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News / Policy & Finance

Philippines’ BDO Unibank on urgency of blue bond and green financing: ‘We want to take the lead and work with regulators'

...Southeast Asia. In this interview, Tancongco shares more about how this partnership came about, and the progress of an energy transition financing statement the bank released in August 2022, pledging...

14 Jun 2024

Philippines’ BDO Unibank on urgency of blue bond and green financing: ‘We want to take the lead and work with regulators'

Covid-19 medical workers vaccine Philippines

News / Policy & Finance

Southeast Asia’s healthcare sustainability struggle lingers post-Covid

...Asia branch of Health Care Without Harm. So the global non-profit is helping hospitals find ways sustainability can also save money. In Southeast Asia, it advocates for measures such as switching to e...

8 Sep 2023

Southeast Asia’s healthcare sustainability struggle lingers post-Covid

Bali, Indonesia, sustainability startup hub

News / Policy & Finance

‘Silicon Bali’: Asia's paradise for sustainability startups?

...Southeast Asia launch hub for plastic recycling firm Prevented Ocean Plastic, while the longer-running recycling firm EcoBali was launched in 2006 – two years before there were any waste management la...

10 Jan 2024

‘Silicon Bali’: Asia's paradise for sustainability startups?

Press Releases / Plastic Bank

Plastic Bank’s communities stop four billion bottles equivalent plastic from reaching the ocean

...Plastic Bank’s Social Recycling movement at plasticbank.com. About Plastic Bank Plastic Bank envisions a wasteless world. We empower the Social Recycling movement that stops ocean plastic...

23 May 2023

Plastic Bank’s communities stop four billion bottles equivalent plastic from reaching the ocean

A woman sorts through plastic bottles in a recycling facility run by Prevented Ocean Plastic in Bali, Indonesia.

News / Waste

Coca-Cola says it's difficult to source recycled plastic at a 'reasonable' price in Asia

...Southeast Asia, Australia, New Zealand and the South Pacific, said the company was sometimes unable to access recycled plastic in Asia because supply had been "soaked up" by Europe. In Europe, there i...

13 Feb 2023

Coca-Cola says it's difficult to source recycled plastic at a 'reasonable' price in Asia

News / Waste

Singapore's efficient ‘cleaning army’ has led to litter apathy: Stridy chief Yasser Amin

...plastic waste, on the public beaches. What he finds even harder to reconcile is that the litter problem happens in other places too, with discarded wrappers, bottles and plastic bags found in the sha...

15 Mar 2024

Singapore's efficient ‘cleaning army’ has led to litter apathy: Stridy chief Yasser Amin

Press Releases / Eco-Business

Eco-Business premieres new impact documentary Wasted spotlighting Asia's urgent waste issue and the solutions within reach

...Asia at TOMRA, said: “It was an honour to participate in this documentary film. While we all know of the challenges throughout the world, and especially in Southeast Asia, providing po...

4 Dec 2023

Eco-Business premieres new impact documentary Wasted spotlighting Asia's urgent waste issue and the solutions within reach

News / Waste

Alliance to End Plastic Waste hires Pranav Sethaputra to lead engagement

...plastic crisis. The Alliance is funding a portfolio of about 30 projects addressing plastic waste in Southeast Asia. AEPW has faced scrutiny for claiming to address plastic pollution while its members...

6 Jan 2023

Alliance to End Plastic Waste hires Pranav Sethaputra to lead engagement

News / Waste

Indonesia's 'fly guy' finds grubby fix for Jakarta's food waste

...Southeast Asia's largest. Around 100 bulldozers and 800 people work on the massive site where 90 per cent of the city's waste ends up. Around 6,000 informal workers - sometimes accompanied by their ch...

22 Dec 2023

Indonesia's 'fly guy' finds grubby fix for Jakarta's food waste

News / Waste

To solve Asia’s single-use sachet waste problem, promote reuse: Jakarta-based start-up founder Bintang Ekananda

...Asia? How is Alner trying to tackle it? Single-use packaging is very dominant in Indonesia, in other countries in Southeast Asia such as the Philippines, as well as in South Asia. Most of our daily pr...

17 May 2023

To solve Asia’s single-use sachet waste problem, promote reuse: Jakarta-based start-up founder Bintang Ekananda

Press Releases / IFC

Climate projects, MSMEs, women and farmers benefit from record year for IFC in Asia-Pacific region

...plastic waste, critical issues in a region home to many countries that are most vulnerable to climate change and key contributors of plastic waste. Projects ranged from investments in Mongolia&rs...

5 Sep 2023

Climate projects, MSMEs, women and farmers benefit from record year for IFC in Asia-Pacific region

News / Corporate Responsibility

Eco-Business scores two finalist nods for editorial excellence at annual SOPA awards

...Southeast Asian countries, such as lax enforcement and a paucity of mining safeguards, exacerbate these environmental problems and continue to sully Southeast Asia's poor track record of human rights ...

9 May 2023

Eco-Business scores two finalist nods for editorial excellence at annual SOPA awards

News / Corporate Responsibility

22 brands called out for greenwashing in 2023

...plastic, does not mean they don't harm people and planet," said Rosa Pritchard, plastics lawyer at ClientEarth. In response, Nestlé said it was cutting use of plastic packaging, Danone said it was con...

19 Dec 2023

22 brands called out for greenwashing in 2023

Children fetching water in Maharashtra, India

Podcasts / Water

‘Complex yet interconnected problems’: Xylem’s VP of Global Lifecycle Services on solving water security in Asia Pacific

...Southeast Asia alone, according to estimates by the Asian Development Bank. This is not only a challenge for our region but for the planet.” Access to clean water supply and sanitation services remain...

20 Mar 2024

‘Complex yet interconnected problems’: Xylem’s VP of Global Lifecycle Services on solving water security in Asia Pacific

Press Releases / Eco-Business

Eco-Business Sustainability Leadership A-List winners and CDG-EB Impact Sustainability Education Grant unveiled

...Southeast Asia, including the Philippines, Malaysia and Singapore, as well as South Asia and Australia. The nominees were assessed by two distinguished panel of judges representing leader...

2 Feb 2024

Eco-Business Sustainability Leadership A-List winners and CDG-EB Impact Sustainability Education Grant unveiled

News / Waste

Rise of waste-to-energy incinerators in Southeast Asia draws concerns

...Southeast Asia’s largest country and estimated as the world’s third-largest plastic polluter. There, too, rapid economic growth and increased production of single-use plastics by global brands has ove...

9 Dec 2022

Rise of waste-to-energy incinerators in Southeast Asia draws concerns

A beach in Bali, Indonesia, polluted with marine plastic.

News / Water

Would a global plastic treaty solve plastic pollution in Asia?

...plastic pollution problem. According to the World Bank, half of the top 10 marine plastic waste producing countries are located in Southeast Asia. The global treaty she referenced is the landmark res...

25 Jan 2023

Would a global plastic treaty solve plastic pollution in Asia?

Opinion / Policy & Finance

It's time for a second 'G' in ESG: Geopolitics

...Asia must stay a step ahead of the decisions being issued in Brussels. When it comes to following the European Union (EU), investors in Asia seem to channel Henry Kissinger’s apocryphal quote that Eur...

9 Oct 2023

It's time for a second 'G' in ESG: Geopolitics

Opinion / Food & Agriculture

Will Asia take the lead in fighting the world food crisis through insects?

...plastic waste troubles, Southeast Asia also has a severe problem with food and organic waste. In fact, South and Southeast Asia together are responsible for 25 per cent of the entire planet's food was...

10 May 2023

Will Asia take the lead in fighting the world food crisis through insects?

News / Policy & Finance

Four in 10 Southeast Asians uncertain about green investing, study finds

...Southeast Asia are in waste management, renewable energy and green transportation. Image: Milieu Insight Anxious about the planet Most Southeast Asian consumers became green investors due to concerns...

19 Apr 2023

Four in 10 Southeast Asians uncertain about green investing, study finds