SINGAPORE – The Asian Seafood Improvement Collaborative (ASIC) and the certification assessment body NSF International have announced a joint collaboration to promote sustainability compliance with small-scale shrimp farmers in Southeast Asia. The collaboration supports the launch of the ASIC Shrimp initiative, a stakeholder-driven improvement framework built by seafood sector stakeholders from the Southeast Asian region. ASIC […]

The Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (BSP), or the Philippine Central Bank, signed a Sustainable Finance Framework for all banks in the country. With the new sustainable finance framework, banks are tasked to be more conscious of the social and environmental impact of the loans they approve – and, subsequently, the conditions attached to it.