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‘Mind-boggling’ that female garment makers are not paid a living wage: SukkhaCitta co-founder and CSO Bertram Flesch

...2025. Image: SukkhaCitta Tell us more about why you moved to Indonesia in the first place. I’m originally from Germany. I’ve lived in Indonesia for over 12 years, because Denica, my wife and the co-...

12 May 2023

‘Mind-boggling’ that female garment makers are not paid a living wage: SukkhaCitta co-founder and CSO Bertram Flesch

News / Policy & Finance

Deutsche Bank hires Kalpana Seethepalli to grow Asia Pacific ESG team

...2025. Also this year, the bank pledged to end lending to coal mining by 2025.

27 Oct 2020

Deutsche Bank hires Kalpana Seethepalli to grow Asia Pacific ESG team

Press Releases / Jabra Singapore

Jabra marks sustainability journey with 100% sustainable packaging

...2025, the group: aims to be climate neutral in its own company activities, while also reducing its indirect emissions will use at least 50 per cent sustainable material in new products, having tru...

17 Sep 2021

Jabra marks sustainability journey with 100% sustainable packaging

News / Policy & Finance

Eco-Business launches new global sustainability innovation platform: The SDG Co

...2025, representing more than a third of the projected US$140 trillion in total global assets under management. But the flurry of net-zero pledges and sustainable investments are currently insufficien...

16 Sep 2021

Eco-Business launches new global sustainability innovation platform: The SDG Co

News / Transport

The place of biodiesel as China eyes carbon neutrality

...2025), saying biodiesel trial projects would run where suitable, as well as pilots for using biofuel in aviation. But the availability of feedstocks is hampering China’s biodiesel industry. Liu Jiangu...

15 Sep 2022

The place of biodiesel as China eyes carbon neutrality

News / Energy

Wind and solar are 30-50% cheaper than thought, admits UK government

...2025 at half the cost of gas-fired power, the new estimates suggest. The new report is the government’s first public admission of the dramatic reductions in renewable costs in recent years. It had pre...

27 Aug 2020

Wind and solar are 30-50% cheaper than thought, admits UK government

Conservation of 12,200 hectares of land in Mexico

News / Policy & Finance

Nature-curious investors await bankable conservation deals

...2025 to invest in sustainable projects in developing countries. "We all thought a year ago - with Covid-19 breaking out - that no one cares anymore about nature as well as keeping profits ... but the ...

9 Sep 2021

Nature-curious investors await bankable conservation deals

News / Energy

Indonesia sets eyes on becoming world's geothermal superpower

...2025, and cut carbon emissions to net-zero by 2060. Increasing domestic capacity will also help Indonesia cushion itself from the risks associated with its dependence on fossil fuel imports and assoc...

19 Jul 2021

Indonesia sets eyes on becoming world's geothermal superpower

A protester holds a placard outside the COP26 climate talks, Glasgow, Nov. 2021

Opinion / Carbon & Climate

Net zero is not zero

...2025. Instead, the majority of countries’ nationally determined contributions under the 2015 Paris climate agreement, which were recently updated or reviewed, are based on a 2030 timeframe. This disre...

6 Nov 2021

Net zero is not zero

News / Carbon & Climate

Are China’s new 2030 climate targets ambitious enough?

...2025 – and that simply reiterating the “before 2030” commitment would no longer match the expectations of the international community. Research from China and overseas indicates a peak around 2025 is ...

17 Dec 2020

Are China’s new 2030 climate targets ambitious enough?

Solar farm, Thailand, intermittency challenges

News / Energy

Electricity grids may trip Southeast Asia renewables drive without government intervention

...2025, up from 9 per cent in 2019. Electricity demand in the region is growing at 6 per cent yearly – one of the fastest rates in the world – in line with rapid economic growth, industrialisation and ...

9 Mar 2022

Electricity grids may trip Southeast Asia renewables drive without government intervention

Lim brings to an end a long tenure with Microsoft, where latterly she was senior manager, global diversity and inclusion, Asia practice leader.

News / Corporate Responsibility

Microsoft diversity and inclusion lead Shoon Yin Lim joins Givaudan

...2025, and for half of its senior leaders to be women, and half of its senior management team to come from emerging markets, by 2030. Lim's role involves defining and executing the diversity and inclus...

3 Feb 2021

Microsoft diversity and inclusion lead Shoon Yin Lim joins Givaudan

News / Policy & Finance

China-backed AIIB set to raise climate financing to US$50 billion by 2030

...2025 to be directed towards climate financing. At the press conference, Jin reported that climate finance currently accounts for 41 per cent of the bank’s infrastructure portfolio. He called for more ...

27 Oct 2021

China-backed AIIB set to raise climate financing to US$50 billion by 2030

Petrol station attendant Naeem Satti charges an electric SUV at a charging station in Islamabad, Pakistan

News / Transport

Tax breaks kick Pakistan's electric car shift into higher gear

...2025. "Definitely the tax exemptions make the price point (on electric vehicles) competitive," said Malik Amin Aslam, the special assistant to the prime minister on climate change. "It makes it extrem...

23 Nov 2021

Tax breaks kick Pakistan's electric car shift into higher gear

News / Waste

Should Southeast Asia return to 'native' packaging to tackle the plastic crisis?

...2025, according to data from the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP). Dave Albao, executive director of the Philippine Reef and Rainforest Conservation Foundation, Inc. (PRRCFI), which manages...

22 Nov 2021

Should Southeast Asia return to 'native' packaging to tackle the plastic crisis?

NEU Battery Materials founders Kenneth Palmer and Bryan Oh

News / Waste

As lithium reserves dwindle, Singapore EV battery recycling startup aims to plug supply gap

...2025]. Another is finding the right talent and skillset in a new field in a country with a young EV market [Oh is currently looking to hire an electrochemical engineer], particularly as we look to sca...

5 May 2022

As lithium reserves dwindle, Singapore EV battery recycling startup aims to plug supply gap

Press Releases / Recourse

World Bank’s Development Policy Finance: still funding fossil fuels and unsustainable energy models

...2025. In Pakistan, DPF has had unintended consequences, even when ostensibly it is seeking to support a renewable energy transition. The $400 million Pakistan Program for Affordable and Clean Energy ...

14 Dec 2021

World Bank’s Development Policy Finance: still funding fossil fuels and unsustainable energy models

News / Energy

ExxonMobil takes a gamble on algae biofuel

...2025. A 2050 goal, reached via public and private partnerships, is to discover, finesse and produce an algae strain that proves itself to be cost-competitive with fossil fuels on the energy market. Ho...

7 Jul 2021

ExxonMobil takes a gamble on algae biofuel

News / Energy

Elite power struggle sees Vietnam abandon coal, but leaves collateral damage

...2025. Vietnam’s bet on coal collided head-on with rising concern over the impacts of climate change. One by one, international development banks swore off financing coal plants; by 2020, only a few So...

16 Mar 2022

Elite power struggle sees Vietnam abandon coal, but leaves collateral damage

Coal miners at Lao Ye Temple Mine in Shanxi, China

News / Energy

Analysis: what does China’s coal push mean for its climate goals?

...2025) for the energy sector – a highly anticipated industry roadmap for the next five years – was published on 22 March, further sealing coal’s role in the country’s future power system. The document...

30 Mar 2022

Analysis: what does China’s coal push mean for its climate goals?

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