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Covid-19’s viral lessons for climate heating

...the US, President Trump has in the past dismissed global warming as a hoax and withdrawn the US from the Paris Agreement on climate change. At the start of the Covid-19 outbreak, the virus was dismiss...

6 Apr 2020

Covid-19’s viral lessons for climate heating

Opinion / Carbon & Climate

Keep climate teaching real and honest

...the good news that the forest home of the Awá was safe from loggers, we were thrilled. The children realised they had the collective power to act and support fellow human beings on another continent. ...

8 Jul 2019

Keep climate teaching real and honest

Haze over Singapore's skyline, September 2019

News / Food & Agriculture

Campaign aims to make Singapore the world's first sustainable palm oil country

...them better understand their supply chains, so they know how to check the sustainability credentials of the palm oil they procure. It plans to do this by referring them to organisations such as the Ro...

4 Dec 2019

Campaign aims to make Singapore the world's first sustainable palm oil country

News / Food & Agriculture

Will 'palatable and nutritious' insect-based pet food take off in Asia?

...The mealworms that Entoma uses are produced in Austria, while its black soldier flies are produced in the Netherlands. Its production plants are located in France and the Netherlands. First in Southea...

28 Jul 2020

Will 'palatable and nutritious' insect-based pet food take off in Asia?

Opinion / Lifestyle

Christmas tree shopping is harder than ever, thanks to climate change and demographics

...the wettest spring and the driest summer and fall he could recall over the past 29 years. These extreme conditions decrease sapling success rate, which contribute to tree shortages when the planted st...

4 Dec 2019

Christmas tree shopping is harder than ever, thanks to climate change and demographics

News / Food & Agriculture

The race against time to cut rice’s carbon footprint

...the social and environmental footprint of their rice from the field, right up to their door, via the digital dashboard. In turn, they can better engage consumers on the story behind their rice product...

17 Mar 2020

The race against time to cut rice’s carbon footprint

News / Cities

Coronavirus forces tourism rethink in world's most visited city

...ther the city should ditch the mass tourism model it has come to rely on. It is a question many cities are grappling with, as the future of urban tourism is "deeply uncertain" in the short to medium t...

21 Aug 2020

Coronavirus forces tourism rethink in world's most visited city

News / Food & Agriculture

Recent Indonesian fires razed an area the size of Puerto Rico

...there’s an increase in the number of hotspots in 2019,” Raffles said. “If the hotspots increased [in number], then the size of burned areas must have increased. There’s an increase of nearly 198 per c...

24 Oct 2019

Recent Indonesian fires razed an area the size of Puerto Rico

Opinion / Food & Agriculture

From farming to female empowerment

...the scale in the right direction. M Niaz Asadullah is Professor of Development Economics at the University of Malaya in Kuala Lumpur and Head of the Southeast Asia cluster of the Global Labor Organiza...

29 Jun 2020

From farming to female empowerment

Press Releases / Advanced Biofuel Center

Global Moringa Meet 2019 demonstrates advancements in production & application of moringa

...ther plant, the Moringa (Oleifera. ) has played a vital part in the life of human kind and has been central to the development of culture and food. The Moringa is a functional plant in the agricultura...

2 Oct 2019

Global Moringa Meet 2019 demonstrates advancements in production & application of moringa

News / Corporate Responsibility

From coffee to cosmetics, companies are looking for ways to protect the plants their products are made from

...the same long-term goals, it makes the most sense that they jointly safeguard the basis of their business, she adds. When the Swiss pruning shear company FELCO approached the Crop Trust in search of...

11 Nov 2019

From coffee to cosmetics, companies are looking for ways to protect the plants their products are made from

Opinion / Cities

Alignment with the UN Sustainable Development Goals isn’t action. How can businesses execute their strategies?

...there was such significant consumer demand for green homes that they could sell at the premium price that would be required to recoup costs for the superior materials and design. Sekisui implemented t...

20 Aug 2020

Alignment with the UN Sustainable Development Goals isn’t action. How can businesses execute their strategies?

Antoine Amory driving the Whale Warrior during The MV Ocean Warrior's crossing to Hobart with journalists from The Sydney Morning Herald and ABC News

News / Water

Can hardline activists Sea Shepherd have an impact in Southeast Asia?

...the Indian Ocean to the Gulf of Guinea, until the captain of The Thunder sank his own ship. Sea Shepherd rescued the crew. Under the constant watch of activists filming the chase, The Thunder, which w...

10 Feb 2020

Can hardline activists Sea Shepherd have an impact in Southeast Asia?

News / Food & Agriculture

Coronavirus outbreak reignites bushmeat debate

...the central Chinese city of Wuhan. Was the market’s trade in wild animals the source of the virus? One early study published 26 January in the Lancet suggested otherwise. Nonetheless, calls for a ban ...

10 Feb 2020

Coronavirus outbreak reignites bushmeat debate

News / Policy & Finance

Virus-hit rich nations urged to keep climate-finance promises to poor

...the time of the greatest economic crisis since the Great Depression, we are going to face the 2020 hurricane season without the deeper disaster-risk financial protection we sought, at the very time wh...

30 Apr 2020

Virus-hit rich nations urged to keep climate-finance promises to poor

A new Greenpeace International investigation has revealed that Wilmar International, the world’s largest palm oil trader, is still linked to forest destruction for palm oil almost five years after committing to end deforestation.[1]

News / Food & Agriculture

How is the world's biggest palm oil trader living up to its no-deforestation promise?

...they work with, so they don’t have the same level of commitment [as palm oil companies themselves to tackle deforestation]. If the pressure gets too much, they’ll simply walk away. Then there's the co...

9 Oct 2019

How is the world's biggest palm oil trader living up to its no-deforestation promise?

Press Releases / The Rockefeller Foundation

The Rockefeller Foundation commits US$1 billion to catalyse a green recovery from pandemic

...ther widened because of the pandemic. This year alone, more than 100 million people have seen their electricity access severed because they couldn’t pay their bills during the pandemic, with the...

27 Oct 2020

The Rockefeller Foundation commits US$1 billion to catalyse a green recovery from pandemic

News / Policy & Finance

Thai coalition party vows to row back on fishing industry laws

...They [the previous government] think that increasing penalties will solve the problem when in fact they should be facilitating fishing vessels," he told the Thomson Reuters Foundation at the sidelines...

2 Jul 2019

Thai coalition party vows to row back on fishing industry laws

News / Policy & Finance

'Should I buy a mask or food?'—South Asia's poor face stark choice

...the disease. Although many governments are mandating the use of masks to curb the spread of the virus as they relax lockdown measures, others have urged the public not to buy them while there are shor...

29 Apr 2020

'Should I buy a mask or food?'—South Asia's poor face stark choice

News / Policy & Finance

In Myanmar, campaigners oppose US$21 million conservation project

...the lives of the indigenous people that live in them. The grassroots efforts to stop the proposed conservation area stem from a disagreement over the donors’ approach, rather than their intentions. Th...

28 May 2020

In Myanmar, campaigners oppose US$21 million conservation project

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