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Dec 23, 20215 min read

Asia-Pacific Climate Digest: Issue# 39 Week 4 Dec 2021

Compiled by Purnima Joshi The Asia-Pacific region is slowly coming around to accepting the inevitability of extreme weather events due to...

Dec 4, 20214 min read

Asia-Pacific Climate Digest: Issue #38 Week 1, Dec. 2021

Compiled by Ms. Purnima Joshi Over the past week, The World Bank Group released its new South Asia Climate Roadmap to help guide its...

Nov 26, 20214 min read

Asia-Pacific Climate Digest Issue #37 Week 4, Nov 2021

Compiled by Purnima Joshi The Glasgow Climate Pact signed last month at the UN climate change conference (COP26) will accelerate the...

Nov 22, 20215 min read

Asia-Pacific Climate Digest: Issue #36 Week 3, Nov 2021

Compiled by Ms. Purnima Joshi The COP26 Summit in Glasgow came to an end after two weeks of intense negotiations in which 197 countries...

Nov 13, 20217 min read

Asia-Pacific Climate Digest: Issue #35 Week 2, Nov 2021

Compiled by Ms. Purnima Joshi As COP26 entered its second week it brought to the fore yet again the thorny issues of climate change...

Nov 6, 20216 min read

Asia-Pacific Climate Digest: Issue #34 Week 1, Nov. 2021

Compiled by Ms. Purnima Joshi The week gone by saw world leaders head to Scotland where COP26, touted as the ‘last-chance’ summit on...

Nov 3, 20215 min read

Valuing Nature: What Success at COP-26 Would Look Like

Wednesday 3 November 2021 Watch the recording of the event here: https://youtu.be/XVkEqnKSPUw CGM’s first event during COP26 was also its...

Oct 30, 20214 min read

Asia-Pacific Climate Digest Issue # 33 : Week 5, Oct 2021

Compiled by Purnima Joshi As the world’s leaders gather in Glasgow, Scotland, this week for COP26 climate talks, the UK...

Oct 22, 20214 min read

Asia-Pacific Climate Digest : Issue #32 Week 4, Oct 2021

Compiled by Purnima Joshi Climate change continues to tighten the noose on humanity, posing the biggest ever existential threat to life...

Oct 16, 20215 min read

Asia-Pacific Climate Digest Issue #31: Week 3, Oct 2021

Compiled by Purnima Joshi Climate change has been causing more erratic monsoons, and increasingly warmer and unbearable summers. Health...

Oct 14, 20211 min read

Series of Webinars to Future-proof your Business

This 4-part webinar series is in partnership with Companies Commission of Malaysia (SSM) and HSBC as well as other local Malaysian...

Oct 11, 20213 min read

Coping with Climate Change – Feeling the Heat in Southeast Asia’s Corporate Boardrooms

by Purnima Joshi The paper by Michael T Schaper, ‘Getting On Board with Climate Change: A New Challenge for Company Directors in...

Oct 8, 20214 min read

Asia-Pacific Climate Digest : Issue #30, Week 2, Oct. 2021.

Compiled by Purnima Joshi. The pressure is on in countries of the Asia-Pacific to wean off coal-fired plants. In fact, shareholders of...

Oct 2, 20214 min read

Asia-Pacific Climate Digest: Issue #29 Week 1, Oct 2021

Compiled by Purnima Joshi With countries limping back to some semblance of normalcy in what may be now termed as the post-Covid era,...

Sep 28, 20215 min read

And The Hornbill Award 2021 goes to…..

If you missed The Hornbill Award finale, you can watch the recording right here. What a ride the inaugural CGM Hornbill Awards has been....

Sep 25, 20213 min read

Asia-Pacific Climate Digest: Issue #28 Week 4, Sept 2021

Compiled by Purnima Joshi The findings of the Sixth Assessment Report (AR6) from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)...

Sep 24, 20212 min read

Biodiversity conservation in Malaysia gets a boost from student volunteers

By Vimalaan Nambier & Sara (Saravanan) Sivanandan The Hornbill Award 2021 for biodiversity conservation in Malaysia, constituted by...

Sep 21, 20216 min read

Round Table Telecommunications Sector

This Round Table convened on Wednesday 8 September 2021 The recording of the session is available here. Register for the Round Table...

Sep 18, 20214 min read

Asia-Pacific Climate Digest: Issue #27 Week 3, Sept. 2021

Compiled by Purnima Joshi As a consequence of climate change, floods, landslides, heatwaves, storms and wildfires continue to sweep...

Sep 17, 20213 min read

Round Table Plantations Sector: Second Session

Plantation Sector Round Tables: Can Malaysia Achieve Net Zero Carbon by 2050? Roundtable 2: Optimising Resource Use The recording of the...