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Flown back and forgotten: Filipino migrants face tough homecoming

...ty dormitory with students after a local NGO heard they had nowhere else to stay. "Authorities told us to return to our local government units ... but they don't know who we are, and there was nothing...

15 Feb 2024

Flown back and forgotten: Filipino migrants face tough homecoming

News / Policy & Finance

Are biodiversity credits doomed to repeat the voluntary carbon market’s flaws?

...tity has first tried to minimise its environmental impact. He clarified that TNC is nonetheless in favour of a voluntary biodiversity “certificate”, as opposed to an offset, but it has to contribute t...

22 Oct 2024

Are biodiversity credits doomed to repeat the voluntary carbon market’s flaws?

News / Water

Tuvalu preserves history online as rising seas threaten existence

...to the United Nations climate conference standing knee-deep in seawater to highlight the threat to the nation of Tuvalu, minister Simon Kofe said they were on their way to becoming a digital nation. T...

6 Mar 2024

Tuvalu preserves history online as rising seas threaten existence

News / Policy & Finance

COP28 outlook soured by climate finance blame game at UN talks

...try representatives participating at the climate talks also applauded the adoption of the first-ever requirements for all participants to disclose their affiliation beforehand. But they lamented that ...

19 Jun 2023

COP28 outlook soured by climate finance blame game at UN talks

Women working on a palm oil plantation in Riau, Sumatra, Indonesia.

News / Food & Agriculture

The skipped chapter of the sustainable palm oil story: Women smallholders

...tations] are more concerned with taking care of oil palm trees rather than their own health. Family is more important to them than anything," said Dr Fotarisman, who also consults on a health and nutr...

4 Mar 2024

The skipped chapter of the sustainable palm oil story: Women smallholders

Times when sustainability wasn't very funny this year

News / Carbon & Climate

11 times sustainability wasn't very funny in 2022

...two trucks to crash after one protester tried to climb a gantry on the M25 motorway that orbits London. A picture in the story is captioned to suggest a protester hanging from the gantry is taking a s...

30 Dec 2022

11 times sustainability wasn't very funny in 2022

News / Water

Monsoons in India become unpredictable as pollution wreaks havoc

...ts that, in 2020, farmers in the state of Madhya Pradesh told Indian media that they planned to file a lawsuit against the state meteorological department for incorrect predictions. To better predict ...

26 May 2023

Monsoons in India become unpredictable as pollution wreaks havoc

News / Food & Agriculture

Bangladesh tea workers struggle as heat and drought scorch fields

...tific officer at the Bangladesh Tea Research Institute, said tea grows best at temperatures between 15C and 25C, but that plants can typically continue producing sufficient leaves up to about 29C. How...

13 Jun 2023

Bangladesh tea workers struggle as heat and drought scorch fields

News / Waste

Trash to treasure: Indonesian firm turns plastic into bricks

...tensive machinery, with plastic waste donations often outstripping demand for bricks. The startup - which uses social media to appeal for plastic waste - is in talks with the government to supply mate...

21 Aug 2023

Trash to treasure: Indonesian firm turns plastic into bricks

News / Corporate Responsibility

Communications in a climate crisis: why Asian PR firm Vero cut ties with fossil fuel firms

...t of NGOs have caught up to the conversation about fossil fuel communications, and want to push it forward with agencies. But it hasn't caught up to the corporate brand sector yet. Recently Southeast ...

8 Aug 2022

Communications in a climate crisis: why Asian PR firm Vero cut ties with fossil fuel firms

News / Policy & Finance

Paris finance summit breaks new ground in climate, poverty fight

...t in the level of the conversation as a result of the political attention that has come from this (Paris) summit," said Alex Scott, climate diplomacy lead at think tank E3G. "We can turn that into scr...

27 Jun 2023

Paris finance summit breaks new ground in climate, poverty fight

Research / MioTech

ChatGPT on financial reporting

...topped almost every conversation, WeChat post and search results. When the dust settles from the novelty of the conversations the mass population now has with their AI ChatGPT, the implication for th...

1 Mar 2023

ChatGPT on financial reporting

News / Policy & Finance

How do you get climate funding to conflict-hit nations?

...t not invest in climate adaptation projects that will help people grow their own food. Najibullah Sadid, water specialist, Universität Stuttgart Countries in conflict, or with weak, corrupt or intern...

5 Dec 2023

How do you get climate funding to conflict-hit nations?

Fifty-two year-old Thái Nguyên resident Phạm Dũng holding a puppy

News / Food & Agriculture

Puppy-fattening farmers switch trades: Is an end in sight for Vietnam's dog meat market?

...ted and transported without food or water in cramped conditions. The most common way to kill dogs is to hit them on their head with a hammer or club to make them unconcious, then slit their throats. D...

14 Jun 2024

Puppy-fattening farmers switch trades: Is an end in sight for Vietnam's dog meat market?

News / Policy & Finance

Singtel expands internal carbon pricing scheme as part of accelerated 2045 net-zero push

...ted their net-zero target to 2045, 2040. If I want to continue to do business with them, I can’t stay at 2050, right?” Tan said. The Singapore government has set its own sights on net-zero 2045, five ...

13 Jun 2024

Singtel expands internal carbon pricing scheme as part of accelerated 2045 net-zero push

Press Releases / UN Women

International Day of Care and Support: a milestone for gender equality, sustainable societies

...the United Nations observance of the International Day of Care and Support. This international day shows the importance of building towards care and support systems that protect the rights of tho...

15 Aug 2023

International Day of Care and Support: a milestone for gender equality, sustainable societies

News / Policy & Finance

Hong Kong migrants locked out of UK jobs by police check fears

...those active in the 2019-2020 protests, said they did not want to share their personal details with a police force they did not trust. A few feared the risk of arrest if they returned to the city to v...

24 Nov 2022

Hong Kong migrants locked out of UK jobs by police check fears

Opinion / Corporate Responsibility

Brands, please stop saying 'sustainability is in our DNA'

...ts website that it is “Putting sustainability at the heart of what we do” with a slew of targets, including reaching net-zero by 2050. Careful not to claim that sustainability has always been at the h...

1 Feb 2023

Brands, please stop saying 'sustainability is in our DNA'

News / Energy

Explainer: Why is it so hard for companies to buy renewables in Southeast Asia?

...t power producers to sign electricity export PPAs, though buyers have tended to be the nationalised utilities of neighbouring states, such as Vietnam Electricity or the Electricity Generating Authorit...

17 Jul 2024

Explainer: Why is it so hard for companies to buy renewables in Southeast Asia?

Press Releases / WWF

Over 70 international organisations unite to accelerate food systems transformation at COP28

...t solution. This relies on urgent acceleration of implementation on the ground, both to mitigate and adapt to climate change." "We need to see strong action at the national level, starting with the a...

28 Oct 2023

Over 70 international organisations unite to accelerate food systems transformation at COP28

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