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Malaysian conservationist takes hotel training into the rainforest

...Malaysia's lush rainforest island of Borneo. The 58-year-old grew up in the 1960s in rural nature-rich Sabah, where she enjoyed playing on the beach, in trees and streams, and catching fish. Building...

11 May 2023

Malaysian conservationist takes hotel training into the rainforest

Opinion / Policy & Finance

Cosy business alliances holding Asia back

...Malaysia – have merger control laws. Yet, their implementation has been erratic and the competition authorities have often been captured by the same entities whose behaviour they seek to check. To dea...

10 May 2023

Cosy business alliances holding Asia back

News / Carbon & Climate

Policy support needed to boost sustainable aviation fuels in China

...Malaysia have pushed for increasing exports to India and China. In 2022, China’s state-owned companies invested 6 billion Malaysian Ringgit (around US$1.35 billion) to produce hydro treated vegetable ...

3 Mar 2023

Policy support needed to boost sustainable aviation fuels in China

Press Releases / Zalora

Zalora slashed carbon footprint by one-third amid global push towards lower impact fashion

...Malaysia). 9 per cent growth in assortment share of low-impact products on Zalora’s platform in 2022 from the previous year. Currently, Zalora carries over 160,000 items under its Earth Edit ca...

2 May 2023

Zalora slashed carbon footprint by one-third amid global push towards lower impact fashion

News / Lifestyle

Businesses not concerned about sustainability issues that matter to Asian consumers: study

...Malaysia, Indonesia, China, Australia, New Zealand, India, and the Phiilippines, and found that they regard sustainability to be important for pragmatic reasons. Almost three-quarters of businesses th...

12 Jan 2023

Businesses not concerned about sustainability issues that matter to Asian consumers: study

Orangutan looks through bars at Pata Zoo, Bangkok

News / Policy & Finance

Capturing the cruelty of orangutan tourism in Asia

...Malaysia and Indonesia to butcher female orangutans and take their babies, which are imprisoned in tiny enclosures and torture-trained to perform as bikini models or kick-boxers in venues around the r...

5 Sep 2022

Capturing the cruelty of orangutan tourism in Asia

News / Energy

'Long way to go': A look at Myanmar's clean energy realities amid ongoing troubles

...Malaysia’s Universiti Malaya and Japan’s Kyoto University, respectively. In 2022, she was named a delegate to the Hitachi Young Leaders Initiative (HYLI), Hitachi Asia’s flagship youth development pro...

4 Apr 2023

'Long way to go': A look at Myanmar's clean energy realities amid ongoing troubles

Press Releases / Climate Governance Malaysia

Malaysian biodiversity conservation: NGOs get centre-stage on world climate platform

...Malaysia | Sabah Reef Check Malaysia (RCM) Project: Mapping the marine ecosystem connectivity corridors on the East Coast of Peninsular Malaysia | Near coastal areas off the East coast of Peninsular...

21 Sep 2021

Malaysian biodiversity conservation: NGOs get centre-stage on world climate platform

Press Releases / Protenga

Protenga welcomes The Yield Lab Asia Pacific support in expansion of smart insect farm production platform

...Malaysia, Indonesia and beyond by up-cycling palm by-products and thus increasing the sustainability of their operations. The expansion of the product line reached a new milestone with the launch of ...

4 Jan 2023

Protenga welcomes The Yield Lab Asia Pacific support in expansion of smart insect farm production platform

News / Energy

Southeast Asia must retire 5.5GW of coal plants per year to meet climate goals

...Malaysia, Vietnam and the Philippines—the top coal-consuming countries in the bloc—are cumulatively operating about 90GW of coal power, despite cancelling 12.7GW of proposed projects in 2022, revealed...

18 Apr 2023

Southeast Asia must retire 5.5GW of coal plants per year to meet climate goals

Opinion / Cities

The urban jungle needs more trees

...Malaysia. Salvi’s research area revolves around investigating humane design — the interaction between humans, the built environment and the natural environment, focusing on current societal and enviro...

20 Mar 2023

The urban jungle needs more trees

News / Carbon & Climate

Biodiversity loss slipping from public agenda as extreme weather worries Southeast Asians: survey

In May this year, mercury in Singapore hit 38.6 degrees Celsius, recording the island state’s second-highest temperature on record. In Malaysia, when massive floods hit several states late last year, ...

8 Sep 2022

Biodiversity loss slipping from public agenda as extreme weather worries Southeast Asians: survey

News / Manufacturing

Indonesia's electric vehicle ambitions hinge on green mining drive

...Malaysia and Thailand are the region's traditional auto manufacturing hubs, Indonesia is its largest vehicle market and is along major shipping and supply lines for importing materials and exporting f...

4 Apr 2023

Indonesia's electric vehicle ambitions hinge on green mining drive

News / Transport

Why developing Asia should care about an ambitious shipping emissions reduction goal

...Malaysia and Indonesia could benefit from the switch to zero-carbon fuels in terms of wider environmental and health benefits, said Marie Hubatova, director of global shipping at the Environmental Def...

14 Dec 2022

Why developing Asia should care about an ambitious shipping emissions reduction goal

deforestation for palm oil on peatland in Central Kalimantan, Borneo, Indonesia

News / Food & Agriculture

Deforestation from palm oil falls to three-year low

...Malaysian companies appear on the list for the first time. Source: Chain Reaction Research Malaysian companies feature on CRR's ranking of the region's top deforesters for the first time. The second ...

11 Oct 2021

Deforestation from palm oil falls to three-year low