Eco-Business

MAY 18, 2023

While the worst days are over, the hidden economic impact of Covid-19 still poses a threat to countries across Asia-Pacific, where a fresh but mild wave of Covid-19 cases is picking up.

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Asia Health 79

Eco-Business

APRIL 17, 2023

Asia-Pacific nations from Singapore to South Korea are getting tougher on false or misleading climate claims as ESG rules ramp up.

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Asia 79

Eco-Business

MARCH 7, 2023

With South Asia set to bear the brunt of global heating fallouts, it is imperative to note the nuances including the causes, duration and results of climate-induced migration in the region to chart the way forward.

Asia 79

Asia Climate change 79

AFN Sustainable Protein

JANUARY 10, 2023

In the rest of the world (ROW), Asia particularly, it’s an entirely different story. This is not the case in Asia. The future is Asia. ” Well, Asia is where the action is, folks. The post Asia is too often overlooked in the alt protein conversation. See: Beyond Meat’s terrible year.).

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Asia Agriculture Climate change Seafood 102

Eco-Business

APRIL 11, 2023

Single-use plastic packaging is expected to be a US$26 billion global industry this year, with rapid market growth driven by rising spending power in Asia Pacific, according to new analysis.

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Plastics Asia Packaging 79

Eco-Business

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

Asia is unlikely to follow the same litigious path as the West in tackling greenwash, and will rely on consumer advocacy and sustainability reporting to do so. Meanwhile, 2023 will see new forms of greenwashing emerge, say experts.

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Asia Sustainability 76

altenergymag

MARCH 19, 2021

The high-level international investment conference Energy Week Central Asia & Mongolia 2021 will take place on a virtual event platform on 27-29 April bringing together the authorities, project operators of Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, and Mongolia?, as well as IFIs/DFIs, multinational energy companies.

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Asia Energy Energy Investment 158

Eco-Business

DECEMBER 28, 2022

But only 6 per cent of pristine Southeast Asia is currently conserved. The world agreed to protect almost a third of nature areas on Earth at the COP15 biodiversity summit.

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Biodiversity Asia 79

Eco-Business

APRIL 19, 2023

The much-loved conservation brand has befuddled environmentalists with a climate-costly promotion that takes the super-rich to biodiversity hotspots in Asia and Africa via private jet. The expedition starts with a trip to Singapore Zoo.

Biodiversity 79

Biodiversity Africa Asia 79

Eco-Business

APRIL 19, 2023

Southeast Asia is highly dependent on a volatile global supply of synthetic fertilisers. Local fertiliser production by natural means, through novel innovations, offer more sustainable alternatives worthy of policy action.

Asia 69

Asia Sustainability Policy Innovation 69

Eco-Business

AUGUST 9, 2022

Governments, civil society and the international community need to work fast as the dry season approaches and smoke haze returns in Southeast Asia.

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Asia Government 79

Eco-Business

JANUARY 24, 2023

Asia needs to have greater representation at plastic treaty negotiations to tackle plastic pollution in the region more effectively, said a senior executive from recycling company Tomra.

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Plastics Pollution Asia Recycling 79

AFN Sustainable Protein

SEPTEMBER 21, 2022

For Nutrition Technologies, next steps include expanding the company’s production capacity both at its current operating plant in Malaysia as well as through a new joint-venture project in a soon-to-be-announced second country in Southeast Asia.

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Asia Technology Biotech Waste 93

Eco-Business

MARCH 23, 2023

Despite being less affected than North American investors by the politicisation of ESG, more than half of Asia Pacific investors expect more political pressure against ESG investing in home markets down the road, a Robeco survey found.

Asia 78

Asia Politics Investment 78

GreenTechMedia

FEBRUARY 19, 2021

Nowhere is a smarter approach needed than one of the last frontiers for coal expansion — Southeast Asia. Export credit agencies alone have been financing $31 billion in fossil fuels every year, with a significant amount of that supporting fossil fuels in Asia, according to Oil Change International. But things are changing.

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Fossil fuels Asia Energy Energy 181

Impact Alpha

FEBRUARY 4, 2021

ImpactAlpha, February 4 — Singapore-based private equity impact fund ABC World Asia, launched by Temasek in 2019, led a $24 million financing round. The post Temasek’s ABC World Asia backs Vietnamese oral health provider Kim Dental appeared first on Impact Alpha.

Asia 120

Asia Health 120

Eco-Business

APRIL 28, 2023

Hu's role will involve leading the expansion of the non-profit think tank in Asia Pacific.

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Asia Sustainability 77

Eco-Business

SEPTEMBER 5, 2022

His latest project exposes the horrors of baby orangutans captured from the wild and forced to perform for tourists around Southeast Asia. Aaron Gekoski has documented human-wildlife conflict for more than a decade.

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Asia 79

Eco-Business

MAY 16, 2023

Kim Schumacher, who coined the term "competence greenwashing", believes that the pursuit of societal harmony might be standing in the way of Asia calling out greenwashing. "We We want to believe in the lie," he says.

Asia 41

Asia 41

altenergymag

MARCH 3, 2023

A UK-based wind-turbine inspections’ company has announced it is expanding into Asia thanks to a new partnership.

Asia 81

Asia Energy Energy 81

U.S. Green Technology

SEPTEMBER 17, 2022

The post Circular Bioeconomy and Asia Pulp and Paper’s Role in it appeared first on U.S. There are a finite amount of resources on this planet we call home, and at this current juncture, we are expending these very same resources faster than we can recover them. Green Technology.

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Asia Sustainability Technology 65

Impact Alpha

MARCH 13, 2023

The post The Brief: Systemic risks at Silicon Valley Bank, women-led businesses in LatAm and Asia, SPAC deal on deadline, catalytic capital grants, US SIF’s new chief appeared first on ImpactAlpha. Featured: Systemic Risk Climate tech and other startups exhale after the U.S. backstops Silicon Valley Bank depositors.

Asia 110

Asia Startups 110

Eco-Business

APRIL 5, 2023

The likely return of El Niño risks a repeat of something like the great haze of 2015, which choked Southeast Asia. Experts say the regional bloc, which is already suffocating in the north, needs to prepare itself for another bad haze event.

Asia 79

Asia 79

Eco-Business

DECEMBER 8, 2022

Widely in use in countries including Japan, South Korea and northern Europe, waste-to-energy technology is making inroads in Southeast Asia, where it’s presented as a tried-and-tested green energy solution.

Asia 76

Asia Waste Waste Energy 76

Eco-Business

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

In November, the world’s governments will convene in Panama for a major meeting on wildlife trade—our explainer unpacks the big points for South Asia ahead of CITES COP19.

Asia 79

Asia Government 79

Eco-Business

JANUARY 17, 2023

Coral restoration ecologist Carly Randall tells Eco-Business that warming oceans may be putting Asia's reefs in peril. As temperatures rise, coral bleaching events and disease outbreaks are becoming more frequent.

Asia 79

Asia Health 79

Eco-Business

DECEMBER 21, 2022

C, a study by Fair Finance Asia finds. Most Asian countries’ climate commitments are not sufficiently aligned with the Paris Agreement target to limit global temperature rise to 1.5°C,

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Asia Energy Energy Investment 79

Eco-Business

MARCH 10, 2022

Rising sea levels will affect many Asian countries, particularly those in Southeast Asia. There needs to be fresh approaches and policies to manage what is termed a 'super wicked problem'.

Asia 79

Asia Policy 79

Eco-Business

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

Others note that Southeast Asia does have some capacity to deal with climate risks. One expert says the lack of a strong voice from the region is disappointing. The region is part of a coalition pushing for a loss and damage fund.

Asia 79

Asia 79

Eco-Business

APRIL 1, 2022

Asia has suffered the biggest economic losses to floods in recent times, according to data that shows damage from climate calamities growing by 5-7 per cent a year globally. Asia is also the least insured, despite being flood-prone.

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Asia 79

Eco-Business

JANUARY 24, 2023

Plans are underway for Tokyo to host another Asia office. The International Sustainability Standards Board, a standard-setting body launched after COP26 to harmonise ESG reporting is opening an office in Beijing by mid-2023.

Asia 78

Asia Sustainability 78

Impact Alpha

MARCH 10, 2021

The post Six financial innovations for a sustainable recovery in Africa, Asia and Latin America appeared first on Impact Alpha. ImpactAlpha, March 10 – Voluntary and mandatory carbon markets are starting to drive sustainable investments around the world. Energy Peace Partners’ Peace Renewable.

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Africa Asia Sustainability Innovation 139

Eco-Business

FEBRUARY 10, 2022

Southeast Asia may eventually see the rise of its own green movement. Greens often prosper in federal systems, in countries with service-based economies, and in situations where environmental issues are part of mainstream political debates.

Asia 77

Asia Politics 77

Eco-Business

DECEMBER 16, 2022

As the search for minerals such as lithium, nickel and cobalt spreads across Southeast Asia, the experience of local communities in the Philippines, a nickel mining powerhouse, could foretell risks to environment, health and livelihoods.

Asia 79

Asia Lithium Energy Energy 79

Eco-Business

SEPTEMBER 23, 2022

A small fraction of Asia's publicly listed firms regard nature as business-critical. Asia's property companies are the most nature-conscious, healthcare firms the least. Japanese firms are the region's most active conservationists.

Asia 79

Asia Biodiversity 79

Eco-Business

JANUARY 20, 2022

How will Asia's energy transition mechanism — potentially the world’s largest CO2 reduction programme — phase-out coal in the energy-hungry region?

Asia 78

Asia Energy Energy 78

Impact Alpha

MARCH 13, 2023

The post Accial Capital secures $35 million to finance women-led businesses in Latin America and Asia appeared first on ImpactAlpha. ImpactAlpha, March 13 – Accial Capital provides debt to startups and financial institutions serving businesses and consumers. The Miami-based investment firm’s portfolio includes.

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Asia Startups Investment 59