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As a global powerhouse for clean technology and green finance, China can do more to help Southeast Asia lower its greenhouse gas emissions and transition to net zero, says Dr Jeffrey Sachs, economist, Columbia University professor and president of the United Nations Sustainable Development Solutions Network (SDSN).
Tune in to this episode of the Eco-Business podcast as we discuss:
- How the GBA can help finance Asean's energy transition
- Asean's rise as a strategically important player
- How China can improve its climate leadership
- Why investing in climate action and data still matters
Capping methane release in the oil and gas sector is one of the fastest – and cheapest – ways to tackle climate change. But measurement mandates are first needed to abate the dangerous climate agitant, Viknesh Andiappan and Shareen Yawanarajah tell the EB Podcast.
In this episode of On the frontlines, which profiles the changemakers on the hard edge of sustainable business, Anita Neville, chief sustainability and communications officer of palm oil company Golden Agri-Resources, talks about how the job of the chief sustainability officer is changing, and the growing influence of finance over the role in the context of the palm oil industry.
At the close of COP30, nations agreed to triple adaptation finance by 2035, while the fund for loss and damage appeared to remain sidelined. A veteran attendee of the climate conference explains why.
As the Philippines gears up to lead the Southeast Asian bloc next year, Departmet of Energy director Michael Sinocruz says the government will push offshore wind power to bolster cross-border renewable energy trade, while protecting marine life impacted by structures. An Asean bloc must be formed at COPs to drive such initiatives.
Countries are gathering once again for the annual United Nation’s annual climate conference, known as COP. This year’s COP30 host, Brazil, has pledged to focus on topics that range from boosting climate finance, adopting new adaptation goals, updating national climate targets, and launching a fund to protect forests that is the first of its kind.
But all this is happening against a backdrop of the United States, one of the world’s largest historical emitters, pulling out of the Paris Agreement. Can the rest of the world maintain momentum on climate action through COP, and who are experts looking to for climate action today?
Eco-Business spoke to two veteran COP attendees who have spent decades on the ground supporting the work of negotiators and communicating what’s happening to the public and press:
▸Meenakshi Raman, head of programmes at Third World Network
▸Ani Dasgupta, chief executive officer at the World Resources Institute
Tune in as we discuss:
▸The key climate finance issues at COP30
▸The US’ next steps after leaving the Paris Agreement
▸How civil society can be heard at COP
▸What needs to be achieved on adaptation
The region has been historically underrepresented in leadership at global standard setters like the World Bank and International Monetary Fund. The region has been historically underrepresented in leadership at global standard setters like the World Bank and International Monetary Fund. Sharath Martin, who holds positions in global accounting body ACCA and WWF-Malaysia, tells the Eco-Business Podcast what must change.
Tune in as we discuss:
The reasons behind Asean's lack of leadership at global financial and sustainability standard setters
The region's strengths and challenges
The need to price in nature and biodiversity
Whether the consensus-driven Asean Way is still relevant
How Asean's mindset needs to shift
One of the biggest challenges facing Venisa Chu, Asia Pacific sustainability director for L'Occitane Group, is living up to the cosmetics giant's circular economy ambitions.
Tune in as we discuss:
How Venisa Chu started out in sustainability
The hardest sustainability target to achieve
How to persuade suppliers to get on board with sustainability
Is being a B Corp an advantage in Asia?
The impact of the ESG backlash
Where sustainability sits in the corporate structure
Is re-fill working?
Advice for aspiring sustainability practitioners
Managing burnout
The public backlash has been intense for the ongoing probe on the flood control scandal facing the Philippines. On this podcast, Angelo Kairos dela Cruz, executive director of nonprofit Institute for Climate and Sustainable Cities (ICSC), talks about how so-called Filipino resilience has been "trivialised" and often been used as an "excuse" for developers to dodge accountability for substandard projects.
Southeast Asia's energy ministers will meet in Kuala Lumpur in October 2025 to discuss the future of the Asean Power Grid. Kitty Bu, vice president for Southeast Asia at the Global Energy Alliance for People and Planet (GEAPP), talks to the Eco-Business about what will be on their agenda.
Tune in as we discuss:
- How geopolitics is affecting Asean’s energy transition
- Ideal outcomes from the Asean minister’s meeting
- Upholding social justice in the energy transition
- Optimistic examples of transition finance
Even as cases of greenwashing have declined globally as environmental, social and governance (ESG) language fades from the corporate lexicon, in Australia, greenwashing has remained a mainstream issue as regulators and consumer groups have pursued questionable green claims in the courts.
Joining the Eco-Business Podcast to discuss how Australia has taken the lead in tackling greenwashing is John Pabon, a former United Nations policy analyst and China-based Business for Social Responsibility strategist who now runs sustainability consultancy Fulcrum Strategic Advisors. He authored the book, The Great Greenwashing: How Brands, Governments, and Influencers Are Lying to You.
Tune in as we discuss:
How did John Pabon get interested in greenwashing?
Greenwashing cases in Australia this year
How did Australia get to grips with greenwashing?
Has Australia been influenced by Trump and a pivoting Europe?
Why are companies still falling into the greenwashing trap?
Greenhushing and corporate vulnerability
In a new podcast series that spotlights Asia's clean energy pioneers, Eco-Business spoke to Assaad Razzouk, chief executive of Singapore-headquartered Gurin Energy, about the challenges and opportunities of the renewables sector in Asia in uncertain times.
Tune in as we discuss:
* From finance to carbon markets to renewables: Razzouk's career path
* Scaling renewables and the localisation imperative
* Where are the opportunities in Southeast Asia?
* Intermittency and planting wind farms in nature reserves
* "Winning" the conversation on renewables in the Trump 2.0 era
* China, India and the growth trajectory for clean energy
* Advice for a new generation of clean energy entrepreneurs
The latest round of negotiations for a global plastic treaty ended in failure. Speaking to the Eco-Business Podcast, Doug Wooding, managing director of Hong Kong-based nonprofit Ocean Recovery Alliance, said that countries do not need to wait for a treaty, and should enact polluter-pays laws that mandate firms to recover the plastic they put into the market and finance the chronically under-funded circular economy.
Tune in as we discuss:
What now? INC5.3?
Is no treaty better than a watered down treaty?
Recycled content mandates versus virgin plastic caps
Pressure brands not petrochemical producers
Action is possible without a treaty
The need for regulatory consistency for plastics
What will a realistic treaty look like?
What should a treaty look like for Asia?
Speaking to the EB Podcast from the INC-5.2 talks in Geneva, Singapore Youth for Climate Action president Terese Teoh said that there is no explicit Asean-wide support for caps on plastic production, despite the region’s vulnerability to plastic pollution. She argues that no treaty is better than a watered-down treaty with no production limits.
Eco-Business spoke to Hang Lung Properties deputy director of sustainability John Haffner for the latest episode of On the frontlines, which profiles change-makers on the hard edge of sustainable business.
Tune as we discuss:
Discipline and sustainability spending
Are our sustainability targets too weak or too ambitious?
How do you justify your job?
Managing greenwashing risk
Advice for sustainability aspirants
Burnout risk
The EB Podcast spoke to Dr Bosco Chan, WWF Hong Kong's head of conservation, and Dr Stephan Gale, head of flora conservation at Kadoorie Farm and Botanic Garden, about threats to Hong Kong's unique biodiversity from mega-projects.
We discussed:
Conservation with Dr Bosco Chan
The state of Hong Kong biodiversity: reasons for concern
The Northern Metropolis development – what will it mean for Hong Kong's wildlife?
How can developers reduce the impact on wildlife?
Do cityfolk living in Hong kong or Singapore care about species loss?
Models to follow in biophilic city design
Conservation with Dr Stephan Gale
The climate implications of Hong Kong's mega-projects
Why nature restoration matters
Nature-sensitive building design
The importance native plant species matter to Hong Kong and Singapore
"Listen to ecologists"
On the latest edition of On the frontlines, which profiles changemakers on the hard edge of sustainable business, Aun Abdullah tells the EB Podcast when corporate India cannot retreat from climate action at a time of conflicting priorities.
In the third episode of ‘On the frontlines’, the Christer Gaudiano, sustainability chief of Meralco’s power generation arm says Filipino companies show no sign of backtracking on their sustainability pledges.
In our series 'On the frontlines', which profiles changemakers on the hard edge of sustainable business, Hendrik Rosenthal, CLP’s sustainability director, tells the EB Podcast that open dialogue with internal stakeholders is key to transitioning a company that has committed to a complete exit from coal by 2040.
Tune in as we discuss:
Recycling, Chernobyl and Canadian wastewater: Rosenthal’s route into sustainability
Where does sustainability sit in CLP’s corporate structure?
How is sustainability incentivised at CLP?
How realistic are CLP’s decarbonisation ambitions?
Advice for a new generation of sustainability practitioners
Podcast with climate scientist Professor Benjamin Horton.
Tune in as we discuss:
Horton’s career in climate science, built in the US, shaped by Hurricane Katrina and Hurricane Sandy
How the US and Singapore view climate science differently
Why the attack on climate science in the US matters to Asia
The private sector’s response to climate policy
Why businesses need climate scientists
Climate risks, Singapore and Hong Kong compared
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