Eco-Business Podcast

In this second episode of Eco-Business’s Resilience podcast series, Singapore’s Senior Minister of State Janil Puthucheary and youth sustainability advocate Man Jing Kong dives into what resilience means for the city-state with Jessica Cheam. Watch as they discuss everything from climate adaptation to mental health and building public trust as an AI-driven economy reshapes daily life.

In this episode of On the frontlines, which profiles changemakers on the hard edge of sustainable business, CIMB chief sustainability officer Luanne Sieh shares how she built credibility in her field, what she's learned from dealing with activists, and why she feels criticism of sustainability finance is often misguided.

Tune in as we discuss:

* Learning on the job: how Sieh moved into the role of chief sustainability officer at CIMB

* Embedding sustainability culture at a time of ESG pushback

* Dealing with activists

* "Show me the money": How investors are influenced by sustainability

* Sustainable finance and greenwashing

* How to survive in sustainability

Amid back‑to‑back trash slides and a landfill fire in one of Southeast Asia’s leakiest waste systems, Philippine environment undersecretary Jonas Leones touts new science‑based safeguards for a waste‑to‑energy buildout.

Former Yale-NUS environmental social sciences professor Michael Maniates tells the EB Podcast that individual actions like going vegetarian, using less plastic or avoiding air travel are not only insufficient in saving the planet – they are counterproductive.

What does it mean to build a truly resilient food system? For two of the palm oil sector's leading experts, the answer lies not in ticking sustainability boxes, but in fundamentally reshaping the trust, partnerships, and long-term thinking that hold global supply chains together - especially as geopolitical and climate shocks grow more frequent and more severe.

Government must call on development finance institutions to tap on risk management tools to make the capital-intensive technology more investible, Global Wind Energy Council’s Ann Margret Francisco tells the EB Podcast.

On this episode of the Eco-Business Podcast, climate comedian Stuart Goldsmith talks to Robin Hicks about a career turning one of the world’s most complex and anxiety-inducing problems into something people can actually talk about – even laugh at.

Tune in as we discuss:

Is climate comedy getting harder?

Should climate comedy now be called something else?

How is comedy more effective than traditional forms of communication at changing behaviour?

Are there elements of climate change that just aren’t funny?

How does comedy get through to corporates?

How does climate comedy persuade people to lead more environmentally aware lifestyles?

Climate gags that bombed

In the latest episode of the Climate Tech in Asia series, Eco-Business speaks to Breakthrough Energy and Green COP about what the shifting geopolitical landscape means for the climate tech ecosystem in Asia.

Critical minerals will be a key part of the discussion at this year’s Asean, said environment assistant secretary Noralene Uy, as the Philippines ushers the region towards domestic processing of raw ore in its role as summit chair.

In the second episode of a new podcast series that profiles Southeast Asia's clean energy pioneers, Eco-Business spoke with Frank Phuan, co-founder of Singapore solar pioneer Sunseap and now founder of Equator Renewables Asia, a new company focused on unlocking cross-border green power.