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Ecocide: Should destroying nature be an international crime?

European lawmakers gave a boost this week to efforts to make ecocide - large-scale environmental destruction - a crime that could be prosecuted by the International Criminal Court (ICC) alongside off...

4 Apr 2023

Ecocide: Should destroying nature be an international crime?

News / Policy & Finance

Asia's biggest firms are not joining the dots between biodiversity loss and business survival: study

...carbon and emissions reduction may have left businesses with little bandwidth to consider the value of biodiversity to their operations. Nature Positive managing director Dr Stephanie Wray said that w...

23 Sep 2022

Asia's biggest firms are not joining the dots between biodiversity loss and business survival: study

News / Carbon & Climate

Environmental activist climbs political ladder in Indonesia’s Aru Islands

More than 10 years have passed since a young official in Indonesia’s eastern Aru Islands saved his archipelago from becoming a monoculture plantation. Today, Mika Ganobal is drawing on his campaigning...

26 Jun 2023

Environmental activist climbs political ladder in Indonesia’s Aru Islands

News / Waste

Plastic pollution is surging, so what are governments doing?

Governments are meeting in Paris this week to negotiate a global treaty on plastic pollution, as alarm grows over the environmental damage caused by surging amounts of waste. Producing plastics cause...

30 May 2023

Plastic pollution is surging, so what are governments doing?

News / Cities

Heatwave relief: what can hot countries teach us about keeping cool?

As global warming - driven by our use of oil, gas and coal - spawns more deadly heatwaves worldwide, what can newly sweltering countries learn from heat-hardy ones about ways to stay cool? With the me...

20 Jul 2022

Heatwave relief: what can hot countries teach us about keeping cool?

News / Carbon & Climate

Indonesian government yet to spur to action even as toxic air chokes Jakarta

Jakarta’s recent episode of world-beating air pollution has highlighted what activists describe as belligerent inaction by the Indonesian government to address the source of the problem, even in the f...

1 Jul 2022

Indonesian government yet to spur to action even as toxic air chokes Jakarta

News / Energy

Rose, jasmine teas flourish in Indian push for renewable energy

...carbonate sheets with a total area of about 5 sq metres, is especially valuable during the monsoon when flowers usually get wasted. "The solar dryer saved me from getting demoralised in rainy months,"...

21 Jul 2023

Rose, jasmine teas flourish in Indian push for renewable energy

News / Policy & Finance

DBS chief sustainability officer Mikkel Larsen joins carbon credits marketplace Climate Impact X as CEO

...carbon credits platform Climate Impact X (CIX) as chief executive officer. He will continue to be based in Singapore, where CIX was set up as a global voluntary carbon exchange by the Singapore Exchan...

18 Nov 2021

DBS chief sustainability officer Mikkel Larsen joins carbon credits marketplace Climate Impact X as CEO

News / Energy

Chinese investment in Philippines’ renewables

In January, nine Chinese energy companies committed to invest nearly US$14 billion in renewable energy development in the Philippines. The companies expressed interest mainly in solar and offshore win...

21 Jul 2023

Chinese investment in Philippines’ renewables

News / Waste

Is mandatory garbage sorting working in China?

...carbon. Therefore, he says, waste-to-power plants should not be classed as “biopower”. The classification runs contrary to attempts to sort biological material – food waste – and remove it from incine...

14 Dec 2022

Is mandatory garbage sorting working in China?

Fixing air pollution in Jakarta will require big changes in the transport sector.

Opinion / Carbon & Climate

Fixing Jakarta's commuter pollution problem

...carbon neutrality plan but there are still some power plants within 20 kilometres to the east and 55 kilometres to the west of the borders. These emission sources might contribute around 6 – 13 per ce...

10 Aug 2022

Fixing Jakarta's commuter pollution problem

News / Energy

Floating solar: a small but vital role for India’s sunrise sector

...carbon dioxide every year over its lifespan. In January 2022, the state-owned hydropower corporation NHPC signed a deal with a developer in the eastern state of Odisha to build a 500 MW floating solar...

12 May 2022

Floating solar: a small but vital role for India’s sunrise sector

News / Energy

Indonesian energy bill promotes coal-based fuels as 'new energy'

...carbon content is "very minimal". Environmental groups, however, argue that greenhouse gas emissions from coal derivatives are still significantly higher than emissions from renewables. The Institute ...

17 Jun 2022

Indonesian energy bill promotes coal-based fuels as 'new energy'

News / Energy

Culture of energy evaluation ‘missing’ in India

India is committed to electrifying 40 million homes this year to attain the goal of delivering electric power to all of its 1.3 billion people. It also has plans to install 75 gigawatts of renewable e...

7 Jul 2022

Culture of energy evaluation ‘missing’ in India

News / Policy & Finance

Roundtable: After COP27, what’s the path to climate resilience for Pakistan?

...carbon. Mangrove forests present in Indus Delta in Sindh are considered to be the largest area of arid climate mangroves in the world. We must protect and nurture these ecosystems. In Pakistan, we are...

5 Dec 2022

Roundtable: After COP27, what’s the path to climate resilience for Pakistan?

News / Corporate Responsibility

Public relations firm Weber Shandwick appoints first Asia Pacific head of sustainability

...carbon dioxide equivalent, for Swedish food brand Felix. Lamonin will report to Vanessa Ho Nikolovski, Weber Shandwick's chief client and growth officer, Asia Pacific. The agency's global sustainabili...

19 Apr 2022

Public relations firm Weber Shandwick appoints first Asia Pacific head of sustainability

News / Policy & Finance

What is happening to Pakistan’s green stimulus?

Wajahat Shah, 32, is a labourer at a government-run tree plantation, spread over 3,000 hectares of army land in Pakistan’s Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province. “Ten days after the government announced the loc...

31 May 2022

What is happening to Pakistan’s green stimulus?

News / Cities

Another Indonesian province moves to reclaim forests from palm plantations

...carbon dioxide. “If these forests are all cleared, it’ll become an explosion of carbon bomb,” Greenpeace Indonesia forest campaigner Syahrul Fitra told Mongabay. “This will exacerbate the climate cris...

23 Jun 2022

Another Indonesian province moves to reclaim forests from palm plantations

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Will a new global fund deliver for nature?

Just eight months after new global biodiversity targets were agreed at the COP15 talks in Montreal, a new nature fund has been created. The fund was a key demand of developing nations at the talks. Th...

26 Sep 2023

Will a new global fund deliver for nature?

A farmer walks within a regenerative agriculture project in the Brazilian Amazon

News / Food & Agriculture

Can regenerative agriculture transform palm oil?

...carbon market – which is already tapping into the potential of agroforestry – could provide new credit-selling opportunities for farmers whose methods can be proven to lock more carbon in the soil. T...

28 Mar 2022

Can regenerative agriculture transform palm oil?

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