#supply chain Berita
There are concerns that Malaysia's data centre boom will strain its water resources, spurring investor demand for water risks disclosures – especially in the technology sector. Firms must start valuing water risks and engaging suppliers.
Tenaga
Tariff wars may strengthen China’s clean energy supply chain ties with developing nations: GIC
Despite near-term volatility, Singapore’s sovereign wealth fund sees closer trade ties between China and developing countries as a long-term tailwind for investments into clean energy technologies.
Makanan & Pertanian
Can Indonesia produce more food without deforestation?
Indonesia's plans to expand agricultural land to feed a growing population could raze climate-saving peatlands and forest.
Decent, annually revised wages could fill part of the financing gap for fashion workers' climate adaptation.
Makanan & Pertanian
Thailand ‘bringing back the bad old days’ for fisheries, say activists
#supply chain Pendapat
The Trumpian approach to critical minerals – evident from the United States' interactions with Ukraine – may force Southeast Asia to choose sides. The region needs to look at diversifying its technical partners in the energy sector.
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.
The promotion of fossil fuel-driven growth by US President Donald Trump poses significant challenges but there are mitigating factors as well.
Polisi & Kewangan
How China’s listed firms can accelerate emission disclosures
Two experts call on companies to calculate and report Scope 3 emissions along their value chain as soon as possible.
Makanan & Pertanian
How China’s appetite for salmon could reshape global seafood markets
Polisi & Kewangan
Can Japan provide stability to Southeast Asia amid US uncertainty?
Polisi & Kewangan
Malaysia, Indonesia’s journey in pushing for green finance
Pengangkutan
Making an electric car battery, minus China
#supply chain Video
As Singapore-based salad bar chain SaladStop! marks its 10th anniversary, co-owner Katherine Desbaillets talks to Eco-Business about phasing out meat, food waste and single-use packaging, and dealing with customers who refuse to pay 10 cents for a plastic bag.
In the first in a new video series where sustainability leaders interview each other about the toughest things about their jobs, Simon Lord of Malaysian palm oil giant Sime Darby Plantation went head to head with Pamela Mar of Hong Kong-based textile and apparel giant Fung Group.
Studio EB
What does it mean to build a clean and fair palm oil supply chain? For drivers in Indonesia used to unsafe working conditions, this is what it could look like.
Makanan & Pertanian
Out at sea but not out of touch: Can technology make seafood traceable?
Fishermen are often cut off from land for weeks out at sea. But a new technology enables them to be connected with loved ones, while boosting the traceability of their catch.
#supply chain Audio
Polisi & Kewangan
‘We can’t keep asking more questions’: CDP acknowledges it needs to do more with less ESG data
The climate non-profit's head Sherry Madera insists there are just 450 questions, not over 5,500 as some industry players have cited, in its new questionnaire, which has faced pushback for failing to ease disclosure burden as intended.
Karbon & Cuaca
Seeing through the haze – is palm oil still to blame?
Studio EB
Transboundary haze pollution is back with a vengeance in Southeast Asia. The Eco-Business Podcast talks to RSPO CEO Joseph D'Cruz about what the palm oil sector can do to put out the peatland fires that have burned annually for four decades.
Karbon & Cuaca
Competence greenwashing: Are questionable ESG credentials putting climate goals at risk?
Former Monetary Authority of Singapore sustainability chief Darian McBain and recruiter Paddy Balfour tell the Eco-Business podcast why people are exaggerating their ESG expertise and why that's a problem in a key region for sustainable development.
Why is there so much secrecy and controversy around sand extraction? Eco-Business speaks to Madhumitha Ardhanari to find out more about the narrative surrounding sand in Singapore, the largest importer of sand in the world.
#supply chain Siaran Akhbar
UN Trade and Development (UNCTAD)
Global trade in 2025: Resilience under pressure
World Trade Organization (WTO)
New database on critical minerals trade launched to support clean energy transition
#supply chain Penyelidikan
WWF-Singapore
The business case for a UN treaty on plastic pollution
Singapore International Water Week
SIWW 2018 Blue Paper: What will drive the next era of water management?
