Eco-Enterprise is a finalist in three classes on the 2024 Society of Publishers in Asia (SOPA) awards for editorial excellence.
The media publication is within the working for the Excellence in Explanatory Reporting award for its Decoding Sustainable Finance collection launched final 12 months.
Curated and penned by finance correspondent Gabrielle See, the collection contains explainer articles that look into matters similar to transition credit, sustainability-linked bonds and blended finance – novel and sophisticated ideas which have emerged in recent times – to tell essential discussions for Asia’s companies, financiers and sustainability practitioners.
In the meantime, the publication additionally scored finalist nods for its efforts at utilizing quite a lot of visible storytelling instruments to current among the most essential sustainability-related tales of the last decade.
A particular report that explores and scrutinises whether or not Asia’s shipowners are doing sufficient to chop greenhouse gasoline emissions landed a finalist spot within the Excellence in Infographics class.
The long-form article was printed on the again of the Worldwide Maritime Organisation (IMO) revising its targets to a contentious internet zero “by or round 2050” after stalled talks. It features a collection of accompanying maps and charts to current the customarily underreported matter of delivery in a extra accessible method.
For instance, collaborating with graphic designer Philip Amiote, Eco-Enterprise’s chief correspondent of the Philippines, Hannah Alcoseba Fernandez, began the story with a set of dynamic maps that zoom in on a particular cargo of cellphones, monitoring its journey by sea, in response to fact-checked open supply estimates, from Shekou, China to Cebu within the Philippines.
Eco-Enterprise surveyed 10 of Asia’s greatest delivery carriers to judge their decarbonisation commitments in its particular report. Picture: Philip Amiote / Eco-Enterprise
Eco-Enterprise’s newest 360-degree documentary quick Wasted: 360, alternatively, was chosen as a finalist for the Excellence in Video Reporting class.
The lengthy type Wasted documentary which explores Asia’s mounting waste disaster premiered in Singapore in November final 12 months. Co-produced by Jessica Cheam, founder and managing director of Eco-Enterprise, and filmmaker Fraser Morton, and supported by assistant producer Roy Ng, it investigates the waste landscapes in 4 key Asian nations – Singapore, South Korea, Vietnam and India – and explores the options wanted to stem the stream of trash into the setting.
Its accompanying four-and-a-half-minute Wasted: 360, which could be watched both with digital actuality (VR) glasses or on a 360-degree display screen, provides viewers a behind-the-scenes have a look at the waste sector. It leverages the interactive capabilities of the 360-degree video format.
Invited company at Eco-Enterprise Cities: Prospects 2023 viewing the Wasted: 360 documentary quick on an expansive 360-degree display screen. Picture: Roy Ng / Eco-Enterprise
SOPA, based in Hong Kong in 1982, provides out yearly awards to reward excellence in journalism and to help a free press in Asia. This 12 months, it obtained greater than 700 entries from international and regional media retailers, together with well-known names similar to Monetary Occasions, The New York Occasions and Bloomberg Information.
Within the regional or native class during which Eco-Enterprise competes in, Yangon-based information and enterprise journal Frontier Myanmar scored a complete of 9 finalist nods – the very best variety of nominations amongst English-language regional media retailers – for its investigative work on matters similar to labour exploitation in post-coup Myanmar and the nation’s “rip-off factories”.
Different regional media retailers with three finalist spots included Sydney Morning Herald, Remainder of World and CNA.
Final 12 months, Eco-Enterprise emerged because the winner within the Excellence in Audio Reporting class on the SOPA awards for its podcast on secrecy surrounding sand extraction in Singapore.
This 12 months’s winners, who will likely be chosen from the checklist of finalists, will likely be introduced at an awards ceremony held on 20 June.
