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Will India’s curb on Malaysian palm oil hurt Indonesian forests?

India’s palm oil dispute with Malaysia could undo progress made on sustainable palm oil and put forests in Indonesia and elsewhere at greater risk if it drags on, experts said. Last month, India—Malay...

5 Feb 2020

Will India’s curb on Malaysian palm oil hurt Indonesian forests?

Former textile factory worker Ngo Sinoun, 37, is now an insect farmer. to Image: Roberto Traina

Berita / Makanan & Pertanian

How insect farming is lifting Cambodians out of poverty

Ngo Sinoun recalls the gruelling time spent working in a garment factory. With four young children to provide for, the 37-year-old was forced to battle through ailing health to work long hours to supp...

17 Dec 2019

How insect farming is lifting Cambodians out of poverty

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Corporates increasingly aware of risks from Indonesian palm oil, but failing to cascade action through supply chains

...smallholders, whose share of Indonesia’s total oil palm plantation area is forecast to rise from 41 per cent to 60 per cent by 2030. It argues that while many producers, processors, and traders ...

18 Mar 2019

Corporates increasingly aware of risks from Indonesian palm oil, but failing to cascade action through supply chains

Pendapat / Polisi & Kewangan

A new deal for sustainable development

Almost nine decades ago, newly elected US President Franklin Roosevelt introduced the New Deal in 1933 in response to the Great Depression. The New Deal consisted of a number of mutually supportive in...

15 Nov 2019

A new deal for sustainable development

Berita / Makanan & Pertanian

Breakthrough in plant engineering could boost productivity, feed millions more

The yield of many staple crops could be boosted by 40 per cent by a new process that adjusts the way they turn sunlight into energy, potentially feeding hundreds of millions of more people, American r...

4 Jan 2019

Breakthrough in plant engineering could boost productivity, feed millions more

Berita / Makanan & Pertanian

Palm oil: the pros and cons of a controversial commodity

...smallholders through profitable international trade. To its detractors, it is a cause of deforestation and social conflict, a direct threat to endangered species and a contributor to climate change.Wi...

5 Nov 2019

Palm oil: the pros and cons of a controversial commodity

Press Releases / PEFC

Committed collaboration for using IT in sustainable forest management in Southeast Asia

...smallholders and local communities. “In Myanmar, we are helping stakeholders to use IT at the landscape scale to bring sustainable management to Myanmar’s forests, involving public and pr...

12 Dec 2018

Committed collaboration for using IT in sustainable forest management in Southeast Asia

A chief sustainability officer working during Covid-19

Berita / CSR

How a pandemic changed the chief sustainability officer

A question corporate sustainability officers will have been asking themselves this year is, does my company value its environmental and social impact enough for my job to survive a pandemic? For many ...

6 Oct 2020

How a pandemic changed the chief sustainability officer

Berita / Makanan & Pertanian

What is sustainable rubber?

Bouncy, elastic, compressible and moldable—the unique properties of natural rubber make it one of the most widely used materials, found in products from pencil erasers and birthday balloons to condoms...

21 May 2019

What is sustainable rubber?

Berita / Makanan & Pertanian

Long road ahead for ethical palm oil in booming Indian market

The global agricultural market has been severely shaken by Covid-19. Palm oil is no exception, particularly in India, the world’s largest importer of the commodity.Demand has fallen off a cliff in Ind...

22 Jun 2020

Long road ahead for ethical palm oil in booming Indian market

Berita / Makanan & Pertanian

'We’ve been negligent,’ Indonesia’s president Widodo says as fire crisis deepens

...smallholders for setting the fires. He then also claimed that there was a political angle to the arson, linking the burning to the elections that took place in April. Fixing the mistakes In light of t...

18 Sep 2019

'We’ve been negligent,’ Indonesia’s president Widodo says as fire crisis deepens

Berita / Makanan & Pertanian

Hacking sustainability for smallholder palm oil farmers

...Smallholders represent up to 40 per cent of Indonesia’s palm oil plantations but often have little access to resources to farm sustainably. The palm oil industry has drawn flak for labour rights abus...

2 May 2018

Hacking sustainability for smallholder palm oil farmers

Berita / Karbon & Cuaca

Urbanisation, commercial farms threaten Asia's forests, UN warns

Sprawling urban areas and expanding plantations are placing greater pressure on forests and resources in Asia-Pacific, hurting rural communities and exacerbating the effects of climate change, the Uni...

19 Jun 2019

Urbanisation, commercial farms threaten Asia's forests, UN warns

Pendapat / Karbon & Cuaca

Who benefits from false climate solutions?

In a recent special report, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) argues that addressing climate change will require fundamental changes to the way we manage forests and farmland. The ...

16 Sep 2019

Who benefits from false climate solutions?

Berita / Polisi & Kewangan

As 2020 fire season nears, Indonesian president blasts officials for last year's burning

...smallholders for setting the fires. He then also claimed there was a political angle to the arson, linking the burning to the elections that took place in April. Widodo himself later acknowledged that...

12 Feb 2020

As 2020 fire season nears, Indonesian president blasts officials for last year's burning

Workers load a truck with palm fruit at a palm oil plantaion in Nagan raya, Aceh province, Indonesia

Pendapat / Makanan & Pertanian

Smallholder farmers are key to making the palm oil industry sustainable

...smallholders will double their production capacity over the next decade, managing a 60 per cent share of Indonesia’s total oil palm plantation area by 2030. Independent smallholders are thus critical ...

30 Mar 2018

Smallholder farmers are key to making the palm oil industry sustainable

Berita / Makanan & Pertanian

Climate crisis hitting bottom 50 per cent hardest, say London protesters

...smallholders supply 80 per cent of overall food produced in Asia, sub-Saharan Africa and Latin America. Traditional pastoralists are typically highly sustainable producers, but many are facing challen...

22 Apr 2019

Climate crisis hitting bottom 50 per cent hardest, say London protesters

Pendapat / Polisi & Kewangan

Financing the green transition

Four years after world leaders signed the Paris climate agreement and adopted the United Nations’ 2030 Agenda with its 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), the global environmental crisis shows e...

17 Oct 2019

Financing the green transition

Berita / Makanan & Pertanian

Can the palm oil sector do more with less to save Indonesia's forests?

...smallholders who produce fresh fruit bunches for independent mills, making supply chains very hard to manage. Smallholder plantations are known for their low productivity and poor crop quality, which ...

10 Jul 2018

Can the palm oil sector do more with less to save Indonesia's forests?

Berita / Makanan & Pertanian

Too late to plant green seed among world's forgotten palm oil farmers?

...smallholders like Kasno have been left behind, say industry officials. Only 78,000 smallholders are certified by the Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil (RSPO), a body of consumer organisations, enviro...

3 Apr 2018

Too late to plant green seed among world's forgotten palm oil farmers?

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Circular textiles startup refuses clothing ‘donations’ from ultra fast-fashion brand

Eksklusif Singapore-based circular clothing enterprise Cloop said it does not want to encourage dumping of cheap clothing that cannot …
Berita / Karbon & Cuaca

Singapore launches coalition to boost demand for high-integrity carbon credits

New Singapore-based initiative aims to aggregate demand for high-integrity carbon credits and unlock financing for early-stage climate projects …
Berita / Tenaga

How the Philippines is preparing its nuclear workforce for a revival

As nuclear energy returns, the government, universities and companies are training the next generation of engineers to operate …
Berita / Tanggugjwab Sosial Korporat

As sustainability retreats, Singapore youths face a green jobs reality check

At a youth festival in Singapore, students and young eco-preneurs discussed the state of the green jobs market …
Berita / Karbon & Cuaca

Singapore lays out plan to close $700 billion nature-finance gap as Asia’s TNFD pioneers show disclosures can move capital

The world is spending only about US$200 billion a year on nature-based solutions, against an estimated US$700 billion …
Berita / Karbon & Cuaca

Temasek cannot meet 2030 emissions targets, dragged by aviation, energy sectors: CEO

The fund maintained its goal of reaching net zero by 2050 but cited volatile global markets and higher …

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