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News / Food & Agriculture

Our dying soils: The invisible crisis under our feet

...these go hand in hand; for example, when soil erosion takes place, the most fertile layer—topsoil—is the first to be lost, thereby reducing the nutrient content of the soil. As David Montgomery, prof...

19 Mar 2018

Our dying soils: The invisible crisis under our feet

News / Energy

Tiny hydropower plant lights up a remote hill village in Bangladesh

...they installed it on the stream at Aung Thuwai Pru Para that falls into the Sangu. This plant does not restrict the flow of the stream – rather it can produce electricity with the minimum water flow a...

29 Aug 2018

Tiny hydropower plant lights up a remote hill village in Bangladesh

News / Policy & Finance

The time is ripe for carbon pricing in Southeast Asia

...the implementation of an ETS is the complicated process of establishing the financial market needed for the scheme to work, said Hemraj. A carbon tax, on the other hand, can be built on the existing t...

17 Jun 2019

The time is ripe for carbon pricing in Southeast Asia

Opinion / Energy

Boosting renewable energy bankability in Southeast Asia

...the specific obstacles to project development that can arise – is the best way for investors to ensure their financial aims are realised, and further the spread of renewable energy across Southeast As...

8 Dec 2017

Boosting renewable energy bankability in Southeast Asia

Coal fired power plant along the Chambal River in Rajasthan

Opinion / Energy

Suing the World Bank Group to save its mission

...ther it prevents institutions such as the IFC from being sued for their commercial activities. But the IFC has focused far more on the potential policy implications of the case than the text of the la...

7 Nov 2018

Suing the World Bank Group to save its mission

Opinion / Green Buildings

Green buildings must do more in fixing climate emergency

...the beginning of the semester, with an option to have their performance evaluated at the end of the semester, how many would stick with the A? What effect would this have on learning? The performance ...

7 Feb 2019

Green buildings must do more in fixing climate emergency

Opinion / Carbon & Climate

Fossil fuel doublespeak

...the efficiency of their current operations, as if that should give them the right to increase production unabated. But, as with the rest of the industry’s doublespeak, this logic more often than not l...

20 Jul 2018

Fossil fuel doublespeak

News / Carbon & Climate

Dust and blood: Climate-induced conflict fuels migration, study finds

...them individually. The researchers say their results add evidence to the intensely debated narrative that links drought, at least in part, to the political unrest of the Arab Spring and subsequent Syr...

2 Apr 2019

Dust and blood: Climate-induced conflict fuels migration, study finds

meghalaya root bridge green infrastructure

News / Carbon & Climate

From transport to telecoms, construction urged to get climate-wise

...them put their money into sustainable investment. But the change was not happening fast enough, she said. "If we do nothing, then investors will simply follow the market," with most seeking to maximis...

5 Mar 2019

From transport to telecoms, construction urged to get climate-wise

Log barge on Musi River, OKI mill. Image: Eco-Business

News / Food & Agriculture

Greenpeace breaks up with APP after investigation links paper firm to deforestation

...the organisation over the last three months, and claimed that the green group had "expanded the issue to the rest of the Sinar Mas Group, which is outside the scope of the FCP". The land identifed in ...

17 May 2018

Greenpeace breaks up with APP after investigation links paper firm to deforestation

Women sort and check the finished products in the manufacturing plant of the Wool Tex Sweaters Limited in Shewrapara, Dhaka, Bangladesh

Opinion / Manufacturing

Why business is the best partner in the fight against modern slavery

...them. Yet there they are, locked in debt bondage or working for nothing, all in the desperate attempt to pay their masters back for the privilege of giving them work. These are today’s forgotten peopl...

26 Jan 2018

Why business is the best partner in the fight against modern slavery

Opinion / Waste

Going plastic-free

...there’s been extensive talk about the environmental considerations of food manufacturing and packaging in the last 20 years, these conversations often focused on the carbon emissions and energy usage ...

16 May 2018

Going plastic-free

Press Releases / Olam

Olam Prize for Innovation in Food Security 2019 winner announced

...the start, bringing an understanding of the realities on the ground to any approaches. This data and information is then fed into the GIS3-based tool, which then matches the best farming practices wi...

11 Jun 2019

Olam Prize for Innovation in Food Security 2019 winner announced

News / Carbon & Climate

The US must act now on climate or pay heavily later

...the impacts of climate change could exceed US$100 billion annually by the end of the century. Andrew Light, of the World Resources Institute, one of the many who worked on the report, said: “there is ...

5 Dec 2018

The US must act now on climate or pay heavily later

News / Carbon & Climate

UN chief urges leaders to inject momentum at 2019 climate summit

...the coming year, UN agencies will work with governments to strengthen their climate action plans covering the decade to 2030, as well as their long-term strategies, Guterres said. “ We all know the m...

5 Dec 2018

UN chief urges leaders to inject momentum at 2019 climate summit

Plastic trash piles on top of a rubbish bin in downtown Singapore.

News / Waste

Singapore MP calls on government to curb single-use plastic and introduce 'selective' charge for carrier bags

The problem of plastic pollution is to be raised in Singapore's parliament next week, when member of parliament Louis Ng will call on the government to take tougher measures to curb the small island n...

29 Sep 2018

Singapore MP calls on government to curb single-use plastic and introduce 'selective' charge for carrier bags

Opinion / Food & Agriculture

Why massive effort needs to be put into growing trees on farms

...the supply of clean water. Also when soil is degraded and trees destroyed, the carbon they contain is released into the atmosphere. Having high levels of carbon in the atmosphere is a major cause of c...

4 Dec 2018

Why massive effort needs to be put into growing trees on farms

Lou Hoffman, founder of PR firm The Hoffman Agency, talking at the Mumbrella Asia 360 conference in Singapore: "Dullness comes from a combination of the lexicon of your company and corporate speak." Image: Mumbrella

News / Corporate Responsibility

Does sustainability communications have to be so boring?

...their own ombudsman when they review how they are doing later on. But some companies worry that if they are up-front about failure when telling their sustainability story, they will open themselves to...

13 Nov 2017

Does sustainability communications have to be so boring?

News / Water

Tourist magnet Ladakh facing water scarcity

...the needs of the locals. But, with lower snowfall and warmer summers, some of the glaciers have vanished altogether, while others are melting faster than before. This is happening at a time when the r...

2 Aug 2018

Tourist magnet Ladakh facing water scarcity

News / Policy & Finance

Despite fiery campaign rhetoric, Chinese-backed projects in Malaysia steam ahead

...when China loans large sums to poor countries, it knows “in the end they (China) may have to take the project for themselves.” In the year following his election, however, Mahathir has tamped down his...

1 Jul 2019

Despite fiery campaign rhetoric, Chinese-backed projects in Malaysia steam ahead

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