Global
ADM Capital 2020 Sustainability Report
July 27, 2021
Liberty Mccarthy
2020 was an exceptionally challenging year. As COVID-19 ripped through our communities and our economies, the pandemic’s cost, measured in human life, job losses and dramatic disruptions to hundreds of millions of lives ...
Hong Kong
RTHK Podcast: 返回 Trash Talk with Helga Vanthournout – How to reduce single-use containers
June 29, 2021
ADMCF
RTHK’s latest episode of Trash Talk features Helga Vanthournout, Senior Advisor for Eat Without Waste and her latest efforts on how to reduce the amount of single-use containers created in Hong Kong, especially during the ...
Hong Kong
All-in: demand a comprehensive producer responsibility for Hong Kong’s beverage packaging waste
May 16, 2021
Helga Vanthournout
A terrific new plan has appeared on EPD’s policy horizon: a producer responsibility scheme (PRS) for plastic beverage containers. The plan’s intent is good, and its overall outline is solid. I take, however, issue with its ...
Hong Kong
Bring your own food container, or let Hong Kong drown under waste that could fill 48 IFC buildings
March 20, 2021
Ashley Bang
Having doubled during the coronavirus pandemic, Hong Kong’s appetite for takeaway meals has produced more disposable packaging waste than the city is equipped to deal with. The city’s culture of convenience has made consumers ...
Global
TLFF mentioned in Blended Finance report
November 26, 2020
Lisa Genasci
The TLFF I transaction is included among the case studies in the Blended Finance Task Force’s Better Finance Better Food report, which was released this past week. The case study describes the Tropical Landscapes Finance ...
Hong Kong
Will Hong Kong Finally Recognise Wildlife Crime as Serious and Organised?
November 19, 2020
Sophie le Clue
On November 2nd, ADMCF in conjunction with the Hong Kong University Law faculty released a white paper that outlined the rationale and mechanisms for Hong Kong to make a step change and treat wildlife crime in the city as the ...
Global, Indonesia
Convergence’s State of Blended Finance 2020
October 29, 2020
Lisa Genasci
ADM Capital Foundation is featured in Convergence’s State of Blended Finance 2020, which is an authoritative reference point on the global blended finance market, presenting data and analysis from the largest and most detailed ...
Hong Kong
Recovering into a decarbonized future
September 23, 2020
Lawrence Lu
The COVID-19 crisis is not a surprise in the breadth of its impact but only in its timing. We have long been warned by health experts that such a pandemic would one day disrupt our “normal life”. Similarly, we have long been ...
Global
ADMCF Signs Cooperation Letter with United Nations Development Program
September 11, 2020
Lisa Genasci
ADM Capital Foundation and the United Nations Development Program (UNDP) have signed a letter of intent to cooperate towards a shared vision of economic, social and environmental development in Asia. Collaboration between the ...
Global
Global Initiative to End Wildlife Crime Suggests Amendments to Wildlife Trade Laws
September 7, 2020
Lisa Genasci
We are amidst a pandemic and consequent global economic crisis that show just how vulnerable we have made ourselves by ignoring how we interact with wildlife and the natural world. Despite the risks inherent in wildlife trade, ...
Global, Hong Kong
Divided Interests in Wildlife Trade Should be United over Covid-19
June 18, 2020
Sophie le Clue
Hong Kong Customs and Excise Department (C&ED) have the unenviable job of policing the flow of goods into and out of one of the world’s biggest trading hubs – Hong Kong. The city is home to one of the busiest airports ...
Bangladesh, Cambodia, China, Global, Hong Kong, India, Indonesia, Myanmar, Philippines, Regional, Sri Lanka, Thailand, Vietnam
2019: Year in Review
June 15, 2020
Lisa Genasci
I am writing this amidst the current global public health crisis. We’ve shut down our economies and moved indoors in response. At ADMCF, we have been reflecting on what we can learn from this challenging moment and the role of ...
