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Business executives convene at the Green Zone at the COP28 climate talks in December.

...Asia Pacific. In its latest draft of its rules for the real estate sector, released in November, SBTi said that location-based accounting is no longer mandatory. None of Southeast Asia's biggest three...

23 Jan 2024

United States announces partnership to reduce ocean plastic pollution in Indonesia

...Plastic Southeast Asia (POPSEA), a plastic recycling company that is developing sorting and collection infrastructure in underserved communities across Indonesia, in announcing a partnership to expand...

4 Aug 2022

The Incubation Network launches open call for 'Plastic Waste to Value Southeast Asia' challenge

...Southeast Asia, The Incubation Network has partnered up with the Global Plastic Action Partnership and the Alliance to End Plastic Waste to launch the Plastic Waste to Value Southeast Asia Challenge. ...

9 Jun 2022

...Southeast Asia, where six of 11 countries produce a combined 31 million tonnes of plastic waste a year. ESG reports released by the region’s top three online retailers (Lazada, Tokopedia and Shopee) o...

23 Nov 2022

...Asia, in particular the parts of Southeast Asia with relatively well-developed public health systems such as Thailand, Malaysia and Singapore to take the lead where the traditional leaders in North Am...

18 May 2023

...plastic trash accumulated on beaches in Southeast Asia, and dove into the business of ocean plastic offsetting full-time in 2019. His firm cleared 459,722 kilogrammes (kg) of plastic trash from Indone...

31 Mar 2023

...plastic waste – than ever before, and recycling systems simply can’t keep up with the scale of plastic production. The Covid-19 pandemic also led to a lot of waste from face masks, personal protective...

24 Mar 2023

...Southeast Asia also exhorted the merits of “candour to the point of vulnerability”, through constantly checking against common greenwashing mistakes, such as a lack of evidence, being vague and omitti...

23 Dec 2023

Coca-Cola is the headline sponsor of the COP27 climate talks in Egypt

...plastic pollution and try to build a circular economy for the 2.7 million tonnes of plastic it uses a year. Coke's commitments to address the plastic waste crisis include using 50 per cent recycled ma...

14 Nov 2022

Governments, NGOs and companies called out for greenwashing in 2022

...plastic [click to enlarge]. Image: Lazada Alibaba-owned Southeast Asian e-commerce giant Lazada launched a one-day-only campaign to promote "eco-friendly" products on its site that use less or "bette...

8 Dec 2022

Winners from the 2022 edition of The Liveability Challenge

...Southeast Asia, which is heavily dependent on the ocean for the health and livelihoods of 625 million people. "The United Nations High Seas Treaty and the UN's subsequent treaty to tackle plastic poll...

27 Apr 2023

Zalora slashed carbon footprint by one-third amid global push towards lower impact fashion

...Southeast Asia's fashion ecosystem, particularly in helping customers make more sustainable fashion choices. The progress we are making to date is a testament to our unique position as Asia’s le...

2 May 2023

...Southeast Asian nations came together to form the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (Asean), Japan was the first country in the world to build official ties with the regional bloc as a "dialogue ...

29 Mar 2023

...Southeast Asia. Nusantara's mysterious waste management plan Earlier in June, Susantono claimed that Nusantara will implement a comprehensive waste management system that prioritises reduction, reuse,...

30 Nov 2023

...Asia, and what steps is Tomra taking to realise this? Tomra is currently active in 11 countries in Asia, but its main business is in Europe, Oceania and North America. Asia is currently still a fairl...

7 Oct 2022

Products labelled "sustainable" or "planet-friendly" in a promotion on e-commerce platform Lazada

...Southeast Asia's waste problem. The discounted items were mainly consumer and fashion goods made, packaged or shipped with reduced, recycled or "better" plastics, which Lazada defines as plastics that...

27 Apr 2022

Illegal waste exports from the United States to Philippines

...plastic pollution solely on five Asian countries. The Stemming the Tide: land-based strategies for a plastic-free ocean study published in 2015 is often cited by news reports that China, Indonesia and...

15 Sep 2022

...Southeast Asia than other parts of the world. Tan pointed to a 2021 study by Stern School of Business that found that green products, which account for only 17 per cent of the market overall, have gro...

6 Jan 2023

...Southeast Asia, started in June, 2023. It has been linked to major dengue epidemics.” Dengue was first detected in Bangladesh in the 1960s. The disease was then known as ‘Dacca fever’. Bangladesh has ...

8 Sep 2023

Eight finalists for The Liveability Challenge 2023 unveiled, with solutions combating the most urgent urban sustainability challenges of our time

...Southeast Asia. Food & NutritionDisruptive innovations that can establish a circular urban agriculture or aquaculture or alternative protein system. Breakthrough technological solutions to maximi...

27 Apr 2023

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