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Malaysia releases Simplified ESG Disclosure Guide for SMEs in supply chains

...14 to spearhead the local and international positioning as well as profiling of the Malaysian capital market. Funded by the Capital Markets Development Fund, CMM showcases the competitiveness and attr...

28 Oct 2023

PLDT, Smart expand transition to renewables, power up 7 Visayas sites with First Gen

...100 per cent renewable energy arm, Energy Development Corporation (EDC). “This geothermal switch will allow us to save around P27 million in electricity costs on an annual basis for our seven f...

17 May 2023

...18 set the goal of halving emissions by 2030 and reaching net zero by 2050. But progress has been slow. Britain's monthly fashion habit alone creates the same carbon footprint as 900 round-the-world f...

20 Dec 2023

...17 and 2021. Ng’s new role will involve leading the group’s sustainability agenda across its banking and wealth management services, including efforts to support its clients’ transition into lower-car...

24 Jul 2023

...121 years. Research shows that since the 1970s, when deforestation in Brazil's Amazon gained pace, the dry season has increased by up to a month in the ecosystem's southern areas. Research released...

20 Nov 2023

...1.5°C. All ten of the assessed companies had emissions reductions targets to meet by 2030, but two were in line with 2°C of warming goal rather than 1.5°C. The report noted a high dependence on carbon...

31 Jan 2023

Agro-industrialisation and sustainability: Shaping the future of agriculture from the ground up

...1st August 2023 and brought together leading experts, scholars, researchers, and industry stakeholders to explore transformative solutions for the agricultural sector. The event delved into three key ...

6 Aug 2023

A landmark deal was announced on Wednesday by COP28 president Sultan Al Jaber, in which 198 countries agreed to a much-debated text that called on signatories to “transition away from fossil fuels to ...

14 Dec 2023

...17. A few years later, Sunseap was acquired by Portuguese firm EDP Renewables in a deal worth S$1.1 billion (US$816 million) that made several million for Yang and his co-investors; Yang's investment ...

29 Nov 2024

...1. In 2013, Power Machines, a Russian contractor, signed a contract to build the plant with Vietnam’s oil and gas conglomerate PetroVietnam (PVN). In 2018, a third of the way to completion, Power Mach...

16 Nov 2022

...11 – consists of "marginal" plots of less than 1 hectare, (36 per cent of the state’s total farmed land) or small ones (1-2 hectares, 28 per cent of the area). Small landholdings make it harder to ada...

27 Jun 2023

...100 deaths across the state. Forest fires are also a growing concern in Uttarakhand, with numbers soaring from 922 in 2002 to 41,600 in 2019. “Forest fires have a huge impact on our communities as the...

21 Feb 2024

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

...14 per cent of workers in our Tier 1/2 supplier factories. In addition, we have piloted a living wage assessment framework and trained 1880 workers in relation to ethical trade. By 2030: 100 per ce...

2 May 2023

...14, 2011, and April 15, 2020. This means that almost 103 individuals die each year due to lightning strikes. In the same period, 2,454 individuals have been wounded in lightning incidents. An analysis...

6 Dec 2022

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...150 plastic-waste hotspots have been identified across the country. A 2023 study detected close to 1,000 official and unofficial waste sites across Southeast Asia, nearly a fifth of which were located...

23 Dec 2024

...1 billion sustainability-linked bond (SLB) in December 2021, which was oversubscribed by 1.66 times. The issuance was supported by our Sustainability-Linked Financing Framework, pegging the SLB to thr...

24 Oct 2023

Climate tech venture builder Wavemaker Impact hits US$60M hard cap in remarkable fund close

...100x100’ company - a startup with the potential to abate 100 million metric tons of carbon and be a US$100-million revenue business. The founding team has previously built over 15 companies (inc...

5 Dec 2023

...1.5 GW by 2050, accounting for 14 to 16 per cent of the total electricity generation capacity. However, whether Vietnam can achieve these goals depends on the country’s ability to navigate existing te...

7 Nov 2023

...13 and 2015, there were 670 reported cases of trafficking in persons in the regions affected by Typhoon Haiyan, including Tacloban, according to the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC). I...

6 Nov 2023

Eight finalists for The Liveability Challenge 2023 unveiled, with solutions combating the most urgent urban sustainability challenges of our time

...1 million each from Temasek Foundation, other prizes include a minimum of S$100,000 investment each from impact investment firm PlanetRise, impact-focused family office Rumah Group, and venture capita...

27 Apr 2023

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