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Opinion / Policy & Finance

How can countries reduce poverty faster?

...the past could be instructive. Poverty reduction has been central to development policy for decades. During the 15 years of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), the predecessor to the Sustainable ...

16 Nov 2018

How can countries reduce poverty faster?

News / Transport

Long road ahead for Asian drivers revving up to go electric

...the transport sector. Dominic Patella, transport specialist, World Bank If the electricity that powers them is from renewable sources, they can also help meet the emissions reduction targets submitt...

2 Oct 2018

Long road ahead for Asian drivers revving up to go electric

News / Lifestyle

How 2.4 billion gamers might help save the planet

...them make good decisions in the digital world, the report calls on parents to engage with their children around gaming. “If parents approach these challenges with their children, video games can help ...

16 May 2019

How 2.4 billion gamers might help save the planet

News / Policy & Finance

Why is green bond growth in Southeast Asia so weak?

...these banks to a wider investor base so that when investors see that the quality of the issued bond is investment grade, they might buy it at a premium,” Amatong told Eco-Business on the sidelines of ...

5 Dec 2018

Why is green bond growth in Southeast Asia so weak?

Press Releases / Ethical Corporation

CEO & Executive Director, UN Global Compact joins Ethical Corporation’s Responsible Business Summit New York 2019

...when others aren’t showing leadership. Shape the future and collaborate with the best at #RBSNY19 The latest agenda, along with the up-to-date speaker line-up, can be seen here. The Responsibl...

20 Feb 2019

CEO & Executive Director, UN Global Compact joins Ethical Corporation’s Responsible Business Summit New York 2019

Opinion / Food & Agriculture

Transforming food systems to feed the world and prevent mass extinctions

...the world in a sustainable manner entails the transformation of food systems.” Food systems are comprised of the many elements that add up to the ways people get their food—the farms where food is pro...

14 May 2019

Transforming food systems to feed the world and prevent mass extinctions

News / Carbon & Climate

Too young to vote, children strike, protest and sue for climate action

...when it comes to climate change," said Catherine Gauthier, head of the Montreal-based youth climate advocacy group. Across the border in the United States, the second largest contributor of carbon emi...

3 Dec 2018

Too young to vote, children strike, protest and sue for climate action

News / Food & Agriculture

Do smallholders hold the key to sustainable palm oil?

...They don't want to be attached to big companies. They want the sense of being in control of their own destiny.” “We talk about them as if they are not, but they are small business people. It would be ...

26 Jun 2019

Do smallholders hold the key to sustainable palm oil?

Opinion / Carbon & Climate

Building Earthpreneurs: 4 lessons for youths changing the status quo

...There are start-ups that go in to win competitions, and there are start-ups that go on for the long-term and then monetise. I prefer to be the latter.” “ Our task as the last generation with a shrink...

28 Sep 2018

Building Earthpreneurs: 4 lessons for youths changing the status quo

Opinion / Policy & Finance

Serious about sustainability? Some progress, but not yet persuaded by BlackRock's efforts

...the largest asset management firm and one of the most powerful investors in the world. The firm manages a sum of capital that exceeds the market capitalisation of all but two of the world's stock exch...

24 Apr 2019

Serious about sustainability? Some progress, but not yet persuaded by BlackRock's efforts

News / Food & Agriculture

Indonesia forest-clearing ban is made permanent, amid protests

...the express purpose of degrading them. Once that happens, these areas are recognized as secondary forest, and thus fall out of the scope of the moratorium, says Zenzi Suhadi, the head of advocacy at t...

19 Aug 2019

Indonesia forest-clearing ban is made permanent, amid protests

Opinion / Waste

Why was there a stranded sperm whale in Wakatobi, Indonesia?

...ther dangerous microorganism emitted by the decomposed mammal and transmissible to human. When the stranded whale is in the advanced state of decay, direct contact to the carcass can transmit the bact...

30 Nov 2018

Why was there a stranded sperm whale in Wakatobi, Indonesia?

News / Carbon & Climate

9 quotes that made headlines in 2018

...the good, the bad and the ugly in environmental news. 1.“Southeast Asia is the only region in the world where I hear officials from the utilities and energy ministries refer to the concept of ‘clean c...

19 Dec 2018

9 quotes that made headlines in 2018

News / Cities

Rising coastal sea levels pose threat to cities in Vietnam and Thailand

...the University of Sussex in the United Kingdom. In summary, the Geall says, “The communities that depend on the Mekong find themselves at the nexus of seemingly implacable forces: the consequences of ...

15 Nov 2019

Rising coastal sea levels pose threat to cities in Vietnam and Thailand

News / Carbon & Climate

Planting more trees could cut carbon by 25 per cent

...the importance and value of urban forests. They have identified huge areas of woodland hitherto not mapped or recorded. They have tried to make an estimate of the number of trees on the planet and th...

7 Jul 2019

Planting more trees could cut carbon by 25 per cent

Trees made bare by acid rain in Smokey Mountain National Park, USA

News / Policy & Finance

Is there a market-based solution to Southeast Asia’s haze problem?

...the National University of Singapore in the Southeast Asian city-state. “The idea was to put a cap on the amount of emissions nationally, and then lower the cap over a period of time,” he said. There...

7 Nov 2018

Is there a market-based solution to Southeast Asia’s haze problem?

News / Policy & Finance

Biodiversity loss mars SDG success, report finds

...the regional and local impact of biodiversity loss. The problem is most deeply felt among poor and indigenous populations in the Global South, the report found. The assessment warned that the conser...

8 May 2019

Biodiversity loss mars SDG success, report finds

Press Releases / Greenpeace

Palm oil and pulp companies with most burned land go unpunished as Indonesian forest fires rage

...the analysis contrast sharply with the Indonesian government’s claims of being tough on fires and law enforcement[4] at a time when fires are impacting millions of Indonesians. The haze from the...

24 Sep 2019

Palm oil and pulp companies with most burned land go unpunished as Indonesian forest fires rage

News / Transport

Car companies aren’t even trying to sell electric cars

...the smartphone, make it through this period unscathed. Others, like the Segway, slip into the gap, never to be heard from again. To make it across the chasm, EVs will need to reach beyond their core m...

23 Jan 2019

Car companies aren’t even trying to sell electric cars

Opinion / Food & Agriculture

What transparency in tuna fishing means to the development of this country

...the seven other island states that make up the Parties to the Nauru Agreement (PNA) may look like dots on the map, but they command an expanse of ocean greater than the size of Europe and are global p...

5 Nov 2018

What transparency in tuna fishing means to the development of this country

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