1. No poverty
While extreme poverty has eased considerably since 1990, pockets of the worst forms of poverty persist. Ending poverty requires universal social protection systems aimed at safeguarding all individuals throughout the life cycle. It also requires targeted measures to reduce vulnerability to disasters and to address specific underserved geographic areas within each country.
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CIMB sets science-based targets for palm oil sector
The Malaysian bank is the first to set decarbonisation targets for the sector, aiming to cut portfolio emissions intensity by 16 per cent by 2030. However, its commitment does not directly include smallholders, who are not within its existing base of clients.
Kebijakan & Keuangan
Early ‘loss and damage’ funding puts communities in driver’s seat
Loss and damage finance with greater community leadership can bring better and fairer outcomes, experts say.
Pangan & Agrikultur
With sustainable cotton in fashion, Indian farmers seek fair price
As fashion brands heed environmental concerns, demand rises for greener cotton but small-scale farmers need support to tap benefits.
Pangan & Agrikultur
India’s farmers wrestle with shift to eco-friendly agriculture
Sustainable farming practices will only take off if they better protect incomes already hit by losses from climate change impacts, experts say.
Pangan & Agrikultur
Research highlights tenacious pastoralists of the Himalayas
Kebijakan & Keuangan
Q&A: The fight over the ‘loss-and-damage fund’ for climate change
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Karbon & Iklim
How to salvage COP28
The COP28 president needs to deliver his promise to bridge the Global South’s annual US$1 trillion shortfall in climate financing. He can start by endorsing a levy on windfall oil revenues on petroleum states.
By intervening in meaningful ways to tackle India's water crisis, businesses would not just mitigate operational and supply chain risk for themselves but have a wider basin-level influence.
Karbon & Iklim
Gender justice is climate justice
If global leaders are committed to a green transition that leaves no one behind, they must address the needs of vulnerable women and girls in developing countries, who bear the brunt of climate change at the upcoming COP28 summit.
Karbon & Iklim
Exploring the intersection of business and our ecology
Founder and managing director Jessica Cheam investigates the relationship between business and our natural world, and shares about the genesis of Eco-Business in this book chapter contribution to 'Peace and Nature', a book compilation of 50 essays and edited by Professor Tommy Koh, Lye Lin Heng and Shawn Lum launched in Singapore recently.
Kebijakan & Keuangan
Changing the culture at the World Bank
Kebijakan & Keuangan
Winning the fight for women's land rights
Pangan & Agrikultur
A human rights approach to the global food crisis
Kebijakan & Keuangan
We need creative solutions to the sovereign debt and climate crises
Video
Studio EB
What has been the effect of this agribusiness company's dual-income policy on the households of its Indonesian workers?
Pangan & Agrikultur
For Southeast Asia’s migrant fishers, modern slavery is still alive on the high seas
On International Human Rights Day, Greenpeace releases shocking testimonies from Southeast Asian migrants working on board foreign fishing vessels, plying the remote waters to meet Asia's surging demand for seafood.
The Philippine government has begun the process of relocating more than 200,000 families living along waterways to restore Manila Bay, the main body of water in the capital.
Transportasi
A social venture on the road to improve lives, reduce emissions with electric rickshaws
With a vision to end the drudgery of manual rickshaw pulling, social enterprise SMV Green is also helping restore clean air in one of India's most polluted cities through electric rickshaws.
Podcasts
Studio EB
Eco-Business talks to 'Aulani Wilhelm of Conservation International about why a plan to protect the ocean is critical, and why it might just work.
The World Economic Forum – best known for its Annual Meeting in Davos since 1971 – has been a dynamic platform bringing together the best in business, politics and society to shape global industry agendas. How is WEF helping to shape China’s economic goals alongside its environmental and societal priorities?
Pangan & Agrikultur
Can plant-based diets save the planet?
Humanity and the planet are suffering from a serious case of food poisoning. Eco-Business spoke to Brent Loken, WWF's global lead food scientist, about how changes to our diet can help fix our broken food system, and restore our health and the planet's strained ecosystems.
Kebijakan & Keuangan
Mining and the cost of the energy transition
Studio EB
Mining can come at great environmental cost, but is necessary to fuel the energy transition. Michael Salvatico from Trucost tells the Eco-Business podcast about the risk and opportunity confronting Australia's mining sector — and what it could mean for Asia Pacific.
