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Gibran Rakabuming Raka, the 36-year-old son of President Joko Widodo

...carbon emitters, with much of its climate pollution coming from forest and peatland clearance as well as burning coal for energy. Indonesia has a mixed track record in responding to the climate crisis...

5 Feb 2024

...carbon-intensive, it is still highly energy-intensive. And applying fertiliser can release huge surges of nitrous oxide – a potent GHG – into the atmosphere, and can still cause soil degradation and w...

14 May 2024

...carbon offsets among the studied climate commitments. Only half of the companies assessed demonstrated awareness of the need to reduce emissions before buying carbon offsets. Only three published clea...

31 Jan 2023

...carbonisation; and finally, they hope to reach an agreement on the DSI fund. Campaigners such as WWF want to see NBSAPs finalised, a robust monitoring framework agreed, greater confidence in finance c...

18 Oct 2024

The Nigerian student only popped out to repair his phone but he ended up in a New Delhi hospital, the latest victim of a brutal heatwave that has cost scores of lives, sent birds plummeting from the ...

9 Jul 2024

For many years, Banolata Refractory, a brick manufacturer in northern Bangladesh, had wanted to start making environmentally-friendly bricks and cut its carbon emissions, but it lacked the funding to...

26 Jul 2023

Phong Dien Solar PV Park in Thua Thien-Hue, Vietnam

...Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism – a carbon tariff placed on carbon intensive products such as cement and some electricity imported by the European Union – has made the decarbonisation of global val...

31 Mar 2023

The global deal for biodiversity agreed in Montreal in December 2022 was hailed as historic. Governments committed to protect and restore ecosystems, slash pollution from plastics and chemicals, an...

17 Oct 2024

US$135-million UNDP, GEF initiative will support small island developing states tackle drivers of environmental degradation

UNDP and the Global Environment Facility (GEF) launched a new US$135 million Blue and Green Islands Integrated Programme (BGI-IP) today during the Fourth International Conference on Sma...

10 Jun 2024

As countries in Southeast Asia race to meet their clean power targets by the end of this decade, some governments have introduced fast-tracked permitting processes for renewable energy projects. The P...

20 Aug 2025

Dutch airline KLM was one of the first companies to get into trouble for using carbon offsets to claim that air travel was "carbon neutral".

...carbon offsets by companies claiming to be "carbon neutral" without first reducing their emissions. Speaking on a panel to launch the guide, Herry Cho, group head of sustainability and sustainable fin...

8 May 2023

A large expanse of mud lies before the under-construction palace in Indonesia's new capital Ibu Kota Nusantara, in East Kalimantan.

Around 3,000 to 5,000 people visit Ibu Kota Nusantara (IKN), Indonesia's under-construction capital in East Kalimantan on the island of Borneo, every day. Some are from the nearby oil and gas towns of...

31 Jan 2025

New initiative aims to curb the toxic impacts of agriculture

...carbon dioxide emissions and protecting over 3 million hectares of land from degradation as farms and farmers convert to low-chemical and non-chemical alternatives. "Our current agricultural system r...

11 Apr 2024

COP28 Indigenous peoples demanding for climate finance

...carbon emission-reduction targets. But government promises of Indigenous land titles and financial aid frequently go unfulfilled. Josh Castellino, executive director and professor of law at London-bas...

15 Dec 2023

...carbon technologies have great potential to address climate resilience and climate mitigation-related challenges, and are currently gaining attention from various investors and financial institutions,...

31 Oct 2023

...carbon dioxide emissions – equivalent to the annual fossil fuel emissions of India, according to the analysis. Forests are home to more than 80 per cent of terrestrial species of animals, plants and i...

12 Jul 2023

A protest banner reading “Food Estate Feeding Climate Crisis” lies on land cleared for food estate project in Kalimantan in 2022.

Indonesia's new government under the leadership of Prabowo Subianto will clamp down on illegal deforestation as it looks to expand a controversial programme to be food self-sufficient, a member of the...

10 May 2024

...carbon reduction initiatives throughout its group of companies. “Through our decarbonisation efforts, we are actually saving money,” said Bey Soo Khiang, vice-chairman of RGE, citing how reducing the ...

19 Dec 2023

Renzo Guinto_Duke-NUS Medical School_Planetary Health

A Singapore-based global health institute has recruited Filipino academic Renzo Guinto, a key advocate of the emerging concept of "planetary health", and tasked him to set up a new Asia-wide network f...

20 Feb 2024

...Carbon Market Watch, a nonprofit that works on fair carbon pricing to achieve zero-carbon societies. "This is one of the reasons why carbon credits should not be used for offsetting. Climate action...

20 Dec 2022

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