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Indonesia scraps timber legality rule, stoking fears of illegal logging boom

...the logging stage, then there’s no need to continue with legality checks further on down the line, including for exporters. But proponents of the SVLK system, including the association of Indonesian p...

30 Mar 2020

Indonesia scraps timber legality rule, stoking fears of illegal logging boom

Opinion / Food & Agriculture

Stimulating Brazil’s bioeconomy

...the effects of climate change, in particular by conserving the rich biodiversity contained in the six vast biomes spanning its territory. These include the largest portion of the Amazon rainforest, wh...

24 Aug 2020

Stimulating Brazil’s bioeconomy

solar and wind power station in Poyang Lake in, China

News / Energy

Despite coronavirus, China aims for renewables grid parity

...the grid by the end of the year if they are to get subsidies. About 60 per cent of those are confident of doing so, another 20 per cent might manage it, and the other 20 per cent face huge difficultie...

4 Jun 2020

Despite coronavirus, China aims for renewables grid parity

News / Food & Agriculture

South Korean trading giant to compensate for past deforestation in Papua

...the industry and an encouraging sign. “Given that most of the concession area has already been cleared, it is critical that the company genuinely remediates for the impacts of its deforestation,” she ...

4 Mar 2020

South Korean trading giant to compensate for past deforestation in Papua

News / Energy

Can crowd investors spur the clean energy transition?

...them and their capital, we can help them become part of the solution,” said Martin Baart, founder and chief executive officer of ecoligo, the solar firm that made the installation happen by channellin...

2 Jun 2020

Can crowd investors spur the clean energy transition?

News / Waste

Indonesia's first reuseable cup rental service launches in Jakarta

...the cup can be returned at any of the participating outlets in central and south Jakarta. The cup is then cleaned and put back into the system. The system is free for customers to use, as long as the ...

7 Jul 2020

Indonesia's first reuseable cup rental service launches in Jakarta

Opinion / Carbon & Climate

Monitoring deforestation: the use and misuse of satellite technology

...the highest resolution satellite images, or accuracy to the minute of the land use change in the imagery. In order to efficiently and effectively use the data gathered from satellites to identify defo...

3 Sep 2019

Monitoring deforestation: the use and misuse of satellite technology

News / Policy & Finance

Health workers, slum dwellers face housing bias as lockdowns lift

...the high death count to push evictions, arguing that it was these communities' unhygienic conditions that produced the deaths, rather than recognising their own neglect of sanitation and health," she ...

4 Jun 2020

Health workers, slum dwellers face housing bias as lockdowns lift

Monorail shuttles whisk passengers through the Beijing Airport.

News / Energy

Can China accelerate the green transition in central and eastern Europe?

...the agenda. Could 17+1 strain the relationship at a pivotal time for the planet? “ There is an ideal world in which the EU and China integrate their carbon markets [and] become leaders of the global ...

1 Jun 2020

Can China accelerate the green transition in central and eastern Europe?

News / Policy & Finance

Dam that threatens orangutan habitat is ‘wholly unnecessary’, say conservationists

...the order of 33 to 55 per cent.” Brown said the claim was based on the assumption that the hydropower dam would replace the average carbon output of all utilities nationwide. “The problem is that the ...

3 Feb 2020

Dam that threatens orangutan habitat is ‘wholly unnecessary’, say conservationists

Opinion / Policy & Finance

What Larry Fink should say on climate change in his next letter to CEOs

...the table. As part of the Paris Agreement, countries agreed to revisit their emissions reduction targets by the end of this year—but policy makers can't achieve these targets on their own. The world's...

9 Jan 2020

What Larry Fink should say on climate change in his next letter to CEOs

News / Carbon & Climate

How to stop global warming? The most controversial solutions explained

...the air as they grow, then burning them to create energy while also capturing the carbon emitted. The carbon would then be stored underground, preventing it from returning to the atmosphere, before th...

1 Oct 2020

How to stop global warming? The most controversial solutions explained

News / Carbon & Climate

Covid-19: Compound growth could kill us — or make us stronger

...when there were still fewer than 30 COVID-19 cases there. The costs of the disruption would have been large, and the public outcry loud. But thousands of deaths would have been averted, and the overal...

20 Mar 2020

Covid-19: Compound growth could kill us — or make us stronger

Green peafowl at the Keo Seima Wildlife Sanctuary Cambodia

News / Carbon & Climate

Under cover of Covid-19, loggers ravage Cambodian wildlife sanctuary

...The big corporate western NGOs see themselves as service providers to ‘assist the government’,” Hardtke said. “They don’t address organised forest crime. In the case of Keo Seima, they changed the map...

2 Sep 2020

Under cover of Covid-19, loggers ravage Cambodian wildlife sanctuary

News / Energy

Southeast Asia on energy path for 650,000 premature deaths from air pollution by 2040: IEA

...the energy transition. “Why should this region invest in switching from coal to gas, when at the moment the penetration of renewables is still very modest and, at the same time, the cost of the power ...

1 Nov 2019

Southeast Asia on energy path for 650,000 premature deaths from air pollution by 2040: IEA

Press Releases / WWF-Singapore

Over 12 million pieces of single-use plastic packaging and items saved with industry initiative

...their plastic consumption. To date, 22 companies have signed individual commitments and have set the standard for a meaningful plastic action, paving the way to lead their peers towards a circular eco...

19 Aug 2020

Over 12 million pieces of single-use plastic packaging and items saved with industry initiative

News / Policy & Finance

Pandemic hikes concern over much-needed climate finance for poorest

...the report. Patriciah Roy Akullo, co-chair of the ACT Alliance's climate justice group, said meeting the $100-billion goal was "about saving lives, and preventing further suffering around the world", ...

11 Nov 2020

Pandemic hikes concern over much-needed climate finance for poorest

News / Policy & Finance

Brics turns ten

...the image of the Brics. A world with multiple centres of power, rather than just the image of the west. Paulo Esteves, coordinator, Brics Policy Centre Since then, they have become a strong bloc in c...

21 Nov 2019

Brics turns ten

News / Policy & Finance

When it comes to addressing climate change, gender matters

...the report warns about an “implementation gap” — the difference between policy commitments to gender equality and the reality of the situation on the ground. Part of the implementation challenge is si...

17 Sep 2019

When it comes to addressing climate change, gender matters

News / Energy

Meet the environment defenders fighting for clean energy in Southeast Asia

...they will make money from my projects. When they find out they won't, it's hard to convince them to support me. But I’m used to fighting them,” said Tri Mumpuni Iskandar said when asked what was the b...

7 Sep 2019

Meet the environment defenders fighting for clean energy in Southeast Asia

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