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News / Carbon & Climate

No high integrity label for carbon credits based on current renewable energy methodologies: ICVCM

...landfill sites and three for projects that destroy stockpiles of ozone-depleting substances. Other methodologies have been grouped into 29 categories for assessment by multi-stakeholder working groups...

6 Aug 2024

No high integrity label for carbon credits based on current renewable energy methodologies: ICVCM

An artist's impression of the Tuas Nexus integrated waste and water treatment facility, the first of its kind in the world.

News / Waste

Singapore's world-first integrated waste and water treatment facility hit by construction delays

...landfilled on Pulau Semakau, a purpose-built island that is projected to be full in about a decade as Singapore's domestic waste burden continues to grow. Once completed, Tuas Nexus is projected to in...

20 May 2024

Singapore's world-first integrated waste and water treatment facility hit by construction delays

Press Releases / Diversey - A Solenis Company

Diversey, Thailand’s hotel housekeepers push for more sustainable practices

...landfill waste but also enable vulnerable communities to earn a modest but sustainable income," Phang explained. He demonstrated these projects to EHAT members at the 27 April 2024 event. Ms Ampika M...

3 May 2024

Diversey, Thailand’s hotel housekeepers push for more sustainable practices

News / Carbon & Climate

Sustainability innovations that made the headlines in 2023

...landfill once it reaches its end-of-lifespan. With the implementation of the TOMbag by Australia-based cleaning services provider BIC in the City of Sydney's central business district, 33,000 single-u...

26 Dec 2023

Sustainability innovations that made the headlines in 2023

News / Waste

INC-5: ‘dark arts’, filibusters, and the final meeting that wasn’t

Momentum for a global deal to tackle global plastic pollution stalled this month in South Korea, after a small group of oil-producing countries held out against over 100 pushing for an ambitious treat...

9 Dec 2024

INC-5: ‘dark arts’, filibusters, and the final meeting that wasn’t

Greenpeace and other environmental groups are demanding that governments ban single-use plastic sachets by 2030.

Opinion / Waste

Indonesia must lead towards an ambitious Global Plastics Treaty

...landfill sites in Indonesia have experienced overload and fires. Communities living on the frontline are breathing toxic fumes that are harming people’s health. Sarimukti landfill, Bandung, experience...

6 Nov 2023

Indonesia must lead towards an ambitious Global Plastics Treaty

Opinion / Waste

Plastic treaty talks must protect countries like mine from pollution

As I write this, I am sitting in the negotiations for the world’s first UN plastic treaty. I have just learnt that the fossil fuel and petrochemical industry has more than twice as many representative...

30 Apr 2024

Plastic treaty talks must protect countries like mine from pollution

A large expanse of mud lies before the under-construction palace in Indonesia's new capital Ibu Kota Nusantara, in East Kalimantan.

News / Cities

In pictures: Indonesia's new capital – futuristic forest city or white elephant?

...landfilled. Image: Robin Hicks / Eco-Business There is an overwhelming sense that Indonesian visitors to Nusantara want to be proud of the new city. But some worry that funds will run out before the ...

31 Jan 2025

In pictures: Indonesia's new capital – futuristic forest city or white elephant?

News / Waste

In pictures: Life on Southeast Asia's largest landfill

...landfill reaches like the back of an elephant, 50 metres into the sky. The Bantar Gebang landfill in Bekasi, on the outskirts of Indonesia's capital Jakarta, is continually being re-built by an army o...

4 Jan 2023

In pictures: Life on Southeast Asia's largest landfill

News / Waste

INC-5: What to look out for at plastics treaty talks in Busan

For the past two years, nations have been trying to craft a legally binding global treaty that will tackle plastic pollution. The fast-tracked negotiation process is due to end with this month’s meeti...

6 Nov 2024

INC-5: What to look out for at plastics treaty talks in Busan

A beach in Balikpapan, Indonesia's "oil city", is covered in plastic trash.

Podcasts / Waste

Southeast Asia has too much to lose – we need an ambitious plastics treaty: Singapore campaigner Terese Teoh

The global plastic treaty negotiations have crossed the halfway mark in Geneva. A group of countries including the Philippines and Thailand is pushing for an ambitious treaty that includes caps on pla...

12 Aug 2025

Southeast Asia has too much to lose – we need an ambitious plastics treaty: Singapore campaigner Terese Teoh

Press Releases / CC Forum

CC Forum hosts Global Investment in Sustainable Development event in Dubai this COP28

...landfills to recycling plants, cinematic aerials to intimate portraits. Find out more details about the event here.

27 Nov 2023

CC Forum hosts Global Investment in Sustainable Development event in Dubai this COP28

News / Waste

With no worldwide standards, are 'plastic credits' reducing waste or greenwashing?

...landfills, waterways, roadsides), and then verify credits, including Plastic Bank and Plastic Credit Exchange. “As the plastic credit market is still emerging, at this stage each issuing organisation ...

1 Nov 2023

With no worldwide standards, are 'plastic credits' reducing waste or greenwashing?

Opinion / Food & Agriculture

Fasting is a key part of Ramadan, but for many Muslims, climate change is making food scarce all year

...landfill, attendees are asked to bring their own reusable food containers and water bottles. In dedicated bins, bottles and cans are collected and recycled under the state government’s container depos...

8 Apr 2024

Fasting is a key part of Ramadan, but for many Muslims, climate change is making food scarce all year

Research / Nestlé Philippines

Rethinking Plastics: How the Extended Producer Responsibility Act will pave the way towards circularity in the Philippines

...landfills and open dumpsites. The other 760,000 tonnes of mismanaged plastic leaked into the open environment. “We stand at a crossroads,” said secretary Ma. Antonia “Toni” Yu...

10 Oct 2023

Rethinking Plastics: How the Extended Producer Responsibility Act will pave the way towards circularity in the Philippines

News / Policy & Finance

Eco-Business's 'Decoding Sustainable Finance' series wins SOPA award for excellence in explanatory reporting

...landfill in India for the Wasted documentary. Image: Eco-Business The film was co-produced by Cheam, founder and managing director of Eco-Business, and filmmaker Fraser Morton, and supported by assis...

26 Jun 2024

Eco-Business's 'Decoding Sustainable Finance' series wins SOPA award for excellence in explanatory reporting

News / Carbon & Climate

Will nature reporting and blue carbon projects take off in the Philippines in 2025?

...landfills in 2023 – successfully fulfilling the EPR Act’s first-year goal of recovering 20 per cent of the country’s plastic footprint. This was accomplished even as countries failed to strike a globa...

22 Jan 2025

Will nature reporting and blue carbon projects take off in the Philippines in 2025?

Press Releases / Waterbom Bali

A waterpark with a conscience: Waterbom Bali sets sights on achieving net zero by 2033 to become the world's most sustainable waterpark

...landfill to only 6.7 per cent. Their newly opened Oasis Gardens area has integrated an Environmentally Sustainable Design (ESD) Plan, which has been applied to numerous aspects including material sour...

2 May 2024

A waterpark with a conscience: Waterbom Bali sets sights on achieving net zero by 2033 to become the world's most sustainable waterpark

News / Waste

Explainer: Why fast fashion brands destroy unsold clothes

...landfilling. To circumvent regulations in their own jurisdictions, some brands export their unused clothes to developing countries to be destroyed. One town in India, Panipat, specialises in shreddin...

30 May 2023

Explainer: Why fast fashion brands destroy unsold clothes

Edna Ablazo, collection member, the Philippines

News / Waste

The secret sauce to recycling plastic: traceability

...landfill or the environment. Too many solutions? Ellen Martin, chief impact officer at Circulate Capital, an investment firm that invests in recycling firms in South and Southeast Asia, says that a si...

10 Jul 2024

The secret sauce to recycling plastic: traceability