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Palm oil bergs litter a beach in Hong Kong

...2025. The certifier's statement follows two recent incidences of palm oil dumping reported off the coast of Malaysia. Long oil slicks were identified by Indonesia-based resort owner Andrew Dixon in s...

14 Aug 2024

...2025, and to zero by 2030. Financial intermediaries represent more than half of IFC’s investments and have received almost US$40 billion of IFC support since May 2019. Willis pointed to how this polic...

17 Jul 2024

...2025. Globally, wind and solar energy are expected to more than double their share of global electricity generation, from 12 per cent in 2023 to 30 per cent in 2030, according to an IEA forecast. That...

5 Dec 2024

...2025. On average 71 per cent of the Amazon is not effectively protected through the environmental and social risk management (ESRM) frameworks of the five top financiers of Amazon oil and gas - Citiba...

18 Jun 2024

Schneider Electric urges PH data centres to implement sustainable solutions to minimise energy consumption

...2025 all over the world. As its operations are energy-intensive, the data centre industry is estimated to account for 1 per cent of global electricity consumption. "Data centres have become inte...

16 Feb 2024

...2025 to 2034 as the United Nations Decade on Combating Sand and Dust Storms. The resolution comes amid growing recognition of the intensification of sand and dust storms, from central Africa to northe...

12 Jul 2024

...2025, the state government indicated in a policy brief for its Green Deal, which also noted Singapore’s desire for low-carbon electricity imports from its neighbours. Concurrently, Johor’s state inves...

15 Nov 2023

...2025. However, upcoming analysis from IDDRI and WBA shows that out of all G20 NDCs and LT-LEDS, none currently explicitly reference corporate just transition plans. Beyond NDCs, states can implement o...

13 Jun 2024

...2025. Carbon emissions at participating power plants are expected to fall by about 20 per cent per kilowatt hour from 2023 levels. By 2027, the anticipated reduction in setup and operating costs will ...

29 Aug 2024

...2025-2029 and is expected to benefit more than 13,000 classrooms and around 740,000 pupils, whose buildings were damaged in disasters between 2019 and 2023. For Save the Children, the message is clea...

12 Jun 2024

Oil_Palm_Deforestation_President_Indonesia

...2025. The EUDR mandates strict traceability and sustainability for imports of these commodities into the EU market. By downplaying environmental criticisms, Indonesia could face backlash from markets ...

6 Jan 2025

...2025. Asia Pacific accounts for 42 per cent of early adopters, just one percentage point behind Europe, though this number has largely been swayed by the high rates of adoption in Japan, according to ...

10 Jun 2024

...2025 under the Paris Agreement. “ I don’t think we need to sit around and wait for a lot more evidence to come in before prioritising climate adaptation in fisheries. Fisheries need to rise much high...

31 Jul 2024

...2025. Meanwhile, mitigation finance has continuously increased, it noted. Innovative sources Because the adaptation finance gap has grown, even if the US$40 billion promise is met – which UNEP deems u...

10 Nov 2023

...2025. Meeting the target requires investment in infrastructure and resources to handle the influx of waste focusing on information and studies on solid waste recovery and recycling. The typical issues...

7 Jun 2024

Ravi Menon at Unlocking capital for sustainability 2024

...2025. While coal-fired power plants continue to contribute to the bulk of Asia's emissions, at about 7.6 billion tonnes of carbon emissions each year, forest clearance in Southeast Asia alone – mostly...

16 Sep 2024

...2025. Indonesia also faces formidable challenges in achieving its goal of a 10 per cent market penetration rate for electric vehicles (EV) by 2030, primarily due to prevailing subsidies favouring foss...

6 May 2024

...2025 onwards, when they next re-convene in Baku, Azerbaijan. Pre-COP29 talks in Bonn, which concluded in June, failed to make progress on this new funding target due to divisions over whether wealthie...

19 Aug 2024

...2025 before entering a mandatory phase in 2026, according to the Malaysia Plastics Sustainability Roadmap. No updates have so far been provided on the progress on this initiative.

24 Jul 2024

...2025. By that year, it intends to connect to the grid 11 GW of the former and 1 GW of the latter. It also announced subsidies for companies that start building floating ocean solar projects between 2...

18 Apr 2024

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