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Opinion / Carbon & Climate

Why Asian hospitals need to shrink their carbon footprint

...Malaysia, the Penang Buddhist Tzu Chi Dialysis Center employed water treatment system that recovers 90 per cent of wastewater. These hospitals are members of the Global Green and Healthy Hospitals (GG...

2 Apr 2019

Why Asian hospitals need to shrink their carbon footprint

Women in China sort through waste plastics to be sent for recycling.

Opinion / Waste

Plastic in the oceans is not the fault of the global south

...Malaysia and Vietnam—four of them part of the so-called most polluting countries. These countries are now overwhelmed by the sheer volume of plastics. Vietnam, for instance, announced it would ban the...

1 Feb 2019

Plastic in the oceans is not the fault of the global south

Water Bodies, a VR experience by illustrator and visual artist Adeline Tan, takes you on a journey into the human stomach.

News / Lifestyle

Is experiential art better at sustainability storytelling than words?

...Malaysia than Singapore, where the milky way cannot be seen. So she set out to illuminate the problem of light pollution. Yashini shares that Singapore is one of the world’s most light-polluted cities...

28 Feb 2019

Is experiential art better at sustainability storytelling than words?

News / Food & Agriculture

Hunger stalks Asia's booming cities - UN agencies

...Malaysia. Urban food policy in the region must take into account transport, infrastructure, housing, education, and water and sanitation for greater impact, the report noted. "Urban planners must beco...

5 Nov 2018

Hunger stalks Asia's booming cities - UN agencies

News / Food & Agriculture

Stretching the conversation about sustainable natural rubber

...Malaysia, Indonesia and Vietnam have made Southeast Asia the epicentre of global rubber production. Ninety per cent of the 13.960 million tonnes of rubber tapped last year came from this part of the w...

27 Mar 2019

Stretching the conversation about sustainable natural rubber

News / Carbon & Climate

7 ways climate change was felt in Asia in 2019

...Malaysia and Singapore, four years after Indonesia’s worst haze crisis on record. The catastrophic fires, which laid waste to an area several times the size of Singapore, claimed at least two lives, b...

19 Dec 2019

7 ways climate change was felt in Asia in 2019

News / Food & Agriculture

‘China speed’ needed for a breakthrough in sustainable palm oil

...Malaysia and Indonesia. The 2020 Olympics in Japan, for example, was the trigger which drove up demand for certified sustainable palm oil. Beijing’s Winter Olympics in 2022 could witness the same dema...

14 Aug 2019

‘China speed’ needed for a breakthrough in sustainable palm oil

News / Food & Agriculture

Outrage and conspiracy claims as Indonesia, Malaysia cry foul over EU ban on palm oil in biofuels

Officials in Indonesia and Malaysia, the world’s biggest producers of palm oil, have lambasted the European Parliament’s decision to phase out the commodity from motor fuels over the next three years ...

23 Jan 2018

Outrage and conspiracy claims as Indonesia, Malaysia cry foul over EU ban on palm oil in biofuels

News / Energy

2.2m jobs by 2030: Clean energy's employment promise for Asean

...Malaysia, Thailand and Vietnam emerging as solar panel exporters, according to IRENA’s latest annual assessment of jobs in the industry. Expertise that is in particularly high demand is electrical eng...

25 Sep 2019

2.2m jobs by 2030: Clean energy's employment promise for Asean

Single-use plastic bags are stuffed into a grate door in Little India, Singapore. Only 6 per cent of the city-state's plastic waste was recycled last year. Image: Michael Coghlan/Flickr

News / None

Singapore environment ministry pushes back against MP's proposal to cut single-use plastic and tax bags

...Malaysia, China and India, but Khor said "it is never our practice in policymaking to simply follow what other countries have done." Waste incineration, strict anti-littering laws and litter traps pre...

1 Oct 2018

Singapore environment ministry pushes back against MP's proposal to cut single-use plastic and tax bags

News / Food & Agriculture

Too late to plant green seed among world's forgotten palm oil farmers?

When palm oil farmer Isnin Kasno eventually retires, his three children will turn their backs on the family's small plantation in Malaysia's southern state of Johor. Like many ageing oil palm growers ...

3 Apr 2018

Too late to plant green seed among world's forgotten palm oil farmers?

Wearing Coca-Cola branded t-shirts, Miss Indonesia poses for the cameras while releasing a turtle on Kuta Beach, Bali

Videos / Corporate Responsibility

Launch of ocean conservation event in Bali marred by 'heartbreaking' mass release of baby sea turtles

...Malaysia Terengganu and research affiliate at the Sea Turtle Research Unit (SEATRU) of Institute Oceanography and Environment, faulted the procedure for the release. Young sea turtles should not be re...

29 Oct 2018

Launch of ocean conservation event in Bali marred by 'heartbreaking' mass release of baby sea turtles

News / Corporate Responsibility

Philippines to roll out ‘comply or explain’ sustainability reporting guidelines

...Malaysia, and Indonesia, while Singapore has a comply-or-explain policy in place. “ These insights lead to better decision making in the companies and will help capture long-term business benefits. T...

24 Oct 2018

Philippines to roll out ‘comply or explain’ sustainability reporting guidelines

News / Water

Running dry: Competing for water on a thirsty planet

...Malaysia for much of its water. "It is crucial to be water-independent," said Adam Reutens-Tan, a Singapore resident whose family has slashed its water use, through measures from serving one-pot meals...

6 Jun 2019

Running dry: Competing for water on a thirsty planet

Opinion / Food & Agriculture

Palm oil—can we enjoy it responsibly?

...Malaysia. Here palm oil wastes are fermented into biogas which is then used in three 1,200 kW generators, meeting the electricity needs of the entire mill complex and producing a surplus of 2,000 kW t...

17 Feb 2019

Palm oil—can we enjoy it responsibly?

News / Carbon & Climate

What stands in the way of Southeast Asia's low carbon transition?

...Malaysia, Thailand, the Philippines, Singapore and Vietnam. A number of country-specific barriers to a low carbon economy were identified in the white paper. In the Philippines, long-standing fossil f...

31 Oct 2018

What stands in the way of Southeast Asia's low carbon transition?

Women shopping for groceries in Kuala Lumpur

News / Food & Agriculture

Will palm oil-free certification save forests?

...Malaysia and Indonesia, the world's largest palm oil producers, but had to turn them down because POFCAP is not yet approved there, says Luff. Currently, 50 per cent of certified palm oil-free product...

8 Aug 2018

Will palm oil-free certification save forests?

News / Waste

US revealed to be the biggest driver of the world's waste crisis

...Malaysia, are moving to limit the material they accept or ban it outright following China’s foreign waste ban 18 months ago, industrialised nations must find ways to reduce the rate at which they devo...

3 Jul 2019

US revealed to be the biggest driver of the world's waste crisis

Electronic waste being processed in an informal setting in Thailand. Image: Basel Action Network

News / Waste

E-waste smuggling ring in Thailand signals failure of Basel Convention

...Malaysia, Vietnam and Thailand banning imports of plastic or e-waste. But it's not really good news. That waste will simply go somewhere else. And the likelihood is it won't be treated in the right wa...

27 Mar 2019

E-waste smuggling ring in Thailand signals failure of Basel Convention

Wind turbines along the Southern Ocean, Western Australia.

News / Energy

Australia's energy market confusion is hurting the environment and business

...Malaysia’s still-fresh government has recently opened a tender for 500MW of large-scale solar, and launched a suite of tweaks to the rooftop solar marketplace. However, there is also renewed discussio...

27 Feb 2019

Australia's energy market confusion is hurting the environment and business

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