Wildlife collectors in Nepal will have to declare their collections to the government, under a landmark ruling spurred by the perceived injustice of the country’s strict wildlife protection laws.
As Southeast Asian leaders prepare to meet over transboundary haze in Singapore, experts and environmentalists call for more transparent data and the implementation of domestic laws and enforcement mechanisms to hold polluters responsible.
Share At Door Step was founded in India in 2015, and has launched in Singapore in response to high demand for the service, which arranges for pre-loved items to be picked up from people's doorsteps and shuttled to charities.
As climate change makes heatwaves more frequent and severe in South Asia, India’s heat action plans offer pathways for adaptation, but experts say they lack necessary focus on vulnerable populations.
As countries prepare to meet this month to work on the first global agreement to end plastic pollution, the perspectives of South Asia must be heard loud and clear.
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Dharmesh Shah
The materials, innovation, and capital needed to reach net-zero emissions are not equally distributed and, as a result, must be shared around the world.
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Mekala Krishnan and
Olivia White
Amid competing concerns such as urban development and tackling climate change, keeping biodiversity conservation in people's minds can be a challenge. Eco-Business asks primatologist Andie Ang how that can be tackled.
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Our urban infrastructure is responsible for almost 40 per cent of global carbon emissions. Climate solutions need to include the biggest energy guzzlers, clean energy and retrofitting old buildings.
As planetary temperatures reach an all-time high, a climate scientist has designed a new way to show how global temperatures have changed every month since the start of the industrial revolution and 2021.
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Covid-19 didn't kill events, but it did change them. Teymoor Nabili and Veemal Gungadin tell the Eco-Business Podcast how a pandemic transformed the way sustainability events are conceived and organised.
GoTo sustainability head Tanah Sullivan tells the Eco-Business Podcast that regulating net-zero claims would decarbonise Southeast Asia faster. Indonesia's biggest internet firm aims to cut emissions to zero by 2030 — a target critics say is unrealistic.
Can the hotels sector, traditionally resource-intensive and wasteful, reinvent itself and go green? Eco-Business asks two hospitality executives about balancing post-Covid recovery, and if luxury can be made compatible with sustainability.
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The built environment's sprawling carbon footprint can be reined in by giving old buildings a 'climate makeover' as cities grow. The Eco-Business Podcast talks to Vinod Jethani about the benefits and challenges of retrofitting old buildings.