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COVID-19 has set global health progress back decades - Gates Foundation
LONDON (Reuters) - The knock-on effects of the coronavirus pandemic have halted and reversed global health progress, setting it back 25 years and exposing millions to the risk of deadly disease and poverty, a report by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation warned on Tuesday.
Socio-economic environmental sustainability emphasis in budget
IPOH: The government will study and redefine the context of socio-economic and environmental sustainability in its post Covid-19 economic recovery framework.
RAM accords top environ rating to Solar Management RM260m Sukuk
KUALA LUMPUR: Solar Management (Seremban) Sdn Bhd’s (SMS) proposed RM260mil Asean Green SRI Sukuk has been accorded a Tier-1 environmental benefit (Tier-1 EB) rating by RAM Sustainability.
Hong Leong Bank introduces ESG framework
KUALA LUMPUR: Hong Leong Bank Bhd has introduced its environmental, social and governance (ESG) considerations in its credit evaluation of its SME and corporate customers.
Morgan Stanley IM raises US$4b for Global Change Strategy fund
HONG KONG: Morgan Stanley Investment Management (MSIM) has raised over US$4bil in assets for the new Global Change Strategy, which was developed with Mizuho Securities.
European banks face indigenous calls to end Amazon oil trade
LONDON: European banks committed to backing action on climate change face allegations of double standards from indigenous groups in Ecuador after a report named them as major players in the trade in oil from the Amazon rainforest.
WWF: Assets of Malaysian firms significantly exposed to climate change
KUALA LUMPUR, Aug 11 (Bernama): A significant amount of assets of various industries in Malaysia are exposed to climate change, says WWF Malaysia.
Seeding interest in sustainable city living
ON A sunny weekday morning, a group of volunteers are busily picking up litter on the side of the road in a quiet neighbourhood of Kota Damansara, Petaling Jaya.
Malaysia's glove industry undeterred by US detention
KUALA LUMPUR, July 19 (Bernama): When Covid-19 first started to send cataclysmic waves through the global equity market, glove maker counters were among those that had bucked the trend and skyrocketed due to a sudden surge in demand for disposable rubber gloves from both the medical and non-medical sectors.
Leaving a legacy to inspire
WHILE progress has been steady, Tan Sri Dr Jeffrey Cheah believes that there is still a long way to go before realising his dream of establishing Sunway University as ‘the Harvard or Cambridge of the East’.
