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New waste policies leave informal traders struggling

...2025).It’s early days for this initiative, and the transition from the old system to the new is still underway. Meanwhile it is important to ask how to provide assurances for workers in the informal s...

10 Aug 2018

New waste policies leave informal traders struggling

News / Waste

Coral reefs face infection risk from plastic

...2025, there could be 15.7 bn plastic objects stuck on the same reefs. No return And, they report, the presence of plastic was associated with a 20-fold increase in risk of disease, and in particular i...

30 Jan 2018

Coral reefs face infection risk from plastic

Singapore's only landfill, the purpose-built trash island of Semakau

News / Waste

How will Singapore defuse a 16-year waste timebomb?

...2025. We are working towards implementing an EPR for e-waste by 2021. What about food waste, which makes up 10 of Singapore's waste stream and has increased by more than 40 per cent since 2008? Ong So...

25 May 2019

How will Singapore defuse a 16-year waste timebomb?

News / Energy

Asia’s climate arsenal: are biofuels back?

...2025. This would show the potential to scale up its use commercially, and could replicate the success of PV solar, the IEA believes. Burying a bad reputation Ten years ago, biofuels were seen as ideal...

12 Oct 2018

Asia’s climate arsenal: are biofuels back?

Opinion / Carbon & Climate

We need an Olympic effort on climate change

...2025. We need to come together, just like we do for the Olympics, as a world. This is the chance for every nation on earth to re-affirm our commitment to low-carbon climate-resilient development. In ...

14 Feb 2018

We need an Olympic effort on climate change

Opinion / Policy & Finance

Making the business case for gender equality

...2025. These global gains would be in addition to the benefits for individual companies. Firms with greater gender equality are more innovative, generous, and profitable. But, at the current rate of fe...

1 Mar 2018

Making the business case for gender equality

News / Energy

China generates energy and controversy in Argentina

...2025 renewables must contribute at least 20 per cent of the capacity of the electric grid, which today is around 30,000 MW. In this sense, 15 per cent of the power allocated through the RenovAr Plan h...

22 Jun 2018

China generates energy and controversy in Argentina

News / Water

As water shortages grow, 'Day Zero' becomes everyday in India

...2025, Kugelman said. Almost 600 million people in India are at high risk of being unable to continue relying on surface water - including in the country's northwest and south, where much of the countr...

27 Apr 2018

As water shortages grow, 'Day Zero' becomes everyday in India

News / Waste

France's war on waste makes it most food sustainable country

...2025. “ What is really important is the vision and importance of (food sustainability) in these governments' agendas and policies. Irene Mia, global editorial director, Economist Intelligence Unit (E...

12 Dec 2017

France's war on waste makes it most food sustainable country

News / Food & Agriculture

Peat protection rule may be a double-edged sword for Indonesia’s forests

...2025. Like APP, the company says it is also looking to increase efficiency and cut waste in order to boost productivity. Syahrul said APRIL was still exporting dissolving pulp, from which VSF is made,...

23 Apr 2019

Peat protection rule may be a double-edged sword for Indonesia’s forests

News / Waste

Trash heroes and scavenger apps battle Bali's 'garbage emergency'

...2025. In June, local media reported the government had teamed up with Muslim clerics to tell their more than 100 million followers to choose reusable bags over plastic ones. Jenna Jambeck, a Universit...

24 Jul 2018

Trash heroes and scavenger apps battle Bali's 'garbage emergency'

News / Transport

End of the road for Volvo’s purely petrol and diesel-powered cars

...2025. Volvo is targeting a total of 1 million electrified vehicles on the road by 2025. It plans to redesign its current models to become fully electric, plug in hybrid cars, or mild hybrid cars. Unli...

11 Jul 2017

End of the road for Volvo’s purely petrol and diesel-powered cars

Opinion / Food & Agriculture

Putting nutrition back on the menu

...2025 the “Decade of Action on Nutrition,” and the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals encourage comprehensive strategies for improving health, eliminating hunger, and promoting sustainable agriculture....

8 Feb 2018

Putting nutrition back on the menu

a view of park olympique in montreal, canada

News / Green Buildings

The top 5 green building stories in 2017

...2025, and investments in green buildings in emerging markets could reach as high as $3.4 trillion, found a study conducted by the International Finance Corporation. IFC country manager for the Philipp...

22 Dec 2017

The top 5 green building stories in 2017

Opinion / Policy & Finance

The world is counting on banks to deliver climate finance. Counting their progress is no easy feat.

...2025 and cut its own carbon emissions by 68 percent. To truly bring the climate fight to finance, however, requires developing science-based metrics and tools that allow financial institutions to set ...

31 May 2018

The world is counting on banks to deliver climate finance. Counting their progress is no easy feat.

News / Energy

Mind the hype: Despite huge potential, solar energy in SE Asia is behind a cloud

...2025—a total of 61 gigawatts. However, almost every solar market in Southeast Asia is still in "emerging phase", Reindl said. One exception is Thailand. The Kingdom's big push towards renewables is la...

3 Oct 2017

Mind the hype: Despite huge potential, solar energy in SE Asia is behind a cloud

News / Manufacturing

The top 5 manufacturing stories in 2017

...2025, to reduce the amount of discarded plastic. In the Netherlands, a new initiative dubbed Fashion for Good launched in April with the hope of rethinking the way the fashion industry uses material...

3 Jan 2018

The top 5 manufacturing stories in 2017

News / Energy

Legal fight over Bali coal power plant illuminates Indonesia energy dilemma

...2025, and nearly a third by 2050. Dolf Gielen, director of innovation and technology with the International Renewable Energy Agency, said Indonesia was focused on coal for power generation as recently...

28 Jun 2018

Legal fight over Bali coal power plant illuminates Indonesia energy dilemma

Children in Laos eating traditional foods

Opinion / Food & Agriculture

Building a shared, sustainable future for people and planet together

...2025 and 67 per cent by 2050, to do our part to keep the planet from warming beyond two degrees. Similarly, addressing the health & nutrition challenge also requires a holistic approach that addre...

10 Apr 2018

Building a shared, sustainable future for people and planet together

News / Food & Agriculture

UN food agency links with Unilever to reduce food loss and waste

...2025, agrees to work with FAO to launch joint initiatives to reduce food loss and waste through awareness-raising campaigns, involving governments, civil society and the private sector. Climate chan...

25 Sep 2017

UN food agency links with Unilever to reduce food loss and waste

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