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Opinion / Carbon & Climate

How can China’s climate journalists better engage the public?

...into leads on good stories. We need to work harder on this. Wu Yixiu is team leader of Chinadialogue's Strategic Climate Communication Initiatives. This article was originally published on chinadialog...

29 Jul 2019

How can China’s climate journalists better engage the public?

Misool eco-resort in Raja Ampat, Indonesia

Opinion / Lifestyle

Covid-19: An opportunity or setback for sustainable tourism?

...illion jobs in tourism are at risk. On the flip side, the short-term environmental benefits of COVID-19 are undeniable: increased sightings of wildlife species, improved air quality and declining carb...

31 Aug 2020

Covid-19: An opportunity or setback for sustainable tourism?

Workers on a scaffolding on a construction site in Singapore

News / Green Buildings

Tackling embodied carbon is the next step of the green building journey

...and this growth will contribute to a doubling of the consumption of raw materials. That will significantly increase the building sector’s emissions and climate impact. And the built environment is res...

7 Jan 2020

Tackling embodied carbon is the next step of the green building journey

Press Releases / WBCSD

WBCSD and Circular IQ partner to scale up the circular economy uptake by business 

...and deliver the solutions needed to build a sustainable world.” “Our experience in collecting and digitising existing data and using this data to improve decision-making, helps busi...

3 Sep 2019

WBCSD and Circular IQ partner to scale up the circular economy uptake by business 

News / Food & Agriculture

Climate damage to Pakistan's cotton crop ripples through economy

...ing in at least 6 million bales - almost double what it imported last financial year, said Shahid Sattar, executive director of the All Pakistan Textile Mills Association (APTMA). Importing cotton is ...

18 Dec 2019

Climate damage to Pakistan's cotton crop ripples through economy

News / Lifestyle

What happens to an ecotourism town when the wildlife doesn’t show?

...ime, in the face of a decline in income from tourism. But wildlife tourism, by nature, is susceptible to biodiversity loss and changes in animal behavior; it places host communities on a thin line bet...

1 Jul 2019

What happens to an ecotourism town when the wildlife doesn’t show?

News / Transport

How a Finnish engineering firm is greening the shipping industry

...improve efficiency, you improve everything immediately." That, he points out, is a major selling point in an industry suffering from massive overcapacity and painfully tight margins. Unprofitability a...

16 Jun 2019

How a Finnish engineering firm is greening the shipping industry

Panelists at the 2019 Asian Sustainability Reporting Summit

News / Policy & Finance

As businesses call for harmony in sustainability reporting, standards body bosses clash in Singapore

...andard provides "financially material, industry specific" information which investors can plug straight into a Bloomberg financial information terminal, whereas GRI's definition of materiality is broa...

6 Sep 2019

As businesses call for harmony in sustainability reporting, standards body bosses clash in Singapore

Opinion / Carbon & Climate

If you are flying, you should be buying carbon offsets

...ing is not the primary purpose of the offset. In my case, I’m committed to visiting overseas family from time to time. It’s an emissions burden I’m stuck with. By buying offsets, I shrink the harm I c...

18 Mar 2019

If you are flying, you should be buying carbon offsets

migrant fishermen fishing southeast asia

Videos / Food & Agriculture

For Southeast Asia's migrant fishers, modern slavery is still alive on the high seas

...ite national policies to protect migrant workers and international treaties on fisheries management, it is unthinkable that modern slavery continues to thrive within the fishing industry,” said Arifsy...

10 Dec 2019

For Southeast Asia's migrant fishers, modern slavery is still alive on the high seas

News / Policy & Finance

Golden langurs killed by people, roads and power lines in Bhutan

...ing existing species, recording new species and documenting changing trends in biodiversity due to climate change and human disturbances, these guidelines will help understand threats to species inclu...

15 Sep 2020

Golden langurs killed by people, roads and power lines in Bhutan

News / Policy & Finance

Investigators cast doubt on China's ban on the pangolin trade

...icine formulations.” EIA identified eight medicines in the 2020 pharmacopoeia that contain pangolin scales, including Zaizao Wan, a pill said to aid blood circulation, and Awei Huapi Gao, a medicine u...

26 Jun 2020

Investigators cast doubt on China's ban on the pangolin trade

News / Water

Surviving India’s drought: ‘People have stopped expecting a decent life’

...igrate to the cities to work as labourers – this is a poor area and migration has always been high. Most of the high-rise buildings of Mumbai (the state capital and India’s financial capital) have bee...

13 Jun 2019

Surviving India’s drought: ‘People have stopped expecting a decent life’

News / Policy & Finance

On the island of Java, a social forestry scheme creates jobs at home

...iko Trinugroho, head of Kalibiru hamlet Following the success of the replanting initiative, the Mandiri farmers began to talk about their next steps. Kalibiru Nature Tourism began operating in 2009. ...

16 May 2019

On the island of Java, a social forestry scheme creates jobs at home

News / Carbon & Climate

Climate activists to emerge stronger from coronavirus crisis, says Greta Thunberg

...icity film, designed by Los Angeles-based creative agency FF, that portrays a family's members going about their morning routine as if everything were normal, despite growing fires burning inside thei...

23 Apr 2020

Climate activists to emerge stronger from coronavirus crisis, says Greta Thunberg

News / Carbon & Climate

Fossil fuels add to world’s marine dead zones

...is too low for most organisms to survive. Fish usually swim away to healthier waters, but life forms which cannot easily move simply die. NOx emissions from fossil fuel burning and fertiliser manufact...

6 Apr 2020

Fossil fuels add to world’s marine dead zones

Press Releases / blueleaf energy

Blueleaf energy signs Solar PPA with Bosch Malaysia

...ion, and we see it as our responsibility as a company to act now,” said Simon Song, Managing Director of Bosch Malaysia. “We are very proud to participate in the sustainability initiative...

8 Jan 2020

Blueleaf energy signs Solar PPA with Bosch Malaysia

speaker's corner hong lim park singapore, wikimedia

News / Carbon & Climate

Protesting for the planet: Is climate activism alive in Singapore?

...ivists in Singapore. And it is not out of fear of the law that youths engage in activism in this manner, they said. “Historically, environmental activism in Singapore has worked better when individual...

9 Jul 2019

Protesting for the planet: Is climate activism alive in Singapore?

Opinion / Cities

Globalising compassion amidst Covid-19

...and morality. Development priorities will be recalibrated, individual freedom, privacy and human rights will be redefined. Conventional politics can also be transformed into compassionate politics. In...

1 Apr 2020

Globalising compassion amidst Covid-19

News / Waste

Will China's sweeping ban to phase out plastic work?

...ime China has introduced a ban on plastic, nor is it the first country to do so. In Asia, Malaysia has a plan to wipe out single-use plastic by 2030, while cities in Indonesia, India and the Philippin...

22 Jan 2020

Will China's sweeping ban to phase out plastic work?

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