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Waste-to-energy ‘safe’ for Filipinos amid health, pollution fears: environment official
Amid back‑to‑back trash slides and a landfill fire in one of Southeast Asia’s leakiest waste systems, Philippine environment undersecretary Jonas Leones touts new science‑based safeguards for a waste‑to‑energy buildout in the country.
Former Yale-NUS environmental social sciences professor Michael Maniates tells the Eco-Business Podcast that individual actions like going vegetarian, reducing plastic use or avoiding air travel are not only insufficient to address the climate crisis – they are counterproductive.
Karbon & Cuaca
We don’t want others to take advantage of Asean’s rich mineral resources: Philippine environment policymaker
Critical minerals will be central to this year’s Asean meetings, said environment assistant secretary Noralene Uy, as the Philippines ushers the region towards domestic processing as summit chair.
The Asia Pacific ESG head of the B Corp-certified cosmetics firm says refill stations have been disappointing and getting suppliers on board with decarbonisation is difficult, but her team has not been affected by the ESG backlash.
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Sisa Kumbahan
How does plastic recycling certification work?
18 Januari 2021
Sisa Kumbahan
How to rebuild the plastic circular economy in 2021?
3 Januari 2021
Pengangkutan
Southeast Asia, we need to talk about bilge dumping
14 Oktober 2020
Karbon & Cuaca
How has the pandemic really affected air pollution?
19 Ogos 2020
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