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Corporate Responsibility

Chinese firms’ growing influence in palm oil value chain will endure despite global volatilities: RSPO China head

Chinese companies now want to benchmark themselves against their international peers for ESG practices, says Fang Lifeng, head of China for Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil. He shares insights into RSPO’s decade of presence in the emerging market, as palm oil buyers and industry experts convene at a forum in Guilin this week.
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Food & Agriculture

India’s biofuel drive pecks at chicken farmer profits

As India's ethanol push diverts more maize for fuel, small egg and chicken producers feel the squeeze.
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Food & Agriculture

Staple crops yields face ‘substantial losses’ in warming world – even with adaptation

Average global yields of six staple crops could fall by more than 11 per cent under a moderate warming scenario by the end of the century – even when accounting for how farmers could adapt to climate change, new research finds.
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Water

Toxic runoff from Myanmar rare earth mines threatens Thai waterways

Water tests from the Kok and Sai rivers near Thailand’s border with Myanmar have revealed elevated arsenic levels, leading Thai officials to warn citizens to avoid contact with river water.

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Food & Agriculture

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Food & Agriculture

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Water

The Mekong Delta’s climate defences are failing

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Policy & Finance

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Carbon & Climate

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Food & Agriculture

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Water

The Indus Waters Treaty hangs in the balance

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Water

How Myanmar’s gold rush threatens international rivers

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Food & Agriculture

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Cities

‘Ozone-climate penalty’ adds to India’s air pollution

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Water

Climate fallout tests coastal women in historic Javanese sultanate

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Policy & Finance

Can parametric insurance change the game in climate disasters?

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Food & Agriculture

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