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Can Brazil follow China's lead on energy efficiency?Strong policies and financing have underpinned China’s push for industrial energy efficiency. Can the country set an example for other developing economies? -
Supporting the world’s water start-upsFrom robotic swans to light-activated water purification systems, water technologies and their creators have received a boost through the Singapore International Water Week’s TechXchange programme and Innovation Pavilion.
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Palm oil giant tests GPS-based solution to increase traceabilityGolden Agri-Resources (GAR), one of the world’s biggest palm oil companies, is testing new GPS-based technology to establish traceability for the palm oil it sources from third-party mills in Indonesia. -
Iceberg in the tropics: Art raises awareness of plastic pollutionArt installations made from plastic waste in a dozen Asian cities demonstrate how our convenient and unnecessary habits of using plastic are impacting human health and nature.
Opinion
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4 ways we can step up adaptation and protect vulnerable communities from climate change impactCarbon & Climate
4 ways we can step up adaptation and protect vulnerable communities from climate change impact
– The world's poorest will be hardest hit by climate change. What can be done to prepare them for the future? -
Climate change raises the bar for disaster resilience– Disaster risk management has always been a high priority in Southeast Asia, but climate change is making the problem all the more urgent and challenging, writes NUS' Vinod Thomas. -
Are the SDGs unsustainable?– Asia Pacific is failing to achieve the SDGs. But this reflects humanity's collective failure, and is the fault of the SDGs themselves, writes Nigel Howard.
Videos
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How clean water transforms lives– Particularly for women, access to clean water creates education and economic opportunities.
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Can Indonesia stay haze free?– Indonesia has made significant progress in fighting the fires caused by slash-and-burn forestry that choke Southeast Asia annually with toxic air pollution. Eco-Business spoke to the chair of Indonesia's Investment Coordinating Board (BKPM) about what it will take to put the fires out permanently.
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Record number of people killed for protecting the environment– Brazil and the Philippines are the most dangerous countries for activists fighting mining, agribusiness and hydroelectric companies for their rights to land, forests, and rivers, a new report by Global Witness found.
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Fake Doritos ad pressures Pepsi over palm oil policy–
A dispute between environmentalists and PepsiCo over the food company's palm oil sourcing policy is escalating after activists released a video spoofing the Doritos Super Bowl campaign. Rhett Butler reports.
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