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Manufacturing
Rising heat takes toll on Bangladesh’s garment workers
Extreme heat is becoming a workplace health crisis for Bangladesh’s garment workers amid rising temperatures and prolonged heat waves, increasing concerns about occupational heat exposure.
Countries’ climate plans deliver at most a third of the emissions cuts needed by 2035, and every five years of emissions at current levels raises peak warming by around 0.1°C, the UN Environment Programme’s Emissions Gap Report finds.
Food & Agriculture
South Korea tightens migrant fisher safeguards, but advocates say they fall short
South Korea has recently revamped national guidelines on human trafficking to make it easier for law enforcement officials to spot and stop forced labour and other abuses in the fishing industry.
Food & Agriculture
Nepal’s women fight for ownership of the land they tend
In Nepal, the law has eliminated gender discrimination when it comes to property rights, but cultural norms still interfere with land ownership.
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Indonesia turns to Indigenous data to map customary lands
2 September 2026
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Coal pollution grips coastal Bangladesh as safeguards fail
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Manufacturing
Leather exempted from EU's landmark deforestation law
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News / Policy & Finance
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News / Energy
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News / Energy
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News / Carbon & Climate
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Opinion / Cities
Cities are sinking but citywide averages hide the real problem
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