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How mixing farms with forests can help the UK reach net zero

...the technique for thousands of years, including on the British Isles, and it is still the method of choice on vast swathes of the planet. Farmers and other agricultural experts say agroforestry boosts...

4 Nov 2022

How mixing farms with forests can help the UK reach net zero

News / Cities

Glimpses of a fading culture in Uttarakhand’s mountains

...they want to forge a new path for the community. Somewhere in between these shifting worlds runs the hope that the old and the new shall find a middle ground, and the heritage of the Bhutias of Kumao...

8 Sep 2022

Glimpses of a fading culture in Uttarakhand’s mountains

Opinion / Carbon & Climate

The IPCC’s calls for emissions cuts have long gone unheeded. Should it change tack?

...These are not statements from the latest report released by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). They come from its first assessment in 1990. Back then, the IPCC acknowledged there we...

26 Apr 2023

The IPCC’s calls for emissions cuts have long gone unheeded. Should it change tack?

News / Cities

Saving deers and warty pigs: A conservation organisation's brave last stand for the West Visayan 'big five' species

...the islands of Negros, Panay, Masbate, Guimaras, Ticao, and Cebu. These include the Rufous-headed Hornbill, the Negros Bleeding Heart Dove, the Visayan Warty Pig, the Visayan Spotted Deer, and the Vi...

26 Apr 2023

Saving deers and warty pigs: A conservation organisation's brave last stand for the West Visayan 'big five' species

News / Energy

India wants to use bio-CNG to manage farm waste and reduce fossil fuel imports

...The Tamil Nadu State Pollution Control Board, the state’s pollution regulator, couldn’t decide whether the plant should be put in the green or orange category of polluters. As per the board’s pollutio...

10 Jan 2023

India wants to use bio-CNG to manage farm waste and reduce fossil fuel imports

News / Policy & Finance

How debt-for-nature swaps can help create a more resilient South Asia

...their development plans. Second, they must insulate, or adapt, their development to deal with the increasing impacts of climate change and biodiversity loss. The scale of the challenge is striking in ...

22 May 2023

How debt-for-nature swaps can help create a more resilient South Asia

News / Cities

Poorest districts worst affected in Ho Chi Minh City floods

...the city has been an important trade port for the past two centuries for ships carrying agricultural goods from the Mekong Delta and other areas of southern Vietnam. Following the war in the 1960s-70s...

9 Oct 2023

Poorest districts worst affected in Ho Chi Minh City floods

News / Carbon & Climate

Northern India caught in vicious cycle of heatwaves and forest fires

...the forest. Vicious cycles The environmental impact of forest fires extends beyond their contribution to global heating. When forests burn, they release particulate matter. SP Sati, the geologist and ...

23 May 2022

Northern India caught in vicious cycle of heatwaves and forest fires

Solar farm, Thailand, intermittency challenges

News / Energy

Electricity grids may trip Southeast Asia renewables drive without government intervention

...their generated electricity. While the country’s solar power capacity grew rapidly in 2019 and 2020, the power grids couldn’t keep up with the imbalances between peak supply – when the sun is shining,...

9 Mar 2022

Electricity grids may trip Southeast Asia renewables drive without government intervention

News / Food & Agriculture

India wheat export ban stays despite G7 pressure

...the Chinese government-controlled portal said on 15 May. “Why won’t the G7 nations themselves move to stabilise food market supply by hiking their exports?” There were other compelling reasons that pr...

30 May 2022

India wheat export ban stays despite G7 pressure

Opinion / Carbon & Climate

Can a national carbon market help India cut both emissions and costs?

...their emissions savings to other entities, allowing the latter to meet their emissions targets. The buying and selling of such emissions savings – called permits, allowances or credits – leads to the ...

26 Jan 2023

Can a national carbon market help India cut both emissions and costs?

Joseph D'Cruz, chief executive, Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil (RSPO)

News / Food & Agriculture

RSPO CEO Joseph D'Cruz: we need to get better at telling the sustainable palm oil story

...the other view of palm oil, more commonly held in consumer countries in the West, which reviles the trade for destroying forests and pushing species such as the orangutan to the point of extinction, a...

20 Jun 2022

RSPO CEO Joseph D'Cruz: we need to get better at telling the sustainable palm oil story

News / Policy & Finance

Corruption stokes malpractice in Indonesia's palm oil industry

...the series of findings from the KPK and the BPK, there’s been little to no improvement in the management of the palm oil industry, Bellicia said. “If there have been changes [since the 2019 audit], th...

5 May 2023

Corruption stokes malpractice in Indonesia's palm oil industry

LNG Tanker Energy Progress at Wickham Point in March 2016

News / Energy

Calls for more gas in the energy transition ring loud

...the energy transition. As the “cleanest” fossil fuel out there, it is deemed better than oil and coal, but lacks the strong green credentials of solar and wind. Last year, the International Energy Age...

1 Nov 2022

Calls for more gas in the energy transition ring loud

Prince WIlliams at The Earthshot Prize 2021

News / Carbon & Climate

Which Asian sustainable business ideas have won The Earthshot Prize?

...the unused fibres on their factory floor. They realised that this mat could be turned into a sustainable alternative to animal and plastic leather. They called the new material Fleather. Since then, ...

19 May 2023

Which Asian sustainable business ideas have won The Earthshot Prize?

News / Energy

Analysis: India and Nepal overlooking environmental issues while signing hydropower deals

...the border in India. The southernmost foothills of the Himalayas – known as the Churia Range where they lie in Nepal, and Siwalik in India – face serious environmental problems due to soil erosion, de...

24 Aug 2023

Analysis: India and Nepal overlooking environmental issues while signing hydropower deals

News / Corporate Responsibility

Communications in a climate crisis: why Asian PR firm Vero cut ties with fossil fuel firms

...they wanted to... Brian Griffin: I'm not defending them [the large PR networks], but I think that they would say: 'There are some companies in the [fossil fuel] sector that are trying to do the right ...

8 Aug 2022

Communications in a climate crisis: why Asian PR firm Vero cut ties with fossil fuel firms

News / Food & Agriculture

Sustainable food – not more of it – needed as global hunger soars

...their often heavy debt burdens could also help them shore up their food security, allowing them to focus more on growing food for their own people rather than raising export crops to bring in the cash...

18 May 2023

Sustainable food – not more of it – needed as global hunger soars

News / Policy & Finance

Despite government push for green jobs, green skills remain underprioritised by Singapore workers: Study

...The results of the survey show a disconnect between employees’ perception and the city-state’s economic needs, as Singapore looks to strengthen its focus on the green economy over the coming decade. I...

24 Mar 2023

Despite government push for green jobs, green skills remain underprioritised by Singapore workers: Study

Companies with more female representation in the boardroom tend to be more open and honest about their ESG performance, and are less prone to greenwashing,

News / Policy & Finance

Companies with more women in the boardroom are less prone to greenwashing: Study

...the gap between what firms disclose about their ESG practices and their actual sustainability performance between 2005 and 2019. They found that companies with higher female representation in the boar...

24 Mar 2023

Companies with more women in the boardroom are less prone to greenwashing: Study

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