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Opinion / Policy & Finance

Credit ratings and climate chaos

...2025. Climate change is an important reason why. As a 2018 study by the United Nations Environment Programme showed, climate vulnerability raised the average cost of debt for a sample of developing ec...

15 Dec 2023

Credit ratings and climate chaos

News / Policy & Finance

Better disclosure rules can help China’s financial markets work for the climate

...2025 issuers must align their climate reporting with the global standards set out by the Task Force on Climate-related Financial Disclosures (TCFD). Low reporting levels on China’s mainland suggest th...

8 Jan 2024

Better disclosure rules can help China’s financial markets work for the climate

News / Food & Agriculture

Governments put sustainable food systems on the table at COP28

...2025. A particular focus of efforts to make food systems more climate-resilient are small-scale farmers, who produce about one-third of the world's food and are struggling disproportionately with clim...

12 Dec 2023

Governments put sustainable food systems on the table at COP28

Opinion / Policy & Finance

Tap on commitment from COP27 to support Asean renewable energy target

An action plan for energy cooperation sets out that Asean seeks to raise the proportion of renewable energy in its energy mix to 23 per cent by 2025. However, as of 2020, renewable energy only takes u...

17 Feb 2023

Tap on commitment from COP27 to support Asean renewable energy target

News / Energy

Paris climate goals require immediate oil demand downturn: Study

...2025. In the G20 summit in India over the weekend, major economies worldwide pledged to triple renewable energy capacity by 2030, but did not set new targets for ditching fossil fuels. Oil, in particu...

14 Sep 2023

Paris climate goals require immediate oil demand downturn: Study

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News / Policy & Finance

Activists fear supercharged ‘business as usual’ under Indonesia’s Prabowo

...2025, would require establishing 9.29 million hectares (23 million acres) of new oil palm plantations — an area nearly the size of South Korea. New oil palm and sugarcane plantations are part of the g...

20 Nov 2024

Activists fear supercharged ‘business as usual’ under Indonesia’s Prabowo

News / Transport

Methane slip from LNG ships jeopardising net zero goals in maritime sector

...2025 and enter into force in 2027. These measures will include a GHG fuel standard and some form of GHG pricing.” Alternative fuel solutions and operational changes While shipping has traditionally be...

7 Aug 2024

Methane slip from LNG ships jeopardising net zero goals in maritime sector

Tambak Lorok Semarang Indonesia gas and floating solar

News / Energy

Concern about fossil fuel language seen holding Southeast Asia back from adopting COP28 renewables pledge

...2025, before almost quadrupling by 2040 if progressive policies are followed through. But observers say a key roadblock to clear is the need for better power grids, that can support more wind and sola...

6 Dec 2023

Concern about fossil fuel language seen holding Southeast Asia back from adopting COP28 renewables pledge

Plastic bottles in Vietnam informal waste recycling facility

News / Waste

As polluter-pays laws kick in, Asia needs to integrate informal workers in waste management system, not eliminate them

...2025, which was first mooted nearly two decades ago. While businesses have managed to get away without having to account for their externalities in the last century, it will become increasingly harder...

5 Dec 2023

As polluter-pays laws kick in, Asia needs to integrate informal workers in waste management system, not eliminate them

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News / Carbon & Climate

ICJ: What the World Court’s landmark opinion means for climate change

...2025, after some seven months of deliberation, the ICJ issued a unanimous opinion in response to the UN general assembly’s request. This is only the fifth time the court has delivered a unanimous resu...

28 Jul 2025

ICJ: What the World Court’s landmark opinion means for climate change

News / Carbon & Climate

Analysis: Carbon-intensive industries are worsening China’s ozone pollution

...2025) set targets that would see carbon intensity and total coal consumption fall, the first half of 2023 has seen many provinces take advantage of rules allowing these factors to be ignored when deci...

22 Sep 2023

Analysis: Carbon-intensive industries are worsening China’s ozone pollution

Podcasts / Water

Only deserts, with nothing to conserve? Social enterprise Goumbook on why the Middle East needs an oceans initiative

...2025, emphasised Al Mubarak. In the latest Eco-Business Podcast, Middle East correspondent Rachel Kelly speaks to a representative from Goumbook, the social enterprise behind the Oceans Summit and an...

2 Aug 2024

Only deserts, with nothing to conserve? Social enterprise Goumbook on why the Middle East needs an oceans initiative

Palm oil plantation Kalimantan Indonesia

News / Food & Agriculture

Make biodiversity reporting, assessments mandatory: Wilmar

...2025. But there are also reservations on how onerous reporting obligations might get. Data collection and analysis are key challenges for Wilmar, as a large multinational company with complex supply c...

5 Oct 2023

Make biodiversity reporting, assessments mandatory: Wilmar

COP27 article 6 implementation partnership

News / Carbon & Climate

Singapore's ambition in novel bilateral carbon markets faces competitor, near-term supply hurdles

...2025 to decide on how many carbon credits to buy to offset their 2024 emissions. Much will depend on the exact rules settled upon by Singapore and its trade partners. The city-state has substantively ...

16 Oct 2023

Singapore's ambition in novel bilateral carbon markets faces competitor, near-term supply hurdles

News / Transport

In-depth Q&A: Will the new global shipping deal help deliver climate goals?

...2025 and will enter into force in 2027. Going into the IMO talks, a shipping levy proposal championed by the Marshall Islands and the Solomon Islands had gathered support from more than 20 nations at...

19 Jul 2023

In-depth Q&A: Will the new global shipping deal help deliver climate goals?

News / Policy & Finance

'Second-party opinions’: a greenwash safeguard or just for show?

...2025 – were approved by its creditors, based on an SPO conducted by sustainability consultancy Environmental Resource Management (ERM). When contacted by Eco-Business, ERM declined to comment on its S...

28 Aug 2024

'Second-party opinions’: a greenwash safeguard or just for show?

News / Policy & Finance

OCBC appoints its first group chief sustainability officer

...2025. OCBC became a signatory to the Net-Zero Banking Alliance (NZBA), a United Nations-convened initiative for banks to decarbonise the real economy, in October last year. OCBC's sectoral decarbonisa...

24 Jul 2023

OCBC appoints its first group chief sustainability officer

News / Cities

Greenpeace Philippines installs hub in marine-rich province of Iloilo

...2025. The province has within its vicinity marine and wildlife reserves Gigantes and Danjugan islands, which face issues of pollution from settlements and conversion of land and marine territory. At...

28 Mar 2023

Greenpeace Philippines installs hub in marine-rich province of Iloilo

News / Carbon & Climate

Does COP28 signal the beginning of an end to the fossil fuel era? It depends on who you ask.

...2025, and transformation of the financial system to deliver the economic shifts needed. Anne Rasmussen, Samoan lead negotiator representing The Alliance of Small Island States, said that the COP28 de...

14 Dec 2023

Does COP28 signal the beginning of an end to the fossil fuel era? It depends on who you ask.

News / Energy

Indonesia communities lodge complaint against World Bank for ‘indirectly backing’ new coal plants

...2025, according to advocacy group Banktrack. The complaint, filed with non-governmental groups PENA Masyarakat and Trend Asia from Indonesia, as well as US-based Inclusive Development International an...

14 Sep 2023

Indonesia communities lodge complaint against World Bank for ‘indirectly backing’ new coal plants

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