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8 April 2020

Elim Sritaba, chief sustainability officer of Asia Pulp and Paper, with Pak Suryono, a farmer who previously used slash-and-burn techniques to prepare land for cultivation. Image: APP

Food & Agriculture

24 hours with... APP chief sustainability officer, Elim Sritaba

30 March 2020

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Food & Agriculture

Indonesia scraps timber legality rule, stoking fears of illegal logging boom

19 March 2020

Mangroves, St John, Singapore

Food & Agriculture

Bucking global trends, Southeast Asian mangrove destruction is rampant

13 March 2020

Trang An Scenic Landscape Complex

Carbon & Climate

Vietnam’s new conservation plan prioritises trees and people, but not emissions

12 March 2020

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Corporate Responsibility

PepsiCo updates sustainable palm oil policy to close supplier loophole

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Food & Agriculture

Record-breaking global tree cover loss driven by agriculture

11 March 2020

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Cities

Asia's rapid urbanisation, deforestation linked to deadly viruses

9 March 2020

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Carbon & Climate

Tropical forests may be heating Earth by 2035

6 March 2020

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Food & Agriculture

Where the logging ends, the forest clearing begins in Indonesian Borneo

4 March 2020

Bio Inti Agrindo

Food & Agriculture

South Korean trading giant to compensate for past deforestation in Papua

3 March 2020

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Food & Agriculture

No more plantations in Papua, says Indonesia’s point man for palm oil

29 February 2020

The IKEA catalogue. Customers are starting to complain about the unsolicited mass-mailing of the paper catalogues. Image: supplied by anonymous customer

Waste

In the digital age, why is sustainability pioneer IKEA still mass-mailing customers printed catalogues?

26 February 2020

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Corporate Responsibility

PepsiCo adopts stricter, greener rules for palm oil in products

24 February 2020

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Corporate Responsibility

Investors drop demands after Tyson Foods pledges zero deforestation

17 February 2020

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Food & Agriculture

‘New agricultural revolution’ needed to boost food security, cut emissions

13 February 2020

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Carbon & Climate

Famous brands ‘turning blind eye’ to deforestation caused by demand for soy, beef and other commodities

12 February 2020

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Policy & Finance

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

6 February 2020

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Cities

Mining leads to flooding in Indonesian coal capital

5 February 2020

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Food & Agriculture

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

4 February 2020

Amazon rainforest near Manaus

Corporate Responsibility

As Microsoft pledges to go 'carbon negative' by 2030, forest conservation is required

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