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Pangan & Agrikultur
Asia’s banks are failing to grasp growing food system risks: study
Research warns that Southeast Asian and Indian lenders are overlooking major climate, biodiversity and public-health risks tied to Asia’s fast-growing protein demand. Only three banks reference animal welfare principles in their lending policies.
The firm will be pulling its network of 84 smart paper collection bins by the end of October. The closure comes a year after one of Singapore's oldest paper recycling firms folded as paper and cardboard recycling rates drop globally.
Pangan & Agrikultur
EU delays deforestation law again, as Indonesian palm oil sector pushes for smallholder exemptions
The European Commission citied IT issues and pressure to ease red tape. Palm oil stakeholders insist the EUDR still penalises smallholders. NGOs said the delay risks forests and undermines business certainty.
Malaysia’s commodities minister is touting palm oil biomass as a coal alternative, while signalling a hard stance on deforestation. But experts warn that the full lifecycle emissions of biomass could exceed that of coal.
Kebijakan & Keuangan
DBS doubles down on climate goals; updates transition finance framework
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Manufaktur
Fast fashion has a serious coal problem
A handful of fashion brands – H&M, Ralph Lauren, Decathlon and Adidas – are working to stop using coal to power their factories in 2025, while others are prioritising decarbonisation at lower levels of ambition.
A balance between emission and growth warrants integrated energy planning, leading to a low-cost transition pathway for sustainable growth.
Karbon & Iklim
Mongabay founder Rhett A. Butler: 11 things to watch in 2021
2020 was a rough year for tropical rainforest conservation efforts. So what’s in store for 2021? Mongabay Founder Rhett A. Butler reviews 11 key things to watch in the world of rainforests in 2021.
Karbon & Iklim
Fighting climate change with bamboo
Bamboo is a surprisingly effective carbon sink and is being promoted by the government as a uniquely Chinese solution to climate change.
Pangan & Agrikultur
Defending food security in Singapore: Could food forests protect our future?
Karbon & Iklim
10 biggest changes of the decade for forests
Energi
Death by dirty cooking
#biomass Video
In the first in a new video series where sustainability leaders interview each other about the toughest things about their jobs, Simon Lord of Malaysian palm oil giant Sime Darby Plantation went head to head with Pamela Mar of Hong Kong-based textile and apparel giant Fung Group.
Pangan & Agrikultur
This anti-palm oil ad for a British supermarket just got banned
The ad, which was made by Greenpeace and rebadged by Iceland, was blocked from airing on television by the UK's ad watchdog because it broke rules on political advertising. Iceland says it is not anti-palm oil, 'we are anti-deforestation.'
Dutch multinational DSM's chief technology officer Marcel Wubbolts shares how the company's persistence in positioning sustainability as a core driver for profits seems to have paid off.
Pangan & Agrikultur
Malaysia launches oil palm biomass cluster in Sabah
Five companies have signed a first-of-its-kind joint venture to pool together their biomass waste for recycling into useful feedstock. Mark Laudi reports.
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The clean energy sector’s poor human rights performance places its legitimacy at risk. Jessie Cato of the Business & Human Rights Resource Centre sheds light on how the industry can avoid labour abuse, land grabs and other violations.
Pangan & Agrikultur
Where is the palm oil industry on human rights?
Studio EB
As global attention focuses on forests and the plight of orangutans, the untold part of the palm oil story is people. What is the industry doing to protect palm oil workers' rights and those of the people who defend their land as the industry expands?
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