The Copenhagen-based Hempel Foundation has launched an impact investment initiative for biodiversity. The Foundation made its first investment in two funds backing sustainable plantation – including o…
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Baker Hughes To Supply CO2 Equipment For Carbon Capture Project In Malaysia
Carbon capture development in Asia is increasing speed as recent news suggests. Baker Hughes was awarded a contract to supply CO2 compression equipment for a large-scale carbon capture and storage (CC…
G7 nations to provide Vietnam with $15.5 bln to cut coal use
The Group of Seven (G7) industrialised nations will provide $15.5 billion to help Vietnam transition away from coal, the British foreign office said on Wednesday. The deal, previously reported by Reut…
Why India & world are facing sudden energy crisis
It is suddenly energy crisis all over the world. In India we are facing a coal shortage of epic proportion which is threatening to upend the entire power situation. Talks are about impending shut down…
Breaking new ground: Sustainability in Malaysia
“We’re dealing with a crisis here, folks.” The warning from John Kerry, the US president’s top climate envoy, to global leaders at the World Economic Forum in Davos in May 2022 couldn’t have been clea…
Bangladesh Really Is a Climate Success Story
Fifty years ago, Bangladesh won independence from Pakistan amid devastating climate disaster. The year before, in 1970, the Bhola cyclone had killed up to half a million people. The human toll of the …
Vietnam to Indonesia: the Asian countries hit hardest by China’s clampdown on new coal-fired power plants overseas
Chinese President Xi Jinping’s pledge to the United Nations that China will no longer build coal-fired power plants overseas will leave many projects awaiting financial closure at risk of cancellation…
Vietnam calls for more EU investments in agriculture
Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development Le Minh Hoan on October 1 suggested EU firms increase investments in Vietnam’s agriculture, in the direction of high-technology, green standards and envir…
Mizoram’s balancing act with palm oil’s ecological impact and economic benefits
— In Mizoram, palm oil has been considered a crop of immense economic promise. The state has 78 percent of the total land under oil palm cultivation in northeast India. — However, the thre…
Adopting sustainable tourism for the environment
In celebration of World Environment Day 2021 on June 5, the Department of Tourism (DOT) urged hotels and resorts to become DOT-accredited to receive assistance in its rapid adoption of sustainable pra…