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'We’ve been negligent,’ Indonesia’s president Widodo says as fire crisis deepens
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for setting the fires. He then also claimed that there was a political angle to the arson, linking the burning to the elections that took place in April. Fixing the mistakes In light of t...
18 Sep 2019
'We’ve been negligent,’ Indonesia’s president Widodo says as fire crisis deepens
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Food & Agriculture
Hacking sustainability for smallholder palm oil farmers
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Smallholders
represent up to 40 per cent of Indonesia’s palm oil plantations but often have little access to resources to farm sustainably. The palm oil industry has drawn flak for labour rights abus...
2 May 2018
Hacking sustainability for smallholder palm oil farmers
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Carbon & Climate
Urbanisation, commercial farms threaten Asia's forests, UN warns
Sprawling urban areas and expanding plantations are placing greater pressure on forests and resources in Asia-Pacific, hurting rural communities and exacerbating the effects of climate change, the Uni...
19 Jun 2019
Urbanisation, commercial farms threaten Asia's forests, UN warns
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Carbon & Climate
Who benefits from false climate solutions?
In a recent special report, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) argues that addressing climate change will require fundamental changes to the way we manage forests and farmland. The ...
16 Sep 2019
Who benefits from false climate solutions?
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Policy & Finance
As 2020 fire season nears, Indonesian president blasts officials for last year's burning
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smallholders
for setting the fires. He then also claimed there was a political angle to the arson, linking the burning to the elections that took place in April. Widodo himself later acknowledged that...
12 Feb 2020
As 2020 fire season nears, Indonesian president blasts officials for last year's burning
Opinion /
Food & Agriculture
Smallholder farmers are key to making the palm oil industry sustainable
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smallholders
will double their production capacity over the next decade, managing a 60 per cent share of Indonesia’s total oil palm plantation area by 2030. Independent
smallholders
are thus critical ...
30 Mar 2018
Smallholder farmers are key to making the palm oil industry sustainable
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Food & Agriculture
Climate crisis hitting bottom 50 per cent hardest, say London protesters
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smallholders
supply 80 per cent of overall food produced in Asia, sub-Saharan Africa and Latin America. Traditional pastoralists are typically highly sustainable producers, but many are facing challen...
22 Apr 2019
Climate crisis hitting bottom 50 per cent hardest, say London protesters
Opinion /
Policy & Finance
Financing the green transition
Four years after world leaders signed the Paris climate agreement and adopted the United Nations’ 2030 Agenda with its 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), the global environmental crisis shows e...
17 Oct 2019
Financing the green transition
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Food & Agriculture
Can the palm oil sector do more with less to save Indonesia's forests?
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smallholders
who produce fresh fruit bunches for independent mills, making supply chains very hard to manage. Smallholder plantations are known for their low productivity and poor crop quality, which ...
10 Jul 2018
Can the palm oil sector do more with less to save Indonesia's forests?
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Food & Agriculture
Too late to plant green seed among world's forgotten palm oil farmers?
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smallholders
like Kasno have been left behind, say industry officials. Only 78,000
smallholders
are certified by the Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil (RSPO), a body of consumer organisations, enviro...
3 Apr 2018
Too late to plant green seed among world's forgotten palm oil farmers?
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Food & Agriculture
Perpetual haze? Sustained pressure on peatlands will mean no end to Indonesia's forest fires, warns report
A dangerous combination of the development of industrial palm oil and pulpwood plantations on Indonesia's carbon-rich peatlands, and weakened regulations to protect peat, means that annual toxic...
22 Nov 2019
Perpetual haze? Sustained pressure on peatlands will mean no end to Indonesia's forest fires, warns report
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Food & Agriculture
'Nobel for food' winner tells ailing world to eat more veg
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smallholders
in Asia miss out on new, resilient seeds that could improve yields in the face of climate change, according to the Netherlands-based Access to Seeds Foundation. Seeds for diversity Diver...
11 Jun 2019
'Nobel for food' winner tells ailing world to eat more veg
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Carbon & Climate
Want to save the planet? Move to Wales
Fighting climate change is much more than a day job for Chris Vernon and Erica Thompson. It is their entire way of life. They are part of a groundbreaking Welsh government scheme under which people ge...
23 Oct 2018
Want to save the planet? Move to Wales
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Food & Agriculture
Big brands sourcing illegal palm oil from habitat of orangutans, rhinos, elephants and tigers: study
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smallholders
and, like GAR, is aiming for full traceability by the end of 2020. Both Musim Mas and GAR are members of the Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil (RSPO), the industry certifier for palm oi...
1 Oct 2019
Big brands sourcing illegal palm oil from habitat of orangutans, rhinos, elephants and tigers: study
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Food & Agriculture
Are small farmers ready as Indonesia looks to impose its palm oil sustainability standard on all?
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smallholders
by 2020. The need to do so will only grow more urgent as the number of such operators continues to increase, expanding their share of Indonesia’s oil palm plantation area to 60 percent by...
16 Apr 2018
Are small farmers ready as Indonesia looks to impose its palm oil sustainability standard on all?
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Food & Agriculture
Haze from forest fires, Indonesia’s national ‘embarrassment’, is back
Three years after forest fires in Indonesia sent huge volumes of smoke billowing into Malaysia and Singapore, the Southeast Asian neighbors are dealing with a repeat of the “embarrassing” transboundar...
8 Aug 2019
Haze from forest fires, Indonesia’s national ‘embarrassment’, is back
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Carbon & Climate
Innovation rush aims to help farmers, rich and poor, beat climate change
In decades to come, African farmers may pool their money to buy small robot vehicles to weed their fields or drones that can hover to squirt a few drops of pesticide only where needed. Smartphones alr...
29 Jul 2019
Innovation rush aims to help farmers, rich and poor, beat climate change
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Policy & Finance
Land bill at centre of unrest in Indonesia
In late September, international news outlets caught flak for their coverage of Indonesia’s largest mass protests since the 1998 uprising that led to the fall of the dictator Suharto. Headlines publis...
4 Nov 2019
Land bill at centre of unrest in Indonesia
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Food & Agriculture
Experts question wisdom that more food means less hunger
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smallholders
. But we really need to question that," said Adrian Martin, a professor at Britain's University of East Anglia. One in nine people already do not have enough food and the world population ...
21 Jun 2018
Experts question wisdom that more food means less hunger
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Food & Agriculture
Indonesia’s sustainable districts bet on corporate deforestation pledges
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smallholders
in particular, some sort of assurances that their efforts will be rewarded.” Coming together When Hernedi met Syahrani in 2016, she was working as the World Resources Institute’s (WRI) Su...
12 Nov 2018
Indonesia’s sustainable districts bet on corporate deforestation pledges
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Energy
Inside China’s solar villages
For a decade, solar power has been bringing opportunities to China’s villages. What does that mean today?
Inside China’s solar villages
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Energy
Analysis: Clean energy drove more than a third of China’s GDP growth in 2025
Solar power, electric vehicles (EVs) and other clean-energy technologies drove more than a third of the growth in …
Analysis: Clean energy drove more than a third of China’s GDP growth in 2025
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Waste Management
Chile’s Julio Cordano elected chair of UN plastic pollution treaty talks
The position had been vacant for four months amid a deadlock in negotiations for the treaty to curb …
Chile’s Julio Cordano elected chair of UN plastic pollution treaty talks
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Policy & Finance
Sanae Takaichi supermajority opens path to nuclear-led, industry-driven energy transition in Japan
Landslide election win strengthens push to link decarbonisation with economic security, boosting nuclear, domestic clean tech and state-led …
Sanae Takaichi supermajority opens path to nuclear-led, industry-driven energy transition in Japan
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Cities
Thirsty tech: Why chips and data centres are a growing water risk for investors
The Taskforce on Nature-related Financial Disclosures (TNFD) has published a new case study examining the financial risks that …
Thirsty tech: Why chips and data centres are a growing water risk for investors
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Policy & Finance
Taiwan delays 20 per cent renewables target beyond 2026 as tighter solar rules slow rollout
The government shifts focus to rooftop solar and offshore wind, says power supply will remain stable despite regulatory …
Taiwan delays 20 per cent renewables target beyond 2026 as tighter solar rules slow rollout
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