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Carbon & Climate
Carbon markets in Asia fall short on biodiversity goals, study warns
Nature-based projects expand across Southeast Asia, but design gaps and unintended impacts limit conservation benefits.
Indonesia plans to rezone large parts of Way Kambas National Park in Sumatra for carbon trading and luxury tourism to raise conservation funds.
CDL has doubled the size of a microforest planted at a shopping mall, and is aiming to plant more to mitigate urban heating and promote local biodiversity. The firm's chief sustainability officer wants other companies and government agencies to spawn the concept.
Food & Agriculture
Cash crop boom in Bangladesh’s hills puts ecosystems at risk
The hill districts in the Chittagong region in Bangladesh have seen a large-scale switch from the traditional shifting agriculture, or jhum, to more profitable cash crop cultivation in recent years.
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Food & Agriculture
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Food & Agriculture
Nations off track to meet UN pesticide risk reduction targets, study finds
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Food & Agriculture
China can drive Asia’s transition to green agriculture
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Policy & Finance
Indigenous rights should be at the heart of climate commitments
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