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From sticky floors to career highs: Accelerating shifts to gender equality in Asia

...when women are employed in the formal sector, they often have the right to work but they do not necessarily have rights at work. The challenging issues that I was committed to addressing at the beginn...

23 May 2019

From sticky floors to career highs: Accelerating shifts to gender equality in Asia

News / Policy & Finance

Expand conserved areas to boost global economy ravaged by Covid-19, says report

...When both the economic and ecosystem service benefits of expanding protected areas are totaled, the paper said the gains resulting from meeting the 30 per cent target outweigh the costs by a ratio of ...

27 Jul 2020

Expand conserved areas to boost global economy ravaged by Covid-19, says report

Opinion / Policy & Finance

Climate justice is racial justice

...the groundwork for the police brutality Black Americans experience every day in the United States. Racism also explains the violent suppression by the military and the militarised police of peaceful p...

4 Jun 2020

Climate justice is racial justice

News / Policy & Finance

ADB: Asia stands to lose 68 million jobs if coronavirus is not contained in six months

...their jobs by the end of September in the "worst case scenario", if the pandemic is not contained by then, according to the ADB's Covid-19 Economic Impact Assessment Template rolled out last week. The...

7 Apr 2020

ADB: Asia stands to lose 68 million jobs if coronavirus is not contained in six months

News / Transport

Pakistan launches electric vehicle plan with cars in slow lane

...the Thomson Reuters Foundation that the policy "states the broad parameters to which we agreed". "We appreciate the direction and are awaiting further details," he added. “ The rest of the world is a...

30 Jun 2020

Pakistan launches electric vehicle plan with cars in slow lane

News / Energy

Backers of Lamu coal project lose court case

...the project with the Chinese embassy were previously ignored. “We believe they didn’t take the letters seriously until when they saw that the communities and the people of Kenya were in the streets pr...

8 Jul 2019

Backers of Lamu coal project lose court case

News / Food & Agriculture

Coronavirus destroys Bangladesh’s crab exports

...the brink of destitution as exports are indefinitely postponed after the Covid-19 outbreak. The losses started well before the pandemic reached Bangladesh, because China – the main market for the crab...

6 Apr 2020

Coronavirus destroys Bangladesh’s crab exports

Opinion / Cities

We can’t let coronavirus kill our cities. Here’s how we can save urban life

...The trajectory of the pandemic suggests physical distancing could remain in place for some time. The subtle “step and slide” that people ordinarily use to negotiate their way through crowded urban spa...

5 May 2020

We can’t let coronavirus kill our cities. Here’s how we can save urban life

Haze over Singapore's skyline, September 2019

News / Food & Agriculture

As the worst haze since 2015 chokes Southeast Asia, are Big Agri's fire prevention efforts working?

...the dry season. A drought projected to stretch into the middle of October has raised fears that this haze outbreak could match 2015, when daily carbon emissions from the fires exceeded those of the Eu...

18 Sep 2019

As the worst haze since 2015 chokes Southeast Asia, are Big Agri's fire prevention efforts working?

News / Energy

Here's how you can track your carbon footprint and help keep emissions low

...the global total in 2019—the largest ever fall in the last century—due to a drastic reduction in human activities as a result of the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic. While the planetary breather is the larg...

5 May 2020

Here's how you can track your carbon footprint and help keep emissions low

News / Carbon & Climate

Research confirms climate link to Australian bushfires

...the fires, predominantly in the southeast of the country. The fires also polluted the air, destroyed buildings and had a devastating impact on Australian wildlife. More than 11 million hectares, an ar...

5 Mar 2020

Research confirms climate link to Australian bushfires

Research / TCO Development

Impacts and Insights 2019 – Effects of TCO Certified in the IT product supply chain

...The report also points out that change happens faster when brand owners using shared suppliers join together and place the same requirements on the factory owner. TCO Development has insight into the ...

4 Nov 2019

Impacts and Insights 2019 – Effects of TCO Certified in the IT product supply chain

News / Policy & Finance

Financial flows study reveals how Asia's banks are funding social and environmental harm

...the beginning of the pandemic. Georg Kell, the chairman of Arabesque and the founding director of the United Nations Global Compact, wrote in May that the coronavirus is spurring the very forces that ...

10 Sep 2020

Financial flows study reveals how Asia's banks are funding social and environmental harm

An Australian wheat field, by James Edwards/Wheat Initiative, CC BY-SA 2.0

News / Food & Agriculture

Grain on the blockchain: how digital supply chains are greening agriculture

...then pay the rest of it at the end of the year,” she says. Brewing common values With malted grain a major input to their product, breweries like Stone and Wood are the consumer-facing endpoint of the...

10 May 2019

Grain on the blockchain: how digital supply chains are greening agriculture

Photo of Singapore marina bay waterfront by dusk

News / Cities

To engineer sustainable cities, engineer social behaviour

...the opening panel discussion at the forum. "You can create the collaboration by creating the space, the time, and the financing. But I think the dialogue also has to change in terms of what is urgent ...

3 Apr 2019

To engineer sustainable cities, engineer social behaviour

News / Carbon & Climate

Declare climate emergency, say scientists

...when you put all this together, there is scientific support for declaring a state of climate emergency.” The summary puts together reports from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), th...

9 Dec 2019

Declare climate emergency, say scientists

News / Policy & Finance

To India’s chagrin, Bangladesh turns to China to transform Teesta river

...the letter, describes its scope. The plan is to build over 100 km of embankments along both sides of the river, from upstream of the Teesta barrage near the border with India to the confluence with th...

30 Sep 2020

To India’s chagrin, Bangladesh turns to China to transform Teesta river

News / Energy

GE’s multi-billion dollar mistake

...the index and a remnant from a time when the U.S. economy was driven by industrial giants rather than big tech. “The company was often at the center of American capitalism” over the past century, the ...

3 Jul 2019

GE’s multi-billion dollar mistake

Extinction Rebellion protesters demonstrate outside of the News Corp headquarters in Bowen Hills, Brisbane, where they deposited a truckload of manure. The protesters held banners that read: "Billionaire liars. Media monopoly. Climate denial. We call bullshit." Image: XR

News / Carbon & Climate

Protesters 'call bullsh*t' on News Corp climate denial by dumping dung outside office

...themselves to the floor outside the front of News Corp's building in Bowen Hills, Brisbane. The protesters say that the US$9 billion company, which publishes newspapers including The Australian, Heral...

29 Jan 2020

Protesters 'call bullsh*t' on News Corp climate denial by dumping dung outside office

Opinion / Carbon & Climate

Climate change or climate crisis? To really engage people, the media should talk about solutions

...the climate crisis” needs to be covered in the same way as “the start of the second world war” and that the duty of the news media is to “awaken the world to the catastrophe looming ahead of it”. The ...

31 May 2019

Climate change or climate crisis? To really engage people, the media should talk about solutions

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