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Food & Agriculture
How Indonesia's smallholders are reducing pesticides in coffee
Coffee growers in Indonesia face many challenges in meeting export standards for maximum amount of pesticides in coffee and coping with the impact of climate change on crop yield. Adopting best agricultural practices and using reductants can help ensure long term sustainability of coffee production.
Policy & Finance
Akshat Garg joins WWF-Singapore Asia sustainable finance team
Garg takes on the role of assistant vice president of the team, which will see him focusing on ESG implementation across asset managers and private banks in the region.
Carbon & Climate
CO2 cuts in doubt as China, India bend coal targets
Climate change action demands stricter emissions control of Asia Pacific’s coal burners, say analysts.
Carbon & Climate
Fossil fuel firms should pay trillions in reparations for impending climate chaos: study
Climate calamity will cost US$99 trillion in loss and damage by 2100, and the fossil fuel industry is responsible for 70 per cent of that wreckage – so should pay US$23.2 trillion in reparations through to 2050, a groundbreaking new study calculates.
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