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Opinion / Manufacturing

What will motivate companies to source palm oil responsibly?

...1 additional cent per litre, and in the week since the Scorecard was launched, over 30,000 members of the public have sent emails to voice their concern to the CEOs of the companies surveyed. The Sing...

4 Oct 2017

What will motivate companies to source palm oil responsibly?

Opinion / Policy & Finance

The right to health is universal

...15.8 million people are still awaiting treatment, while an estimated 11 million people do not even know they have the virus. In the time it takes to read this commentary, three more young women will h...

1 Dec 2017

The right to health is universal

Opinion / Lifestyle

Read this before you go sales shopping: the environmental costs of fast fashion

...17, it decided to rationalise its T-shirt ranges and from spring 2018, will offer only two fabric options of either 100% organic cotton or a blend of recycled cotton and recycled polyester, recognisin...

29 Dec 2017

Read this before you go sales shopping: the environmental costs of fast fashion

News / Energy

Solar power to rise from nuclear ashes

It was the worst nuclear accident in history, directly causing the deaths of 50 people, with at least an additional 4,000 fatalities believed to be caused by exposure to radiation. The 1986 explosion ...

13 Jan 2017

Solar power to rise from nuclear ashes

News / Food & Agriculture

How impact investors help small fishermen stay afloat

...100,000 fishers and their household members, while placing 1.2 million hectares of coastal habitats, including coral reefs, seagrass beds, and mangroves, under improved management. This story was publ...

10 Aug 2017

How impact investors help small fishermen stay afloat

News / Carbon & Climate

Dhaka chokes on air pollution

...10. The AQI regards the range of 0–50 points as good air quality, 51–100 as moderately good, 101–150 cautionary, 151-200 as unhealthy, a range between 201–300 points indicate very unhealthy, and 301-5...

17 Jan 2018

Dhaka chokes on air pollution

News / Carbon & Climate

Warmer, wetter world faces lethal future

...15 examined conditions in the relatively wealthy Gulf region, and predicted potentially lethal wet bulb temperatures by 2100. He recently examined the effect of climate change on the flow of the River...

7 Aug 2017

Warmer, wetter world faces lethal future

News / Transport

New study: Risky roads cause more than just environmental harm

...14 that discovered that nearly 95 percent of deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon takes place within 5.5 kilometers (3.4 miles) of roads or 1 kilometer (0.6 miles) of rivers. But the public debate of...

25 Oct 2017

New study: Risky roads cause more than just environmental harm

News / Food & Agriculture

Can Nepali coffee survive impacts of climate change?

...1 hectares (23.81 square kilometres) of land, just a fraction of the 1,190,769 hectares (11,907.69 square kilometres) considered suitable for the crop. What is happening at Adhikari’s farm and that of...

15 Jan 2018

Can Nepali coffee survive impacts of climate change?

Press Releases / Greenpeace Southeast Asia

Greenpeace wants ASEAN to address plastics pollution in the high seas

...12 (December 10, 2014): e111913. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0111913. [7] Goldstein, Miriam C., Andrew J. Titmus, and Michael Ford. “Scales of Spatial Heterogeneity of Plastic Marine Debris in the...

24 Jan 2017

Greenpeace wants ASEAN to address plastics pollution in the high seas

Opinion / Water

Delivering the foundation of the Sustainable Development Goals

...1 spent on taps and toilets reaps at least £4 in economic benefits. Next month marks the second anniversary of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), a set of 17 targets agreed by world leaders wit...

17 Aug 2017

Delivering the foundation of the Sustainable Development Goals

News / Energy

Singapore has declared 2018 the year of climate action—so why are its banks still funding coal?

...14 projects over the last five years worth $1,142 million, according to Market Forces' research. The biggest of these was a $195 million loan for the 2000 megawatt Tanjung Jati B coal-fired power plan...

10 Jan 2018

Singapore has declared 2018 the year of climate action—so why are its banks still funding coal?

News / Lifestyle

Courting the environment

...17 that the temporary easing of the conditions of sale of firecrackers should only be allowed after November 1, 2017, by which time Diwali — which is on October 19 this year — will be over. There woul...

17 Oct 2017

Courting the environment

News / Manufacturing

Five years on from Rana Plaza, has the fashion industry changed its ways?

...1,100 lives and injure about 2,500 others. Selim Shahjahan in his shop in Savar, Bangladesh. Image: ILO Outside Bangladesh, which relies on garment exports for US$19 billion in annual income, and a ...

25 Apr 2018

Five years on from Rana Plaza, has the fashion industry changed its ways?

Opinion / Policy & Finance

Green finance? Why global banks are pledging billions to fight climate change

...1. Huge capital is needed for green transition Undoubtedly the move to a green economy requires significant investment, over and above today’s levels. For 2016-2030, the OECD estimates an additional U...

13 Nov 2017

Green finance? Why global banks are pledging billions to fight climate change

In a rousing keynote address during the Singapore International Water Week’s Water Leaders Summit, former United Nations secretary-general Ban Ki-moon called for more global partnerships to tackle the world’s water problems.

News / Water

Top 10 moments from the Singapore International Water Week 2018

...10 years of excellence this year at its recently concluded edition, Eco-Business looks at the top 10 moments of the event. 1. Ban Ki-moon urges cooperation In a rousing keynote address during the Sing...

13 Aug 2018

Top 10 moments from the Singapore International Water Week 2018

Press Releases / Greenpeace Southeast Asia

Activists launch national wave of actions against dirty energy

...1] released in 2016, have revealed the dangerous impacts of coal-fired power plants on human health. The report, based on research carried out by Harvard University, showed an estimated 2,410 prematu...

14 Mar 2017

Activists launch national wave of actions against dirty energy

Opinion / Food & Agriculture

Pushing GMS food up the value chain

...17, GMS ministers endorsed the Strategy for Promoting Safe and Environment-Friendly Agro-Based Value Chains in the GMS, and Siem Reap Action Plan for 2018-2022. The strategy’s ambitious goal is to tra...

4 Jan 2018

Pushing GMS food up the value chain

News / Food & Agriculture

How the rise of gourmet chocolate can lift the fortunes of small farmers

...16, UC’s network had grown to 2620 farmers, of whom 868 are women who are growing cacao in 3194 hectares; and by 2016, farmers’ revenue had increased 61 per cent. Meanwhile, consumers were gobbling up...

4 Jan 2018

How the rise of gourmet chocolate can lift the fortunes of small farmers