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Australia's action against greenwashing has been driven largely by consumers, says John Pabon, author of The Great Greenwashing

...ten there is an internal battle between the marketing department that wants to promote and the sustainability department that just wants to be transparent about where they are. And that's often where ...

6 Sep 2025

John Haffner, deputy director of sustainability, Hang Lung Properties, says internal advocacy has been key to driving the sustainability agenda. Image: ReThink 2

...to give an optimistic spin that we can focus on the things that matter and move off the agenda of those things that are nice to have as it just focus on the most material issues that matter most to th...

6 Aug 2025

...told Context. A separate study looking at the Israeli-Hamas war in Gaza estimates the carbon footprint for the first 15 months topped 32 million tons of emissions, when post-conflict reconstruction is...

30 Oct 2025

A beach in Balikpapan, Indonesia's "oil city", is covered in plastic trash.

...tic. They don't factor in the amount of money that needs to go into waste management of the plastics. So that's why they often insert chemical additives and other things that make the product essentia...

12 Aug 2025

...that favours the strongest and fittest," Egeland told Context. "This is in no way the kind of work we should perform." But it is not just in Gaza, where the humanitarian system is being severely teste...

7 Oct 2025

...th the Public Environmental Data Partners. "But for me personally, I didn't expect that to be so expansive and for it to be one of the first things that the administration targeted." The EPA did not r...

15 Aug 2025

Here’s the recipe for fixing the planet, according to a landmark new report from UNEP

...that are better for the environment and their bottom lines. Overhaul the incentives that govern the global economy Right now, the global economic system too often rewards practices that harm t...

19 Jan 2026

...top of those to create products and tools. And because they have such good experience around this with all the work they've done in the past around the identity system (and) the payment system that th...

21 Oct 2025

...t told Reuters last week that President Donald Trump's administration expected most of the country's coal-fired power plants to delay retirement to help deliver the vast amount of electricity needed t...

3 Oct 2025

...t.] The latest NDCs are not perfect, but they are much better than the last two cycles. We are trying to quantify that and that we are trying to figure out how much better they are. At Paris they were...

6 Nov 2025

...te acute malnutrition and severe acute malnutrition. We do not do in-patient treatment of the most severe patients, but we do see patients that we desperately have to refer to in-patient treatment and...

28 Aug 2025

...to tackle NTDs on the continent over the next two years. Drug treatments are only part of the picture. Preventing diseases requires investment in water and sanitation – another sector hit by aid cuts ...

25 Aug 2025

...tised system of putting bins out, we wouldn't be able to do it. Lastly, when we started to get the attention of certain town councils, NEA also started to support us and pushed the initiative to other...

30 Jul 2025

...t that has to be offset [with wanting to be more sustainable]. That's probably the hardest part of my job. But if I think about the companies that don't take that attitude of just focusing on profit, ...

25 Jun 2025

...Thomson Reuters Foundation, the charitable arm of Thomson Reuters, that covers humanitarian news, climate change, resilience, women’s rights, trafficking and property rights. Visit https://www.context...

28 Oct 2025

A report by WWF finds that Hong Kong could lose 25 per cent of its biodiversity to new developments such as the North Metropolis.

...t in the local environment, I can bet you that there's a native plant that does that job much better than any exotic one. It's just that they haven't been developed in a horticultural sense, so that t...

18 Jun 2025

...t, but it's not that connected to our national adaptation strategies. We have to allocate flood control at some extent to our overall plan to make it sensible for us as a country. It's getting a lot o...

6 Oct 2025

...t important for global health to continue funding? If we lose momentum in treating infectious diseases like TB, that's a real health security threat because drug-resistant TB is one of the nastiest th...

1 Apr 2025

A small-scale miner in Bicol, Philippines

...th the preparation of the Asean joint statement on climate change. We want the voice of Asean to be elevated to the global community. We hope to be able to come up with this joint statement just to re...

20 Feb 2026

Hendrik Rosenthal, sustainability director, CLP Power

...that sustainability elements are reflected within that business strategy. That's a really important distinction to make across any business that takes sustainability seriously. It's not something that...

30 Apr 2025

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