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Ahead of COP28 climate talks, fossil fuels increasingly under fire

...the climate crisis, but that the event demonstrated there are leaders willing to up their game and move more quickly ahead of COP28. "It is in my view ... the most important COP since Paris," Hart sai...

25 Sep 2023

Ahead of COP28 climate talks, fossil fuels increasingly under fire

News / Policy & Finance

How geographical gaps are harming climate science

...the room but ensuring when they’re in the room that they’re heard.” Technology can be both a climate science boon and another barrier. Wainwright notes that most climate models have developed in the g...

18 Aug 2022

How geographical gaps are harming climate science

News / Cities

Irrawaddy dolphin sanctuary mulls ban on unsustainable fishing in Borneo

...the world, with the other two in the Mekong and the Irrawaddy rivers. The dolphins have been driven from much of their range to this particular stretch of the Mahakam because of changes to the flow an...

29 Dec 2022

Irrawaddy dolphin sanctuary mulls ban on unsustainable fishing in Borneo

News / Policy & Finance

Unsung heroes: small-scale farmers step in as climate finance lags

...the UN's Adaptation Fund at last year’s COP27 climate talks, according to the research. "Farmers working small plots of land around the globe are the unsung heroes of the battle to adapt to the c...

15 Nov 2023

Unsung heroes: small-scale farmers step in as climate finance lags

News / Policy & Finance

New concessions to greenlight large-scale exploitation of Indonesia’s marine resources

...The other major change is the lifting of a ban on foreign investment in the marine capture sector. The ban had been imposed in 2016 by the fisheries minister at the time, Susi Pudjiastuti, who blamed ...

15 Mar 2023

New concessions to greenlight large-scale exploitation of Indonesia’s marine resources

News / Food & Agriculture

Plant resources threatened by pests and diseases

...the resolution at the Assembly, supported by FAO and the IPPC Secretariat. The IPPC Secretariat and the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs of the UK this week partnered to gather the w...

27 Sep 2022

Plant resources threatened by pests and diseases

News / Transport

Nepal and China take step towards one of ‘world’s toughest railways’

...thern Tibet to Nepal’s capital Kathmandu, entering Nepal in Rasuwa district. The plan is to eventually extend the railway to India. People familiar with the matter told The Third Pole that building th...

16 Sep 2022

Nepal and China take step towards one of ‘world’s toughest railways’

Tropical peat swamp forest carbon monitoring, Central Kalimantan

News / Carbon & Climate

Carbon credit industry watchdog ICVCM ‘absolutely willing to fail’ subpar certifiers as work enters key phase

...they can trade on the market. The council is not failsafe, so the focus has to be on identifying and plugging gaps when problematic carbon projects are called out in the future, Mani said. On the back...

16 Apr 2024

Carbon credit industry watchdog ICVCM ‘absolutely willing to fail’ subpar certifiers as work enters key phase

Opinion / Cities

The urgent need to rejuvenate public green spaces in Jakarta

...the surrounding natural environment? There has been an assumption within scholarly literature on the Anthropocene (that focuses on a theoretical geological period starting when human activities began ...

21 Sep 2023

The urgent need to rejuvenate public green spaces in Jakarta

Press Releases / Zuno Carbon

Singapore-based climate tech startup Zuno Carbon raises US$2.5 million in seed funding

...theast Asia. Other investors participating in the seed funding include SEEDS Capital and Blue InCube Ventures. This follows Zuno Carbon’s pre-seed round in June last year, bringing the total fu...

25 Jul 2023

Singapore-based climate tech startup Zuno Carbon raises US$2.5 million in seed funding

News / Cities

There is no one-size-fits-all solution to decarbonising cities: CapitaLand Investment's CSO

...the wellness of the people who reside in and use it. On CapitaSpring’s roof on the 51st floor, there’s an urban farm providing fresh ingredients for two of the restaurants in the building. The more th...

27 Feb 2023

There is no one-size-fits-all solution to decarbonising cities: CapitaLand Investment's CSO

News / Policy & Finance

‘Farming tigers or rhinos is not beyond possibility,’ says head of Nepal’s wildlife department

...the buying or selling of wild animals in the country, an amendment to the Act was passed by parliament in 2017 to allow the farming of wild animals for commercial purposes. Then in 2019, the Ministry ...

4 May 2023

‘Farming tigers or rhinos is not beyond possibility,’ says head of Nepal’s wildlife department

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News / Corporate Responsibility

Risky for brands to ‘hide’ behind lagging greenwash legislation in Asia: Ogilvy sustainability head

...the wrist – that you're telling fibs. People are saying they will leave the company or stop buying from them and, more importantly, they are going to spread stories around in social media. So the stak...

16 Oct 2023

Risky for brands to ‘hide’ behind lagging greenwash legislation in Asia: Ogilvy sustainability head

Opinion / Food & Agriculture

India's genetically engineered mustard debate: Questions asked and not asked

...The matter was left to the court of law. The latest decision to approve the “environmental release” of the indigenously developed transgenic mustard hybrid DMH-11 has unearthed the latent issues, deba...

2 Dec 2022

India's genetically engineered mustard debate: Questions asked and not asked

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Opinion / Policy & Finance

There should be some tough talk on loss and damage at COP27

...ther substantially. However, the NDCs of Laos, Cambodia, Malaysia and Indonesia only mention this issue in passing. Other Southeast Asian countries’ NDCs, however, do not use the term L&D when dis...

9 Nov 2022

There should be some tough talk on loss and damage at COP27

Opinion / Corporate Responsibility

Brands, please stop saying 'sustainability is in our DNA'

...the way they do business. A Singaporean supermarket chain was the latest brand to use the phrase (at least at the time of going to press – no doubt hundreds more have said it since) in a quote from th...

1 Feb 2023

Brands, please stop saying 'sustainability is in our DNA'

Opinion / Carbon & Climate

The sting of climate risk is in the tails

...when they are all galloping together – as is already the case today with the global food crisis, a new war in Europe, and the ongoing pandemic. Worse, the mention of the second horseman suggests that ...

23 Sep 2022

The sting of climate risk is in the tails

News / Food & Agriculture

China’s rice farming trials cut methane emissions and increase yields

...them. The furrows between the ridges are then flooded. “There are clear advantages to furrow flooding,” said the researcher. “The Institute of Soil Science at the Chinese Academy of Sciences found r...

9 Feb 2023

China’s rice farming trials cut methane emissions and increase yields

News / Water

Women’s lives get harder in Bundelkhand as water scarcity grows

...their cots outside the house due to the summer heat. She will have to make the trip again in the evening, carrying 72 litres on both journeys, to get the water her family of five needs. “We have to ge...

13 Jul 2022

Women’s lives get harder in Bundelkhand as water scarcity grows

News / Cities

Young professionals in Vietnam energised by new momentum in nation’s clean energy transition

...the third nation to receive the JETP funding. It is an important announcement – the three targets of the JETP include reducing the volume of emissions generated by the energy sector, reducing the numb...

10 Mar 2023

Young professionals in Vietnam energised by new momentum in nation’s clean energy transition

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