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NGO launches to improve animal welfare in Asian slaughterhouses

...the ambitions of the group is to introduce stunning – a technique for rendering the animal unconscious before it is slaughtered – as a standard practice everywhere in the region by the end of the deca...

10 Oct 2022

NGO launches to improve animal welfare in Asian slaughterhouses

News / Green Buildings

Rapid systemic change is needed: slashing emissions in cities

...the key bottlenecks to sustainable cities? As is often the case, it’s about supply and demand. When it comes to let’s say, a condominium, do the home buyers really care whether the condominium they’r...

16 Dec 2021

Rapid systemic change is needed: slashing emissions in cities

Simu Ladol serves her homestay guests with local tea in Ladakh, India

News / Policy & Finance

Homestays open doors to financial freedom for women in South Asia

...the repayments. "I've mortgaged my land for the bank loans," said the 55-year-old. "It would have been better to have died of corona rather than living like this." On the other side of the continent, ...

4 Oct 2021

Homestays open doors to financial freedom for women in South Asia

News / Food & Agriculture

Bangladesh farmers swap rice for vegetables as water dries up

...the prices farmers can charge for their produce, while storage is also an issue, said Hossain Ali, a farmer in the Godagari area of Rajshahi. When farmers grow more rice than they can sell, it can be ...

28 Dec 2022

Bangladesh farmers swap rice for vegetables as water dries up

Hurricane Michael smashed into Florida USA

News / Carbon & Climate

Coastal cities seen unprepared as IPCC flags climate risk hotspots

...the financial resources to deal with such growing threats. More frequent and intense heat, heavy rain, drought and other climate change impacts are damaging nature, people and the places they live, th...

1 Mar 2022

Coastal cities seen unprepared as IPCC flags climate risk hotspots

News / Food & Agriculture

Food early warning systems can stave off famines

...the G7, the Global Food Security Summit, and the Global Food Security Forum held on the sidelines (November 12 and 13) of the Group of Twenty (G20). “All of these initiatives have come with meaningful...

2 Dec 2022

Food early warning systems can stave off famines

News / Policy & Finance

Indonesia's palm oil export ban met with condemnation and praise

...the law, failing to meet their obligations stipulated in their permits and not paying their fair share of taxes to the state. He noted that there are more than 4.7 million hectares (11.6 million acres...

27 Apr 2022

Indonesia's palm oil export ban met with condemnation and praise

News / Food & Agriculture

Lack of resolution mechanisms result to palm oil conflicts to fester in Indonesia

...the study says. During the launch event, Surya said the ministry needed to validate the HGU data before it could release them to the public. “Once it [the validation] is done, for me there’s no reason...

2 Dec 2021

Lack of resolution mechanisms result to palm oil conflicts to fester in Indonesia

News / Carbon & Climate

'Everybody is welcome, the only ask is you come with solutions': COP28’s Majid Al Suwaidi

...the results of the first ever Global Stocktake (GST) as mandated by the Paris Agreement will be released at the summit in November. The GST aims to assess the advances made so far in mitigating and ad...

20 Jan 2023

'Everybody is welcome, the only ask is you come with solutions': COP28’s Majid Al Suwaidi

News / Water

'Finding life in places once lifeless': How these 3D-printed terracotta tiles are restoring coral reef ecosystems

...then placing them underwater near other coral to see if they could grow. They soon discovered that the fragments could not survive for long by living on these materials. Then they would try other met...

19 Apr 2023

'Finding life in places once lifeless': How these 3D-printed terracotta tiles are restoring coral reef ecosystems

News / Corporate Responsibility

Sustainability recruitment firm Acre launches in Asia

...ther firms that offer ESG recruitment services, such as NextWave, Formative Search, and Odgers Berndtson. "Asia is arguably behind Europe and the United States when it comes to sustainability. But th...

2 Jun 2022

Sustainability recruitment firm Acre launches in Asia

News / Food & Agriculture

India’s palm oil drive faces reality check

...the climatic conditions of some of the target areas. For example, in the north-east the plan proposes to rely on rainfall rather than irrigation. But annual rainfall in the region is lower than the 2,...

6 Jul 2023

India’s palm oil drive faces reality check

News / Lifestyle

Shepherds in Indian Himalayas turn backs on traditional livelihood

...the wool and the clothes is traditionally the job of women in the Bhotia community, who often take charge of selling the clothes as well. But now they are finding the traditional clothes they continue...

21 Jan 2022

Shepherds in Indian Himalayas turn backs on traditional livelihood

News / Water

How Bangladesh’s shrimp industry is driving a freshwater crisis

...they can during the June-September monsoon and eke it out for as long as they can. Then they buy drinking water at 40 times the price that residents in capital Dhaka pay. “During the rainy season we c...

22 Nov 2021

How Bangladesh’s shrimp industry is driving a freshwater crisis

Research / ethiXbase

eBook: Key trends in anti-bribery & anti-corruption in 2022 & beyond

...When 2019 ended, we bid farewell to another decade, but little did we know what the following year had in store for us. In a matter of months, the world was hit by a global pandemic, which still exist...

7 Feb 2022

eBook: Key trends in anti-bribery & anti-corruption in 2022 & beyond

News / Policy & Finance

‘Infrastructure-first’ approach causes conflict in Indonesia

...The latest incident was in December 2021, when the Rendu community blocked the road to prevent the arrival of a team conducting field observations at the construction site. The villagers accused the t...

12 May 2022

‘Infrastructure-first’ approach causes conflict in Indonesia

News / Cities

Twitter sleuths and disaster mappers look for a backup plan

...the ongoing conflict. There are concerns around these users being exposed if the platform collapses, and about the security of private data - in particular, the risk of direct messages being hacked or...

28 Nov 2022

Twitter sleuths and disaster mappers look for a backup plan

News / Cities

India's poor coal 'thieves' forced to scavenge for survival

...them, end up working at the bottom of the coal industry for the lowest pay, he noted. "There are no other jobs," he added. Theft or survival? At the opencast mines in Jharkhand's Jharia coalfield, men...

8 Feb 2023

India's poor coal 'thieves' forced to scavenge for survival

News / Lifestyle

Climate-conscious Indians tap carbon credits for greener fun

...their bit to reduce the celebration's climate-heating emissions. Their gift hampers contained QR codes linking to the Climes website where they could easily offset a share of the party's emissions by ...

20 Dec 2022

Climate-conscious Indians tap carbon credits for greener fun

News / Manufacturing

Thailand bars prisons from using inmates to make fishing nets

...the price of seafood. "Finding hundreds of thousands of workers is not an easy task, and at the end of the day, it's the fishermen and consumers who will face the burden," he said. "Either by the end ...

1 Jul 2022

Thailand bars prisons from using inmates to make fishing nets

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