Eco-Business Podcast

One of the biggest challenges facing Venisa Chu, Asia Pacific sustainability director for L'Occitane Group, is living up to the cosmetics giant's circular economy ambitions. Tune in as we discuss: How Venisa Chu started out in sustainability The hardest sustainability target to achieve How to persuade suppliers to get on board with sustainability Is being a B Corp an advantage in Asia? The impact of the ESG backlash Where sustainability sits in the corporate structure Is re-fill working? Advice for aspiring sustainability practitioners Managing burnout

The public backlash has been intense for the ongoing probe on the flood control scandal facing the Philippines. On this podcast, Angelo Kairos dela Cruz, executive director of nonprofit Institute for Climate and Sustainable Cities (ICSC), talks about how so-called Filipino resilience has been "trivialised" and often been used as an "excuse" for developers to dodge accountability for substandard projects.

Southeast Asia's energy ministers will meet in Kuala Lumpur in October 2025 to discuss the future of the Asean Power Grid. Kitty Bu, vice president for Southeast Asia at the Global Energy Alliance for People and Planet (GEAPP), talks to the Eco-Business about what will be on their agenda. Tune in as we discuss: - How geopolitics is affecting Asean’s energy transition - Ideal outcomes from the Asean minister’s meeting - Upholding social justice in the energy transition - Optimistic examples of transition finance

Even as cases of greenwashing have declined globally as environmental, social and governance (ESG) language fades from the corporate lexicon, in Australia, greenwashing has remained a mainstream issue as regulators and consumer groups have pursued questionable green claims in the courts. Joining the Eco-Business Podcast to discuss how Australia has taken the lead in tackling greenwashing is John Pabon, a former United Nations policy analyst and China-based Business for Social Responsibility strategist who now runs sustainability consultancy Fulcrum Strategic Advisors. He authored the book, The Great Greenwashing: How Brands, Governments, and Influencers Are Lying to You. Tune in as we discuss: How did John Pabon get interested in greenwashing? Greenwashing cases in Australia this year How did Australia get to grips with greenwashing? Has Australia been influenced by Trump and a pivoting Europe? Why are companies still falling into the greenwashing trap? Greenhushing and corporate vulnerability

In a new podcast series that spotlights Asia's clean energy pioneers, Eco-Business spoke to Assaad Razzouk, chief executive of Singapore-headquartered Gurin Energy, about the challenges and opportunities of the renewables sector in Asia in uncertain times. Tune in as we discuss: * From finance to carbon markets to renewables: Razzouk's career path * Scaling renewables and the localisation imperative * Where are the opportunities in Southeast Asia? * Intermittency and planting wind farms in nature reserves * "Winning" the conversation on renewables in the Trump 2.0 era * China, India and the growth trajectory for clean energy * Advice for a new generation of clean energy entrepreneurs