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...11. According to guidelines and clarifications issued by the MoEFCC regarding the Forest (Conservation) Act (FCA), 1980, forest rights have to be settled and a No Objection Certificate (NOC) has to be...

23 Oct 2020

Heavily packaged fruit in a supermarket in Singapore.

...1 January 2021. Packaging producers are to fork out €0.80 for each kilogramme. Grange, whose company recently opened its first recycling plant in Asia, said that such a tax would lead to an "immediate...

4 Jan 2021

...11 June to 13 June issued a joint statement on Sunday, saying that they are committed to “net zero no later than 2050” and “halving their collective emissions by 2030”. The G7, which include leaders o...

16 Jun 2021

...15m 8. Golden Agri Resources (planation, refinery) — US$340m 9. Astra Agro Lestari (plantations) — US$206m 10. McDonald’s (retail, FMCG) — US$190m 11. Walmart (retail) — US$42m Source: Chain Reaction ...

15 Jun 2021

A truck moves past power-generating wind turbines

...10 to 15 years ahead of what adoption of this technology would look like. That's a great example of that kind of forward thinking. Singapore is similar with their forward-looking plan, but for slightl...

20 Sep 2021

...17 from 55,700 square kilometres in the 1970s. More than 100,000 people migrated due to collapse of agriculture, fisheries, tourism and increased illnesses such as tuberculosis and diarrhoea. More th...

23 Mar 2021

Off-farm activities are a growing share of food-system greenhouse gas emissions

...16 billion tonnes of carbon dioxide or equivalents (CO2eq) in 2018, an 8 per cent increase since 1990. They now represent 33 per cent of all human-caused GHG emissions.That, lead author Francesco Tubi...

10 Jun 2021

...1 this year, people have reported illegal mining on their land in the absence of law enforcement. The construction of the Tigyit power plant and the adjacent coal mine in Pinlaung township in southern...

30 Jul 2021

URBAN Charge, Singapore’s latest EV charging operator, is officially launched by URBAN RENEWABLES

...100 1307 Email: patricia@urban-renewables.com Website: www.urban-renewables.com

13 Jan 2021

...1 May 2021. This story was published with permission from The Fifth Estate. Simon Carter is the founding chair of the Sustainable Digitalisation Project (SDP) and managing director of Morphosis. Jed ...

12 May 2021

...1 month does not make up for the other 11. The food industry is a big contributor to the climate problem. Long term changes must be implemented and we need to find a realistic and sustainable way forw...

11 Jan 2021

Olam urges international brands to adopt new rice eco-label to allow consumers to support farmers

...150 data points across 9 core sustainability topics, connected to 12 Sustainable Development Goals. In addition to monitoring the farm-level indicators under SRP and any additional requirements from c...

23 Sep 2020

...11,000, according to non-profit, Freedom House, raising concerns about how well the government will be able to exercise control over this nascent industry. Conservation groups have appealed to Nauru t...

30 Jun 2021

...1 micron — are even present inside human placentas, posing a potential risk to fetal health and development. Published this month in Environmental International, the study examined six human placentas...

8 Jan 2021

Gaining Indigenous Peoples’ consent for sustainable hydropower

...1 (UT-1) hydropower project, which successfully achieved the Free, Prior and Informed Consent of the affected Indigenous communities. “The FPIC process developed a bridge of faith and belief bet...

11 May 2020

Kuala Langat North Forest Reserve, Malaysia

...13 inquiry by Malaysia’s National Human Rights Commission (Suhakam) found that between 1990 and 2010, the amount of land gazetted as Indigenous (“Orang Asli” in Malaysian) reserves in Peninsular Malay...

8 Apr 2021

...1.2 million acres) reduced by 50 per cent, he told the Thomson Reuters Foundation. In 2014, President Joko Widodo pledged to hand over 12.7 million hectares of state forests to rural communities withi...

7 Aug 2020

...10 times the area of San Francisco with an estimated 11,000 Indigenous residents — Samling refers to the social impact assessment, which says: those with family members in the larger towns “... purcha...

25 Jun 2021

Asia Food Challenge Report 2021 highlights additional US$750 billion needed by 2030

...12 per cent between 2015 and 2020 compared to non-adopters PwC, Rabobank and Temasek launched on the 21st of September 2021, the second edition of The Asia Food Challenge report which looks at six ...

15 Oct 2021

...19 exposed mental health as a serious part of the S in ESG, and the question people can ask prospective employers to ensure a new workplace is a supportive environment. What prompted you to start Bea...

12 Apr 2022

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