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oil palm harvester in Kalimantan Barat, Indonesia

...Malaysia’s certification scheme, called the MSPO. Indonesia and Malaysia are the top two producers of palm oil, accounting for 85 per cent of global supply. “If we compare [the ISPO] with the MSPO, th...

3 Aug 2020

...Malaysia is looking to launch Southeast Asia’s first insect-based dog food in the fourth quarter of this year. Insect protein incurs a much lower carbon footprint than beef, chicken or salmon as the s...

28 Jul 2020

Dr Ashley Brooks has worked on one of the world's most ambitious conservation projects - to double the population of wild tigers by 2022. Image: Ashley Brooks

...Malaysia and Indonesia, but community tolerance is very low and any evidence of tiger in the vicinity will usually lead to its death. As habitats and prey decline, tiger are known to prey on domestic...

14 May 2020

...Malaysia rolled out one of the swiftest shutdowns in Southeast Asia. The Movement Control Order has left many afraid to leave their homes even for essential reasons, with those who break curfew facing...

14 Apr 2020

...Malaysian utility firm Tenaga Nasional Berhad—which operates 26,000 MW of power plants in Malaysia and other nations, more than half of it coal capacity—and a US$21 million loan for the Toledo coal po...

26 Nov 2020

...Malaysia, Thailand and Australia. It was among the food giants called out by non-governmental groups and activists for "cruel" practices towards animals and employees during the pandemic. Asked if mem...

9 Nov 2020

...Malaysia, some Covid-19 measures have put migrant workers either at risk, or out of a job. Malaysia’s movement control order impacted livelihoods, including for undocumented workers. Thailand’s lockdo...

7 Apr 2020

IFC and LOGOS partner to develop green logistics hub, drive economic activity in Indonesia

...Malaysia, Vietnam, Korea, India and New Zealand. LOGOS’ shareholders include ARA Asset Management, a leading Asia Pacific real assets fund manager with S$110 billion in gross assets under manage...

16 Dec 2020

...Malaysia's CIMB made it the first Southeast Asian bank outside of Singapore with a policy to exit from coal finance. While most banks only talk about direct project finance, CIMB notably has ended bot...

10 Feb 2021

...Malaysia’s most influential investors have been quicker to embrace sustainable investing principles than their Singapore counterparts, Ng noted. Large Malaysian asset owners such as Malaysia's Employe...

13 Aug 2019

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

...Malaysia, the world's second biggest palm oil producer. Women who work alongside men on plantations, are not counted as plantation workers, leaving them vulnerable to exploitation. Children, particula...

22 Jul 2021

CAN GLOBAL INNOVATION COMPETITIONS HELP UNEARTH THE NEXT SUSTAINABILITY SOLUTION?

...Malaysia. Obstacles to innovation While such programmes are a promising way to surface ideas that otherwise might be missed, Soumitra Dutta, the founding editor of the Global Innovation Index, cau...

3 Feb 2021

Palm oil plantation in Kalimantan, Indonesia

...Malaysia to work together with the EU, rather than fighting it. “We need to make sure Indonesia and in Malaysia realize that instead of fighting this, it’s better to join and make sure that we are mak...

15 Oct 2019

...Malaysia's national news agency Bernama, she received most story review requests from corporations or sources with public relations officers working for them. Now, as a freelance science writer, she d...

21 Jan 2021

...Malaysia's parliament demanding changes to the constitution and laws to step up punishments for forest-clearing, corruption and pollution. Organised by environmental group PEKA Malaysia, the demonstra...

1 Aug 2019

...Malaysia, the National Automotive Policy (NAP2020) issued in February 2020 targets the development of technologies for next-generation vehicles. Synergise green recovery, renewable energy and battery ...

28 Jul 2020

...Malaysia and beyond. Sanjay Chittarajan Kuttan, executive director at Singapore Maritime Institute and chairman of the sustainable infrastructure committee at Sustainable Energy Association of Singapo...

15 Jan 2021

...Malaysia that are expressing interest in participating in the project, as well as with potential buyers across Southeast Asia that have joined RE100, said Green. RE100 is a club of companies committed...

31 Aug 2020

...Malaysia sent back 150 containers of plastic waste to their countries of origin in January 2019, and the Philippines returned 1,500 metric tonnes of garbage to Canada in June 2019. Cambodia also sent ...

11 Dec 2020

Octogenarians matriarchs in Long Tungan.

A wild boar hightails it into the forest as we approach the village of Long Tungan in Sarawak, Malaysian Borneo. In the driver’s seat of our Hilux, Erang says that if his gun had been within reach he ...

30 Jun 2020

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