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5 ways Australian businesses can shrink their plastic footprint

...they are given recognition by way of a certificate that allows them to show their customers that they are making positive changes for the environment. “Businesses are time poor, they don’t have the ti...

21 Sep 2018

5 ways Australian businesses can shrink their plastic footprint

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Microplastic waste fouls up beaches on Sri Lanka’s southern tourism coast

...the Indian Ocean island’s southern coast to assess the magnitude of the problem. They found that 60 per cent of the sand samples and 70 per cent of the surface water samples they collected contained a...

31 Jul 2019

Microplastic waste fouls up beaches on Sri Lanka’s southern tourism coast

Michael Liebreich, chairman and cofounder of London-based sustainable development advisory services firm Liebreich Associates

News / Carbon & Climate

The world has 'two business cycles' left to meet Paris goals

...the world closer to the goals of the Paris Agreement even if they will not be enough to achieve them. In fact, these projections are conservative estimates that do not take into account promising rese...

3 Jul 2019

The world has 'two business cycles' left to meet Paris goals

Traveller drinks water from a plastic bottle

News / Waste

Going plastic-free: How hotels are joining the anti-plastic fight

...the Six Senses Singapore hotels, staff refill the glass bottles and clean up the mess when guests break them. “This is additional work for them that they are not used to. We have to make it clear to t...

8 Nov 2019

Going plastic-free: How hotels are joining the anti-plastic fight

News / Energy

An idea to electrify 1 million boats in Southeast Asia—inspired by Ikea

...the main ports and ferry them back to their villages to preserve their catch. If they have electricity in their villages, they can power small refrigerating units and preserve their fish there,” said ...

26 Aug 2019

An idea to electrify 1 million boats in Southeast Asia—inspired by Ikea

News / Food & Agriculture

Agricultural reforms and urban accountability key to water management

...the tanker operators drawing more and more water from ever-falling aquifers further and further from the cities. Are the politicians responding? The main development promise made by the winning Bharat...

2 Jul 2019

Agricultural reforms and urban accountability key to water management

News / Manufacturing

In Hong Kong, disposable fashion gets a recycled makeover

...their clothes half as long as they did 15 years ago, the report added, sometimes wearing them only seven or eight times before disposing of them. This move towards fast fashion - where more clothes ar...

19 Sep 2018

In Hong Kong, disposable fashion gets a recycled makeover

News / Corporate Responsibility

Bank of China to review funding of dam in orangutan habitat in Sumatra

...the fact that BOC agreed to finance the Batang Toru project when other major financial institutions stayed away from it indicated the bank’s disregard for the environmental risks associated with the d...

13 Mar 2019

Bank of China to review funding of dam in orangutan habitat in Sumatra

Opinion / Policy & Finance

Let's follow New Zealand's lead and make people and nature as important as GDP

...the recent ban on offshore oil and gas drilling just the latest in a long line of climate-smart policy commitments. But the shift to a “well-being budget” for 2019 could be the boldest play yet. The N...

3 Aug 2018

Let's follow New Zealand's lead and make people and nature as important as GDP

News / Carbon & Climate

Innovation rush aims to help farmers, rich and poor, beat climate change

...There was a real shift in terms of the intensity of what we do together when we became aware of climate change," said Hans-Joachim Braun, who heads the global wheat programme for the International Mai...

29 Jul 2019

Innovation rush aims to help farmers, rich and poor, beat climate change

News / Corporate Responsibility

‘Going green’ is good business says private sector at UN’s COP24 climate conference

...the Solar Impulse Foundation – has endeavoured to gather together 1,000 solutions already in operation, and vet them for their positive environmental impact and their profitability before presenting t...

11 Dec 2018

‘Going green’ is good business says private sector at UN’s COP24 climate conference

Opinion / Policy & Finance

When corporations take credit for green deeds their lobbying may tell another story

...these and other voluntary initiatives accomplish little of substance, they help call attention to the good steps industries appear to be taking instead of the environmental damage they are causing – w...

20 Jul 2018

When corporations take credit for green deeds their lobbying may tell another story

Business person presenting some documents

Opinion / Policy & Finance

Investors and businesses—our best chance to avert climate change?

...their environmental impacts. The scale of the transition required is huge, but it also brings new opportunities. The influential report of 2018 from the New Climate Economy estimated that the world wo...

20 Nov 2018

Investors and businesses—our best chance to avert climate change?

News / Policy & Finance

The world needs a Paris-style accord for biodiversity

...the recently published Live Planet report by the World Wildlife Fund (WWF). “ The agreement must include the voices of those who have no voice, the rest of the 10 million estimated species on the pla...

20 Nov 2018

The world needs a Paris-style accord for biodiversity

Opinion / Cities

Why local government is key to the climate fight in the Philippines

...ther key spaces in the city. At the launch of the Ambitious City Promises Project two years ago, Mayor Park Won-Soon wrote, “[W]e are strongest when we act together.” To tackle climate change together...

5 Nov 2019

Why local government is key to the climate fight in the Philippines

News / Policy & Finance

Climate change threats ignored by most Southeast Asian banks

...theast Asian banks fulfilled less than a quarter of the criteria, the report titled Sustainable Banking Assessment (SUSBA) reads. On a more positive note, the study rates the three Singapore banks DBS...

22 Aug 2019

Climate change threats ignored by most Southeast Asian banks

News / Policy & Finance

Land bill at centre of unrest in Indonesia

...their lands, forcing them to migrate to other parts of the country. At the height of the protests in September, deliberations on the land bill and other controversial legislation were postponed. The l...

4 Nov 2019

Land bill at centre of unrest in Indonesia

Opinion / Energy

How the discovery of a protein's secret function could boost solar tech

...their secrets very closely. Luckily, there are ways of making them “sing” – and making really interesting discoveries from the resulting sounds. Together with our collaborators in Bangladesh and the N...

6 Jul 2018

How the discovery of a protein's secret function could boost solar tech

News / Policy & Finance

Malaysia's top forestry official steps down

...the Malaysian state on the island of Borneo. According to press reports, Datuk Sam Mannan will be removed from his role as head of the Sabah Forestry Department. No reason has been given for the actio...

12 Aug 2018

Malaysia's top forestry official steps down

The 60th session of UNCTAD’s Trade and Development Board

Opinion / Policy & Finance

The world needs new ways to cooperate on international development—here are 4 ideas

...the Caribbean, an initiative designed to help the region’s countries meet their development goals as they move toward higher income levels. The facility, which was created to assist countries as they ...

15 Aug 2018

The world needs new ways to cooperate on international development—here are 4 ideas

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