The East Coast Town Council (ECTC), Accenture and Amazon Web Services (AWS) are collaborating on a pilot to move towards net zero emissions for a more sustainable future. This includes deploying cloud-powered sustainability solutions that provide insights and recommendations to help residents and businesses lower their carbon footprint.
The six-month...
GoCar Malaysia, an on-demand mobility-as-a-service platform and EV Connection, a one-stop electric vehicle (EV) charging service provide, have entered into a partnership to expand accessibility to EV charging stations in the country.
The collaboration signed at at the Electric Vehicle Expo (EVx) 2022 in Setia City Convention Centre on 23...
Thailand's inaugural e-mobility exhibition, known as Future Mobility Asia 2022, has garnered international attention drawing more than 80 brands. As of now, 14 companies from Singapore, 9 from India and 4 from Malaysia are participating as exhibitors with Singapore products ranging from e-tuk tuk, autonomous shuttles, and electric two-wheelers...
Continuing with the theme of nature in its works, renowned Vietnamese media company Thương Hiệu Vũ is introducing Biển which means Sea, a new music video that portrays the current deplorable state of the sea that has to suffer because of our apathy
The company said that this is a...
REKA, a local R&D company, is joining forces with Murata, a Japanese electronics manufacturer, to develop sustainable smart and data-driven cities across Southeast Asia.
The company said in a statement that the project could ultimately improve the quality of life for the estimated 300 million Southeast Asians who live in...
A group of financial institutions working to slash emissions has launched an Asia Pacific network to promote green investment and push more businesses to adopt decarbonisation targets.
The Glasgow Financial Alliance for Net Zero (GFANZ), set up in April last year and made up of over 450 banks, insurers and...
Trip.com and climate-tech company CHOOOSE have launched an integrated carbon solution to enable Trip.com users worldwide to address the CO2 emissions of their travel. The global travel platform will offer travellers the option to calculate and offset their flight’s CO2 emissions by supporting impactful climate solutions around the world.
Customers...
DBS LiveBetter (LiveBetter), Singapore’s first carbon-conscious tool, now offers users an end-to-end decarbonisation journey that allows them to track and offset their carbon footprint – with just a single tap on their mobile phones.
Track Better and Offset Better are the two features most recently implemented on LiveBetter, a one-stop...
CIMB Bank Bhd and CIMB Islamic Bank Bhd have committed RM100 million in financing through the Low Carbon Transition Facility to encourage SMEs to adopt low carbon and sustainable practices for business resilience.
This facility is part of the LCTF financing scheme established by Bank Negara Malaysia (BNM) in January...
Grab Malaysia has announced a partnership with KLEAN and the Malaysian Research Accelerator for Technology and Innovation (MRANTI), that will look at solutions that will responsibly recover and recycle single-use plastic with Reverse Vending Machines (RVMs).
In a statement, Grab said it hopes this partnership will help encourage recycling and...
Kaer, a Global Cooling as a Service (CaaS) provider headquartered in Singapore, is expanding its operations in six major cities in India - Bengaluru, Gurugram, Noida, Chennai, Hyderabad and Mumbai – to tap into India’s high demand for centralised cooling, which accounts for about 57 percent of the country’s...
Many companies would have heard of the increased urgent emphasis on Sustainability or Environment, Social, Governance (ESG) in the last 2 years.
As larger companies become more selective in working only with business partners who take ESG practices seriously, their trading partners, including SMEs, can no longer afford to operate...
