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Indonesian anti-graft enforcers set their sights on corporations

...power to issue permits, especially in the natural resource sector. The heavily forested Southeast Asian nation is a top producer of palm oil, coal, nickel, gold, tin, rubber and coconuts. Indonesia’s ...

1 Apr 2020

Indonesian anti-graft enforcers set their sights on corporations

News / Policy & Finance

Indonesia set to receive US$56m payment from Norway for reducing deforestation

...powers to the Ministry of Environment and Forestry. (The move was part of a wider restructuring headlined by the merger of the previously separate ministries of forestry and of the environment.) It al...

2 Jun 2020

Indonesia set to receive US$56m payment from Norway for reducing deforestation

News / Transport

Singapore’s road to electric mobility: What’s the hold-up?

...powered microgrids can be handy, says NUS’ Goh. “It would strain power networks if EVs were all charged in the evening using power from the grid,” says Goh. “But renewable energy, battery storage, an...

28 May 2019

Singapore’s road to electric mobility: What’s the hold-up?

News / Energy

2.2m jobs by 2030: Clean energy's employment promise for Asean

Before his father entered the operating theatre for emergency heart surgery in 2008, Robin Pho promised he would join the family’s business, an Indonesian supplier of manpower for the oil and gas indu...

25 Sep 2019

2.2m jobs by 2030: Clean energy's employment promise for Asean

News / Policy & Finance

IFC has sunk US$1.8 billion into factory farming operations since 2010

...power dynamics between big companies and smaller contract farmers often don’t favor the farmers. In the US, many have razor-thin profit margins and have been forced to shoulder hefty debts. Sharma sai...

8 Jul 2020

IFC has sunk US$1.8 billion into factory farming operations since 2010

Opinion / Carbon & Climate

Is climate change responsible for the conflicts we're seeing around the world today?

...powerful? Because governments are hostile to nomads? Because of poverty? There is no consensus among policymakers, security analysts, academics or development groups who work in the region. Althou...

17 Oct 2019

Is climate change responsible for the conflicts we're seeing around the world today?

Opinion / Carbon & Climate

Can COP26 live up to the expectations of the Thunberg generation?

There she was, Greta Thunberg, speaking truth to power. Not too impressed by the UN Secretary-General sitting next to her, or all the world leaders sitting right in front of her in the great hall of t...

8 Oct 2019

Can COP26 live up to the expectations of the Thunberg generation?

migrant fishermen fishing southeast asia

Videos / Food & Agriculture

For Southeast Asia's migrant fishers, modern slavery is still alive on the high seas

...ads to the collapse of wild fish populations. Globally, about 33 per cent of fish stocks are already fished beyond sustainable limits while an estimated 60 per cent are on the brink of collapse or fis...

10 Dec 2019

For Southeast Asia's migrant fishers, modern slavery is still alive on the high seas

News / Carbon & Climate

As Covid-19 pandemic deepens, global wildlife treaty faces scrutiny

...power to ban it when needed. Now, 45 years after it came into force, CITES appears to be having its moment of reckoning as a result of the Covid-19 crisis. The convention is ratified by almost all cou...

18 May 2020

As Covid-19 pandemic deepens, global wildlife treaty faces scrutiny

Opinion / Energy

Renewables in Southeast Asia: Subsidies not required, thanks

...power development plan increased the share of this hydrocarbon fuel in its power mix from 30-40 per cent in 2036 to a staggering 53 per cent in 2037, while at the same time delaying investments in new...

18 Mar 2019

Renewables in Southeast Asia: Subsidies not required, thanks

News / Carbon & Climate

Youth group says no to coal-fired power plants in Philippines island province

...power plants in the province, including a 300-megawatt plant proposed last year by SMC Global Power Holdings Corporation, one of the Philippines' biggest conglomerates. The announcement was made as th...

19 Mar 2019

Youth group says no to coal-fired power plants in Philippines island province

News / Policy & Finance

Increased exploitation of Indonesia’s forests feared after president’s demand for unrestricted investment

...power plant in West Java province that had previously been blocked by a local court because the proposed site was designated as a protected forest. In 2018, the government issued another regulation, o...

24 Jul 2019

Increased exploitation of Indonesia’s forests feared after president’s demand for unrestricted investment

A burning peatland inside the area palm oil concession of PT Sumatera Unggul Makmur in West Kalimantan on 22 August 2018. Image: Greenpeace

News / Carbon & Climate

Deforestation is a bigger climate threat than 'green' coal, says Indonesian official

...power station technology, Indonesia's "extremely weak" emissions regulations for coal power mean that the technology used is "completely irrelevant." "Branding [technologically advanced coal plants] ...

3 Sep 2018

Deforestation is a bigger climate threat than 'green' coal, says Indonesian official

hong kong skyline at night rising from the ground

News / Green Buildings

Smart and sustainable, but are these green buildings secure?

...powering building automation systems usually requires stuffing buildings to the gills with IoT (Internet of Things) and AI (artificial intelligence) technologies such as sensors and internet-connected...

20 Jun 2019

Smart and sustainable, but are these green buildings secure?

News / Waste

Innovative solutions to reduce plastic waste and mitigate climate change impacts in the Philippines

...power plants,” the report from the Center of International Environmental Law said. “Smart people live in smart cities” But even as the Philippines uses a lot of plastic, it does not produce them—a rea...

12 Jun 2019

Innovative solutions to reduce plastic waste and mitigate climate change impacts in the Philippines

News / Energy

Cambodia to boost clean energy use—but coal plants planned too

...power accounts for 40 per cent of the mix, while coal makes up 36 per cent, with more plants being built, he said. Power imports from neighbouring countries contribute almost the entire remainder, wit...

7 Nov 2018

Cambodia to boost clean energy use—but coal plants planned too

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News / Carbon & Climate

10 times when sustainability was (sort of) funny in 2019

...powers-that-be to do more about climate change. But the significance of that number was open to debate, according to the country's national broadsheet, which changed the headline of its story no less ...

14 Dec 2019

10 times when sustainability was (sort of) funny in 2019

News / Policy & Finance

Policy continuity and concerns in Indian elections

...power in April 2019. The party that will now be in power is supported by residents who were displaced by the dams and are still protesting about it. The attitude the new state government will take tow...

27 May 2019

Policy continuity and concerns in Indian elections

converted forest for wood fibre, Sumatra

News / Food & Agriculture

Asia Pulp & Paper involved in numerous land disputes, shirking demands for more transparency—report

...power to bestow forest concessions, resulting in large-scale, often corrupt transfer of land, the report reads. Elim Sritaba said: “As a developing country, we cannot say that we can be free from conf...

9 Oct 2019

Asia Pulp & Paper involved in numerous land disputes, shirking demands for more transparency—report

News / Food & Agriculture

Why don’t consumer brands promote their sustainable palm oil credentials?

...powerful marketing claim that some companies, whose products never contained palm oil to begin with, are echoing it to imply that their products are healthier, said one industry expert (palm oil's hea...

16 Oct 2019

Why don’t consumer brands promote their sustainable palm oil credentials?

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