Since 1990, the United States has ramped up its production of biofuels—to about 16 billion gallons of ethanol and 1.6 billion gallons of biodiesel in 2017. At the same time, production of palm oil has increased nearly sixfold, mainly for food production, and with it significant deforestation in Indonesia and Malaysia. That overlap has led […]

Malaysia refuses to be “the garbage bin” of the world. Why Global Citizens Should Care Developed countries sometimes force the costs of their consumption habits onto lower-income countries. Plastic waste can degrade environments and cause pollution that leads to negative health impacts. Global Goal 13 calls for climate action — you can join us in taking action […]

HSBC Singapore offers its first green deposit account for corporate clients on Thursday, allowing them to embark on the sustainability path. These accounts will accept the Singdollar and U.S. dollar. Corporate customers of HSBC in Singapore and the U.K. will have a way to support environmentally-friendly projects, as these two markets become the first that HSBC offers […]

BANGKOK (Reuters) – Dozens of activists held a rare protest on Thursday over air pollution in Bangkok, a day after Thai officials closed schools due to concern over the impact. Levels of air pollution in the capital, the world’s most visited city, have hovered at unhealthy levels over the past month – over 100 on […]

Could Singapore run without fossil fuels? Possibly. The government is thinking about it because of global trends, although getting to that future quickly will disrupt the current economic structure and affect jobs. Minister of Trade and Industry Chan Chun Sing said on Monday that the country was certainly thinking of a post fossil fuel future, […]

GEORGE TOWN, Jan 20 — The government is looking forward to a private company setting up a solar panel recycling centre in the next 10 years. Minister of Energy, Science, Technology, Environment and Climate Change, Yeo Bee Yin said many people were concerned about how solar panels could be recycled since there was no recycling […]

Currently, water level in the Northern region’s small- large sized hydroelectric reservoirs is at 60 percent of the designed capacity. According to Electricity of Vietnam (EVN), the volume of water shortage this year could climb up to seven billion cubic meters compared to last year. It will be 15- 45 percent lower than the average of […]

BUTTERWORTH: Malaysia has returned 150 containers of plastic wastes, weighing 3,737 metric tonnes, to their respective country of origin since the third quarter of last year. Energy, Science, Technology, Environment and Climate Change Minister Yeo Bee Yin said the containers of plastic waste, mainly from developed countries, were shipped back at no financial cost to […]

As the deadline for the submission of countries’ climate change action plans to the Paris agreement (NDCs) draws to a close, regional lawmakers urge ASEAN member states to review their climate ambitions. The situation is dire. According to the UN, instead of reaching the Paris Agreement goal of keeping the world’s global temperature increases to “well […]

For more than half a century, January meant prime fishing season for Pang Bin. He took his wooden boat out into Cambodia’s largest lake, his catches and their sales sustaining his family for much of the year. This month, the 75-year-old decided to call it quits, but not because of age or any health concerns. […]