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Singapore Aquaculture Technologies' fish farm

News / Food & Agriculture

Fish farms turn to AI, recirculating systems to scale up sustainable aquaculture

...the barge’s 10 tanks, and will sound the alarm when there are abnormal fluctuations in water conditions. Going forward, it plans to build a hatchery on the second storey of the barge and adopt blockch...

19 Feb 2020

Fish farms turn to AI, recirculating systems to scale up sustainable aquaculture

News / Corporate Responsibility

Thai social entrepreneurs helping ex-cons and farmers call for coronavirus cash

...there is not enough work for its 60-plus therapists, who usually go to the offices of some 40 firms that provide massages as an employee benefit. But they have been shut since March because of the pan...

14 May 2020

Thai social entrepreneurs helping ex-cons and farmers call for coronavirus cash

Opinion / Carbon & Climate

Saved by the pandemic?

...the right choices as lockdowns ease, then the pandemic might just have thrown humanity a lifeline in dealing with the much greater challenge of climate change. Before the coronavirus struck, activists...

14 Jul 2020

Saved by the pandemic?

Singapore's central business district. Image: Robin Hicks/Eco-Business

Opinion / Policy & Finance

Why Asian banks need to put sustainable finance clearly in their sights

...there will also be clear consequences for the Asian financial sector. “ No one country will be able to meet their own sustainability targets if they don’t bring others along. The Fair Finance Asia c...

3 Dec 2020

Why Asian banks need to put sustainable finance clearly in their sights

A Pepsi model lies amid other debris. Could plastic-using brands save the circular economy? Image: Eco-Business

News / Waste

As Covid-era recycling industry wilts, investments in Asia show how plastic polluters can save circular economy

...when Covid-19 developed into a global crisis, the company questioned the timing of the investments—which are the first it has made. "We said [to the funders] that our purpose is to improve the resilie...

2 May 2020

As Covid-era recycling industry wilts, investments in Asia show how plastic polluters can save circular economy

Muslims praying and wearing face masks as precaution against Covid-19

News / Cities

In Covid-19's shadow, migrants find solace in Ramadan prayers and online iftars

...the iftar evening meal to each other and to the mosque. Now seeking asylum in Canada, the 37-year-old lives with her two brothers in Pickering, a city in southern Ontario, and is observing the month o...

20 Apr 2021

In Covid-19's shadow, migrants find solace in Ramadan prayers and online iftars

News / Carbon & Climate

Hotter seas imperil both human and marine life

...the state of the oceans from 1993 to 2010, that the rise in sea temperatures in the Mediterranean is without precedent, and the largest rise of all has been measured in the Arctic Ocean. They also cal...

13 Oct 2020

Hotter seas imperil both human and marine life

News / Carbon & Climate

With rising energy demand for minerals, forests face greater threats

...the Democratic Republic of the Congo, the Republic of Congo, Equatorial Guinea, and Gabon. Nguiffo told Mongabay that the World Bank’s approach is reminiscent of the promises made when the logging ind...

13 Nov 2020

With rising energy demand for minerals, forests face greater threats

News / Policy & Finance

Hopes for EU–China climate deal centre on a green recovery

...their climate targets, then other countries might do the same, driving a new wave of climate action.“Bringing together the largest emitter with the continent that has taken on the responsibility of be...

19 Jun 2020

Hopes for EU–China climate deal centre on a green recovery

The post-apocalyptical fiction section has been moved to current affairs.

News / Carbon & Climate

10 times when sustainability was (sort of) funny in 2019

...the fondness of the super-rich for exortionate, polluting boats they use once a year. Headlined Turning The Tide: The Sustainable Future of Superyachts, one pull-out quote from the story summed up the...

14 Dec 2019

10 times when sustainability was (sort of) funny in 2019

Opinion / Policy & Finance

It's time to shift to locally-led climate change adaptation

...them. This week, the online Climate Adaptation Summit, hosted by the Netherlands, will bring together heads of state and other global leaders to raise global ambition on creating a climate-resilient f...

27 Jan 2021

It's time to shift to locally-led climate change adaptation

News / Energy

Renewables overtook fossil fuels in Europe for first time last year

...the most since 2017. These additions dwarf the 26 GW of renewables that the EU installed in 2020. In India, bids for new solar ventures hit record lows in 2020, affirming that coal is no longer the ch...

26 Jan 2021

Renewables overtook fossil fuels in Europe for first time last year

News / Carbon & Climate

In-depth Q&A: the United Kingdom’s net-zero strategy

...the industrial revolution”. The document itself adds that the science on the need to act “could not be clearer”. With the publication of the strategy, the UK now has firm commitments or “ambitions” to...

25 Oct 2021

In-depth Q&A: the United Kingdom’s net-zero strategy

News / Policy & Finance

Don't forget us in coronavirus battle, say businesses in India's Dharavi slum

...the coronavirus in the area. Silence The sound of vehicles, the clank of metals and the hum of hundreds of sewing machines in workshops and of Bollywood songs playing on the radio typically form the ...

8 Jul 2020

Don't forget us in coronavirus battle, say businesses in India's Dharavi slum

News / Corporate Responsibility

‘End it like Beckham’: Campaigners slam AIA, life insurer and football sponsor, for coal investments

...when they find out about AIA’s ongoing support for the coal industry? Will Spurs have to call on their fans to shift their insurance policies away from their main sponsor AIA?” AIA, which is present i...

26 Nov 2020

‘End it like Beckham’: Campaigners slam AIA, life insurer and football sponsor, for coal investments

News / Food & Agriculture

24 hours with... farm-to-table restaurant head chef, Oliver Truesdale Jutras

...thers, though as a chef I end my shift later than the average person as well. 10:30am: I reach the restaurant. The first things I do are write the tasting menu for the night and check on the kitchen...

2 Jun 2021

24 hours with... farm-to-table restaurant head chef, Oliver Truesdale Jutras

Opinion / Carbon & Climate

What locally led climate resilience looks like in the Philippines

...their homes due to weather-related events. This number is expected to grow considerably as climate change fuels more floods, droughts, wildfires and other extreme weather. The Manggahan project shows ...

7 Jan 2020

What locally led climate resilience looks like in the Philippines

News / Food & Agriculture

‘We fell in love with the Bambara groundnut’: How a start-up is improving livelihoods of small farmers in Africa

...the planet and uplift farming communities at the same time? That was the question that Christoph Langwallner and his team at food science start-up NamZ had asked themselves when they started their sea...

5 Oct 2020

‘We fell in love with the Bambara groundnut’: How a start-up is improving livelihoods of small farmers in Africa

Generally, companies will not report until regulations require them to, the report by Arabesque found.

News / Policy & Finance

Asian companies are now better than their American counterparts at reporting climate impact

...when there is currently little incentive to do so?" the report said. "Until the risks of not-disclosing outweigh the risks of disclosing, which they are starting to, it will be challenging to push the...

24 Nov 2020

Asian companies are now better than their American counterparts at reporting climate impact

News / Carbon & Climate

Whose voices are not heard in climate change journalism in China, India, Thailand and Singapore?

...their perspectives to the public. Government sources also have the authority and the resources to stage events, such as press conferences, to push their agenda into the media agenda,” they noted. The ...

19 Mar 2020

Whose voices are not heard in climate change journalism in China, India, Thailand and Singapore?

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