aimed at locking up the rights to cr...

18 Mar 2022

NGOs alert UN to furtive 2-million-hectare carbon deal in Malaysian Borneo

News / Corporate Responsibility

B Corp movement gains momentum in Asia as record number of companies certified

...Malaysia, and Japan. B Corp market growth in Asia from 2015 to March 2022. Source: B Lab Singapore The increase in Asian B Corps mirrors global growth in certifications. In 2021, the total number of...

22 Apr 2022

B Corp movement gains momentum in Asia as record number of companies certified

News / Food & Agriculture

Farmers left in the lurch as climate-induced lightning strikes kill sheep by hundreds in Nepal

...Malaysia are epicentres of lightning strikes. The Bay of Bengal also has a small region that is susceptible to lightning strikes, and it is what leads to lightning strikes in Nepal. In Nepal, the Ter...

6 Dec 2022

Farmers left in the lurch as climate-induced lightning strikes kill sheep by hundreds in Nepal

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