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November 21, 2022

MAS Fabric Park (MFP), owner and operator of Sri Lanka’s first, second and only privately owned apparel intensive free trade zones in Thulhiriya and Giriulla, recently celebrated 16 years of Sustainable Industrial Transformation. Its operations focus primarily on the development and value addition of fabrics. MFP spans across a sprawling 165 acres […]

October 17, 2022

17th October 2022, Colombo: Sri Lanka’s acclaimed sustainability advisory agency Climate and Conservation Consortium (CCC) reaffirmed its commitment to conservation when it entered into a partnership with PLANT (Preserving Land and Nature (Guarantee) Ltd, the country’s largest privately funded land conservation initiative. PLANT signed a multi-year Partnership MOU with the Climate and […]

August 26, 2022

The programme’s carbon emissions calculator makes offsetting emissions easy and funds Gold Standard carbon-reduction projects with a social component Cathay Pacific is taking the lead in aviation’s sustainability efforts in Asia with the extension of Fly Greener to its air cargo services. Fly Greener is a carbon-offset programme powered by an integrated […]

June 30, 2022

Daraz Sri Lanka recently joined the United Nations (UN) Global Compact with the aim of building long-term sustainability, meaningful engagement, and strengthening its business operations. Daraz is one of South Asia’s leading e-commerce platforms and has progressively contributed to the growth of digital economies in key South Asian frontier markets, including […]

June 22, 2022

Copenhagen, Amsterdam, Beijing, London & Seoul are the top 5 digital cities in the index European cities ran highly successful traffic management systems, while Beijing applied digital technologies to tackle air pollution and optimise utilities and sharing economy Involving citizens in design of smart city schemes underpins meaningful inclusion – […]

May 19, 2022

SLIIT is recognised as an institute that showcases a culture of research, providing a supportive context in which research is uniformly expected, discussed, produced, and valued. Contributing to SLIIT’s research outputs is Nilmini Rathnayake, Lecturer, Department of Business Management, SLIIT Business School, who has earned the high distinction of being the […]

April 21, 2022

Global study finds 94% of respondents in JAPAC believe society has not made enough progress on sustainability and social efforts 75% of people in JAPAC are frustrated and fed up with the lack of progress made by businesses 97% of business leaders in JAPAC believe human bias and emotions hurt […]

April 1, 2022

Radisson Hotel Group’s 2021 Responsible Business Report outlines its latest sustainability targets in line with its strategic five-year plan CAPE TOWN, South Africa, March 31, 2022/APO Group/ — Radisson Hotel Group (www.RadissonHotels.com) is making a strong commitment to decarbonize its business by setting ambitious emission reduction targets to be net zero by 2050, in […]

March 28, 2022

Citizens Development Business Finance PLC (CDB) added strength to its corporate sustainability agenda, signing two key partnership for mangrove conservation, with the Center for Sustainability of the University of Sri Jayawardenepura and Biodiversity Sri Lanka. CDB’s business strategy cascades into 2 key enabling pillars, ‘Sustainability Agenda’ and ‘Tech Disruption’. Of these, […]

December 7, 2021

Alliance Finance Co. PLC, (AFC), Sri Lanka’s oldest finance company with over 65 years of expertise in offering affordable and inclusive sustainable finance solutions to empower the nation. AFC has taken a step forward to expand its sustainability drive through its island wide branch network, launching AFC branch sustainability programme, known as […]

MAS Fabric Park marks 16 years of sustainability, innovation, and ethical production standards

PLANT to join hands with CCC’s Consortium for Conservation

Cathay Pacific Cargo introduces Fly Greener, the carbon-offset programme for air freight

Daraz joins UN Global Compact to shape a more sustainable future for its communities

Digital Cities Index 2022: European Cities outperformed with open data projects and tightly defined sustainability schemes

SLIIT’s culture of research gains significant headway with publication in high-ranking “Sustainability” Journal

66% of People in Asia Pacific and Japan Believe Bots Will Succeed Where Humans Have Failed with Corporate Sustainability

Radisson Hotel Group commits to Net Zero by 2050

CDB Builds-On Mangrove Conservation Efforts Furthering Sustainability Agenda

Alliance Finance expands its sustainability drive through island wide branches