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A typical hyper-scaler data centre consumes water equivalent to the volume used by 30-50,000 people every day

...the challenge. We need to adapt our strategies.” Tariff revisions Malaysia's Teo said that tariffs also need to be restructured to reflect the true cost of water for data centre operators, adding that...

14 Apr 2026

...that much of what constitutes the Chinese competitive edge is not really free market because there is the power and strength of the state behind it,” he said. Balancing the "inequities" between the t...

1 Aug 2025

...th concerns. The city shifted its waste management strategy to focus on recycling efforts and landfilling, with the city currently reliant on three landfills in the New Territories. But now, a waste-t...

2 Apr 2025

...tivist leading protests against the project, told Context. The Kahar Samaj Panch Committee, which represents the fishers, lost a legal case in September to stop the project on the grounds that const...

2 Dec 2024

...t complained that there is a big gap between what sustainability students are taught at university and what they are expected to know in their workplace. Is there anything you learned at college that ...

16 Oct 2024

...tands 42 per cent below the long-term average. "They are saying on TV that there may not be any water left for us tomorrow - I go to bed every night worrying about what this situation is doing to the...

7 Apr 2025

Sustainability reporting: Track your progress

...ther than treating it as an add-on. And finally, act now, starting with incremental improvements while investing in skills and systems that can scale. For ACCA, that last point speaks directly to the...

14 Jan 2026

...thin and transaction costs high. "There is capital looking for nature projects. There are nature projects that need capital. But the projects are not structured in a way that connects the two," he to...

20 May 2026

SM Cares coastal cleanup: A movement for tomorrow

...today has a direct impact on the safety of families tomorrow.” SM Cares' coastal cleanup activities serve both environmental and humanitarian goals: protecting marine ecosystems while mitigatin...

2 Sep 2025

...thout detailed assessments, adaptation efforts risk being reactive and underfunded, and opportunities to mobilise private investment remain untapped,” said the report. “Better data and targeted studie...

20 Feb 2026

Midong solar project in Gobi Desert, China

...tting targets will not be enough to put the world on a 1.5 degree pathway. “NDC goals will need to be embedded in national economic strategies. No country in the world has figured out yet how to get t...

22 Sep 2025

...tations to confidentiality agreements. "That's the way it should be right? Another point to remember is that the EIAs are tax money, so shouldn't taxpayers have a right to know their contents, at leas...

23 Jul 2025

...that resources will continue to be exploited until all state governments adopt the 2022 amendments to Malaysia's National Forest Act 1984 and transparency over land matters is built into the system. S...

23 Apr 2025

...to the need for protections, she noted. “They may come with that conservative mindset that harms LGBTQ+ people,” she said. Barriers to justice Countries like Thailand that do not track data on hate s...

18 Nov 2025

...transportation sector might be affected. This is where electrification of transportation is no longer optional, but the structural shift the region needs.” Reuters data show LNG prices in Asia last tr...

4 Mar 2026

...t her son to live with her mother-in-law in the relative safety of the mountains outside Beirut. She wanted to stay close to the embassy in case there was news of repatriation. "The embassy told me th...

23 Oct 2024

...t. We asked, is this a real insect in that area? What kind of patterns do they actually have? I had to stick to that before I jump to my imagination. Illustrator Sekar Bestari (left) and author Titah...

7 Jan 2025

...tential impacts on frog habitat and its proximity to the Wet Tropics of Queensland World Heritage Area. There are also concerns that renewable energy projects affect visual amenity. It's clear that th...

10 Apr 2025

...towards a net zero greenhouse gas emissions target for the industry by mid-century as part of global efforts to combat climate change. Following the target creates a “strategic economic opportunity” f...

26 Feb 2025

...the role of the board starts to embed and integrate sustainability, so that it's not just a separate sustainability function. The increasing breadth and scope of what constitutes sustainability is a ...

18 Feb 2025

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