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Through the carbon offsetting function on its app, Grab neutralised the emissions of more than 43 million trips and saved about 30,000 tonnes of greenhouse gas emissions in 2022, the company claims. But these claims are based on carbon credits of questionable credibility, according to non-profit RimbaWatch. Image: Robin Hicks / Eco-Business

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Ride-hailing app Grab's 'carbon neutral' travel fee risks greenwashing: NGO

A fee that ride-hailing app Grab charges its customers to mitigate the climate impact of their travel is based on discredited carbon offsets and exposes the company to greenwashing risk, Malaysian non...

8 Mar 2024

Ride-hailing app Grab's 'carbon neutral' travel fee risks greenwashing: NGO

News / Policy & Finance

Modern slavery numbers soar to 50 million, driven by global crises

At least 50 million people worldwide are living in slavery - an increase of 10 million in five years - fuelled by conflicts, Covid-19, and climate change, according to new estimates. Compounding cris...

25 May 2023

Modern slavery numbers soar to 50 million, driven by global crises

Press Releases / RSK

New Hong Kong desalination plant begins delivering fresh water to 137,000 homes

The new Tseung Kwan O desalination plant is the first to use reverse osmosis technology in Hong Kong. Construction of the first stage plant began in December 2019, and four years later it began supply...

5 Feb 2024

New Hong Kong desalination plant begins delivering fresh water to 137,000 homes

News / Policy & Finance

Explainer: Why has blended finance not lived up to its promise?

...renewables, with established regulatory and investment frameworks, a track record of private investment and underlying financial sustainability might also be able to successfully attract commercial ca...

13 Sep 2023

Explainer: Why has blended finance not lived up to its promise?

News / Policy & Finance

New Asia leadership at Forum for the Future

International sustainability non-profit Forum for the Future announced changes to its global leadership team today. These included key leadership appointments for its Southeast Asia and India portfoli...

19 Jan 2023

New Asia leadership at Forum for the Future

Podcasts / Energy

‘Carrots, sticks, and hugs’: Scrutinising Indonesia’s US$20 billion just transition challenge

...renewables, is low carbon solutions. Not everything can be achieved by just moving to renewables, because even with a fast-paced renewables buildout, including geothermal energy, we will still be burn...

28 Feb 2023

‘Carrots, sticks, and hugs’: Scrutinising Indonesia’s US$20 billion just transition challenge

News / Waste

Can incinerators solve Vietnam’s waste crisis?

...renewables to make up 21-39 per cent of electricity production, including WtE. That said, official government figures state the potential for energy recovery from solid waste is a modest 1,800 megawat...

24 Oct 2024

Can incinerators solve Vietnam’s waste crisis?

News / Energy

Indonesia’s electric vehicle push relies on coal

...renewables by 2030. “ If 140 million oil-fuelled vehicles are replaced with electric vehicles, each year we reduce emissions by 100 million tons of CO2. Arifin Tasrif, energy minister, Indonesia How...

4 Apr 2023

Indonesia’s electric vehicle push relies on coal

News / Policy & Finance

Analysis: Where is India spending more, fossil fuels or renewables?

...renewables; geopolitics pushing self-reliance in energy – are projected spends in coal, oil and renewables more likely to actually happen than those in hydel and gas? The Third Pole posed that questio...

20 Oct 2022

Analysis: Where is India spending more, fossil fuels or renewables?

Opinion / Policy & Finance

Four steps to make India’s energy transition less painful

Over the coming decades, India like most countries will go through a significant energy transition, steadily reducing the share of fossil fuels in its energy portfolio. Since fossil fuels account for ...

16 Dec 2022

Four steps to make India’s energy transition less painful

News / Carbon & Climate

Japanese camera-maker Canon walks back climate targets

...renewables in Japan". Earlier this year, its research director drew criticism for his views promoting climate denial. Articles posted on CIGS's website have called the climate crisis "fake news" and c...

29 Nov 2022

Japanese camera-maker Canon walks back climate targets

News / Energy

Philippines raises minimum renewable energy capacity to 2.5% in power mix

The Philippines has grown its renewable energy capacity in line with the government’s target to utilise 35 per cent clean power by the end of the decade, the government announced on Wednesday. Under t...

3 Oct 2022

Philippines raises minimum renewable energy capacity to 2.5% in power mix

News / Carbon & Climate

Artists join with climate activists, scientists to paint a greener future

Investors in US energy technology firm GE Vernova had some unlikely visitors in September when Ata Mojlish, a Bangladeshi new media artist based in Texas, joined activists to deliver climate-themed w...

20 Oct 2023

Artists join with climate activists, scientists to paint a greener future

News / Policy & Finance

Landmark report on CO2 removal calls for action

...renewables were in the 1990s. Back then, electricity generation from solar and wind was a niche sector; projects were small scale, expensive and the preserve of committed environmentalists. Now renewa...

27 Jan 2023

Landmark report on CO2 removal calls for action

News / Water

After decades of underinvestment, the tide might finally be turning for water innovation in Asia

For many fast-urbanising cities across India, a continuous water supply that does not get cut in the middle of the day is a pipe dream. In some regions, households and offices now have intermittent ac...

15 May 2024

After decades of underinvestment, the tide might finally be turning for water innovation in Asia

Tailors working in a local garment factory in Bangladesh

News / Manufacturing

Can joint financing for Asian manufacturers help clean up fast fashion’s supply chain?

...renewables and that the consultant Guidehouse will work with suppliers on development and implementation of these decarbonisation activities. All the loans will also be structured according to the ban...

8 Mar 2024

Can joint financing for Asian manufacturers help clean up fast fashion’s supply chain?

News / Energy

Indonesia to make major green energy deal with rich nations at G20

...Renewables law awaited As the world's largest exporter of thermal coal, Indonesia aims to increase the proportion of renewables in its energy mix to 23 per cent by 2025, but has only reached about 12 ...

21 Oct 2022

Indonesia to make major green energy deal with rich nations at G20

News / Carbon & Climate

Millionaire magnet Dubai rushes to future-proof itself after April's record floods

Three months after record rainfall fell on Dubai, turning roads into rivers in the Emirati metropolis, the physical reminders of the storm might have cleared, but its effects linger. The United Arab E...

28 Jun 2024

Millionaire magnet Dubai rushes to future-proof itself after April's record floods

Research / MioTech

From 2022 to 2023: top sustainability stories in 2022 and implications in the new year

2022—a year of ongoing uncertainties as the Covid-19 pandemic rages on, geopolitical tension, and the global energy crisis from the Russian-Ukraine conflict formed the backdrop for the global ES...

2 Feb 2023

From 2022 to 2023: top sustainability stories in 2022 and implications in the new year

News / Carbon & Climate

'Everybody is welcome, the only ask is you come with solutions': COP28’s Majid Al Suwaidi

COP28’s director general Majid Al Suwaidi has declared that the upcoming climate talks to be hosted in Dubai later this year will be inclusive and open to everyone. “Everybody will be welcome at the...

20 Jan 2023

'Everybody is welcome, the only ask is you come with solutions': COP28’s Majid Al Suwaidi

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