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Jakarta residents sue government over ‘world’s filthiest’ air quality

...These devices are used all around the world,” he said. “To date, there’s not a single government around the world that questions [the accuracy of] the device. “This is not the time to debate the metho...

11 Jul 2019

Jakarta residents sue government over ‘world’s filthiest’ air quality

Opinion / Carbon & Climate

Is climate change responsible for the conflicts we're seeing around the world today?

...their worst drought in 60 years. The pastoralist Karamojong communities and their neighbors in northern Kenya and South Sudan were desperate for water and pasture for their vast herds. There were regu...

17 Oct 2019

Is climate change responsible for the conflicts we're seeing around the world today?

News / Lifestyle

Websites failing to protect consumers from toxic plastic toys

...the authors of the report, plasticisers are released from products when heated or on contact with oils such as those found in shower gels. Having entered the body through the mouth or skin they make a...

10 Oct 2019

Websites failing to protect consumers from toxic plastic toys

News / Carbon & Climate

Global warming has ‘changed’ spread of tropical cyclones around the world

...the Indian Ocean and two of these, in the southern Indian Ocean, were unprecedented – belying the decrease found here. The 2018-19 South-West Indian Ocean cyclone season was the costliest and the most...

7 May 2020

Global warming has ‘changed’ spread of tropical cyclones around the world

A woman with her baby at a bus stop in Delhi. Women in developing countries are being hit hardest by the coronavirus pandemic. Image: rajput/SOPA Images/Shutterstock

News / Carbon & Climate

How the coronavirus pandemic is changing people and our planet

...the fiftieth Earth Day, a day that marked the beginning of the modern environmental movement. Over the last 50 years, environmental protection measures have been rolled out all over the world, from th...

22 Apr 2020

How the coronavirus pandemic is changing people and our planet

News / Cities

'Living laboratory': New Dubai city pushes for green revolution in the desert

...the shade of the palm trees flanking the strips of square, white houses. Cars are banned from most of the area. All buildings and parking spaces are topped by solar panels which feed the energy they p...

28 Oct 2019

'Living laboratory': New Dubai city pushes for green revolution in the desert

Opinion / Policy & Finance

No work, no money: How self-isolation due to Covid-19 pandemic punishes the poor in Indonesia

...the Covid-19 emergency period. Without adequate support from the government, many of these people face a higher risk of losing their income or contracting the disease and then spreading the virus. The...

8 Apr 2020

No work, no money: How self-isolation due to Covid-19 pandemic punishes the poor in Indonesia

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Crops in the clouds: The rise of rooftop farming in space-starved Hong Kong

...when people have the chance to grow old in their own homes. Access to a nearby rooftop farm can help the elderly engage with their community and keep them in good mental and physical health, he explai...

14 Nov 2019

Crops in the clouds: The rise of rooftop farming in space-starved Hong Kong

Opinion / Food & Agriculture

Laying the foundations for gender appropriate technology

...when a male head of household dies, the widow only gets, on average, one-third of the area she farmed before. The impact of such changes on the world’s roughly 258 million widows and the 584 million c...

8 Mar 2019

Laying the foundations for gender appropriate technology

News / Carbon & Climate

Tropical forests may be heating Earth by 2035

...the foliage soaked up the most carbon, most efficiently, more than two decades ago. Since then, the measured efficiency of the forests as a “sink” in which carbon is sequestered from the atmosphere ha...

9 Mar 2020

Tropical forests may be heating Earth by 2035

India Gate war memorial in New Delhi, India

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Delhi's push to modernise threatens iconic sites, public space

...the proposal said. "Therefore, there is a need for upgradation." Site for celebrations Delhi was established as the capital of the Indian empire in 1911, when the colonial British rulers moved the cap...

7 Apr 2020

Delhi's push to modernise threatens iconic sites, public space

News / Water

Reusing wastewater in agriculture could reduce water scarcity. Can you stomach it?

...the other hand, appear more likely to accept the use of wastewater to irrigate crops if they trust the institutions managing the water and if they understand the treatment process, environmental benef...

18 Jul 2019

Reusing wastewater in agriculture could reduce water scarcity. Can you stomach it?

News / Food & Agriculture

As loggers exploit virus, Cambodian forest protectors defy state ban

...the Maoist Khmer Rouge regime destroyed all property records in the 1970s. In the early 2000s, the government ushered in a development plan that saw more than 10 per cent of the nation's territory tur...

4 May 2020

As loggers exploit virus, Cambodian forest protectors defy state ban

Opinion / Waste

Closing China’s waste management loop

...the aim. The amount of sorted food waste that is turned into resources, like compost and biogas, and the amount of harmful waste that is made safe depends on the last link in the chain, their processi...

26 Nov 2020

Closing China’s waste management loop

hauling timber from Indonesian peat forest

News / Food & Agriculture

Indonesia to fix temporary ban on new forest clearing for plantations and logging

...the government has truly been enforcing its policies since 2015, which then showed the impact of the forest moratorium,” he said. “The policies themselves are good, but the devil is in the implementat...

11 Jun 2019

Indonesia to fix temporary ban on new forest clearing for plantations and logging

News / Carbon & Climate

Battery boom aids climate change battle

...They are being charged when electricity is in surplus and therefore cheap, and the power they store is resold to the grid at a higher price during peak periods. According to Bloomberg, around US$600 b...

22 Jan 2019

Battery boom aids climate change battle

Forests cleared for palm oil cultivation.

News / Food & Agriculture

Palm oil giant Wilmar quits High Carbon Stock Approach citing governance issues

...the organisation is in the red. Wilmar was the treasurer of HCSA until 2018, when it stepped down as co-chair. The firm pointed out that the position is still vacant. Greenpeace forest solutions team ...

3 Apr 2020

Palm oil giant Wilmar quits High Carbon Stock Approach citing governance issues

Deforestation Palangka Raya in Central Kalimantan, Indonesia

News / Policy & Finance

Indonesia won’t ‘sacrifice economy’ for deeper emissions cuts

...the time considered boosting the country’s emissions reduction target to 45 per cent, but have since decided to stick with their lower target. Medrilzam, the head of the environmental department at th...

15 Apr 2020

Indonesia won’t ‘sacrifice economy’ for deeper emissions cuts

News / Carbon & Climate

Japan’s failure to set tougher climate target disappoints global community

...the key objective of the accord: keeping global warming to well below 2 degrees Celsius. In the document submitted to the United Nations, the government said it would “pursue further efforts both in t...

2 Apr 2020

Japan’s failure to set tougher climate target disappoints global community

News / Corporate Responsibility

Eco-Business' 10 most read stories of 2019

...the first stories that shed light on the performance of various countries’ uptake of clean energy, relative to their neighbours. The story was the most-read of the Southeast Asia energy transition ser...

13 Dec 2019

Eco-Business' 10 most read stories of 2019

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