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As Asia Pacific sees its first net-zero banking alliance exits, the Singapore lender looks to draw up decarbonisation pathways for two more sectors and has clarified what activities count as transition financing.

6 Mar 2025

Indigenous peoples have been on a “path to unprecedented progress” after the first talks in Cali adopted a new program of work on traditional …

India launched a US$4 billion initiative to secure critical minerals amid a global race pushed by the clean energy transition.

Without USAID funds, groups offering health care to LGBTQ+ Filipinos face challenges, look for new partnerships.

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 …

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More than half of global cropland areas could see a decline in the number of suitable crops under a warming scenario of 2°C, new research finds.

6 Mar 2025

With some 300 internet blackouts in 54 states, 2024 was the worst year on record. Myanmar, India, Pakistan, Russia had 70 per cent of them.

The republic is reviewing its strategy to source a third of its nutrition locally by 2030 to better tackle productivity, cost and demand challenges, said a senior minister of state. To date, food self-production remains below 10 per cent.

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Upstream interventions for waste reduction are currently underfunded compared to downstream solutions like recycling and recovery, which developing countries may lack capacity for. Financing must support a just transition for informal waste workers, NGOs urge.

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China's first RSPO-certified shipment of Identity Preserved sustainable palm oil

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In India, current frameworks for defining urban areas relies on the subjectivity of bureaucracy and archaic metrics such as the distribution of the male workforce. A more accurate definition will enable better targeting of resources. By Reetika Syal and Tarun Arora

5 Mar 2025

Much like personal identification documents enable citizens to exercise their rights and receive government benefits, a digital nature ID could help establish essential environmental metrics to account for ecosystem services. By Midori Paxton

With the sustainability agenda facing crosswinds, companies might conclude that sustainable business should take a backseat. But that is misguided. Firms that thrive will stay true to core values while showing how critical sustainability is to the bottom line. By Steven Okun and Aaron Cramer

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Andrew Buay, vice president for group corporate sustainability at Singtel, tells the EB Podcast that CSOs should not be precious about losing part of their job as the function evolves.

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A large expanse of mud lies before the under-construction palace in Indonesia's new capital Ibu Kota Nusantara, in East Kalimantan.

Eco-Business interviewed people in East Kalimantan to get a sense of what Indonesians feel about the "smart forest city" being built to replace sinking, polluted Jakarta. Will Nusantara live up to the hype?

A closer look at how these ‘energy transition’ deals are backed reveals gaps in the lending policies of banks in the Mekong subregion. A 1,460-MW dam, now under construction near the Luang Prabang UNESCO World Heritage Site, will see all its electricity sold to Thailand, but critics have pointed out that the nation is facing an oversupply of energy.

The city's plans to halve emissions by 2035 and achieve net zero by 2050 may be ambitious. But NGOs tracking its policy direction over the years are not convinced and demand a more measurable roadmap with interim goals – not just long-term pledges.

Attribution to global warming is still challenging due to the lack of weather stations in rural areas and small islands, according to the Philippine Climate Change Assessment Cycle report.

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Southeast Asia's clean energy transition

Univers, the global leader for AI in energy headquartered in Singapore, today announced that it has been selected by Albert Heijn, a Dutch flagship supermarket, to deploy its industry-leading microgrid …