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Land cleared to make way for palm oil in Indonesia

...the AAL group of companies as of September last year. Others have chosen to divest from the group over climate and environmental concerns. The Norges Bank joins 28 other financiers in the exclusion. I...

30 Jun 2024

Jurong Island view from Jurong Hill Tower

...the blood that flows through our veins. The moment the central bank requires banks to consider sustainability when calculating the amount of capital they must hold to reflect the risk profile of their...

5 Jan 2024

...the Middle East's climate tech scene – the second such study for the region – also found that most of the funds were invested in start-ups across the United States, China, other Asian countries and in...

3 Aug 2024

Microsoft CEO announcing first data centre in Thailand 2024

...the Middle East and Africa are expected to account for the bulk of data centre power demand, which is set to surge by six to 16 times in the same period. While the report singled out the US as “the si...

30 Apr 2025

...the country, as reported by Indonesian daily The Jakarta Post last week. When completed, the combined length of these transmission lines would be greater than the Earth’s circumference. It also plans ...

11 Jun 2024

...ther influence in the region, but without adhering to strong environmental and social standards. Nonetheless, all the other major nonborrowing nations, with the exception of Japan, joined the new bank...

17 Mar 2025

...the Philippines' and Thailand’s GDP. Consumers in Southeast Asia are also feeling the bite of extreme weather in the form of accelerated inflation. According to a recent report by Oxford Economics, th...

28 Jan 2025

The advertisement for McDonald's garlic chilli sauce "celebrates waste"

...theast Asia. The European Union, on the other hand, has plans to outlaw small sachets by 2030, with increasing awareness of how they contribute to the plastic waste crisis. The complaint submitted to...

16 Aug 2024

...the US agreed to resume stalled cooperation on the climate crisis. Li said that his team is finding its footing at a very interesting time, when the two countries are realigning on the climate agenda....

30 Nov 2023

...The juxtaposition of those two statements is both jarring and contradictory. While there has been controversy around this, the transition fuel narrative has been prominent since the early 2000s. The f...

28 Feb 2024

...the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) have been among the most contentious facets of the treaty, largely due to the under provisioning by the developed countries. While t...

11 Nov 2024

Ant Group at Singapore Fintech Festival 2023

...the group, is closely following the outcome of these discussions, Pfaff shared. "One of the nice things... is that the initiatives and innovations in the loan market are transferable to the bond marke...

25 Jun 2024

...their rights to their ancestral land. They also said the project had caused significant environmental and cultural harm, including the destruction of grave sites, the pollution of their river, and the...

14 Sep 2024

...ther their community even has the proper resources. The harm caused by colonial history, which itself has contributed to the crises we face with the environment and society, influences how well differ...

13 Feb 2024

Musim Mas smallholder plantation harvest

...the company has validated its near-term targets and that they should be published within the next few weeks. The company plans to officially announce its SBTi-approved targets on 3 October, after the ...

12 Sep 2024

Ranger in Southern Cardamom REDD+ Project in Cambodia

...The mountain ranges, once an impenetrable fortress for the Khmer Rouge guerillas when they were locked in a bitter battle with the Cambodian government forces and where they had hidden when the regime...

15 Aug 2023

...The tax rate proposed by the mining fiscal reform bill in the Senate in September is too low, said Magno, associate professor in the school of economics at the University of the Philippines and an out...

10 Oct 2024

...the impact of AI on their livelihoods, Akter of the University of Wollongong said now is the time to prepare for the coming disruption. "We are still on the cusp of the AI revolution in the fashion in...

7 Nov 2024

...the cost of power from gas. Fluctuations in the price of LNG have a critical bearing on the returns from gas-fired power generation. The volatility of exchange rates further adds to the uncertainty, g...

28 Dec 2023

...the threshold. However, research published last year warns that the longer the 1.5°C threshold is breached – and the higher the peak temperature – the greater the risk of crossing tipping points. The ...

10 Jul 2025

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