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News / Food & Agriculture

Australian confectioner declares it's palm oil-free with ad featuring orangutan playing drums, switches to sunflower oil

...Malaysia, the two biggest producer countries. The company said it had taken almost two years, and had meant the discontinuation of one of its brands, to remove palm oil from more than 100 of its produ...

3 Sep 2020

Australian confectioner declares it's palm oil-free with ad featuring orangutan playing drums, switches to sunflower oil

News / Energy

CIMB targeted by Indonesian NGOs for funding coal plants as Malaysian bank prepares to stage sustainability event

...Malaysia's largest funder of coal power, pumping more than US$2.6 billion into coal projects over the last decade, campaign analysis showed. It also noted that Malaysian banks were falling behind a gl...

1 Sep 2020

CIMB targeted by Indonesian NGOs for funding coal plants as Malaysian bank prepares to stage sustainability event

Workers in an oil palm plantation in Papua, Indonesia

News / Food & Agriculture

As palm oil for biofuel rises in Southeast Asia, tropical ecosystems shrink

...Malaysia and Indonesia’s palm oil exports. In 2019, Malaysia’s biodiesel production hit a record level. Exports rose to 650,000 tonnes, with Europe and China the top markets. Indonesian figures for 20...

20 Apr 2020

As palm oil for biofuel rises in Southeast Asia, tropical ecosystems shrink

News / Energy

Where are Asia's energy majors in the net zero conversation?

...Malaysia's Petronas made its own 2050 net zero declaration in October. Other Asian oil firms have made some green commitments, but none as far-reaching as a net zero target. China's Sinopec is working...

24 Feb 2021

Where are Asia's energy majors in the net zero conversation?

Glasgow Leaders’ Declaration on Forests and Land Use

News / Policy & Finance

7 trends that will shape sustainability in 2022

...Malaysian oil and gas giant Petronas declared that it was going to be carbon neutral in 2050, but noted it only as an “aspiration”, and not a science-based target that aligns the firm with the Paris A...

29 Dec 2021

7 trends that will shape sustainability in 2022

Reuseable drink containers at a Starbucks store in Singapore.

News / Waste

Reuseable containers don't increase risk of virus transmission, say scientists

...Malaysia, said reusable systems can be used safely by employing basic hygiene such as ware-washing at high temperatures and using contact-free systems for customers’ containers. It pointed to research...

24 Jun 2020

Reuseable containers don't increase risk of virus transmission, say scientists

News / Corporate Responsibility

Covid has hurt the sustainability reporting performance of Asia Pacific's biggest companies

...Malaysia's Maybank, Thai energy firm PTT, Australia's Commonwealth Bank, and Korean electronics firm Samsung. CSRone's sustainability reporting performance ranking by country for 2020. Scores 0-5. C...

8 Mar 2021

Covid has hurt the sustainability reporting performance of Asia Pacific's biggest companies

News / Waste

Circular economy consultancy GA Circular to scale back operations

...Malaysia, the Philippines and Vietnam, in collaboration with World Bank, before the company pauses operations.

11 Dec 2020

Circular economy consultancy GA Circular to scale back operations

News / Waste

If the Philippines banned waste imports, why is it still the world's dumping ground?

...Malaysia continues to receive plastic scraps that are contaminated and non-recyclable. Mageswari Sangaralingam, research officer of the Consumers Association of Penang, told Eco-Business that Malaysia...

11 Mar 2020

If the Philippines banned waste imports, why is it still the world's dumping ground?

News / Corporate Responsibility

As IKEA is hit by illegal logging link in Europe, furniture firm's sustainability function in Southeast Asia dissolves

...Malaysia, Singapore and Thailand have been closed during the Covid-19 outbreak. “ Our aim is to make sustainability part of everyday business for every co-worker. Corinna Schuler, head of corporate c...

26 Jun 2020

As IKEA is hit by illegal logging link in Europe, furniture firm's sustainability function in Southeast Asia dissolves

News / Policy & Finance

Cut the paperwork: Malaysia urged to make social enterprise scheme simpler

...Malaysian Global Innovation & Creativity Centre—declined to comment. Lai Chong Haur is a director at Seven Tea One, a Malaysian social enterprise that helps teenagers with autism and single mother...

31 Jan 2020

Cut the paperwork: Malaysia urged to make social enterprise scheme simpler

Press Releases / blueleaf energy

Blueleaf energy signs Solar PPA with Bosch Malaysia

...Malaysia) Sdn Bhd to provide the technology and services company with clean solar energy for its production and warehouse facility in Penang, Malaysia. Under the terms of the agreement, blueleaf ener...

8 Jan 2020

Blueleaf energy signs Solar PPA with Bosch Malaysia

Opinion / Energy

Why citizens play a key role in Southeast Asia’s energy transition

...Malaysia and Thailand have also started dialogues around setting similar targets. The key to achieving net-zero emissions is a global energy transformation, shifting from a fossil fuel-based and energ...

14 Jul 2021

Why citizens play a key role in Southeast Asia’s energy transition

Press Releases / Montgomery Asia

Geo Connect Asia 2022 launches with focus on addressing key regional challenges

...Malaysia UAV Development Association (MUDA), the Micro Builders Association Singapore (MBAS), the Singapore Institute of Surveyors and Valuers (SISV), the SMU Institute of Innovation & Entrepreneu...

31 Aug 2021

Geo Connect Asia 2022 launches with focus on addressing key regional challenges

A smallholder palm oil farmer in Indonesia

News / Food & Agriculture

Incentivising sustainability: Training smallholders to grow sustainable palm oil

...Malaysia and Indonesia, where its cultivation has led to vast deforestation and carbon emissions, and been linked to other problems such as infringement of land rights and forced labour. While some c...

18 Jun 2021

Incentivising sustainability: Training smallholders to grow sustainable palm oil

News / Carbon & Climate

Can only western buyers afford sustainable palm oil?

...Malaysia, where clearing land to meet rapidly increasing demand for the product has severely damaged forest ecosystems and caused huge carbon emissions. Palm oil production is also frequently associat...

1 Jun 2021

Can only western buyers afford sustainable palm oil?

News / Policy & Finance

350.org comms leader Aanchal Mehta joins Facebook policy team

...Malaysia and Singapore's leading household brands.

17 Aug 2020

350.org comms leader Aanchal Mehta joins Facebook policy team

News / Food & Agriculture

Small price increase in palm oil based products could save forests: Report

...Malaysia. CRR's report finds that the consumer goods firms, that sell palm oil-based products, and retailers, claim two-thirds of the profits, some US$20 billion, from the palm oil value chain. Large...

15 Jun 2021

Small price increase in palm oil based products could save forests: Report

San Juan Generating Station coal power plant

News / Energy

The tricky promise of abated coal power

...Malaysia to have coal power plants fitted with such technology by around 2035. Canada, which currently houses the only coal power CCUS project, won’t be part of the movement. The Powering Past Coal Al...

6 Dec 2021

The tricky promise of abated coal power

News / Carbon & Climate

Biomass burning booms in East Asia despite Paris Agreement goals

...Malaysia and Indonesia. “ Biomass is jeopardizing South Korea’s renewable energy sector and negating global efforts to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. Soojin Kim, senior researcher, NGO Solutions Fo...

13 May 2022

Biomass burning booms in East Asia despite Paris Agreement goals

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