#rural communities Berita
The prevalence of a "sachet economy" is stretching waste management capabilities in the country. Lawmakers are suggesting an amendment of the current Extended Producer Responsibility Act to expand its coverage to include medium-sized firms.
Pangan & Agrikultur
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.
Pangan & Agrikultur
Research highlights tenacious pastoralists of the Himalayas
The research available on the Gaddi community in the Indian state of Himachal Pradesh is rich enough to offer a wider insight into how pastoral communities are dealing with climate impacts.
Scientists say deforestation is compounding the effects of climate change, threatening to turn parts of the forest into savannah.
Pangan & Agrikultur
Farmers ambivalent over Vietnam’s low-carbon rice programme
Kebijakan & Keuangan
Unsung heroes: small-scale farmers step in as climate finance lags
#rural communities Opini
Karbon & Iklim
The carbon-offset market’s broken promises
As businesses come under pressure to meet net-zero targets, they are increasingly investing in forest-protection projects to cancel out their carbon emissions. But what could have been a viable climate-mitigation option has become little more than a licence to pollute, to the detriment of indigenous communities and the planet.
Achieving net zero emissions requires compromise but energy justice for all needs to be at the heart of any decision. For all the talk, it's not happening, yet.
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.
Instead of pursuing the systemic changes needed to address water-related challenges, the world’s governments are bowing to corporate interests and settling for insufficient incremental reforms.
Kebijakan & Keuangan
The health benefits of financial inclusion
Pangan & Agrikultur
The food system revolution is coming
Karbon & Iklim
Environmental rights as human rights in Asean: Why not?
#rural communities Video
Kebijakan & Keuangan
As anti-mining protests heighten in the Philippines, industry observers call for ‘prudence’ in police intervention
Video footage appears to show protestors, who were demonstrating against mining operations, being dragged away by police near Ipilan Nickel Mine in Brooke’s Point, Palawan. Mining insiders are calling for maximum tolerance in similar standoffs.
Kebijakan & Keuangan
‘No income, insufficient aid’ for Oriental Mindoro fisherfolk after oil spill: Research group
A coalition of scientists and environmentalists found “widespread economic impacts” for communities in the Philippine province, heightening calls for accountability from the sunken tanker reportedly chartered by a San Miguel Corp subsidiary.
After 20 years without electricity, more than 50 households in Cebu's poorest district have been provided with solar energy, financed by carbon offsets.
Southeast Asia's largest energy consumer has been slow to transition to renewables, but recent policies point to greater expansion of the country's solar, tidal and geothermal energy production.
#rural communities Podcasts
Kebijakan & Keuangan
‘We do not just adopt global standards, we respond to domestic challenges’: Philippine central bank exec Lyn Javier
The Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas assistant governor tells the Eco-Business Podcast about the regulator’s maiden sustainability report that features an empirical study of climate impacts on banks as well as the nation’s first taxonomy.
In a region where large hydro projects and expanding biofuel plantations coincide with an upcoming coal phaseout, a laissez-faire approach could worsen existing inequalities and mar the success of a clean energy buildout.
Energi
‘Carrots, sticks, and hugs’: Scrutinising Indonesia’s US$20 billion just transition challenge
The populous coal-rich powerhouse has six months to tell investors how it plans to spend G7 money to decarbonise equitably. We ask experts about the risks, strategy, and opportunities.
#rural communities Rilis Pers
United Nations Development Programme
25 countries halved multidimensional poverty within 15 years, but 1.1 billion remain poor
Gree Energy
Gree Energy is B Corp certified
International Fund for Agricultural Development
IFAD calls on world leaders for small-scale farmers to receive decent wages
#rural communities Riset
Eco-Business, supported by Boehringer Ingelheim
Moving towards a rabies-free Southeast Asia
