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Lunch break at a sustainability event at Marina Bay Sands in Singapore.

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The climate cost of post-Covid revenge event-going

...the Hong Kong Rugby Sevens returning after a three-year hiatus and a global finance conference in November an attempt to put the city back on the global financial map. At the heart of the issue is tha...

27 Mar 2023

The climate cost of post-Covid revenge event-going

News / Policy & Finance

How can the palm oil industry reach net zero?

...the atmosphere? Living plants, through photosynthesis, capture CO2 from the atmosphere and store it in their tissues, including their leaves, stems and roots. This carbon can also be transferred to th...

21 Jun 2023

How can the palm oil industry reach net zero?

Opinion / Carbon & Climate

The global climate system's Himalayan hotspot

...The key takeaway was that the multifaceted nature of the challenge in the region should not impede action, but instead spur the development of a holistic approach. Whenever the smog cleared and the pe...

12 May 2023

The global climate system's Himalayan hotspot

Opinion / Carbon & Climate

Trouble with carbon markets

...the rise of “carbon cowboys.” These carbon-credit dealers underpay the businesses and communities in the Global South that provide nature-based offsets, which they then sell with a markup to developed...

13 Mar 2023

Trouble with carbon markets

News / Food & Agriculture

Booming investor interest in agritech is inspiring a wave of Cambodian entrepreneurs. But can the solutions scale?

...their only option is to go to micro-lending institutions and get into a cycle of debt. Then they feel the crops aren't working, so they cut them down and that makes the soil bad for the harvest of new...

10 Oct 2023

Booming investor interest in agritech is inspiring a wave of Cambodian entrepreneurs. But can the solutions scale?

News / Policy & Finance

Wealthy nations prioritised unrealistic targets over a global biodiversity fund

...the Earth’s surface area by 2030 – considered the “star” of the agenda and “the biodiversity equivalent of the 1.5C on climate change” – is now enshrined in the post-2020 GBF. Beyond the 30×30 goal, t...

3 Jan 2023

Wealthy nations prioritised unrealistic targets over a global biodiversity fund

News / Policy & Finance

Climate action is 'good business', UN climate chief says at COP27

...the job down into what needs to be done in each of the eight years left. "You can get lost in the weeds - and the weeds don't provide the clarity and the direction that is needed," he said. At decades...

10 Nov 2022

Climate action is 'good business', UN climate chief says at COP27

News / Energy

Why renewable energy must be responsible energy

...the direct and indirect benefits they generate do not benefit the communities they most impact. Several organisations including World Resources Institute (WRI) India, Forum for the Future, The Energy ...

10 Mar 2023

Why renewable energy must be responsible energy

News / Carbon & Climate

‘Intention is not enough’: Philippine firms urged to step up action on net zero

...thers. NZCA is a private sector-led consortium initiated by the Energy Development Corporation (EDC), the biggest vertically-integrated geothermal energy producers in the world, and one of the country...

21 Nov 2023

‘Intention is not enough’: Philippine firms urged to step up action on net zero

News / Transport

Methanol edges ahead in shipping’s quest for cleaner fuel, as regulators warn of dangers of ammonia

...the agency has been touting the use of ‘green methanol’ as the more viable alternative. Preparations are already underway for the first methanol bunkering operation in the Singapore port – the busies...

10 May 2023

Methanol edges ahead in shipping’s quest for cleaner fuel, as regulators warn of dangers of ammonia

Opinion / Food & Agriculture

Will Asia take the lead in fighting the world food crisis through insects?

...the second half of 2023, these insects will be commonplace in dishes throughout the country. Vietnam is another prime example of favorable regulations for insect farming. The Vietnamese government ...

10 May 2023

Will Asia take the lead in fighting the world food crisis through insects?

Opinion / Policy & Finance

Powering the blue economy with blue finance

...the financial viability of the project and the newness of customised financial instruments. “ The approach of uniting the financial sector with the real economy through blue finance as a catalyst fo...

7 Jun 2023

Powering the blue economy with blue finance

News / Waste

Microplastics seeping into wastewater through recycling facilities, says study

...they say. The researchers tested the wastewater before the facility installed a water filtration system, as well as after the filtration system was installed. They found that while the system filtered...

10 May 2023

Microplastics seeping into wastewater through recycling facilities, says study

News / Water

Garment industry in Bangladesh struggles to contain pollution

...the city of Sreepur flows from the Labandha into the Turag, then joins Dhaka’s main Buriganga River at Mirpur. “If ETPs are as efficient as the [factory] owners claim, then how have these rivers becom...

19 Jan 2023

Garment industry in Bangladesh struggles to contain pollution

Indonesia stands out among tropical countries for reducing deforestation, the main driver of which is now mining. Image: IndoMet in the Heart of Borneo, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Flickr.

News / Food & Agriculture

Tropical forest loss is accelerating, but Indonesia and Malaysia are keeping deforestation to near-record lows

...The return of the El Niño dry weather phenomenon could mean 2023 is a bad year for the haze and Southeast Asian forests. Tropical forests are among the world's most powerful carbon sinks, cooling the ...

3 Jul 2023

Tropical forest loss is accelerating, but Indonesia and Malaysia are keeping deforestation to near-record lows

News / Carbon & Climate

Forest conservation best left to private sector? Rare glimpse into Wilmar protected area sparks discussion among scientists

...ther members of the media were invited by Wilmar and SEARRP to visit the site at the tail end of the expedition, which involved 48 researchers. Initial findings from the trip, which the scientists des...

19 Oct 2022

Forest conservation best left to private sector? Rare glimpse into Wilmar protected area sparks discussion among scientists

News / Cities

From Dhaka to Freetown, climate migration puts cities on alert

...their homes. At a UN meeting last month, governments came together for the first time to review a 2018 global migration agreement, with city mayors from around the world gathering on the sidelines to ...

10 Jun 2022

From Dhaka to Freetown, climate migration puts cities on alert

News / Food & Agriculture

Failure of Amazon no-deforestation pledge mirrors challenges in Southeast Asia: observers

...the Amazon rainforest, the most biodiverse place in the world, suffered a setback earlier this month when the eight countries that share the jungled region's vast territory failed to sign a no-defores...

21 Aug 2023

Failure of Amazon no-deforestation pledge mirrors challenges in Southeast Asia: observers

News / Energy

Sinking Himalayan town puts spotlight on India's hydropower rush

...the subsidence, not the tunnel they were constructing, which was over a kilometre (0.62 mile) away from the edge of the town, and ran far below the surface. “ Ninety percent of this problem is becaus...

17 Jan 2023

Sinking Himalayan town puts spotlight on India's hydropower rush

News / Cities

Bangladeshi coastal communities gird for cyclones by planting mangroves

...themselves from the sea as well as the tidal surges during high tides and cyclones. The coastal people are no strangers to the tidal surges during high tides. But during the cyclone season, when the s...

9 Jun 2022

Bangladeshi coastal communities gird for cyclones by planting mangroves

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