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Southeast Asia is around 11,000 km from the Arctic and 9,000km from Antarctica, but it will be hardest hit by rising sea levels caused by melting and collapsing ice sheets if carbon emissions remain a...

22 七月 2019

...plastic packaging in 2017, its website said. Evian has also pledged to make all its plastic bottles from 100 per cent recycled plastic by 2025, up from 25 per cent at present. The 3R initiative plans ...

12 六月 2019

canada trash protests outside embassy in the philippines

...plastic in January 2018. Since then, industrialised nations have looked at China’s Southeast Asian neighbours such as the Philippines, Malaysia and Thailand as alternatives to ship their waste. The sh...

29 五月 2019

Sophie's Kitchen, The Liveability Challenge 2019 winners. Image: Eco-Business

...Southeast Asia's cities more liveable and resilient. Its idea emerged on top of a shortlist that included a 3D printer that uses organic materials, a low-energy airconditioning unit, a drink cup renta...

7 六月 2019

Used consumer electronics at the Virogreen e-waste recycling plant in Singapore. Image: Eco-Business

...plastic, so why not put it to better use than burning it, suggests Krishnan. "It’s more expensive to turn oil into plastic than to turn plastic into plastic," she says, adding that there's a big oppor...

6 六月 2019

A blue recycling bin in the district of Tiong Bahru, Singapore. The city-state's recycling rate has been stagnant since 2012. Image: Eco-Business

...Asian countries such as Japan and South Korea, Singapore's EPR law is the first in Southeast Asia. An EPR law for packaging is slated for 2025 or earlier, and companies will need to segregate food was...

30 八月 2019

...Southeast Asia's first major on sustainability. The new course at Singapore Management University (SMU) aims to grow and promote the understanding of sustainability in Southeast Asia, a region with so...

17 二月 2019

...Southeast Asia Thailand and Indonesia provide a useful snapshot of the difficulties faced by countries in Southeast Asia eager to utilise waste-to-energy.The Thai government has established subsidies ...

22 二月 2019

The Eco-Business A-List features executives who have done the most to push sustainability within their organisations over the last year. Image: Eco-Business

...plastics—which was deemed one of the first and most comprehensive plastics reduction frameworks of its kind. A curious, astute and persistent individual, the former Cathay Pacific and MTR Corporation ...

30 十一月 2019

...plastic crisis in Southeast Asia was less important than his profile. But does the ego that is seeping into the sustainability world in this region really matter, as long as the more image-conscious a...

17 三月 2020

Women shopping for groceries in Kuala Lumpur

...plastic use. As one of the most vulnerable regions to climate change, countries in Southeast Asia have some of the world’s biggest increases in greenhouse gas emissions. Meanwhile, consumers are facin...

8 三月 2019

...plastics reached 1.8 billion metric tonnes in 2015, according to a 2019 study by researchers at the University of California, Santa Barbara. Emissions come from the whole life cycle of plastics: from ...

26 六月 2019

Plastic litter washed up on the coasts of Sabah, Malaysia. Image: WWF-Malaysia

...Southeast Asia, where waste collection systems are lacking and leakage of plastic into waterways is the most severe. The Alliance to End Plastic Waste is made up of 30 companies including Shell, Exxon...

16 一月 2019

Albaba Singles Day 2018 Global Shopping Festival

...plastics kickback Asia is grappling with a growing throwaway culture. However, the report cited efforts towards curbing plastic pollution in the region with a ban on plastic bags in some Indian state...

5 三月 2019

Assaad Razzouk, chief executive of Sindicatum, speaking at an event on energy and the blockchain.

...Southeast Asia, the only region in the world where coal is growing in the energy mix, the regional bloc's three biggest banks, UOB, DBS and OCBC, all declared in an unprecedented 11 days for corporate...

6 十二月 2019

...Asian economies surveyed. Singapore firms registered second lowest in a ranking topped by the city-state's regional rival, Hong Kong. In the report titled Financing a Sustainable Future in Asia, China...

5 十一月 2019

...Southeast Asia as they struggle to juggle more money and staff with their ideals of improving the lives of vulnerable communities. The sudden growth ruptured Outland Denim's company culture - which re...

19 十一月 2019

...Southeast Asia’s worst haze episode since 2015, Yeo threw shade on her Indonesian counterpart, Siti Nurbaya Bakar, for suggesting that Malaysia was not transparent about its own forest fires. Yeo post...

20 十二月 2019

...plastic, better plastic, no plastic,'" said Amita Chaudhury, regional director of sustainable business, Southeast Asia and Australasia, Unilever. "This means we want to reduce the amount of plastic be...

16 一月 2019

Wilmar International's sustainability team engaged in a Zoom meeting

...Southeast Asia-focused publication New Naratif in February. In the weeks since, as a shock change in government upended Malaysian politics and Covid-19 forced Malaysia into lockdown, there has been le...

14 四月 2020

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