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No money for climate loss and damage

...The WIM must be governed by both the Conference of the Parties (COP) of the UNFCCC and the CMA, the body responsible for bringing in the Paris Agreement. Liability waiver “The US is using the review o...

12 Dec 2019

No money for climate loss and damage

Women from the village of Mitho Goth in Pakistan. Image: Fariha Fatima/Eco-Business

News / Water

Open defecation: How are 22 million Pakistanis living without basic sanitation?

...the locals. It is constantly used by the village men, the women have to hold in the urge and wait until nighttime to defecate out in the open. In 2007, when Cyclone Yemyin wreaked havoc and flooded th...

9 Apr 2020

Open defecation: How are 22 million Pakistanis living without basic sanitation?

News / Carbon & Climate

COP25: Key outcomes agreed at the UN climate talks in Madrid

...the end of the spring next year, say the NGOs. They fear that if that timing slips then there will not be enough time to use the Leipzig meeting to pressure the Chinese to up their offer. With key emi...

16 Dec 2019

COP25: Key outcomes agreed at the UN climate talks in Madrid

News / Food & Agriculture

Coronavirus thumps palm oil demand

...the top producers of the vegetable oil. Although the short-term prospects of the sector are bad, experts suggest it is still too early to say whether the viral epidemic will hurt efforts to expand the...

9 Apr 2020

Coronavirus thumps palm oil demand

Opinion / Corporate Responsibility

Is sustainability reporting dead?

...theme throughout. They are succinct. I pray for the day when 300-page reports are a thing of the past. Next-generation reports are as short as a couple of pages. Sometimes they come in the form of bro...

20 Mar 2019

Is sustainability reporting dead?

News / Water

Thirsty Singapore taps into innovation to secure its water future

...the car, not to leave the tap running when washing dishes, not to keep the shower on while soaping up. Reutens-Tan and his family have taken the messages to heart. "When we lived in Australia, the hou...

10 Jun 2019

Thirsty Singapore taps into innovation to secure its water future

deforestation imports impact Indonesia's forests

News / Food & Agriculture

The future of forests: How to balance development with conservation?

...ther they can live up to their conservation and restoration pledges, and prevent any backsliding. The big question mark with APP is, when the OKI mill [the PT Ogan Komering Ilir (OKI) mill in South S...

21 May 2019

The future of forests: How to balance development with conservation?

News / Policy & Finance

Paper giant APP failing its own sustainability goals: Report

...the company said. “There are, however, still challenges on the ground due to the complexity of the land use within our suppliers’ concessions. This can include villages located inside and around the c...

13 Jan 2021

Paper giant APP failing its own sustainability goals: Report

Opinion / Lifestyle

Beaches are banning sunscreens to save coral reefs

...them into the lab and exposing some, but not others, to various concentrations of sunscreen (or individual chemicals), and then measuring the number of algae released, the colour of the corals, the nu...

5 Mar 2019

Beaches are banning sunscreens to save coral reefs

News / Carbon & Climate

Environmental stress can be passed on through pregnancy

...The researchers assessed the symptoms of depression in mothers, and mothers reported the temperaments of infants via a questionnaire six months after birth. The babies of depressed mothers showed more...

19 Feb 2019

Environmental stress can be passed on through pregnancy

News / Waste

While the rest of the world tackles plastics disposal, the US resists

...the Basel amendments on the grounds that they couldn’t meet the timeframe, but changed their minds and ratified the amendments late last year. The United States — after China, the world’s largest plas...

18 May 2021

While the rest of the world tackles plastics disposal, the US resists

Opinion / Carbon & Climate

Could climate change fuel the rise of right-wing nationalism?

...their frequency and severity. Eight of the last 10 years have been the warmest on record. Marine biologists warned that coral reefs in the U.S. could disappear entirely by the 2040s. The other trend h...

26 Sep 2019

Could climate change fuel the rise of right-wing nationalism?

News / Energy

Can Southeast Asia quench corporate thirst for renewable energy?

...the company is further looking to develop new renewable resources on the same grids as the facilities they support in order to spur clean energy investment in the region. Clean and green—how are corp...

31 Oct 2019

Can Southeast Asia quench corporate thirst for renewable energy?

Coal barge sailing along the Yangtze river in China

News / Policy & Finance

Business risk and Covid-19 are pushing Asian financiers away from coal

...the shareholder movement on climate change is only getting stronger, the banks should be thinking about how to respond to that proactively on their own terms,” Hakko said. “Otherwise they might find t...

5 Aug 2020

Business risk and Covid-19 are pushing Asian financiers away from coal

The view from Dan Wells' office at The Shard, Central London.

Opinion / Policy & Finance

Why sustainable investing is the best job ever

...the chances of a 1.5°C rise or a 4°C rise by 2050, and then build a picture of the pathways which could lead to either of these. With sustainability, the stakes are as high as they get—the risk is tha...

13 May 2019

Why sustainable investing is the best job ever

News / Food & Agriculture

State-owned plantation company in Indonesia intimidates, evicts and plants oil palm without permits

...the guests on the Manhattan-sized concession. “When the company came, my parents met with them,” Saparuddin said in Maroangin. “They agreed that the company would borrow the land from the community. T...

27 Mar 2019

State-owned plantation company in Indonesia intimidates, evicts and plants oil palm without permits

News / Carbon & Climate

Indonesia oil slicks highlight weak enforcement against bilge dumping

...when the researchers captured the image. The report didn’t name the operator of the tanker, which at the time was anchored near the town of Indramayu on the northern coast of the island of Java. The r...

8 Apr 2019

Indonesia oil slicks highlight weak enforcement against bilge dumping

News / Carbon & Climate

Analysis: how power shortages might ‘accelerate’ China’s climate action

...ther expert highlights that the latest instructions “underscore the further acceleration of the development of green energy”, which could benefit the development of the renewable sectors. This article...

15 Oct 2021

Analysis: how power shortages might ‘accelerate’ China’s climate action

Opinion / Policy & Finance

The new coronavirus emerged from the global wildlife trade – and may be devastating enough to end it

...the globe. When these diseases spill over to humans, the cause frequently is human behaviors, including habitat destruction and the multibillion-dollar international wildlife trade – the latter being ...

2 Apr 2020

The new coronavirus emerged from the global wildlife trade – and may be devastating enough to end it

Opinion / Policy & Finance

The missing women in finance

...the Global Findex database released by the World Bank, roughly one out of two bank accounts in India remain inactive, about twice the average of other developing economies. Worse, the gender gap in th...

15 Aug 2019

The missing women in finance

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