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The buildings sector consumes 32% of the world's energy and contributes 34% of CO2 emissions.

ENVIRONMENT / Sustainability

Mar 18, 2025

'More and faster': U.N. calls to shrink buildings' carbon footprint

CO2 emissions from the building sector rose around 5% in the last decade when they should have fallen 28%, according to a new report.

Entomal Biotech Sdn Bhd CCO Yanni Ching with samples of BSF dried larvae and frass.

ENVIRONMENT / Sustainability

Feb 28, 2025

Turning waste into wealth with insect-based biotech

By Angelyn Labadan

Entomal has treated over 22.5 tons of food waste to date, preventing roughly 55 tons of carbon emissions.

The government will oblige some companies, particularly those in high-emitting industries including steelmaking, to participate in an emissions trading system to be introduced in fiscal 2026.

ENVIRONMENT / Sustainability

Feb 26, 2025

Japan adopts bill obliging firms' participation in emissions trading

Companies that emit at least 100,000 metric tons of carbon dioxide a year will be required to participate in the country's carbon emissions trading system.

Asian seabass are bred at the Songkhla Coastal Aquaculture Technology and Innovation Research and Development Center in southern Thailand.

ENVIRONMENT / Sustainability / OUR PLANET

Feb 23, 2025

Japan looks to save seafood and seaweed farming from warming oceans

By Joel Tansey

Projects at home and in Thailand are seeking to address challenges stemming from climate change as well as sustainability concerns.

The Chip Mong Insee cement factory in Kampot province, Cambodia, on Jan. 9. An investigation has shown that the plastic credits sector relies heavily on the polluting cement industry to burn collected waste, despite concerns about health risks and carbon emissions.

ENVIRONMENT / Sustainability

Feb 20, 2025

'What would you have us do?': The plastic credits problem

By Sara Hussein

Credits place no obligations on buyers to stop producing or using unrecyclable plastic that ends up in the environment.

Laborers at a shipyard on the outskirts of Dhaka. Worker deaths, injuries and exposure to hazardous substances are common in the ship-breaking industry, as is environmental harm with toxic chemicals seeping into the beach and water, harming marine life.

ENVIRONMENT / Sustainability

Feb 19, 2025

Shipyards of Bangladesh brace as heavy emitting ships near end of life

By Md. Tahmid Zami

Worker deaths and environmental harm are common in yards where vessels that have supplied richer nations are dismantled for scraps that can be used in manufacturing.

All Nippon Airways aircraft at Haneda Airport in Tokyo in August 2024. ANA has staked a lot on greener kinds of jet fuel, with 70% of the emissions reductions under its net-zero emissions plan coming from them.

ENVIRONMENT / Sustainability / OUR PLANET

Feb 16, 2025

Sky not the only limit for JAL and ANA’s climate goals

By Chris Russell

The airlines' similar but different carbon neutrality plans highlight the difficulty of decarbonization, especially as the sector is now growing again.

One of the many entrances to the Kabukicho neighborhood in Tokyo’s Shinjuku Ward.

Kabukicho: Tokyo’s ‘stadium of desire’

Visitors walk past Sou Fujimoto's Grand Ring, which has been recognized as the largest wooden structure in the world.

Can a World Expo still matter? Japan is about to find out.

By Tomoko Otake

SUSTAINABLE JAPAN

Smile! It’s ‘Sanrio Time,’ now and ever after

Smile! It’s ‘Sanrio Time,’ now and ever after

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