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Singapore could use nuclear power if world fragments on energy transition: report

...Malaysia stated in October last year that it will not allow renewable energy to be exported to Singapore. A US$22 billion project involving 12,000 hectares of solar panels and 3,800 kilometre of cabli...

22 Mar 2022

Singapore could use nuclear power if world fragments on energy transition: report

Klean's reverse vending machines are scaling up their plastic waste movement across Southeast Asia

News / Waste

Malaysian reverse vending machine startup eyes scale to tackle plastic crisis

Klean is one of Malaysia's most ambitious startups seeking to disrupt the plastic waste sector. Finalists of sustainability innovation competition The Liveability Challenge in 2018, Klean is now look...

27 Jan 2021

Malaysian reverse vending machine startup eyes scale to tackle plastic crisis

News / Energy

Amid shifting winds, geothermal maintains shaky dominance in Philippine renewables sector

...Malaysia (24.6 per cent), three of the four economies are petrostates, making them less vulnerable to spikes in world prices. Further, Indonesia, which sources the bulk of its power from coal, is also...

28 Sep 2022

Amid shifting winds, geothermal maintains shaky dominance in Philippine renewables sector

News / Transport

Singapore lab cracks down on wildlife traffickers with forensic tech

...Malaysia, the Philippines, Thailand and Vietnam. This allowed them to connect the shipments. It also helped highlight the emergence of a new smuggling hotspot in the Kavango-Zambezi Transfrontier Cons...

27 May 2022

Singapore lab cracks down on wildlife traffickers with forensic tech

Press Releases / EB Impact

EB Impact launches the Sustainability Media Academy for Asia

...Malaysia, India and Europe, and correspondents in major cities across the world. Visit us at www.eco-business.com. APPENDIX Strategic objectives The Academy has set out three main objec...

4 May 2022

EB Impact launches the Sustainability Media Academy for Asia

Scientists sceptical of new bat study linking climate change to Covid-19 emergence

Opinion / Policy & Finance

It's not all bats' fault

...Malaysia was triggered by a combination of unusual farming practices — forest clearance for land palm plantations, forest fires, and factory pig farming. Bats are very sensitive to smoke and forest fi...

16 Feb 2022

It's not all bats' fault

News / Policy & Finance

Green groups demand scrapping of US$300 million loan offer for Borneo road project

...Malaysia and further the integration of the two countries’ palm oil industries. But the plan faces mounting criticism from environmentalists from around the world, as independent research and Mongabay...

22 Oct 2021

Green groups demand scrapping of US$300 million loan offer for Borneo road project

News / Food & Agriculture

Personnel changes at RSPO as Dan Strechay moves to Mars

...Malaysia and Indonesia. "We are confident in our five-year strategy which details ambitious milestones and how we will achieve them," a spokesperson said. In 2018, RSPO unveiled new standards that rul...

23 Apr 2021

Personnel changes at RSPO as Dan Strechay moves to Mars

News / Energy

Petronas is Asia's first oil company to set net zero target

Malaysian state-owned energy firm Petronas has declared that it will be carbon neutral by 2050. The company's president and group chief executive Tengku Muhammad Taufik announced the news on Wednesday...

29 Oct 2020

Petronas is Asia's first oil company to set net zero target

News / Food & Agriculture

Stingless bee honey discovery could create conservation-friendly business opportunities in Asia Pacific

...Malaysia,” stated the researchers, Dr Mohd Mansor Ismail of Universiti Putra Malaysia and associate professor Wan Iryani Wan Ismail of Universiti Malaysia Terengganu. “It is an important income-genera...

12 Aug 2020

Stingless bee honey discovery could create conservation-friendly business opportunities in Asia Pacific

News / Carbon & Climate

Where are the best opportunities for nature-based solutions in Southeast Asia?

...Malaysia, Thailand, Cambodia and Myanmar. Southeast Asia carbon prospecting profitability and co-benefits. The region holds the highest potential for not only nature-based solutions return-on-inves...

10 Jun 2021

Where are the best opportunities for nature-based solutions in Southeast Asia?

News / Policy & Finance

Asia’s neglected bears buckle as giant pandas hog conservation spotlight

...Malaysia. With roads being built in many bear habitats, these animals have also become victims of roadkill. Yet, scientists do not have precise numbers on such deaths for most bears species, although ...

11 May 2022

Asia’s neglected bears buckle as giant pandas hog conservation spotlight

News / Food & Agriculture

Could the food crisis spur an alternative protein shake-up?

...Malaysia banned exports of the bird amid soaring prices. “I wish we were producing thousands of pounds right now, this would have been quite the opportunity,” Tetrick said. As it stands, total product...

22 Jun 2022

Could the food crisis spur an alternative protein shake-up?

Press Releases / ComfortDelGro

ComfortDelGro partners Engie to jointly bid for tenders in the electric vehicle charging field

...Malaysia. For two years in a row, from 2019 to 2020, ComfortDelGro Corporation Limited has been included in the Dow Jones Sustainability Index Asia Pacific (DJSI Asia Pacific), cementing its po...

6 Apr 2021

ComfortDelGro partners Engie to jointly bid for tenders in the electric vehicle charging field

Women in sustainability talk about gender inequality in the sector

News / Policy & Finance

Our struggles with inequality: women in sustainability tell their stories

...Malaysia who shared their experiences of inequality in the sustainability sector. Christina Lee Christina Lee is the founder and chief executive of Singapore-based Global Green Connect, which provid...

7 Mar 2022

Our struggles with inequality: women in sustainability tell their stories

News / Water

24 hours with... shark and ray researcher Naomi Clark-Shen

...Malaysia and Singapore, and a supplier generously passes them to me for research. The species I currently focus on are the Bluespotted maskray and Blackspot shark — two small species documented in hig...

27 Jan 2022

24 hours with... shark and ray researcher Naomi Clark-Shen

News / Corporate Responsibility

Firms can no longer shirk from reporting on the S in ESG

...Malaysia, palm oil grower Sime Darby Plantation was hit with an export ban by the United States Customs Border and Protection last year after forced labour was allegedly found in its supply chain. In...

18 Mar 2022

Firms can no longer shirk from reporting on the S in ESG

News / Policy & Finance

Geopolitical standoff in South China Sea results to environmental fallout

...Malaysia, Brunei and Taiwan — PhilSA and its partners, including the Marine Science Institute of the University of the Philippines (UP MSI), have initiated projects to record the contested waters’ “ec...

13 Aug 2021

Geopolitical standoff in South China Sea results to environmental fallout

News / Policy & Finance

Singapore exchange proposes mandatory climate-related disclosures

...Malaysia, BlackRock voted against either the chair of the board or a member(s) of the nomination committee at companies with all-male boards in a bid to exert pressure on the companies it invests in, ...

30 Aug 2021

Singapore exchange proposes mandatory climate-related disclosures

News / Waste

Coca-Cola, Pepsico and Unilever named top plastic polluters in a brand audit, despite plastic neutrality efforts

...Malaysia is the only country in Southeast Asia to approve a nationwide plan in taking bold action to tackle plastic pollution. The Chinese government announced a scheme to ban non-biodegradable bags ...

27 Oct 2021

Coca-Cola, Pepsico and Unilever named top plastic polluters in a brand audit, despite plastic neutrality efforts

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