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Opinion / Policy & Finance

Greenwashing: a market distortion needing serious attention in Southeast Asia

...the environment, and reduce the impact of climate change. But are they always getting what they expect when they buy such commodities? In many cases, they are not, and this is due to the process of gr...

18 Apr 2022

Greenwashing: a market distortion needing serious attention in Southeast Asia

News / Policy & Finance

COP27: Amid compromises, world finds solace in loss and damage breakthrough

...The deal represents the one ticket item that received the broadest support among countries both rich and poor, amid others that either had decisions kicked down the road, or had some countries grudgin...

21 Nov 2022

COP27: Amid compromises, world finds solace in loss and damage breakthrough

News / Waste

Nearly 90% of plastics circularity capital in emerging markets went to Asia, mostly to recycling and recovery

...the world over a five-year period since 2018, with Asia receiving the bulk of the investment. The data, traced using a new investment tracking tool launched in March by non-profit The Circulate Initi...

31 Mar 2023

Nearly 90% of plastics circularity capital in emerging markets went to Asia, mostly to recycling and recovery

News / Manufacturing

A decade after Rana Plaza, Bangladesh garment workers fight on

...the injury insurance scheme in the sales price of their garments, and that the pilot should turn into a permanent system enshrined in the country's labour laws. Survivors' struggles The site where the...

25 Apr 2023

A decade after Rana Plaza, Bangladesh garment workers fight on

Opinion / Corporate Responsibility

‘Boys will be boys’: Why consumers don’t punish big polluters for greenwashing lies

...the statement, the firm professed its core values of honesty, integrity, and environmental sustainability. The only difference between the three versions of the statement was the industry the firm was...

5 Jan 2023

‘Boys will be boys’: Why consumers don’t punish big polluters for greenwashing lies

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Videos / Water

Little kids, big questions: a special interview with Dr Sylvia Earle on World Oceans Day

...the kids on the state of the oceans and more. She was in Singapore recently to open a climate action exhibition “Change the Present. Save the Ocean.” organised by City Developments Limited, the Nation...

8 Jun 2022

Little kids, big questions: a special interview with Dr Sylvia Earle on World Oceans Day

A man carries his dog to be immunised against rabies in Indonesia

News / Food & Agriculture

Rabies is spreading in Southeast Asia, fuelled by inequality and neglect

...When the dog catchers came to vaccinate the dogs the following year, they just ran away,” recalled Fakhri. Accurate reporting of rabies cases is also an issue. Experts suspect that the prevalence of t...

3 Nov 2023

Rabies is spreading in Southeast Asia, fuelled by inequality and neglect

News / Food & Agriculture

Q&A: The evolving debate about using genetically modified crops in a warming world

...the precautionary principle used before, where it was all about the need to inform the public – the need to tell them whether there is [genetic modification] or not in what we are all eating.” The “p...

7 Jun 2024

Q&A: The evolving debate about using genetically modified crops in a warming world

News / Energy

China’s five year plan for energy: one eye on security today, one on a low-carbon future

...The title is new. Since 2006, when the first Five Year Plan (FYP) for the energy sector was issued, these documents have been called “energy development plans”. The focus on a “modern energy system” r...

24 Jun 2022

China’s five year plan for energy: one eye on security today, one on a low-carbon future

News / Carbon & Climate

Safe havens for coral reefs will disappear as oceans warm: study

...the Earth into an unstable state. The loss of coral reefs and all of the species they support would exacerbate the issue even further. With the odds stacked against coral reefs, Obura said he believes...

4 Feb 2022

Safe havens for coral reefs will disappear as oceans warm: study

Opinion / Cities

Cities and the climate data gap

...the emissions tests, rather than cars with lower emissions. When climate data are more centralised, there could also be greater incentives for political and corporate interests to skew them in their f...

14 Jan 2022

Cities and the climate data gap

Press Releases / NGO Forum on ADB

ADB safeguards policy update must prioritise people and the planet, says NGO Forum on ADB

...the wealthy elite." The NGO Forum on ADB and its allies are committed to working with the ADB to ensure that the updated SPS prioritises the well-being of people and the planet. The network demands t...

17 May 2023

ADB safeguards policy update must prioritise people and the planet, says NGO Forum on ADB

News / Carbon & Climate

Beijing city preparing businesses for carbon market expansion

...the difference between power companies and the other companies is that the former have operated within the emission allowance system since last year when the central government issued their emissions ...

15 Nov 2022

Beijing city preparing businesses for carbon market expansion

Opinion / Transport

Repurposing Malaysia's fuel subsidy to facilitate the shift to electric vehicles

...the goal of ensuring the poor benefit from fuel subsidies rather than the rich, rationalisation can also contribute towards sustainability. The savings from the removal of fuel subsidies from the T20 ...

27 Mar 2023

Repurposing Malaysia's fuel subsidy to facilitate the shift to electric vehicles

News / Energy

Fossil fuel imports prove costly for Bangladesh

...the next decade. “ Almost 90 per cent of the [energy] projects in the pipeline are funded by China, and if they [China] turn their big coal power projects to renewables, then we can be in a better po...

9 Jun 2023

Fossil fuel imports prove costly for Bangladesh

News / Food & Agriculture

Cultivated idea: Urban farming in India requires holistic policy support

...the government. Even the recently released draft Master Plan of Delhi for 2041, does not acknowledge the role of the practice. It aims to divide 8,000 hectares of land along the Yamuna into two sub-zo...

30 Jan 2023

Cultivated idea: Urban farming in India requires holistic policy support

News / Energy

As heat cuts power in India's 'coal capital,' locals seek fair energy share

...ther parts of India last month when demand peaked, they added. K.K. Verma, managing director of the Jharkhand state power distribution company, JBVNL, attributed the power cuts to local conditions suc...

31 May 2022

As heat cuts power in India's 'coal capital,' locals seek fair energy share

News / Cities

Vital mangroves, seagrass and corals remain unprotected in Indonesia

...the report published earlier this month, told Mongabay in an email. With the threat of the climate crisis, there’s been a growing appreciate of these ecosystems’ importance as barriers against ocean d...

30 Dec 2022

Vital mangroves, seagrass and corals remain unprotected in Indonesia

News / Manufacturing

Uyghur group sues UK government over 'slave labour' cotton

...the end of the two-day hearing, the court will decide whether the government's policy on imports is unlawful, and could potentially pave the way for the prosecution of companies that import cotton goo...

28 Oct 2022

Uyghur group sues UK government over 'slave labour' cotton

smoke in oil palm plantation at a peat swamp in Aceh province, Indonesia

News / Carbon & Climate

Indonesia’s Riau province declares state of emergency before fire season

...the province, according to the provincial office of Indonesia’s weather and climatology agency, the BMKG. Riau’s coastal regions are most vulnerable; their proximity to the sea means the weather can c...

6 Apr 2022

Indonesia’s Riau province declares state of emergency before fire season

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