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Will COP28 deliver a new fund for climate loss and damage?

...the physical and mental harm that happens to people and places when they are not prepared for climate-driven impacts, and are unable to adjust the way they live to protect themselves from longer-term ...

8 Jun 2023

Will COP28 deliver a new fund for climate loss and damage?

oil palm plantation in Gunung Leuser Indonesia

Opinion / Food & Agriculture

Three challenges of smallholder inclusion in sustainable agriculture traceability

...the male considered as the head of the household. When the (male) land holders pass, the land legacy often benefits the male members of the family. Ensuring tenurial rights to smallholders is, thus, k...

1 Dec 2022

Three challenges of smallholder inclusion in sustainable agriculture traceability

News / Food & Agriculture

Indonesia's cassava push leaves bitter taste in Borneo rainforest

...The few villagers who said they had tried cassava grown on the government estate found it bitter and unappetising. "Not only did they clear the land but they grabbed the land," Gara said. "It's a crim...

28 Jul 2023

Indonesia's cassava push leaves bitter taste in Borneo rainforest

News / Cities

Cyber criminals hold Asian tech workers captive in scam factories

...their victims over social media, messaging and dating apps, then pressures them to invest in bogus crypto or online trading schemes. The term refers to the process by which scammers "feed their victim...

2 Nov 2022

Cyber criminals hold Asian tech workers captive in scam factories

Smallholder farmer hoists fresh fruits bunches

Opinion / Food & Agriculture

Bridging the gap for smallholders amidst tightening regulations

...there are very real concerns that smallholders might be excluded from global markets such as the EU. These concerns are also shared by the coffee sector, rubber sector, and the cocoa sector. While the...

9 Nov 2023

Bridging the gap for smallholders amidst tightening regulations

News / Energy

The way ahead for sustainable cooling

...when building owners rent rather than purchase air conditioning. This saves them the cost of buying, installing, and maintaining the cooling systems themselves. Service providers will have the flexibi...

21 Feb 2023

The way ahead for sustainable cooling

Nickel facility Kolaka, Sulawesi, Indonesia

Opinion / Energy

Reimagining our global connections

...the Democratic Republic of the Congo extracts 69 per cent of the world’s cobalt, Indonesia accounts for 32 per cent of the world’s nickel, and Chile produces 28 per cent of the world’s copper. A disru...

29 Nov 2022

Reimagining our global connections

News / Energy

From red to green: Energy infrastructure company Yinson’s diversification into renewables and climate technology

...the energy transition progresses, companies in the oil and gas industry have at their disposal an array of strategies to join the transition and de-risk their business. Some of these strategies might ...

24 Oct 2023

From red to green: Energy infrastructure company Yinson’s diversification into renewables and climate technology

News / Food & Agriculture

Farmers left in the lurch as climate-induced lightning strikes kill sheep by hundreds in Nepal

...the temperature rises, hot air ascends towards the atmosphere. When the vapourised air meets obstruction around the northern hills, there is a disturbance in the atmosphere, which leads to lightning s...

6 Dec 2022

Farmers left in the lurch as climate-induced lightning strikes kill sheep by hundreds in Nepal

Opinion / Policy & Finance

A new financing pact for climate-vulnerable countries

...the continent, the IDA effectively amplifies donor contributions, a particularly valuable feature at a time when donor countries are fiscally constrained. We hope that the G20 and the Paris Summit’s c...

11 Sep 2023

A new financing pact for climate-vulnerable countries

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India’s space missions spark science funding debate

...ther probe on Saturday (2 September), this time to study the sun. Named Aditya-L1, after the Hindi name for the sun, it will have the advantage of continuously viewing the sun without any eclipses. Th...

11 Sep 2023

India’s space missions spark science funding debate

News / Carbon & Climate

How can a world population of 8 billion be more sustainable?

...the services provided by nature - from storing carbon to regulating rainfall. With the number of people living on the planet only set to soar further in the coming decades, what can be done to make hu...

10 Nov 2022

How can a world population of 8 billion be more sustainable?

News / Cities

Sex trafficking plagues Filipino city where typhoon wrought havoc

...them in court. Despite its budget shortages, the shelter remains a lifeline for the 24 women and girls who live there. "In the shelter, I learned the term 'human rights'," said Ella, 21, a sexual abus...

6 Nov 2023

Sex trafficking plagues Filipino city where typhoon wrought havoc

Opinion / Cities

Surviving extreme heat in the slums

...the case in many regions by 2050. We can still feasibly protect the global poor from the heat at the current 1-1.5°C limit, but not so at 2°C when temperatures will become too much for the human body...

19 Jul 2022

Surviving extreme heat in the slums

Haze air pollution from burning peatlands blankets the landscape in Riau

News / Food & Agriculture

Indonesia's peatlands are more fire-prone than official figures claim as dry season looms: study

...the 3.66 million ha declared as restored, the investigation finds. According to the analysis, the restored area of peatland has not increased since 2019, while water levels of the peatlands have not b...

9 Aug 2023

Indonesia's peatlands are more fire-prone than official figures claim as dry season looms: study

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Fast-growing eucalyptus instrumental in global reforestation

...these non-native sentinels and sells their wood as timber, they recoup up to 75 per cent of the costs of regenerating the rainforest. And, according to recent research, they do so without inhibiting t...

16 Jan 2023

Fast-growing eucalyptus instrumental in global reforestation

News / Policy & Finance

Sleepless but not silenced: Indigenous people face off with nickel mine in Philippine tropical sanctuary

...the two-hour walk to school the following day, but has been unable to do so in the past eight months ever since the start of mining operations of the Ipilan Nickel Corporation (INC), a subsidiary of t...

28 Feb 2023

Sleepless but not silenced: Indigenous people face off with nickel mine in Philippine tropical sanctuary

Doug Woodring, founder and managing director, Ocean Recovery Alliance

News / Waste

UN treaty will backfire if it stifles transboundary plastics trade: Ocean Recovery Alliance's Doug Woodring

...the environment unrecovered. We need the brands – the buyers of the credits – to realise that they need to get the plastic out of the environment, because people need to get paid to do the recovery. T...

8 May 2023

UN treaty will backfire if it stifles transboundary plastics trade: Ocean Recovery Alliance's Doug Woodring

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Q&A: The fight over the ‘loss-and-damage fund’ for climate change

...the meeting came to a close.) Where would the fund be located? One major issue blocking progress was the location of the loss-and-damage fund. The US and the EU wanted to see the fund hosted by the U...

10 Nov 2023

Q&A: The fight over the ‘loss-and-damage fund’ for climate change

News / Carbon & Climate

Asia’s growth-stage cleantech and climate startups court patient capital to scale impact

...their environmental, social and governance (ESG) scores if they are part of the initiative. For the fashion industry, the use of mycelium-based leather addresses the environmental and market access c...

16 Oct 2024

Asia’s growth-stage cleantech and climate startups court patient capital to scale impact

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