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Southeast Asian countries deserve credit for their cooperative approach towards food security-related policies, a method that has proved effective in stabilising rice stocks and prices. By C. Peter Timmer

31 Mar 2023

Future population size, which new research suggests has been overestimated, is not the primary factor behind planetary problems like climate change. Instead, the world's …

The European Union is scrambling to respond to the United States’ US$369 billion Inflation Reduction Act without sacrificing its ‘crown jewel’ internal market.

Companies with more female representation in the boardroom tend to be more open and honest about their ESG performance, and are less prone to greenwashing,

A 29-country study finds that firms with more gender-equal boards are less likely to exaggerate their sustainability credentials. It also found that companies in …

Despite being less affected than North American investors by the politicisation of ESG, more than half of Asia Pacific investors expect intensified political pressure …

Weekly Top 5 Movers

4004 Resonac Holdings Corporation	13.15%
5110 Sumitomo Rubber Industries, Ltd.	12.01%
3436 SUMCO Corporation	10.36%
47050 POSCO INTERNATIONAL Corporation	9.65%
5471 Daido Steel Co., Ltd.	6.86%

Weekly Flop 5 Movers

86790 Hana Financial Group Inc.	-6.21%
2057 ZTO Express (Cayman), Inc. Class A	-3.86%
1301 Formosa Plastics Corporation	-1.73%
601901 Founder Securities Co., Ltd. Class A	-1.64%
5202 Nippon Sheet Glass Company, Limited	-1.59%

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India-based Kunal Sharma will lead the international sustainability non-profit’s work on energy transition.

22 Mar 2023

Worries about climate change are affecting the family planning decisions of young Chinese.

Asia is unlikely to follow the same litigious path as the West in tackling greenwash, and will rely on consumer advocacy and sustainability reporting. Meanwhile, the year ahead will see new forms of greenwashing emerge, and more 'carbon neutral' claims as firms woo climate-focused investors, experts predict.

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Going 100 per cent organic is not easy for smallholder farmers in the region. Is there a middle road to take where a gradual shift can be managed, while ensuring that the livelihoods of farmers are taken care of?

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If sustainability really was at the heart of everything businesses did, the planet probably would not be 1.2°C warmer than it should be. It's time for corporates to stop using the same meaningless catchphrase – or risk alienating consumers By Robin Hicks

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Six decades after the Green Revolution began, the rise of robotics and artificial intelligence may usher in another agricultural transformation. By enabling farmers to grow more while using fewer resources and generating less waste, these tools could make food production cheaper and more sustainable. By Maximo Torero

Accelerating the adoption of already proven and scalable technologies is a necessary goal. Achieving it will require new policies to guide investments in the right direction, and techno-optimists … By Gernot Wagner

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Covid-19 didn't kill events, but it did change them. Teymoor Nabili and Veemal Gungadin tell the Eco-Business Podcast how a pandemic transformed the way sustainability events are conceived and organised.

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Going 100 per cent organic is not easy for smallholder farmers in the region. Is there a middle road to take where a gradual shift can be managed, while ensuring that the livelihoods of farmers are taken care of?

Women sift sand, hunting for tiny plastic pellets and other debris still washing ashore since the sinking of the X-Press Pearl, a vessel containing chemicals and plastics, in May 2021 off the coast of Colombo, Sri Lanka

Six months after the sinking of the Singapore-flagged X-Press Pearl off the coast of Colombo, local communities are trying to recover from one of the worst maritime disasters in history.

Trying to lead a more sustainable lifestyle is often fraught with controversy, contradiction and hypocrisy, and tackling big problems like climate change and social inequality can seem futile. But there are some things you can do to make a difference in the Year of the Tiger. Here are 22 of them...

Realising it’s now or never, the global gas industry is making a determined push to develop infrastructure across Asia as climate targets tighten and renewables become more competitive.

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RimbaWatch (formerly known as the Rimba Disclosure Project), as part of its efforts to monitor activities related to deforestation in Malaysia, has published a study entitled “State of the Malaysian …

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Generative AI’s incredible speed of sinking into our everyday lives came in like a tsunami. At a record-breaking, tech-pandemic’ish growth rate, OpenAI’s ChatGPT registered users reached 1 million within 5 …