Mitigating ‘business risk’: Nestle expands APAC sustainability initiatives with regenerative projects in Australia

The food and beverage giant announced this at the COP27 United Nations Climate Change Conference, pledging to implement regenerative measures that would benefit the local food supply chain and natural…

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Danone to cut methane by 30% by 2030 through regenerative farming, feed innovation

According to the International Energy Agency, agriculture was the chief source of methane emissions caused by human activity in 2021. The majority of those emissions come from enteric fermentation, where…

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Paper power: Nestle moves plastic reduction ambitions one step closer to APAC region with Australia pilot

Food and beverage giant Nestle has long been vocal of its ambitions to tackle plastic packaging usage and reduce the use of this in the name of sustainability.But the majority…

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Hard times ahead: Malaysia palm oil sector growth outlook grim due to labour, climate and economic woes

In the recent Pointers palm oil seminar hosted by the Malaysian Palm Oil Council (MPOC), CEO Wan Aishah binti Wan Hamid highlighted how these factors were hitting the sector.This is…

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Toledo Solar’s founder on the ‘untruths’ of American solar manufacturing

Inside Toledo Solar's manufacturing plant, where the company produce cadmium telluride thin-film solar modules.(Courtesy: Toledo Solar) Follow @EngelsAngle Toledo Solar founder and CEO Aaron Bates is featured in Episode 31…

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For safety and reliability, utilities must shift focus to distributed energy resources

Photo courtesy: Nuno Marques/Unsplash Outages during Christmas reflect poorly on utility forecasting and natural gas units. It’s past time for the states and their utilities to lead and not wait…

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Intersect Power reaches commercial operation of 310 MW solar+storage project in California

StorageGrid ScaleNewsSolarUtility Scale Intersect Power's 224 MWac Athos III solar farm under construction in California. (Courtesy: Intersect Power) Intersect Power has reached commercial operation on its Athos III solar project…

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