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When it gets too hot: How the City of Melbourne ensures vulnerable residents have refuge from extreme heat

...Malaysia, a hot spell has resulted in the death of a 22-year-old man who suffered from a heat stroke. In Singapore, experts are warning that there will be higher-than-usual temperatures in the months ...

3 Apr 2024

When it gets too hot: How the City of Melbourne ensures vulnerable residents have refuge from extreme heat

News / Cities

A mission to conserve forest canopies

...Malaysia. That’s because it’s “the interface between the atmosphere and biosphere,” he says, where photosynthesis, gas exchange, and other important chemical processes take place. It’s also where most...

27 Oct 2022

A mission to conserve forest canopies

News / Food & Agriculture

Indonesian palm oil export ban threatens global food prices

...Malaysia ranks second accounting for 25 per cent. Mainly used as cooking oil, palm oil is also used as an ingredient in cosmetics and common household items such as soaps and detergents, and as biofue...

6 May 2022

Indonesian palm oil export ban threatens global food prices

News / Carbon & Climate

Floods in Asia are costing US$30 billion a year

...Malaysia, said on a recent podcast that one-in-a-hundred-year rainfall events — like the one that hit Malaysia in December — are likely to occur once every decade by the end of this century as the pla...

1 Apr 2022

Floods in Asia are costing US$30 billion a year

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News / Policy & Finance

New Philippine sovereign wealth fund to support clean energy push has corruption safeguards, says government rep

...Malaysia’s 1Malaysia Development Berhad (1MDB) saga, which concluded with the country's former Prime Minister Najib Razak serving a 12-year jail sentence for graft and corruption. An estimated US$4.5 ...

19 Sep 2023

New Philippine sovereign wealth fund to support clean energy push has corruption safeguards, says government rep

News / Energy

Is nickel mining for EVs fuelling abuses in Southeast Asia?

...Malaysia, the Philippines and Indonesia are keen to highlight their ample rare earth and nickel reserves, with the latter a key material in producing EV batteries. However, human rights and environmen...

16 May 2023

Is nickel mining for EVs fuelling abuses in Southeast Asia?

News / Carbon & Climate

Climate change is pushing more countries closer to war: report

...Malaysia are considered precarious. Singapore is the only Southeast Asian country deemed insulated, with governance, social policies, infrastructure and food security robust enough to weather climate ...

27 Jul 2022

Climate change is pushing more countries closer to war: report

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News / Energy

Ten-fold solar growth needed in climate fight, says photovoltaics ‘godfather’

...Malaysia, and Thailand to a lesser extent – mainly through companies controlled by China, as a response to the China import tariffs by the US. There is REC group also manufacturing in Singapore. Staf...

15 Jan 2024

Ten-fold solar growth needed in climate fight, says photovoltaics ‘godfather’

Partially deforested land in Kalimantan, Indonesian Borneo.

News / Carbon & Climate

Explainer: Why deforestation has hit a historic low in Indonesia

...Malaysia, an uptick from the 74 per cent in November 2017. The pulp and paper industry – another forest-risk sector – has also seen key pledges being made to halt forest loss, with an increasing numbe...

4 Jul 2023

Explainer: Why deforestation has hit a historic low in Indonesia

News / Policy & Finance

Singapore’s UOB to stop backing new upstream oil and gas projects, sets 2050 net-zero targets for polluting sectors

...Malaysia, for example, there are pathways suggesting a reduction of financing by 39 per cent, while other pathways indicate a need to increase oil and gas financing by as much as 59 per cent, and all ...

31 Oct 2022

Singapore’s UOB to stop backing new upstream oil and gas projects, sets 2050 net-zero targets for polluting sectors

A coal-fired power station at Lamma Island, Hong Kong, China.

News / Policy & Finance

Asia's renewable energy investments are not aggressive enough to meet global climate goals

...Malaysia and South Korea. Asian investments in fossil fuels (left) and renewable energy (right) by country of origin from 2016 to 2022. Source: Fair Finance Asia Banking on fossil fuel Since the Par...

22 Dec 2022

Asia's renewable energy investments are not aggressive enough to meet global climate goals

Opinion / Waste

How Fukushima wastewater will disrupt seafood trade

...Malaysia, Taiwan of China, Russia, Thailand, the United States and Vietnam. Modelling shows China, South Korea, and the US maintain a steady trade of seafood imports and exports between them. Data us...

11 Apr 2023

How Fukushima wastewater will disrupt seafood trade

Abang Yusuf Abang Puteh, Petronas's natural gas chief

News / Energy

Petronas natural gas chief: the world's dependence on fossil fuel is not easy to break

...Malaysia, and the sentiment — particularly among young Malaysians — towards fossil fuel consumption and climate vulnerability. Do young Malaysians want to work in the fossil fuels industry anymore, kn...

12 Jan 2022

Petronas natural gas chief: the world's dependence on fossil fuel is not easy to break

News / Carbon & Climate

IPCC meeting in Sofia fails to agree timeline for seventh assessment report

...Malaysia and Kenya called for a more “balanced consideration of adaptation and mitigation”. Over the following days, there were multiple more rounds of comments and drafts. For example, India question...

14 Aug 2024

IPCC meeting in Sofia fails to agree timeline for seventh assessment report

News / Energy

Sun Cable troubles not an indictment of large renewables projects in Asia, say analysts

...Malaysia and Thailand, with more plans in discussion, the spokesperson said. Indonesia’s energy and mineral resources ministry did not reply to queries about ongoing maritime surveys for the electrici...

18 Jan 2023

Sun Cable troubles not an indictment of large renewables projects in Asia, say analysts

Villagers protesting against a proposed steel plant in the Indian state of Odisha were attacked by thugs believed to have been hired by a steel company.

News / Carbon & Climate

Environmental activists under attack: India records highest incidences in Asia

...Malaysia – 2 Timor-Leste – 1 Mongolia – 1 South Korea – 1 Source: Business & Human Rights Resource Centre Legislation lacking to protect defenders Asia Pacific (183 reported attacks) was second o...

3 May 2023

Environmental activists under attack: India records highest incidences in Asia

Indonesia's laws aren't effectively cracking down on rampant animal trafficking

Opinion / Policy & Finance

Obsolete law is costing Indonesian wildlife

...Malaysia to Indonesia, Irawan Shia received a four-year prison sentence and fine of IDR 1 billion (USD$65,468). If the fine is not paid, the replacement is three months imprisonment. The sentence was ...

6 Mar 2023

Obsolete law is costing Indonesian wildlife

News / Food & Agriculture

Food crisis 2022: the many rethinks needed to feed the world

...Malaysia. Shoppers in neighbouring Singapore, which sources a third of its chicken from Malaysia, cleared supermarket shelves of chicken in anticipation of shortages. Sim said he has received orders ...

1 Jun 2022

Food crisis 2022: the many rethinks needed to feed the world

News / Food & Agriculture

Musim Mas: Local champions needed to spark sustainable farming

...Malaysia, on 29 November 2022. The other panellists were Stefano Savi, director at Global Platform for Sustainable Natural Rubber (GPSNR), Ristika Putri Istanti, deputy of programmes at Lingkar Temu K...

16 Jan 2023

Musim Mas: Local champions needed to spark sustainable farming

San Juan Generating Station coal power plant

News / Energy

'Unclear' how investments can quickly scale carbon capture: Fitch

...Malaysia and Indonesia. There is support at global climate fora, where conventional fossil fuels have been sidelined in decision texts, but not those paired with CCUS, Sustainable Fitch noted. Reputat...

31 Jan 2023

'Unclear' how investments can quickly scale carbon capture: Fitch

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