3BL Media

APRIL 18, 2024

We also support regional innovation through incubation and mentorship programs that cultivate promising startups in vital technology areas. These include India, Taiwan and Vietnam, or regions witnessing rapid adoption of digital technologies such as Africa.

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3BL Media

JULY 22, 2022

In Vietnam, Wireless Reach collaborated with The Dariu Foundation to bring educational laptops with mobile network connectivity to schools in Vietnam. . For the 2021-22 academic year, over 700 additional ACPCs will be distributed to new schools in rural communities in the northern and central highland regions of Vietnam.

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3BL Media

APRIL 4, 2024

We inspire the development of regionally relevant use cases of advanced 4G and 5G connectivity, AI at the network edge and IoT through deep-technology incubators and mentorship programs for early-stage startups in many emerging regions, including India, Taiwan, Vietnam and across Africa.

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3BL Media

APRIL 14, 2022

DESCRIPTION: HANOI, Vietnam, April 14, 2022 /3BL Media/ – Qualcomm Incorporated, through its Qualcomm® Wireless Reach™ initiative, and The Dariu Foundation today announced their collaboration on the Vietnam Forward program, which aims to advance digital literacy and competencies in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) among youth.

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3BL Media

JANUARY 11, 2024

The switch from petroleum-fueled motorbikes to battery power can be a significant step towards improving urban air quality in the region. Oyika is testing battery stations in Thailand, Cambodia, and Malaysia, with expansion plans in Indonesia, Vietnam, and other motorbike markets.

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Sustainability Matters

JUNE 26, 2022

Australia has launched the Plastics Innovation Hub Vietnam (or, the Hub Vietnam), an initiative to tackle plastic waste in the Indo-Pacific through the development of real-world solutions to the problem. It will be run out of the Australian Embassy in Hanoi and delivered in partnership with Vietnam’s Ministry of Science and Technology.

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3BL Media

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

With a focus on engaging and elevating young innovators from across Australia and the Asia-Pacific region, Global Citizen NOW: Melbourne will convene world leaders, artists, advocates, journalists, influencers, policy experts and more than 300 of the brightest young leaders from across the region.

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Chris Hall

APRIL 19, 2024

The Asia Pacific region is expected to attract around 40% of total global investment in renewable energy capacity between now and 2050 , with Southeast Asia the focus. Supportive regulation Asia’s renewable potential can only be realised with a supportive regulatory environment, and this is almost universally taking shape across the region.

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ESG Today

MARCH 26, 2024

The number of certified Greener Stores has nearly doubled over the past year, reaching 6,091 after the company expanded its program in 2023 to new markets , announcing the first Greener Stores in the Asia Pacific, and Europe, Middle East, and Africa regions.

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Eco-Business

APRIL 3, 2023

A political firestorm has engulfed clean energy permitting, future plans are in limbo and project developers are cutting manpower in the country that holds some 70 per cent of renewables capacity in Southeast Asia.

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3BL Media

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

Regions that are already overwhelmed by climate shocks will be doubly hit. Due to low rice yields across India, Thailand and Vietnam, prices have begun to rise—even up to 20% in the latter two countries. El Nino is likely to be disastrous for many African regions. Farmers rely on the monsoon rains to replenish their supplies.

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Eco-Business

APRIL 16, 2024

But Singapore and Vietnam made the most progress in reaching climate goals over the last year, as the region grapples to meet US$ 1.5 trillion required to achieve 2030 emissions targets.

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Corporate Knights

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

That’s the assessment of major environmental organizations based in South Korea and Japan, whose representatives told DeSmog that rather than increasing east and southeast Asia’s dependance on an economically volatile and planet-warming energy source it would be much better for the region to shift from coal directly into renewables.

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3BL Media

MARCH 16, 2022

Although many nations in the region have built out significant capacity — and are generating significant energy — several have seen their generated energy go to waste due to lack of adequate transmission infrastructure.

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ESG Today

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

The Climate Innovation and Development Fund (CIDF) , backed by philanthropic capital from Bloomberg Philanthropies and Goldman Sachs, announced today the completion of its first set of blended finance investments, focused on innovative electric mass mobility solutions in India and Vietnam, including electric buses and charging infrastructure.

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Corporate Knights

JULY 13, 2023

In 2022, the Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights found far-reaching and arbitrary human rights abuses imposed on Uyghurs and other predominantly Muslim communities living in Xinjiang, an autonomous region of China located in the northwest of the country.

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Chris Hall

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

This JETP has been followed by new partnerships between developed countries and Indonesia , Vietnam and Senegal. The Glasgow Financial Alliance for Net Zero (GFANZ) will be delivering half of the financial commitments made to Indonesia and Vietnam. gigatonnes of carbon emissions over the next 20 years.

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3BL Media

APRIL 30, 2024

This one was between Oklahoma City and Hanoi, Vietnam, with a connection in Chicago. When their initial flight was delayed, we found another aircraft from one of our regional partners to get this group to Chicago, where they connected to one of our one world® partners.

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Corporate Knights

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

The Asian Development Bank (ADB) has launched a plan to speed up the closure of coal-fired power plants in the region, starting with Indonesia and the Philippines. The two countries, joined by Vietnam, aim to retire half their coal-power capacity over the next 10 to 15 years.

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Sustainability Matters

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

Based at the Urrbrae campus at the University of Adelaide in partnership with Fight Food Waste , and standing as WRAP’s first base outside of the UK, the organisation will be expanding its reach into the region, working on food waste reduction, plastic pollution and sustainable textiles.

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Sustainable Development Network

NOVEMBER 22, 2023

On 14 November 2023, ASEAN Green Future (AGF) presented at the Asia-Pacific Climate Week (APCW), which is one of four Regional Climate Weeks held this year to build momentum ahead of COP 28 in Dubai. At this session, the Malaysia and Singapore country teams presented their findings from quantitative and qualitative climate policy analysis.

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Eco-Business

OCTOBER 6, 2023

Ahead of the World Bank's annual meeting, a think tank finds that Sri Lanka, Pakistan, Mongolia, Vietnam and Laos have issued the most in sovereign debt to date in the region.

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3BL Media

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

In APAC, suppliers joined the Deckers team efforts again to support waterway clean ups in Vietnam and China, recording over 2,000 hours. They are part of a growing contingent of local and regional partners joining Deckers’ collective effort to broaden the reach of Art of Kindness. .

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Sustainability Matters

MARCH 19, 2023

The researchers found that climate hazards across the top 12 coffee-producing regions globally, such as extremes in temperature and rainfall, had increased in every region between 1980 and 2020, and are occurring in multiple locations at the same time.

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Eco-Business

AUGUST 16, 2023

New research into selected geographical regions across Vietnam, for example, finds that the majority of plastic waste is being recycled by informal workers in craft villages. These waste pickers need to be given a voice.

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Chris Hall

JULY 19, 2022

Just 26% of 420 listed companies across the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) region have outlined how long-term climate change factors have informed their climate risk strategy, according to a new report by the Global Reporting Initiative (GRI). . Discrepancies abound .

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3BL Media

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

With funding from the Herbalife Nutrition Foundation, we are excited to invest $300,000 in GFN over the next two years to address these issues in regions with the most urgent needs, specifically the Food Bank Incubator Program in Southeast Asia. Food Insecurity Challenges in Southeast Asia.

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3BL Media

JULY 12, 2023

In Thailand, the Philippines, Vietnam, Indonesia, Myanmar, Cambodia, Laos, Sri Lanka, Nepal and Mongolia, a special cross-functional task force called the CARE Team - COVID-19 Alleviation Response - was formed to actively aid in expanding access to needed medicines. million patients in this region. We supplied a total of 2.5

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3BL Media

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

DESCRIPTION: As we continue to meet biannually, now in person, we will continue to update this page with the latest global and regional trends coming out of our Alliance discussions. It’s a different culture and environment there to learn to do business across these large regions. SOURCE: Inogen Alliance.

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Sustainable Development Network

JULY 26, 2023

Following the opening remarks, three plenaries composed of high-level speakers from the ASEAN region and around the world were. Regional and international collaboration for rainforest conservation: Cooperation between the three rainforests (Amazon, Congo, and Southeast Asia) is critical. The session on Mission 4.7

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Sustainability Update

OCTOBER 30, 2021

Business and financial activities in “ APAC ”, the Asia / Pacific Basin Region are vital to the economies of the rest of the world. Think of the region’s leading sovereign economies…in order of magnitude, consider the impact of the economies of China, Japan, India, South Korea, Australia, Indonesia (the top economies). May 24 2021.

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3BL Media

JUNE 23, 2022

Although these are eye-opening figures, 85% of Asia’s total energy consumption still comes from fossil fuels, so the reality is that the green energy revolution in the region is only just getting started. Supporting the green revolution in Asia. the deployment of large-scale solar photovoltaic systems (PV) in Singapore.

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Chris Hall

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

The IRENA report said that ASEAN’s solar PV installed capacity needs to reach 240 gigawatts (GW) by 2030 if the region is to remain aligned with its 1.5°C That fragmentation can be seen in the regional discrepancies in corporate disclosures on their greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. C temperature scenario.

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Sustainable Development Network

JUNE 26, 2023

In the wake of September 2022’s Transforming Education Summit and the ESD-Net launch, UNESCO has organized sub-regional and regional meetings to convene relevant stakeholders to advise countries in the development and implementation of “country initiatives” to mainstream ESD into national sustainable development efforts.

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3BL Media

JULY 8, 2022

By Dr. Allinnettes Adigue, Head of GRI in the ASEAN Region. Based in Singapore , Dr. Allinnettes Adigue leads GRI in the ASEAN region. She joined GRI in 2018, initially delivering donor-funded programs in Vietnam, Indonesia, and the Philippines. SOURCE: GRI.

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Sustainability Matters

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

In 2021, 20 countries or regions including Australia, Chile, Germany, Greece, Italy, Netherlands, Spain, Vietnam and California generated between 8% to 25% of their total electricity supply from solar energy, with this number growing quickly,” Green said.

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3BL Media

JANUARY 23, 2024

The targets are connected to the regions where Crown maintains operations and include reaching a 70% target in the U.S. and an 80% target in the European, Middle Eastern and African countries in which we operate. Our goals include maintaining rates of greater than 90% and 97% in Mexico and Brazil respectively.

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