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Musim Mas and IFC have engaged smallholder farmers in sustainable cultivation practices.

News / Food & Agriculture

Can a palm oil company have social impact?

...ts on its website, by letter or text message. Tichit says the company is fortunate that there are not many cases of reported abuse, but worries that workers have not been provided with the right tools...

22 Jul 2021

Can a palm oil company have social impact?

News / Carbon & Climate

Banana ban and meatless menus, but how green is Davos summit?

...trekked to the ski resort over two days. "This is the most important topic that we are facing today," Marila, 19, a student from Olten, Switzerland, who did not want to give both names, told the Thoms...

22 Jan 2020

Banana ban and meatless menus, but how green is Davos summit?

News / Corporate Responsibility

Built to scale? Growing pains hit Cambodia's businesses for good

...ten given little value," Leakena told the Thomson Reuters Foundation during a visit to the factory. "But now we make outfits that are suitable for queens." With the 'Markle Sparkle', the little-known ...

19 Nov 2019

Built to scale? Growing pains hit Cambodia's businesses for good

News / Policy & Finance

Coronavirus vaccine passports: What you need to know

...t months. In October, Estonia and the World Health Organization started a pilot for a digital vaccine certificate, with the Baltic country announcing earlier this year that it had begun testing a sepa...

18 Feb 2021

Coronavirus vaccine passports: What you need to know

Air-conditioning units on a building in Singapore

News / Manufacturing

Playing it cool on climate: Cooling tech firms are not innovating or promoting energy-efficient products, report finds

...ttle ambition to reduce the climate impact of their products, the report titled Playing it cool from environmental measurement non-profit CDP found. This is reflected by the fact that 60 per cent of ...

8 Jun 2020

Playing it cool on climate: Cooling tech firms are not innovating or promoting energy-efficient products, report finds

60 per cent of Prudential Singapore's staff are women. A higher female ration has helped the company in two key ways: collaboration and relationship-building. Image: Prudential Singapore

News / Policy & Finance

How diversity is driving sustainability for one of Singapore’s biggest insurers

...to be among internal stakeholders. "We thought that ethics was a given, but it’s not. We thought it's hardwired, but it's not. We stumbled into the fact that we really needed an ethics team, as ethics...

21 Feb 2020

How diversity is driving sustainability for one of Singapore’s biggest insurers

News / Transport

When air travel rebounds, will sustainability be a concern for business travellers?

...ty… we're beyond that. It's so fundamental to business culture now.” “They are not trying to reduce their carbon footprint just because it's the right thing to do: they are doing it because it’s susta...

15 Feb 2021

When air travel rebounds, will sustainability be a concern for business travellers?

News / Waste

Students for sustainability... University of Indonesia’s Muchtazar

...t people don’t see the direct impact of someone throwing rubbish into the street. Even if they are aware, they don’t know what to do about it, or don’t see the point. Few people separate their trash i...

22 Jun 2020

Students for sustainability... University of Indonesia’s Muchtazar

News / Energy

Zero-carbon water pumps turn Pakistan's barren mountains green

...tor at ICIMOD. The government's efforts to bring water to high-altitude communities may also get a boost from nature itself. Climate experts predict shifting rainfall patterns in Pakistan could in fut...

30 Mar 2020

Zero-carbon water pumps turn Pakistan's barren mountains green

News / Energy

Explainer: what is deep-sea mining?

...to the paper by the Institute of Sustainable Futures. “Industry wants us to think mining the deep sea is necessary to meet demand for minerals that go into electric vehicle batteries and the electron...

3 Aug 2021

Explainer: what is deep-sea mining?

News / Energy

Floating wind shapes up as wind industry's next frontier

...ts increase their support. Speaking last week at a virtual event titled The Transition Faster Conference: Let's Talk Wind and hosted by multinational certification firm DNV GL, the experts said as wit...

4 Feb 2021

Floating wind shapes up as wind industry's next frontier

News / Food & Agriculture

Pressure on FSC to address transparency and conflict of interest concerns

...t want the attention. But the public need to know, and have a right to know," he said. Rosoman said that while FSC is the best sustainable wood products certification system there is, the involvement ...

6 Aug 2020

Pressure on FSC to address transparency and conflict of interest concerns

News / Energy

Singapore’s carbon emissions targets hinge on reducing gas dependency

...t at the cost of expensive, under-utilised and polluting fossil fuel assets. “The current state of the Singapore electricity market is that it’s hugely overbuilt generation capacity, and that it’s a...

14 Oct 2021

Singapore’s carbon emissions targets hinge on reducing gas dependency

News / Manufacturing

'Please, we are not animals': Virus fears weigh on Cambodia's garment workers

...t want to comment on how many factories might shut down after the holiday ... but it won't be pretty." This story was published with permission from Thomson Reuters Foundation, the charitable arm of T...

14 Apr 2020

'Please, we are not animals': Virus fears weigh on Cambodia's garment workers

The team working on Dai Nippon Printing's innovations to reduce single-use plastic use in Singapore. Image: Eco-Business

News / Waste

Why is this reusable container scheme in Singapore not working?

...tarted to think about ways to reduce the environmental footprint of its products. “A big wave of disruption is coming [for printers and packaging manufacturers]. We need to reduce the amount of plasti...

10 Dec 2019

Why is this reusable container scheme in Singapore not working?

Press Releases / Mondelez Philippines

Walang Plastikan: As plastic use increases under the new normal, how can stakeholders work out a solution?

...ter it's collected, what's next? That's the imperative for us to craft solutions. Not looking at plastic as the problem but in taking plastic waste management as a potential solution to this problem t...

3 Jun 2020

Walang Plastikan: As plastic use increases under the new normal, how can stakeholders work out a solution?

Solar farm, Thailand, intermittency challenges

News / Energy

When the wind drops and the sun goes down: how can Southeast Asia handle fluctuating clean power supply?

...tructure in most Southeast Asian countries because the state lacks the funds, not least due to the pandemic. But the key obstacles in most states continue to be domestic vested interests and high tran...

27 Aug 2021

When the wind drops and the sun goes down: how can Southeast Asia handle fluctuating clean power supply?

News / None

Biden's return to Paris pact just a first step for US climate action

...tious targets, saying the United States should aim to reach net-zero emissions by 2040 if it is to do its "fair share" to fight climate change. "The United States is the second-largest emitter of carb...

21 Jan 2021

Biden's return to Paris pact just a first step for US climate action

Press Releases / SENEC

World-leading SENEC launches new-generation hybrid solar battery

...ttery in the world. Extra safety features as standard The safety features that come standard with the hybrid battery are unmatched anywhere in the world. They include: * An AC/DC customer integrate...

12 Nov 2019

World-leading SENEC launches new-generation hybrid solar battery

News / Food & Agriculture

Meet the Eco-Business A-Listers: Simon Lord, sustainable palm oil proponent

...t and such a collection of issues to deal with. What is the most important thing that you did in the past year? I think the most important thing for us was to realise that traceability and transparenc...

9 Jan 2020

Meet the Eco-Business A-Listers: Simon Lord, sustainable palm oil proponent

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