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Bracing for climate realities: How ESG is influencing insurers’ strategies in Malaysia

...1 in Malaysia. Image: ©Muhammad Faiz Zaki (123RF.com) How has ESG influenced the strategies of Malaysian RE? ESG has a significant influence on Malaysian Re. We need to retrain our underwriters to b...

16 Oct 2023

Bracing for climate realities: How ESG is influencing insurers’ strategies in Malaysia

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Southeast Asia chasing 'silver bullet' climate solutions at expense of proven methods: report

...1 per cent has been invested. As such, no country in the region is on track for the 1.5°C scenario, which is widely deemed a safe level of climate change for humanity. That is despite eight of 10 Sout...

8 Jun 2022

Southeast Asia chasing 'silver bullet' climate solutions at expense of proven methods: report

Opinion / Cities

Broken China-US relations put the world's health at risk

...19 virus and how scientists worked to contain and defeat it Breathless – made this process more effective. That process began in the 1970s when the US and China began working together, even before dip...

16 Nov 2022

Broken China-US relations put the world's health at risk

News / Carbon & Climate

Are the Arctic's warm, cold spells causing India’s fluctuating monsoons?

...1000 years (1107 to 1967). “Presently, the Indian monsoon’s year-to-year variations are primarily driven by tropical factors. However, the Arctic’s influence on the short-term variability of the India...

5 Apr 2023

Are the Arctic's warm, cold spells causing India’s fluctuating monsoons?

News / Cities

Is Nepal doing enough to educate children on climate change?

...10 (ages 14 and 15), but this is no longer available. In 2020-21, the CDC instead introduced Environmental Science as an optional subject for classes 9 to 12 (ages 14 and 15). Hemraj Khatiwada, subj...

14 Jun 2023

Is Nepal doing enough to educate children on climate change?

News / Lifestyle

The sustainability buzzwords of 2023

...100 million times at the start of the year. The figure has since grown to 1.1 billion. Some deinfluencers are also calling out big brands for overcharging on their products, while recommending budget ...

23 Dec 2023

The sustainability buzzwords of 2023

News / Carbon & Climate

China and Mongolia team up to fight sandstorms

...1940 and 2015, while precipitation fell 7 per cent. And between 1987 and 2010, more than a quarter of lakes larger than 1 square kilometre on the Mongolian plateau dried up. More cooperation needed Mo...

24 Jul 2023

China and Mongolia team up to fight sandstorms

Plastic trash covers a beach in Jakarta, Indonesia's capital.

News / Waste

Recycling still a 'marginal activity' as single-use plastic production ramps up

...19 and 2021, the worldwide production of single-use plastics outstripped recycled plastic production by 15 times, according to Plastic Waste Makers Index, a report by Minderoo Foundation. In that time...

7 Feb 2023

Recycling still a 'marginal activity' as single-use plastic production ramps up

News / Policy & Finance

WHO says Covid-19 global health emergency is over, but its impact lingers on for Asia

...17.0 billion in Australia (1 per cent of GDP) and US$27.5 billion (1.6 per cent of GDP) in South Korea, according to the paper titled A neglected burden: the ongoing economic costs of Covid-19. The st...

18 May 2023

WHO says Covid-19 global health emergency is over, but its impact lingers on for Asia

News / Policy & Finance

Explainer: What is cryptocurrency mining and how does it hurt the environment?

...1, cryptocurrency is now worth US$1.1 trillion – five times the size of the gaming market. Virtual currency's huge size and volatility has started to trouble regulators, who cracked down after the col...

18 May 2023

Explainer: What is cryptocurrency mining and how does it hurt the environment?

Press Releases / Gree Energy

Gree Energy is B Corp certified

...11 million tons of CO2eq per year, equivalent to removing 2.3 million cars per year from the roads, Treating 33 million people’s domestic waste equivalent per year. Generating 570GWh/year of e...

25 Oct 2022

Gree Energy is B Corp certified

News / Cities

Indonesia's sinking villages look to nature to restore mangroves

...1-year-old told the Thomson Reuters Foundation last month. Located along the Pacific Rim of Fire, Indonesia is made up of more than 17,000 islands, and faces many natural threats - ranging from earthq...

19 Sep 2022

Indonesia's sinking villages look to nature to restore mangroves

News / Policy & Finance

'Auction' of islands in Indonesian marine sanctuary blocked

...150 kilometres (93 miles). The marine reserve of which the islands are a part spans some 300,000 hectares (741,000 acres), with nearly 6,000 hectares (14,800 acres) of coral reef, 85 hectares (210 acr...

8 Dec 2022

'Auction' of islands in Indonesian marine sanctuary blocked

News / Cities

Are 'sponge cities' enough to curb climate-fuelled floods?

...1 per cent to 100 per cent. The company calculates how much urban surface area is covered by 'blue and green infrastructure' - including grass, trees, ponds and lakes - and how much is covered in 'gre...

21 Apr 2023

Are 'sponge cities' enough to curb climate-fuelled floods?

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The EU struggles to respond to US green subsidy race

...19 and the energy crises. At the latest EU summit on 9–10 February, EU leaders agreed it was necessary to “allow for targeted, temporary and proportionate support to be deployed speedily… in those sec...

27 Mar 2023

The EU struggles to respond to US green subsidy race

News / Waste

How can the world use less plastic and reduce pollution?

...1,231 million tonnes in 2060 from 460 million tonnes in 2019. Parker said the problem is particularly severe in emerging economies which lack sophisticated recycling processes that exist in countries ...

1 Mar 2023

How can the world use less plastic and reduce pollution?

Opinion / Waste

Asia can create a blueprint for plastic circularity

...18 billion in capital investments between 2017 and 2040 and US$1 billion a year increase in operational financing for solid waste management (SWM) systems to meet the 70 per cent waste reduction targe...

7 Dec 2022

Asia can create a blueprint for plastic circularity

News / Policy & Finance

Q&A: What progress has been made on protecting nature a year on from COP15?

...15 president. As of the end of COP28 in December 2023, 118 countries had joined the HACN&P. This compares to 114 in December 2022. (There are 196 countries, including the EU, that are party to the...

22 Feb 2024

Q&A: What progress has been made on protecting nature a year on from COP15?

News / Energy

Heat or eat? Winter protests loom as energy poverty sweeps Europe

...1.5C, the lower goal set by governments in the 2015 Paris Agreement. She called for a policy focus on the "three Rs" of "relief, retrofit and renewables": financial support for the poor, upgrading bui...

29 Aug 2022

Heat or eat? Winter protests loom as energy poverty sweeps Europe

News / Cities

Keppel Corp hires Meixi Gan from SIIA as group sustainability manager

...1 and 2 emissions by 2030, and achieve net zero emissions by 2050. The company is also planning to reduce its exposure to fossil fuel-related businesses. In January last year, Keppel Corp announced th...

5 Apr 2022

Keppel Corp hires Meixi Gan from SIIA as group sustainability manager

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