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News / Corporate Responsibility

PR industry group appoints leadership for new unit to tackle greenwashing

...Southeast Asia, Ambarwati Dwilo, senior consultant for PR firm Maverick Indonesia, and Sheena Koh, account manager, Redhill. Corporate sustainability claims have surged in the wake of the Covid-19 pan...

25 May 2022

PR industry group appoints leadership for new unit to tackle greenwashing

News / Energy

The way ahead for sustainable cooling

...Southeast Asia's electricity demand by 2040, according to a whitepaper by the Kigali Cooling Efficiency Program (K-CEP). In the same paper, over 45 per cent of respondents disagreed or strongly disagr...

21 Feb 2023

The way ahead for sustainable cooling

Collecting and sorting waste in Chiang Mai, Thailand

News / Waste

Can ‘plastic credits’ help solve the waste crisis?

...Plastic Standard is the first to officially define a plastic credit as one ton of plastic waste removed or recycled. The organisation works with independent auditing companies that check plastic credi...

8 Feb 2022

Can ‘plastic credits’ help solve the waste crisis?

News / Transport

Grab sustainability head Iris Chang: we're growing too fast for a bolder decarbonisation target

...Southeast Asia's largest ride-hailing app, faces a classic problem for a still-young company trying to reduce its carbon footprint — how to decarbonise a business that is in rapid expansion mode? This...

17 May 2022

Grab sustainability head Iris Chang: we're growing too fast for a bolder decarbonisation target

News / Cities

Can Indonesia's Muslim leaders boost public climate change action?

...Southeast Asia's biggest mosque, the Istiqlal in the capital Jakarta, to discuss ways to raise awareness about global warming and develop climate solutions linked to Islamic teachings. The leaders als...

19 Aug 2022

Can Indonesia's Muslim leaders boost public climate change action?

News / Lifestyle

How to go gentle on your 'revenge travel'

...asia, which offers paddleboat tours in Southeast Asia. “These hotels and operators may be more expensive but they do things right.” Go slow A fishing village in Sabah in northern Borneo, Malaysia. Im...

22 Apr 2022

How to go gentle on your 'revenge travel'

News / Waste

Coca-Cola, Pepsico and Unilever named top plastic polluters in a brand audit, despite plastic neutrality efforts

...plastic products and imposes accountability on plastic producers and manufacturers. Malaysia is the only country in Southeast Asia to approve a nationwide plan in taking bold action to tackle plastic...

27 Oct 2021

Coca-Cola, Pepsico and Unilever named top plastic polluters in a brand audit, despite plastic neutrality efforts

Press Releases / The Incubation Network

Ventures to receive growth support from The Incubation Network to tackle flexible plastic waste

...Southeast Asia, such as flexible and multi-layered plastics (MLP). The flood of hard-to-recycle plastics in Asia Today, Asia is the fastest growing market for flexible packaging, with over 42 per ce...

2 Jun 2021

Ventures to receive growth support from The Incubation Network to tackle flexible plastic waste

Press Releases / Eco-Business

Temasek launches GenZero, an investment platform company aimed at accelerating decarbonisation globally

...plastics. Through a joint investment with C-Quest Capital, GenZero is funding deployment of clean, energy efficient cookstoves to rural households in Southeast Asia to reduce carbon emissions. Ge...

7 Jun 2022

Temasek launches GenZero, an investment platform company aimed at accelerating decarbonisation globally

Opinion / Corporate Responsibility

Building a sustainable e-commerce ecosystem in Southeast Asia and beyond

...Asia Pacific. In Southeast Asia alone, the online commerce market was worth US$62 billion, over a third of which was generated by new shoppers. But the convenience of e-commerce comes with certain env...

28 Jul 2021

Building a sustainable e-commerce ecosystem in Southeast Asia and beyond

News / Waste

Thai trash collectors threatened by continued waste imports

...Southeast Asia have become a new dumping ground, inundated by plastics, electronics and paper, as well as other types of waste, coming mainly from western nations. This has driven down prices for recy...

10 Dec 2021

Thai trash collectors threatened by continued waste imports

News / Carbon & Climate

As Singapore mulls 2050 net-zero, some advocates wonder: can we do better?

...Southeast Asia power grid, meanwhile, has been in the works for 25 years and is touted as a way to facilitate the scale-up and sharing of renewables in the region. As it stands, cross-border electrici...

20 Sep 2022

As Singapore mulls 2050 net-zero, some advocates wonder: can we do better?

News / Corporate Responsibility

11 brands called out for greenwashing in 2021

...Plastic Waste The Alliance to End Plastic Waste has been called out as a "distraction" to Big Oil's expansion plans. Image: endplasticwaste.org The Allliance to End Plastic Waste (AEPW), a Singapore...

7 Dec 2021

11 brands called out for greenwashing in 2021

Press Releases / PEFC

Sustainable paper packaging: good for people & the planet

...plastic is made from virgin fossil fuels – plastic created without any recycled materials. Plastic produced for the very first time. And plastic that isn’t, or cannot be, recycled. If pl...

22 Sep 2021

Sustainable paper packaging: good for people & the planet

News / Waste

Why a national ban on single-use plastic may not be the best solution for waste-choked Philippines

...Southeast Asia A national plastic ban is necessary Zero waste cities may have been able to curb plastic trash, but still struggle with managing the sheer volume of it, said Miko Aliño, Asia Pacific ...

1 Jun 2021

Why a national ban on single-use plastic may not be the best solution for waste-choked Philippines

Podcasts / Waste

How to rebuild the plastic circular economy in 2021?

...plastic and crippled already strained systems for collecting, processing and recycling plastic in Asia Pacific. The low price of oil has sent virgin plastic prices tumbling, which in turn has hurt dem...

18 Jan 2021

How to rebuild the plastic circular economy in 2021?

Press Releases / Climate Change Commission Philippines

Uniting against single-use plastic in 47th episode of ‘Stories for a Better Normal’ series

...plastic trash in the world, contributing almost three million metric tonnes of plastic wastes and 500,000 metric tons of plastic waste leakage per year. Plastic production and incineration use petroc...

2 Jun 2021

Uniting against single-use plastic in 47th episode of ‘Stories for a Better Normal’ series

Press Releases / Borouge Pte Ltd

Borouge enters collaboration to expand recyclate portfolio in Southeast Asia

...Southeast Asia, and Borouge is expected to establish more partnerships with other recycling companies in the coming months. With the access to Plaspulp Union’s mechanical recycling capabilities...

11 Jun 2021

Borouge enters collaboration to expand recyclate portfolio in Southeast Asia

News / Carbon & Climate

WWF Singapore hires Swati Mandloi from Blue Planet for climate action role

...Southeast Asia in palm oil, plastics, sustainable seafood, climate and the illegal wildlife trade. Mandloi's focus will be managing the green group's climate engagement programme, which helps companie...

19 Apr 2021

WWF Singapore hires Swati Mandloi from Blue Planet for climate action role

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Opinion / Waste

The problem of plastic waste – and what it really means to make the polluter pay

...plastic simply does not exist. As such, what bin consumers put their plastic in is meaningless at worst and marginal at best. It is hard to argue with John Oliver’s diagnosis. Just 5 per cent of the p...

26 Mar 2021

The problem of plastic waste – and what it really means to make the polluter pay

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