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Opinion / Waste

The Global Plastics Treaty: We need speed, standards, scale and teeth

...ic such as bags and lines, having ingested it after mistaking it for food or living in affected habitats. “ You open a fish, you find plastics. Gustavo Manrique Miranda, Minister of Environment and...

1 Jun 2022

The Global Plastics Treaty: We need speed, standards, scale and teeth

News / Carbon & Climate

As 1.5C warming limit nears, interest in sun-dimming tech heats up

...ing such measures against not taking them. "Simply not doing either anything or enough ... in itself has huge risks," he said. Tipping points To effectively limit warming, climate-heating emissions - ...

19 Jul 2022

As 1.5C warming limit nears, interest in sun-dimming tech heats up

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News / Policy & Finance

Billions in welfare kitty, yet India's mining villages stay buried in poverty

...It highlighted how the DMFs had not identified their beneficiaries clearly, often limiting themselves to those living in the immediate vicinity of mines. They often left out people displaced by mining...

30 Sep 2021

Billions in welfare kitty, yet India's mining villages stay buried in poverty

News / Waste

In the Covid era, circularity can be a new frontier as well as a desert: TRIA chief Ng Pei Kang

...inability activities, but there is a big gulf between sustainability and scalability. It really requires commitment to invest in scalability to realise circularity. Why do you say that commitment is n...

12 Jan 2021

In the Covid era, circularity can be a new frontier as well as a desert: TRIA chief Ng Pei Kang

News / Waste

Rise of waste-to-energy incinerators in Southeast Asia draws concerns

...isations opposed to incineration. “Here, in Indonesia, the government only mandates to test the dioxin from emissions once every five years.” In both Thailand and Indonesia, opposition has had an impa...

9 Dec 2022

Rise of waste-to-energy incinerators in Southeast Asia draws concerns

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News / Policy & Finance

Will Covid-19 inspire young women to become social entrepreneurs?

...imagine our world and recover better." Rabi: "Definitely, we deliver our teachings via digital platforms like social media, YouTube and soon, mobile apps. With no or minimum physical interaction, this...

17 Mar 2021

Will Covid-19 inspire young women to become social entrepreneurs?

News / Food & Agriculture

X-Press Pearl sinking puts a lens on seafood safety in Sri Lanka

...it’s difficult to quantify the impacts of an accident like the X-Press Pearl sinking, and thereby take informed decisions. Other studies have identified the prevalence of microplastics in fish species...

19 Aug 2021

X-Press Pearl sinking puts a lens on seafood safety in Sri Lanka

News / Carbon & Climate

In fast-warming world, Tokyo is barometer for future Olympics

...ions to have these events," said Mike Tipton from Britain's University of Portsmouth. Tipton, a professor of human and applied physiology, said the heat was not only diminishing the elite competitors'...

30 Jul 2021

In fast-warming world, Tokyo is barometer for future Olympics

News / Policy & Finance

Large compromises overshadow small successes at COP26

...ies and the US in earlier negotiations, through the insertion of the word “inefficient” before fossil fuel subsidies. This gives countries the ability to say their subsidies are efficient, giving them...

17 Nov 2021

Large compromises overshadow small successes at COP26

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News / Cities

Could Nusantara be Indonesia’s new green capital?

...ign illustration of the new capital city in Indonesia. Image: Urban + Sitting deep within the jungle, Nusantara will be developed in stages until its completion in 2045, which will coincide with Indo...

4 Apr 2022

Could Nusantara be Indonesia’s new green capital?

News / Policy & Finance

Why Cambodia's environmentalists fear new internet firewall

...ined while investigating deforestation in the Prey Lang forest. But for Mother Nature, with its confrontational style and on-the-ground reporting, clashes with authorities are inevitable. Since its in...

6 Apr 2021

Why Cambodia's environmentalists fear new internet firewall

News / Carbon & Climate

BlackRock leans on company boards for better climate results

...ioritise or commit to eliminating greenhouse gas emissions without sufficient financing from richer nations to help offset the high cost of transitioning to clean energy. India is the world's third-bi...

23 Jul 2021

BlackRock leans on company boards for better climate results

News / Cities

Myanmar struggles in the grip of coup and Covid-19

...ilitary is trying to stop private initiatives, even shooting to disperse a crowd queuing to refill oxygen tanks. It is also forbidding producers to distribute oxygen to ineligible citizens, saying peo...

23 Jul 2021

Myanmar struggles in the grip of coup and Covid-19

Press Releases / Climate Neutral Group

First climate neutral standard to target absolute zero

...ity criteria. The certification standard provides a practical process and tools towards climate neutrality, while ensuring that a company is verified against strict criteria by independent certificati...

26 Oct 2021

First climate neutral standard to target absolute zero

News / Policy & Finance

Wealthy nations prioritised unrealistic targets over a global biodiversity fund

...illion (US$257 million) for biodiversity conservation in developing countries, eclipsing China’s initial US$230 million pledge made during the first phase of COP15 to establish the Kunming Biodiversit...

3 Jan 2023

Wealthy nations prioritised unrealistic targets over a global biodiversity fund

News / Policy & Finance

Popular opposition suspends a bridge project in a Philippine coral haven

...ics, civil society groups and nonprofit organizations that say the project is fraught with risks and irregularities. “Without the concerned citizens and organisations who raised the alarm bell in this...

6 May 2021

Opinion / Water

Overfishing fix needs more than money

...ies at James Cook University. His research focuses on understanding and influencing human behaviour to address pressing issues in conservation, including roving banditry, overfishing and illegal fishi...

7 Jun 2022

Overfishing fix needs more than money

News / Waste

Roof of the world is home to microplastic fibres

...ic islands, in the Arctic ice, on the surfaces of the ocean, and in the tissues of living things, from sea snails to whales. And as the issue of plastic pollution made its way up the political agenda,...

30 Nov 2020

Roof of the world is home to microplastic fibres

Press Releases / BEYONDPLASTIC

Winners of the 2021 BEYONDPLASTIC Award announced

...ion and creativity in sustainable design in four categories: I. Most practical impact to reduce the use of plastics, II. Most innovative approach, III. Most beautiful solution and IV. Best Initiative ...

19 Oct 2021

Winners of the 2021 BEYONDPLASTIC Award announced

News / Waste

‘Great concern’ as new study finds microplastics in human placentas

...irm this. “I cannot support it with scientific evidence, since ours is the first study in the world on this topic, [but] I think that if we could look for them we will also find microplastics in the o...

8 Jan 2021

‘Great concern’ as new study finds microplastics in human placentas

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