Sri Lanka News
Policy & Finance
Women in parliament: Which countries are making progress?
As India moves to reserve a third of seats for women, global progress towards gender equality remains slow.
Policy & Finance
Is China ready to play larger role in ‘debt-for-nature swaps’ to help nations facing climate and debt distress?
The biggest creditor to developing economies has been pressured to explore using such swaps to alleviate the debt burden of Asia Pacific nations, but is not prepared to write off debts without an internationally-agreed mechanism to navigate the complex negotiations.
The conference aims for financial reforms to unlock funds so developing countries can address climate change and other challenges.
Three years ago, Nepal included climate in its national education goals for the first time. But understanding remains poor among many children in the vulnerable mountain nation.
Sri Lanka Opinion
Carbon & Climate
Exploring the intersection of business and our ecology
Founder and managing director Jessica Cheam investigates the relationship between business and our natural world, and shares about the genesis of Eco-Business in this book chapter contribution to 'Peace and Nature', a book compilation of 50 essays and edited by Professor Tommy Koh, Lye Lin Heng and Shawn Lum launched in Singapore recently.
As countries prepare to meet this month to work on the first global agreement to end plastic pollution, the perspectives of South Asia must be heard loud and clear.
Authoritarian governments have weaponised online tools and platforms to control journalists and stifle freedom of expression.
Tens of millions of people are migrating or are being displaced in South Asia due to disasters brought on by climate change, and the number could rise three-fold in 30 years unless countries in the region take strong measures to mitigate the worst effects of global warming.
Policy & Finance
Sustainable development starts with children
Policy & Finance
3 ways to fill Asia-Pacific’s social protection gap
Sri Lanka Press Releases
NEU Battery Materials
NUS GRIP Deep tech start-up, NEU Battery Materials raises S$800,000 in seed funding
Exponential Roadmap Initiative
New collaborative platform to engage with suppliers to halve GHG emissions before 2030
International Fund for Agricultural Development
Sri Lanka and IFAD partner to reduce poverty and increase food and nutrition security in the face of climate change
The Rockefeller Foundation
The Rockefeller Foundation commits US$1 billion to catalyse a green recovery from pandemic
Ethical Corporation by Reuters Events
The Responsible Business Week [June 8-16] is now an online event and entirely free to attend.
Sri Lanka Research
BirdLife International
State of the World's Birds 2018—taking the pulse of the planet
