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Policy & Finance
Climate leadership needs more women
“The higher you go; the fewer women there are.” This observation by the Nobel Peace Prize laureate and environmental trailblazer Wangari Maathai, reflects a reality familiar to all women who have asp...
3 May 2022
Climate leadership needs more women
News /
Food & Agriculture
Climate change drives down yields and nutrition of Indian crops
Rashpinder Singh, 36, is a farmer who owns 17 acres (almost seven hectares) of land in the state of Punjab. He took up the profession of his forefathers after completing his MTech degree. “I feel conn...
15 Jul 2022
Climate change drives down yields and nutrition of Indian crops
News /
Policy & Finance
Conferences highlight forests as a vital solution to converging crises
A series of recent high-level international conferences have brought record numbers of forestry experts and delegates together, calling for forests to be put at the centre of conversations on the worl...
12 Jul 2022
Conferences highlight forests as a vital solution to converging crises
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Carbon & Climate
Can only western buyers afford sustainable palm oil?
...
smallholders
and the premium and levels of demand are uncertain.” The challenge for small-scale farmers Small-scale farmers are in a particularly difficult position. According to the report, smallhold...
1 Jun 2021
Can only western buyers afford sustainable palm oil?
News /
Policy & Finance
Cloud technology could be the most disruptive digital tool for empowering ASEAN's vulnerable communities
...
smallholders
to tap into the e-commerce market using cloud-powered apps as the country’s growing middle class opts for online shopping over the traditional open-air ‘wet’ market, Purnama Adil Marata, ...
22 Mar 2021
Cloud technology could be the most disruptive digital tool for empowering ASEAN's vulnerable communities
News /
Food & Agriculture
The missing link in palm oil sustainability is trust: Musim Mas supply chain chief Olivier Tichit
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Smallholders
Hub training session. Image: Musim Mas To scale up our outreach, we developed the
Smallholders
Hub approach, working with the local government on how to train
smallholders
in their distr...
1 Dec 2020
The missing link in palm oil sustainability is trust: Musim Mas supply chain chief Olivier Tichit
News /
Policy & Finance
Certification fails to transform the palm oil industry–what next?
...
smallholders
, or take a “landscape” approach, covering all commodities grown within a particular area. Companies across the palm oil supply chain are also making independent efforts to better map thei...
25 Feb 2021
Certification fails to transform the palm oil industry–what next?
News /
Food & Agriculture
Plant-based Bambara milk could launch in Singapore in Q2 of 2021
...
smallholders
. NamZ currently obtains its Bambara groundnut from two villages in Ghana, West Africa, each with a population of 100 to 200 people. It wants to expand its outreach to 2,000 farmers in Afr...
13 Jan 2021
Plant-based Bambara milk could launch in Singapore in Q2 of 2021
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Policy & Finance
Indonesia's palm oil export ban met with condemnation and praise
...
smallholders
can have a bigger say in determining prices that are currently dominated by big companies. “This move needs to be done so that the state doesn’t always lose from a small number of busines...
27 Apr 2022
Indonesia's palm oil export ban met with condemnation and praise
Press Releases /
CDP
CDP launches world’s first disclosure framework for banks integrating climate and forest impact
...
smallholders
. Despite their significance in palm oil and rubber production, a lack of access to credit for smallholder producers is driving behaviours that result in forest loss and increased emission...
25 Feb 2021
CDP launches world’s first disclosure framework for banks integrating climate and forest impact
News /
Food & Agriculture
Will the UN food systems summit bring change?
...
smallholders
, indigenous peoples, youth and women have all been involved in the summit action tracks, generating a greater share of ideas for improving food systems than private sector participants. T...
21 Sep 2021
Will the UN food systems summit bring change?
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Carbon & Climate
Decline in deforestation in Indonesia’s Leuser Ecosystem
...
smallholders
in getting certified under sustainability schemes such as the Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil (RSPO) and the government’s Indonesian Sustainable Palm Oil (ISPO) program, Rudi said. “Th...
4 Jan 2022
Decline in deforestation in Indonesia’s Leuser Ecosystem
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Policy & Finance
Vietnam to plant 1 billion trees — but how?
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smallholders
.
Smallholders
are a major aspect of forestry in Vietnam, as they control at least half of the country’s planted forest area, and in rural areas such as the mountains outside Hue, plantati...
24 May 2021
Vietnam to plant 1 billion trees — but how?
Opinion /
Food & Agriculture
India needs a fast—and just—transition to meat alternatives
In the HBO documentary the “Weight of the Nation” it was noted that if you go with the flow and eat a typical diet in the United States, you will eventually become obese. As a medical doctor, and a ve...
22 Apr 2022
India needs a fast—and just—transition to meat alternatives
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Corporate Responsibility
‘Mind-boggling’ that female garment makers are not paid a living wage: SukkhaCitta co-founder and CSO Bertram Flesch
Every day, the average consumer is bombarded with marketing and advertising that pushes the newest trends. Statistics point to how apparel sales have risen in recent years, in response to drastically ...
12 May 2023
‘Mind-boggling’ that female garment makers are not paid a living wage: SukkhaCitta co-founder and CSO Bertram Flesch
News /
Food & Agriculture
Half of rubber trade agrees to new policies to cut deforestation, human rights abuses from supply chains
...
smallholders
do not bear the burden of switching to sustainable practices. The higher cost of sustainable production has slowed the adoption of better practices in other sectors such as palm oil. Clea...
23 Sep 2020
Half of rubber trade agrees to new policies to cut deforestation, human rights abuses from supply chains
News /
Policy & Finance
Deforestation surge continues amid worsening uncertainty in Myanmar
Carved out of the of the narrow isthmus that connects the Malay Peninsula to the rest of mainland Southeast Asia, Myanmar’s southern Tanintharyi region rises from the Andaman Sea in the west to the fo...
27 Aug 2021
Deforestation surge continues amid worsening uncertainty in Myanmar
News /
Food & Agriculture
Can natural rubber be farmed sustainably in the time of Covid-19?
...
smallholders
and industrial growers, albeit at a reduced frequency, and pay them for it. Before the pandemic,
smallholders
delivered their rubber twice a month and were paid within a week of the deliv...
16 Jul 2020
Can natural rubber be farmed sustainably in the time of Covid-19?
News /
Policy & Finance
One in five hectares of palm oil in Indonesia is criminal, report shows
Indonesia, the world’s biggest producer of palm oil, owes a substantial slice of that output to criminal deforestation, according to a new report showing that a fifth of its plantations are illegally ...
12 Nov 2021
One in five hectares of palm oil in Indonesia is criminal, report shows
News /
Food & Agriculture
Coffee farmers in dire straits; large roasters and traders must step up: Report
The largest coffee companies in the world including Nestle, Starbucks, Lavazza and UCC are failing to report transparently on their sustainability commitments and are doing too little to improve the l...
16 Jan 2021
Coffee farmers in dire straits; large roasters and traders must step up: Report
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Waste Management
Circular textiles startup refuses clothing ‘donations’ from ultra fast-fashion brand
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Singapore-based circular clothing enterprise Cloop said it does not want to encourage dumping of cheap clothing that cannot …
Circular textiles startup refuses clothing 'donations' from ultra fast-fashion brand
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Carbon & Climate
Singapore launches coalition to boost demand for high-integrity carbon credits
New Singapore-based initiative aims to aggregate demand for high-integrity carbon credits and unlock financing for early-stage climate projects …
Singapore launches coalition to boost demand for high-integrity carbon credits
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Corporate Responsibility
As sustainability retreats, Singapore youths face a green jobs reality check
At a youth festival in Singapore, students and young eco-preneurs discussed the state of the green jobs market …
As sustainability retreats, Singapore youths face a green jobs reality check
News /
Energy
How the Philippines is preparing its nuclear workforce for a revival
As nuclear energy returns, the government, universities and companies are training the next generation of engineers to operate …
How the Philippines is preparing its nuclear workforce for a revival
News /
Carbon & Climate
Singapore lays out plan to close $700 billion nature-finance gap as Asia’s TNFD pioneers show disclosures can move capital
The world is spending only about US$200 billion a year on nature-based solutions, against an estimated US$700 billion …
Singapore lays out plan to close $700 billion nature-finance gap as Asia's TNFD pioneers show disclosures can move capital
News /
Energy
Coal-dependent Indonesia shows strongest public support for phasing out the fossil fuel
Despite being the region's largest coal producer and one of the world's biggest users of coal power, Indonesians …
Coal-dependent Indonesia shows strongest public support for phasing out the fossil fuel
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