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12/05/2023
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by Paul Sheedy

There are talkers, and there are doers.

Asia House hosted a fantastic session on sustainability yesterday morning, hosted by some of the key people in sustainability running huge companies, from Nestlé, Standard Chartered Bank, Accenture, Temasek and Air Asia Company Limited to name a few. But it was the head of Sustainability from GoTo Group, an Indonesian mega company with 2.7m employees and drivers that rocked the room.  I was very fortunate to have met Tanah Sullivan in Jakarta 6 weeks ago, and to say she put my faith back into turning things around rapidly on the environmental damage we are causing is an understatement. Without offending everyone I know and read about in sustainability, Tanah simply stands out head and shoulders above us all when it comes to our efforts toward changing direction and hitting NetZero goals.  What stands out is her sheer passion and focus, on top of unwavering commitment to hitting sustainability goals, that GoTo are so heavily focused on. Its not box ticking that Tanah focused...

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13/02/2023
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by Paul Sheedy

The Countries taking Climate Change Seriously, and Those who Don’t

The world is currently on a precipice when it comes to climate change, I sound like a broken-down record player at this stage, but it’s frustrating the talking that’s happening and the lack of action. Behind us, there are the countless mistakes of the past that has brought us to our current climate crisis today. Ahead, there is the opportunity to make definitive positive change, but also the possibility that things will simply continue the way they are and we’ll all be the worse for it. Big decisions need to be made, and this world cannot afford to procrastinate much longer. To put all of this in context, because the figures are bewildering in this article, last year defence spending by the US = $858Bn, China = $230Bn, the UK = $86Bn. Read the rest of this article and come back to this line above again. It gives some indication why its our governments that...

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03/02/2023
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by Paul Sheedy

These Are the Cities Focused on Climate Goals

Last week, we talked about how there are concerns that the UK is not moving fast enough to achieve our net-zero targets. The government’s repeated stalling has set us back considerably. What are the cities focused on making a big difference? It is important to seek examples of how we benchmark their progress to inspire our own innovation. We examine 5 cities which are putting the focus on climate action and talk about how they’re doing it.  Stockholm (Population: 975,000) Stockholm is a few steps ahead of other cities across the globe when it comes to becoming a greener city. The city has an overall target of achieving net-zero by 2045, and has pledged to run entirely on renewable energy by 2040. Stockholm is showing dedication to these targets, as trains and buses in the city have run on renewable energy since 2017. There are plans to reduce maritime emissions by 75% by...

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