The CEO of the environmental law charity said suing corporate polluters is not the way to drive impact in Asia, where it focuses on capacity building. The organisation currently has 20 staff in the region.
Companies that once competed to look green are now competing to make fossil fuel dependence look reasonable, a study of nearly 2,000 oil and gas advertisements finds.
The hill districts in the Chittagong region in Bangladesh have seen a large-scale switch from the traditional shifting agriculture, or jhum, to more profitable cash crop cultivation in recent years.