Sri Lanka News
Corporate Responsibility
Eco-Business’s Sustainability Leadership A-List award is open for 2025 nominations
The award recognises outstanding professionals and youths in Asia Pacific who are driving change across policy, business and society. Judges say clarity of vision and strength in project execution are key attributes they will look out for.
A proposed wind power project by Indian billionaire Gautam Adani in the north of Sri Lanka, which ran into strong opposition from environmentalists due to multiple potential ecological impacts, particularly on migratory bird species, has come to halt.
These include typhoons which struck the Philippines, Sri Lanka and Hong Kong last year. But despite massive supply chain disruptions worldwide, emission intensities of global shipping operations improved in 2024, reflecting upgraded efficiencies of the sector, found a report by technology firm Vesselbot.
Hard structures are still being built for erosion control, despite a national court ruling against them.
Policy & Finance
Kamala Harris loss to Trump ends year of few vote gains for women
Food & Agriculture
Slim pickings for tea plantation workers in Sri Lanka election
Sri Lanka Opinion
Carbon & Climate
Strengthening Asia’s voice for sustainable development
Eco-Business has launched new subscription plans for our community. We invite you to support our independent journalism and thought leadership initiatives to forge a sustainable Asia and beyond.
Food & Agriculture
Women bear the brunt of Asia’s climate failures
What does the future hold for the millions of women left to work in Asia's agriculture sector battling a climate in collapse?
Policy & Finance
Sri Lanka’s debt restructuring is hurting older women
The gender pension gap is particularly acute in the developing world. Sri Lanka’s experience illustrates how the mounting sovereign-debt crisis in developing countries could push even more older women into poverty.
Carbon & Climate
Exploring the intersection of business and our ecology
Founder and managing director Jessica Cheam investigates the relationship between business and our natural world, and shares about the genesis of Eco-Business in this book chapter contribution to 'Peace and Nature', a book compilation of 50 essays and edited by Professor Tommy Koh, Lye Lin Heng and Shawn Lum launched in Singapore recently.
Corporate Responsibility
Four ways Southeast Asian journalists are under digital attack
Policy & Finance
Sustainable development starts with children
Sri Lanka Press Releases
United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs
Economic resilience in East and South Asia supports global growth amid challenges: UN flagship economic report
UN Trade and Development
Empowering women digital entrepreneurs in South Asia
United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (ESCAP)
ESCAP, FDI Center launch pledge to advance gender equality in foreign direct investment
United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (ESCAP)
UN forum catalyses collective action to make feminist finance a reality for Asia and the Pacific
NEU Battery Materials
NUS GRIP Deep tech start-up, NEU Battery Materials raises S$800,000 in seed funding
Sri Lanka Research
BirdLife International
State of the World's Birds 2018—taking the pulse of the planet
