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News / Food & Agriculture

Coronavirus thumps palm oil demand

...1 per cent in these two months, mainly due to a trade spat with the South Asian nation. The council said export of palm oil in February fell by 11 per cent to 1.08 million tonnes from 1.21 million ton...

9 Apr 2020

Coronavirus thumps palm oil demand

Elim Sritaba, chief sustainability officer of Asia Pulp and Paper, with Pak Suryono, a farmer who previously used slash-and-burn techniques to prepare land for cultivation. Image: APP

News / Food & Agriculture

24 hours with... APP chief sustainability officer, Elim Sritaba

...13, but in the years since the company come under continuous scrutiny from environmentalists who claim that APP is not living up to its promises. Sritaba joined APP in October 2013, eight months after...

8 Apr 2020

24 hours with... APP chief sustainability officer, Elim Sritaba

Opinion / Energy

Fossil fuels demonstrating their unreliability

...1 million bpd during the second quarter, the 10 million bpd production cut announced by OPEC+ for 1 May will not be large enough to avoid the market hitting physical storage constraints and the WTI fu...

3 May 2020

Fossil fuels demonstrating their unreliability

News / Waste

Waste plastic can find a useful new life

...15, the world generated more than 320 million tonnes of polystyrene, polyvinyl chloride, polyethylene and other polymers. Perhaps 200 million tonnes was neither incinerated nor recycled. As much as 12...

4 Nov 2019

Waste plastic can find a useful new life

News / Waste

While the rest of the world tackles plastics disposal, the US resists

...1 garbage truck every minute, every day. And it’s increasing.” And while estimates differ, the UN Clean Seas Campaign says that as of 2015, only nine per cent of plastic was recycled, while 12 per cen...

18 May 2021

While the rest of the world tackles plastics disposal, the US resists

Press Releases / Greenpeace

Palm oil and pulp companies with most burned land go unpunished as Indonesian forest fires rage

...15; 436,500 ha in 2016; 164,100 ha in 2017; and 528,000 ha in 2018. This includes areas that burned repeatedly. [3] While all reasonable efforts have been made to ensure that the concession dat...

24 Sep 2019

Palm oil and pulp companies with most burned land go unpunished as Indonesian forest fires rage

Podcasts / Water

Shifting sands: the environmental controversy beneath your feet

...1:23) MA: So sometime in 2019, I started my master's at the London School of Economics. And I was also a fellow with the Atlantic fellows programme for social and economic equity. I was supposed to do...

23 Mar 2022

Shifting sands: the environmental controversy beneath your feet

News / Carbon & Climate

Analysis: how power shortages might ‘accelerate’ China’s climate action

...10, 2014, 2016 and 2019. According to an article on China Dialogue from 2019, each of the NEC’s first four meetings took place at a “critical time” of the country’s energy development planning and lef...

15 Oct 2021

Analysis: how power shortages might ‘accelerate’ China’s climate action

News / Energy

In smog-choked South Korea, the biggest barrier facing renewables is people

...18, solar photovoltaics and wind accounted for less than 2 per cent of total electricity generation in the country. But the renewables target enshrined in South Korea’s latest energy plan—to ramp up t...

1 Apr 2020

In smog-choked South Korea, the biggest barrier facing renewables is people

News / Policy & Finance

No more loopholes: HSBC closes door on new coal projects

...10 gigawatts. Over their lifetimes, these power stations would collectively emit more than three times as much carbon dioxide as the United Kingdom did in 2018. “ Banks know coal is by far the world’...

27 Apr 2020

No more loopholes: HSBC closes door on new coal projects

Opinion / Carbon & Climate

Intense forest fires threaten to derail Indonesia’s progress in reducing deforestation

...15 — which saw more than 110,000 alerts at the end of September — it far exceeds forest fires levels in 2016, 2017 and 2018. 2. This year’s fires jeopardise Indonesia’s progress in reducing deforestat...

9 Oct 2019

Intense forest fires threaten to derail Indonesia’s progress in reducing deforestation

News / Carbon & Climate

Asia Pacific faring poorly on SDGs, marching backwards for two goals—UN

...1.1) and international support for clean and renewable energy (Indicator 7.a.1). However, targets for renewable energy share (Indicator 7.2.1) is unlikely to be met. Image: UN ESCAP Although the re...

30 Mar 2020

Asia Pacific faring poorly on SDGs, marching backwards for two goals—UN

Press Releases / Environmental Paper Network

Asia Pulp & Paper and APRIL Groups continued in 2018 to source wood from controversial supplier owned by Djarum Group

...18. Ibid. Asia Pulp & Paper. 2018. Ibid. Asia Pulp & Paper. 2018. Ibid. Asia Pulp & Paper. 2018. Ibid. Asia Pulp & Paper. 2018. Hicks, Robin. 2018. “Have...

15 Oct 2019

Asia Pulp & Paper and APRIL Groups continued in 2018 to source wood from controversial supplier owned by Djarum Group

Videos / Carbon & Climate

Highlights from Ecosperity Week 2019

...10 partner events such as an international forum on China's fast-moving economy by Business China and a CEO roundtable by Global Compact Network Singapore to discuss the role of corporate sustainabili...

24 Jul 2019

Highlights from Ecosperity Week 2019

Brian Reilly, founder and chief executive of Revolv, talks on a panel at Unlocking Capital for Sustainability. Reilly raised US$500,000 from Hong Kong-based hedge fund Sylebra and is looking to secure more funding to aid the company’s launch in Singapore. Image: Eco-Business

News / Policy & Finance

How can Asia bridge the gap between finance and sustainability?

...1 per cent of global bond issuance. If we think we can solve our problems with this 1 per cent, we can all go home. Michael Boardman, chief financial officer, Sindicatum Sustainable Resources Are gre...

8 Feb 2019

How can Asia bridge the gap between finance and sustainability?

News / Carbon & Climate

Vietnam’s timber sector takes a hit from coronavirus outbreak

...11-14 in Ho Chi Minh City. Phuc said Vietnam’s prime minister is expected to host a national conference on the timber sector during the event, though this could change depending on further outbreak de...

25 Feb 2020

Vietnam’s timber sector takes a hit from coronavirus outbreak

Opinion / Policy & Finance

Violence against women is blocking development

...18-2019, the police recorded an average of 114 rapes per day — an increase of nearly 5 per cent from the previous year. To add insult to injury, women and girls — including victims of such assaults — ...

25 Feb 2020

Violence against women is blocking development

Opinion / Policy & Finance

Amidst food system shocks, we must ensure weather index insurance reaches the most vulnerable

...19 impacts racing across the globe, it leaves local communities with a potential double dose of vulnerability. But scientists, governments and insurance providers have teamed to develop insurance to h...

14 May 2020

Amidst food system shocks, we must ensure weather index insurance reaches the most vulnerable

Press Releases / Grundfos

Siemens and Grundfos sign digital partnership to tackle global water challenges and save energy

...1 October 2019: Siemens and Grundfos have signed a digital partnership framework for strategic cooperation between the two companies. The new partnership focuses on the complementary products and solu...

2 Oct 2019

Siemens and Grundfos sign digital partnership to tackle global water challenges and save energy

News / Energy

China’s CO2 emissions surged past pre-coronavirus levels in May

...10 per cent in recent years, plummeted in February, with consumption in the first two months of the year posting a mere 1 per cent increase on the same period in 2019. Demand bottomed in March with th...

30 Jun 2020

China’s CO2 emissions surged past pre-coronavirus levels in May

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