#manufacturing News
Tan Thai Yong, who also helms an alliance of companies paving the way for the electrification of harbour craft in Singapore’s waters, tells Eco-Business about the challenges in pursuing low-carbon solutions for sea logistics. A one-year trial for e-supply boat deliveries will kick off next quarter.
Signatories to the global corporate initiative can now use these certificates to make renewable energy claims in China, after authorities addressed previous concerns around double-counting.
Indigenous peoples have been on a “path to unprecedented progress” after the first talks in Cali adopted a new program of work on traditional knowledge and their direct participation in negotiations, say sources.
Policy & Finance
With Indonesia and the US wavering on climate goals, early coal plant retirements in doubt
Indonesia’s climate envoy has cast doubt on the country’s commitment to the Paris Agreement, calling coal plant closures 'economic suicide,' threatening the US$20 billion Just Energy Transition Partnership (JETP).
Manufacturing
Unleashing bamboo: A nature-based solution to plastics
#manufacturing Opinion
Malaysia, Thailand and Vietnam have a sizeable presence in the global REE supply chain – now a geopolitical focal point – but although they may have substantial reserves, their REE production levels are still lower than China's.
Last December's launch of Malaysia's first national EV could spur local component production, but this could be constrained by market conditions while the country's old supply chain, in which the carmaker remains heavily invested, will endure.
Exploring the environmental trade-offs of modular construction in meeting Indonesia’s housing and climate targets.
Carbon & Climate
Many people are feeling ecological grief. How can we help those whose work puts them at risk?
We feel ecological grief when we lose places, species or ecosystems we value and love. These losses are a growing threat to mental health and wellbeing globally.
Carbon & Climate
Climate change poses dire health and human rights risks
Policy & Finance
How technology can help save Indigenous forests – and our planet
Carbon & Climate
We need to stop gambling with our planet - and our well-being - now
#manufacturing Press Releases
UN Trade and Development (UNCTAD)
How cleaner production bolsters economic resilience in developing countries
Greenpeace Southeast Asia
Renewed calls for Asean to prioritise and protect citizens’ rights to clean air from transboundary haze
#manufacturing Research
Eco-Business, supported by Tomra
Malaysia extended producer responsibility roundtable series: Enabling a circular economy via EPR
