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Eco-Business is an independent media and business intelligence company that publish high-quality, trusted news, and views in multimedia formats on business and policy developments around the world with a sustainability and ESG-focused lens. Our platform features more than a decade-long archive of information globally.
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As climate change ravages India's crops, world's largest government insurance scheme leaves vulnerable farmers exposed ..read more
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Indonesia’s largest environmental group, Walhi, has filed a complaint with the Attorney General’s Office, accusing 47 companies in the palm oil, mining and forestry sectors of corruption and environmental destruction, allegedly causing 437 trillion rupiah (US$26.5 billion) in state losses ..read more
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As the UN’s shipping regulator explores ways to decarbonise global shipping, biofuels aren’t the green alternatives they are portrayed to be ..read more
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Amid a critical UN meeting on women and with aid cuts causing turmoil, we must remember that investing in women is a priority ..read more
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A fifth of the lender’s portfolio faces high nature-related risks, says sustainability head Eric Lim, noting water’s broad impact and the lack of target-setting tools. Oil and gas, though a focus sector, was excluded from its analysis ..read more
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The draft of its new Corporate Net-Zero Standard proposed the separation of Scope 1 and 2 reporting and expects companies to commit to using cleaner energy by 2040. It also addressed the use of carbon credits to address residual emissions ..read more
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On the first World Glacier Day, experts urge Asia's businesses and policymakers to act this decade to slow glacier loss and ice melt, which remains “out of sight, out of mind” despite the region's extreme vulnerability to rising sea levels ..read more
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The Asian super power’s coal and cement consumption, along with state-owned fossil fuel giants like CHN Energy and Jinneng Group contribute 17 per cent of global carbon emissions, finds a new study by Carbon Majors ..read more
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The watchdog warned that there is a "wide trend" of CCUS initiatives in Malaysia being linked to fossil fuel expansion. It is one of 19 organisations backing a memorandum to the Senate calling for a controversial CCUS bill to be halted ..read more
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Despite being highly vulnerable to climate risk, Sri Lanka is slow to tap into climate funding due to a range of issues including inadequate data systems, institutional weaknesses and limited capacity to design and implement viable projects ..read more