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Jokowi's land reform initiative hits roadblock as conflicts nearly double, report shows

...the government’s responsibility since 1960. We have to determine first who are the owners of these lands,” he said at the launch of the KPA’s report. “It shouldn’t be the people who register [their la...

2 Feb 2024

Jokowi's land reform initiative hits roadblock as conflicts nearly double, report shows

News / Food & Agriculture

Floods after drought devastate Sindh’s agriculture

...the Agriculture Extension Sindh Department shows that around the start of 2022, when winter crops were being sown, there was 70 per cent water scarcity in the province. This shrank the area that could...

29 Aug 2022

Floods after drought devastate Sindh’s agriculture

News / Energy

Why India’s heatwave has turned out the lights

...the back of the heatwave conditions, but had there been proper planning there’s enough capacity in the system,” the expert says. “My experience shows that demand estimation so far is manual and Excel-...

6 May 2022

Why India’s heatwave has turned out the lights

News / Water

4 innovations that can be part of India and Bangladesh’s flood defences

...Then there is the question of microplastics potentially being released into the environment by the technology – given the textiles and drainage core are made from plastic. “There is very little chance...

30 Sep 2022

4 innovations that can be part of India and Bangladesh’s flood defences

News / Policy & Finance

Southeast Asia's biodiversity protection challenge, by the numbers

...when some 100 countries globally have already voiced support for the target, Cambodia was the only Southeast Asia country to be part of that group. An observer had said then that countries in the reg...

29 Dec 2022

Southeast Asia's biodiversity protection challenge, by the numbers

Arsjad Rasjid, president director, Indika Energy

News / Energy

'It takes two to tango': Indonesian mogul calls on developed nations for funding and tech to quit coal

...the combustion of fossil fuels, so they should refrain from lecturing the Global South about how it develops. For Arsjad Rasjid, who at the start of the year, added chairman of the Association of Sout...

20 Feb 2023

'It takes two to tango': Indonesian mogul calls on developed nations for funding and tech to quit coal

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Grassroots groups tackle human-wildlife conflict across India-Nepal border

...Whenever we see elephants, we post photos and videos on the group. It will give Nepalis on the other side some time to make their neighbours aware of the movement so that they can salvage their belong...

25 May 2023

Grassroots groups tackle human-wildlife conflict across India-Nepal border

News / Cities

'Frugal innovation' and 'boring solutions' can best accelerate climate action, say experts

...the apparel company turned it “from the most boring to the most exciting thing.” “It converted the chief financial officer at the time [to value waste as a resource]…because suddenly he was like, ‘Thi...

7 Nov 2023

'Frugal innovation' and 'boring solutions' can best accelerate climate action, say experts

A village along the Tamiang river was flooded in 2007, affecting 200,000 people

News / Food & Agriculture

Could a landscape approach help palm oil farmers adapt to EU rules and protect forests?

...the Leuser Ecosystem, famously the only place on Earth where tigers, elephants, rhinos and orangutans live in the same area. The end of the Aceh independence movement and the recovery from the devasta...

7 Nov 2023

Could a landscape approach help palm oil farmers adapt to EU rules and protect forests?

News / Manufacturing

How can the fashion industry protect workers from extreme weather?

...they could earn if they adapted effectively to the threats. High heat and humidity can leave workers exhausted and ill, reducing their capacity, said the researchers, while floods can stop them from r...

21 Sep 2023

How can the fashion industry protect workers from extreme weather?

News / Food & Agriculture

China’s eco farmers innovate to cope with extreme weather

...the past, farmers relied on the weather to [dictate what they] eat, and disasters every decade or century were tolerable. But the increased intensity and frequency of extreme weather means they recogn...

7 Sep 2023

China’s eco farmers innovate to cope with extreme weather

News / Carbon & Climate

Indonesian government yet to spur to action even as toxic air chokes Jakarta

...their data also show that the air has been unhealthy in the past few days,” Bondan said. “So the government can no longer deny. When the air is unhealthy, it is unhealthy.” Blame it on the weather In ...

1 Jul 2022

Indonesian government yet to spur to action even as toxic air chokes Jakarta

News / Energy

‘Severe financial impact’: Singapore solar panel providers alarmed by rooftop fire safety rules

...the roof directly below the solar panels – not between the panels and everything else under the roof. Lim added that the common metal roofs on factories will likely need strengthening to support the w...

22 Mar 2023

‘Severe financial impact’: Singapore solar panel providers alarmed by rooftop fire safety rules

News / Policy & Finance

Second draft revision of China’s Wildlife Protection Law ‘a big step backwards’

...The approach taken by the drafters of the new revision at the end rather than source of the problem indicates they are sticking to a resource-oriented approach. In another article by Let the Birds Fly...

17 Oct 2022

Second draft revision of China’s Wildlife Protection Law ‘a big step backwards’

News / Water

Rising cost of living makes clean water a luxury in Syria

...theast Syria said the cost of trucked water was a challenge and meant they were having to forgo other necessities and bathe and clean less. In the city of al-Hasakah - a focal point of the war - 99 pe...

8 Sep 2022

Rising cost of living makes clean water a luxury in Syria

Press Releases / NEU Battery Materials

NEU Battery Materials concludes oversubscribed US$3.7M seed funding round

...the further development of partnerships in key global markets to support their battery requirements, and forge new direct partnerships with EV OEMs and battery manufacturers to further the adoption of...

4 Jul 2023

NEU Battery Materials concludes oversubscribed US$3.7M seed funding round

News / Food & Agriculture

First crops, now animals: Climate change hurts Bangladesh farmers

...the Pankhali area of Khulna, farmers were testing the salinity level of the soil and water with an EC meter - provided by the Dutch development organisation Cordaid - with the devices helping them to ...

25 Aug 2023

First crops, now animals: Climate change hurts Bangladesh farmers

News / Policy & Finance

Business leaders do not trust competitors' ESG data: study

...There are always going to be laggards and companies that slip through the cracks," he said. "But the needle is moving in the right direction, so it is surprising to see sentiment moving the other way....

30 Jan 2023

Business leaders do not trust competitors' ESG data: study

News / Policy & Finance

Indigenous peoples instrumental in genuine climate finance reform

...the most effective ways to mitigate climate change and halt the global loss of biodiversity. The trouble is that a lot of the funding flow doesn’t reach the IPLC-led organisations that can tackle thes...

23 Dec 2022

Indigenous peoples instrumental in genuine climate finance reform

News / Cities

Walking in the shadow of Madhya Pradesh’s devastating floods

...the August 2021 floods, it was terrifying to hear about the flood’s intensity as the villagers described the damage caused. They pointed to the tops of houses and trees, showing how high the water had...

6 Jun 2022

Walking in the shadow of Madhya Pradesh’s devastating floods

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