Tag: sustainability

This landmark 20-year agreement, scheduled to commence in 2028, secures 30 MW of renewable electricity capacity from the Yufutsu Abira ...

The company has achieved this milestone through direct retail energy agreements with Tuas Power.

Despite this optimism, 80% of Singaporean executives feel their organisations lag in adopting cloud computing and AI to accelerate progress ...

As CTOs and CIOs in Asia navigate the rapidly evolving digital landscape of 2025, fostering a culture of agility and ...

Projections from IDC also reveal that 50% of Asia/Pacific organisations will only partner with IT vendors that have robust services ...

With the next 12 months looming, over 25% of businesses in Asia/Pacific are bracing for their top challenge: ESG.

The rapidly evolving tech landscape has led many CIOs and tech leaders to an arm-wrestling match: one hand wants to ...

Despite a significant 83% of Malaysian organisations acknowledging the strategic importance of technology in their sustainability strategies, only a mere ...

According to a new report by The Deloitte AI Institute, tech leaders consider agentic AI a key enabler of sustainable ...

In Singapore, 57% of business leaders are optimistic about their organisation's outlook.

L'Oréal partners with IBM to pave the way for the development of a one-of-a-kind custom AI foundation model, a first ...

The solution, a unique combination of Pure Storage's data storage platform and Micron's NAND technology, aims to significantly improve performance ...

According to new research by DLA Piper, some 70% of global data centre investors and operators foresee increased investment in ...

Global healthcare brand Himalaya Wellness Company has chosen SAP to improve its sustainable outcomes and optimise operations.

Developed with KPMG in Singapore as SEAS’ knowledge and technical partner, DigiLeap aligns with COP29 priorities and focuses on mobilising ...

Equinix, Inc. announced a new facility in Singapore named SG6, the company’s sixth International Business Exchange in the country.

"Sustainable development is the development that meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to ...

Preferred Networks, Inc. (PFN) has chosen NRT12, Digital Realty's latest data centre in Tokyo, Japan, to host its Preferred Computing Platform, a ...

As the demand for green practices in data centre operations rises, a question remains: Are data centre operators or service ...

Google has announced long-term agreements for 275 megawatts of new clean energy generation capacity in the Asia Pacific (APAC) region

Singapore companies prioritise digitalisation to accelerate sustainability efforts, according to a new report by Schneider Electric titled “Schneider Electric Green IMPACT ...

UN Global Compact Network Singapore(UN GCNS) has announced the second iteration of its Carbon Emissions Reduction Tool (CERT) programme.

Some 74% of Asia-Pacific CEOs are feeling optimistic about their own countries’ outlook for the coming year, which is higher ...

he numbers increased from 53%, less than half, and 55% in 2022, respectively.

ING published its annual Climate Progress Update 2024, highlighting its commitment to driving the transition to a low-carbon economy.

 In collaboration with Ecosystm, IBM released a new whitepaper, the"Sustainability Technology Guide for Executives," to empower business leaders in the Asia ...

ESG and sustainability were the weakest areas of reputation management for organisations in Hong Kong and globally.

Hitachi Vantara and Broadcom Inc. co-engineered a new private and hybrid cloud solution that converges Hitachi Vantara's integrated systems solution, Unified Compute ...

A recent study by Gartner, Inc. has revealed a significant gap in adopting cost-effective, sustainable IT initiatives, with some of ...

BlackRock's Climate Infrastructure business partners with Google to support the development of a 1 gigawatt (GW) pipeline of new solar ...

Digital Edge (Singapore) Holdings Pte. Ltd. and Peak Energy Investments Ltd. will collaborate to pursue renewable energy production projects designed ...

"The jury has reached the verdict, and it is damning," says António Guterres, the secretary general of the United Nations, ...

Google announced the completion of its latest data centre and cloud region campus expansion in Singapore, which will help address the ...

Technology appears to be a pivotal approach to helping enterprises improve growth and productivity. According to an EY CEO Outlook ...

Our hosts at Diageo view product innovation, supply chain operations and sustainability as parts of a whole and their operating ...

Although 85% of organisations globally place high importance on achieving their sustainability goals, only 16% have integrated sustainability into their ...

Microsoft introduces new data and AI solutions in Microsoft Cloud for Sustainability, allowing organisations to integrate sustainable practices into their business strategies.  “As global ...

By 2024, IDC predicts that 35% of companies and public service institutions in the Asia Pacific (excluding Japan) (APEJ) will leverage Artificial Intelligence (AI) ...

Singtel advances AI development in Singapore and Asia Pacific region by collaborating with global partners across AI, renewable energy, sustainable technologies, and ...

Musang Valley Plantation (MVP) is utilising SC Solutions Inc.’s (SC Solutions) Earth observation (EO) data and analytics solutions, a venture that promotes sustainable ...

Expereo reveals three key trends that help fortify business operations and build greater business resilience against future potential disruptions in the ...

Artificial intelligence and sustainability will drive changes in technology adoption and talent development in Asia Pacific & Japan (APJ) in 2024, according to the study, ...

Equinix Inc. sets energy-saving best practices for data centers in Hong Kong that aims to stabilise the hall environment, improve cooling conditions, lower operating ...

OVHcloud announced the launch of its seconddata centre in Singapore and its most sustainable data centre in the Asia-Pacific region to date. ...

The data center industry currently accounts for approximately 1% of the planet’s power consumption according to a report by Data Center Knowledge. As ...

The Ernst and Young (EY) organization announces the launch of the EY Center for Sustainable Supply Chains in Singapore, to ...

Digital Realty announced a new cooling tower initiative at its SIN10 data centre. It aims to pioneer new levels of water conservation and ...

A global Alibaba study revealed that 73% of (surveyed) consumers want to live more sustainable lifestyles, particularly among those living ...

The latest research from GlobeScan and the SustainAbility Institute by ERM finds that sustainability leadership increasingly requires going beyond compliance ...

The report revealed that balancing the ESG metrics with growth targets (65%), cost of deployment to business (43%), lack of ...

At MWC Shanghai this week, ZTE and China Mobile showed the fruits of their partnership announcing the successful commercial trial ...

AI is the only way to process enormous amount of data and help organisations achieve more concrete sustainability targets.

Adoption of a cloud-first technology is becoming an acceptable strategy or norm for many organisations. As more organisations in Asia ...

The comprehensive training platform is designed to support SMEs in embarking on their decarbonisation journey.

Gartner's top 10 data and analytics (D&A) trends for 2023 can guide D&A leaders to create new sources of value ...

Gartner predicts that by 2027, 75% of organisations will have implemented a data centre infrastructure sustainability program driven by cost ...

Years back, one of my KPIs as country head was to build a partner network in the Philippines. At the ...

IBM and Siemens are collaborating on a digital thread environment to integrate sustainability practices throughout the lifecycle of a product, ...

As the urgency to combat global warming intensifies, enterprises are increasingly adopting rapid decarbonisation practices to align their business strategies ...

alfred24 will also be releasing an AI-powered software for scouting and analysing new installation locations, and optimising fleet routing to ...

The selected start-ups are granted USD$20,000 in funding and will participate in a four-month business optimisation program designed to accelerate ...

Cloud customers are trying to make meaningful sustainability decisions. To really reduce carbon impact (or other types of environmental impact), ...

Mordor Intelligence forecasts Indonesia’s oil and gas market to see a CAGR of more than 5% during the forecast period, ...

The company is on track of its target to exceed local regulations requirements for the provision of EV charging facilities ...

A EY survey of businesses and investors in Asia-Pacific suggests a disparity on the action required to meet sustainability objectives. ...

As Hong Kong companies realise that sustainability can help drive business success, they require high-quality accurate sustainability data to gain ...

The regulation, the first of its kind for a Japanese municipality, aims to cut in half Tokyo’s greenhouse gas emissions ...

Central to the success of any environmental, social and governance (ESG) commitment is data. Any organisation that chooses to commit ...

Environmental, social and governance (ESG) issues have moved beyond conversations at executive gatherings to one where industry bodies and regulators ...

ASEAN is predicted to become the fourth-largest economy in the world by 2030. Propelled by favourable demographic trends, rising income levels, ...

A new Gartner survey revealed that 87% of business leaders expect to increase their organisation’s investment in sustainability over the ...

Despite all the global rhetoric about the importance of sustainability, environmental, social and governance (ESG), only one out of 27 ...

The data-driven coaching methodology combines technology with on-ground agronomists to enhance the effectiveness of traditional capacity-building programs.

Nokia has spent the past 12 months developing an enhanced company-wide ESG strategy to ensure that sustainability is a fundamental ...

Ambitious strategic objectives like growing revenues and accelerating digital business demand action even when the future is unclear. This is ...

Vidhya Balasubramanian “Five years ago, an ESG program was a nice-to-have. Now it’s a business imperative as investors, employees and ...

The 2021 Gartner CEO Survey: The Year of Rebuilding revealed that social responsibility and ESG mentions in top business priorities ...

The Equinix Global Tech Trends Survey brings together the opinions of 2,900 IT decision-makers from diverse industries across the Americas, ...

Towngas is the first public utility in Asia to implement the S-Carbon for supply chain management purposes, having started a ...

The partnership is part of Equinix’s efforts to improve the sustainability of digital infrastructure and reach its climate neutral targets, ...

Many data centre operators are unprepared for mounting sustainability requirements and regulations, according to the latest survey released by Uptime ...

“In most enterprises, there are hundreds, if not thousands, of potential sustainability ideas and projects that IT could support. The ...

Forrester defines digital transformation as the journey of moving to a digital-first business model with the speed and nimbleness to ...

Backdrop: During a Huawei media roundtable coinciding with the vendor’s Intelligent Finance Summit 2022 event, Ryan Ding, president of the ...

Environmental social and governance issues, as well as sustainability are two of the most high-profile metrics that organisations are focused ...

There is no single action that leads to carbon neutrality but a combination of strategies that organisations can collectively implement ...

The emerging sustainability information ecosystem report published by the EY and Oxford Analytica warns that environmental, social and governance (ESG) ...

The Bain & Company report, Unpacking Asia-Pacific Consumers’ New Love Affair with Sustainability noted that 90% of the 16,000 Asia-Pacific ...

“Only one Earth” is the campaign for World Environment Day (WED) 2022. The United Nations (UN) says it is a ...

No matter where you sit in a business, you’ll likely have heard of environmental, social, and governance (ESG). Your peers ...

Environmental, social, and corporate governance is an approach to evaluating the extent to which a corporation works on behalf of ...

The massive global food system generates a third of the world’s GDP and is also the biggest contributor to biodiversity ...

“Sustainability Strategy means the undertaking’s plans of action to achieve long term Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and targets in line ...

Chief procurement officers (CPOs) dealing with supply instability for packaging material should use three tactics to navigate rising costs, delayed ...

The dislocation caused by Covid-19 and the corresponding technology-driven shift has made seismic changes in an otherwise quite conservative corporate ...

The world continues to adjust to the COVID-19 pandemic with cycles of change and adaptation across industries. The latest IDC ...

The last two years have seen significant debate and mixed results in climate change. The world has experienced a brief ...

In Q2 2021, McKinsey surveyed supply-chain leaders to ascertain steps taken to shore up supply chains since the start of ...

With 2022 just weeks away, Vertiv CEO Rob Johnson says data centre operators and suppliers will actively pursue strategies that ...

Nine in 10 companies expect to accelerate their sustainability activities over the coming year as businesses recognize their role in ...

COP26 is the 2021 United Nations climate change conference. It has four mandates: Secure global net-zero by mid-century and keep ...

While the disruptive forces unleashed by the COVID-19 pandemic continue to shape the global business ecosystem, one important trend remains ...

According to the EY report, Navigating the Energy Transition Consumer Survey, a perfect storm of government policy, consumer trends and ...

Since 2020, organizations across Asia/Pacific had to recalibrate their business models as every aspect of the operation was disrupted by ...

Bloomberg Women’s Buy-side Network report identifies talent, impact and journeys as important ‘North Stars’ for enabling successful sustainable investing operations

Following Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Finance Heng Swee Keat’s unveiling of the Singapore Budget 2021, I received several ...

Frost says changes in user behavior patterns will trigger major changes in consumption and business models. It lists 5 steps ...

The technology exists to turn sustainability and resilience needs into an operational reality, but companies must still figure out how ...

The COVID-19 pandemic highlighted that the ability to rapidly adapt and respond to unplanned/foreseen business disruptions will be a clearer ...

Climate change, sustainability, and digital transformation will drive massive change for future chemicals companies.