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fishing subsidies social ecological harm

News / Food & Agriculture

Billions in fishing subsidies finance social, ecological harm: Report

...in intake, foreign fishing subsidies exceed domestic subsidies by 10 to 1, and foreign vessels catch twice as much fish. In an extreme example, foreign fishing subsidies exceed domestic subsidies in t...

9 Jul 2021

Billions in fishing subsidies finance social, ecological harm: Report

Farmers load potatoes they harvested in Huining county, China

News / Food & Agriculture

Dietary shift to potatoes could cut staple crop emissions in China by 25%

...and and Belgium. Potato yields in China lag behind these high-yield countries for several reasons, Dr Philip Kear, a plant breeder and geneticist and a country liaison scientist at the International ...

27 Aug 2021

Dietary shift to potatoes could cut staple crop emissions in China by 25%

News / Policy & Finance

Students for sustainability… Stanford University’s Audrey Pe

...ieve in and push forward equality, we push the needle for future generations to grow up in less discriminatory societies. “ Even if the gender gap in tech is narrowing, the digital divide is wider th...

1 Jul 2020

Students for sustainability… Stanford University’s Audrey Pe

Right People Renewable Energy team in Indonesia.

News / Energy

Money, markets or morals? Why oil and gas executives are switching to clean energy

...ing his time working for Shell. Image: Vincent Bakker Skills switching So is changing industries as simple as downing tools in fossil fuels and picking up the same ones in solar or wind? Brandon Cou...

8 Feb 2021

Money, markets or morals? Why oil and gas executives are switching to clean energy

News / Carbon & Climate

Pandemic job losses and flooding spark fears of hard times in Bangladesh

...ing and Warning Centre, the water level is now receding and the situation is likely to improve by next month. But both Islam and Hasan fear that economic hardships due to the pandemic and floods may l...

4 Aug 2020

Pandemic job losses and flooding spark fears of hard times in Bangladesh

News / Carbon & Climate

Students for sustainability... Monash University Malaysia's Janak Preet Kaur

...ire for their approach to sustainability? Sunway Group. Their mission and vision has sustainability in mind, and their developments are always walkable and liveable. Some may say sustainability is gre...

29 May 2020

Students for sustainability... Monash University Malaysia's Janak Preet Kaur

Mirrors of solar power plant in Tangier, a Moroccan port on the Strait of Gibraltar

News / Energy

Fossil fuels are rapidly losing favour with investors

...id Robo. “The US majors, for them to get into the renewables business, I think you need some kind of tectonic shift in their thinking. I can’t imagine it.” This story was published with permission fr...

21 Oct 2020

Fossil fuels are rapidly losing favour with investors

Eco-Business Podcast with Assaad Razzouk

Podcasts / Carbon & Climate

The 'triangle of deceit' in climate conversations: ESG, net-zero and voluntary carbon markets

...inance for the Asia Pacific region, while Singapore's United Overseas Bank installed a chief sustainability officer. Banks showing increasing interest in sustainability is hardly surprising. ESG inves...

9 May 2021

The 'triangle of deceit' in climate conversations: ESG, net-zero and voluntary carbon markets

News / Green Buildings

Bangkok's micro homes: A model for slum dwelling in Covid-19?

...ix people. Residents love their homes, with many painting the beige exteriors bright green, pink or blue. "The idea is an in-situ upgrade, maximising the space and making the homes bright and airy and...

24 May 2021

Bangkok's micro homes: A model for slum dwelling in Covid-19?

News / Carbon & Climate

Students for sustainability… Singapore Institute of Technology’s Ho Xiang Tian

...ing into contributes significantly to sustainability. The course doesn’t get you to think about what environmental sustainability is. Perhaps it's referring to a different kind of sustainability, like...

29 Jul 2020

Students for sustainability… Singapore Institute of Technology’s Ho Xiang Tian

Lim brings to an end a long tenure with Microsoft, where latterly she was senior manager, global diversity and inclusion, Asia practice leader.

News / Corporate Responsibility

Microsoft diversity and inclusion lead Shoon Yin Lim joins Givaudan

...ing firm's Asia Pacific head of diversity and inclusion, Shoon Yin Lim, has joined flavours and fragrances firm Givaudan in an equivalent role. She joins the Swiss multinational as global diversity an...

3 Feb 2021

Microsoft diversity and inclusion lead Shoon Yin Lim joins Givaudan

Opinion / Food & Agriculture

Coconut oil production threatens five times more species than palm oil

...igricans), endemic to three Philippine islands; the Sangihe tarsier (Tarsius sangirensis), an endemic primate of the Indonesian island of Sangihe; and the Cerulean paradise flycatcher (Eutrichomyias r...

21 Jul 2020

Coconut oil production threatens five times more species than palm oil

News / Policy & Finance

As the Mekong delta washes away, homes and highways are being lost

...in the Asia Pacific, but the construction of dams on the river has reduced this by almost 80 per cent. “Dams and sand mining are working in a cumulative manner,” Goichot said. “Sand mining is making t...

16 Mar 2021

As the Mekong delta washes away, homes and highways are being lost

coral reef landscape in Komodo National Park in Indonesia

News / Policy & Finance

Wealth inequality fuels flow of wildlife from poor countries to rich, says new analysis

...is convinced that the way to preserve biodiversity is to focus on the legal trade. “The illegal trade in wildlife in violation of CITES provisions or other national and international legislation is so...

19 May 2021

Wealth inequality fuels flow of wildlife from poor countries to rich, says new analysis

News / Policy & Finance

Singapore MPs push for wider carbon tax coverage ahead of expected levy hike

...is looking to auction carbon credits this year following trials with forest protection projects in Africa, Asia and Latin America. Environmental activist and sustainability professional Woo Qiyun said...

13 Jan 2022

Singapore MPs push for wider carbon tax coverage ahead of expected levy hike

News / Carbon & Climate

Students for sustainability… University of Oxford’s Natalie Chung

...into their decision-making. And it's not just about completing a sustainability report, but actively trying to improve existing practices out of a genuine commitment to sustainability. This will drive...

10 Jun 2020

Students for sustainability… University of Oxford’s Natalie Chung

News / Policy & Finance

Coal piles threaten public health, ancient temple, in Indonesian village

...i district, home to the village of the same name, in 2008. In Muara Jambi village alone, there are more than 200 families living in close proximity to open coal stockpiles, and a similar situation exi...

25 Nov 2020

Coal piles threaten public health, ancient temple, in Indonesian village

Press Releases / Recourse

World Bank’s Development Policy Finance: still funding fossil fuels and unsustainable energy models

...ided $81 billion to countries in DPF[1]. This figure is likely to rise in future as this type of financing becomes increasingly popular for crisis response. DPF differs from project finance as it is n...

14 Dec 2021

World Bank’s Development Policy Finance: still funding fossil fuels and unsustainable energy models

News / Energy

How I got here... Sujay Malve, chief executive of Canopy Power

...in solving the problem of energy access and security. He studied mechanical engineering at university in India and did his master’s in industrial engineering in the United States before venturing into...

1 Jun 2020

How I got here... Sujay Malve, chief executive of Canopy Power

Press Releases / Sunway Healthcare

GIC invests RM750 million in Sunway Healthcare

...include (without limitation) general industry and economic conditions; interest rate trends; cost of capital and capital availability including availability of financing in the amounts and the terms n...

1 Jul 2021

GIC invests RM750 million in Sunway Healthcare

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