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Rag-and-bone man Mr Chua Ngak Theng with Tiger Beer staff in Singapore

News / Waste

Tiger Beer partners rag-and-bone men to revive recycling culture in Singapore

...the run up to Chinese New Year, when many families in the city-state traditionally declutter their homes. The ‘Recycle With Tiger’ campaign will see the homegrown beer brand's staff go from door to do...

19 Jan 2018

Tiger Beer partners rag-and-bone men to revive recycling culture in Singapore

News / Carbon & Climate

Extremes of heat will hit health and wealth

...the researchers call the “global vectorial capacity”—in other words, the spread of potentially disease-transmitting mosquitoes—of the dengue fever virus was the highest on record. In the Baltic region...

5 Dec 2018

Extremes of heat will hit health and wealth

Opinion / Energy

Will Malaysia become Southeast Asia’s clean energy leader?

...the geopolitical map over the last two centuries, the energy transformation will alter the global distribution of power, relations between states, the risk of conflict, and the social, economic and en...

26 Feb 2019

Will Malaysia become Southeast Asia’s clean energy leader?

News / Waste

Repair, refurbish, reuse: call to arms for electronics giants

...the know-how or desire to repair their own devices. "The technology is beyond many people's grasp to repair. People don't have the interest. They want to open a box, press a button and make it work," ...

30 Jan 2019

Repair, refurbish, reuse: call to arms for electronics giants

News / Carbon & Climate

Tree resin could replace oil and gas in household products

...the club to cut it down. To avoid offending the president, the club’s chairman abruptly adjourned the meeting, rather than reject his request. (In 2014, the late president finally got his wish when an...

2 Jan 2019

Tree resin could replace oil and gas in household products

News / Carbon & Climate

Vietnam’s new conservation plan prioritises trees and people, but not emissions

...The messages I got from them was that they are willing to pay if the prime minister approves the plan, but they wanted to delay the pilot process because … they were afraid losing competitiveness,” Ph...

13 Mar 2020

Vietnam’s new conservation plan prioritises trees and people, but not emissions

Opinion / Policy & Finance

Restoring peat, improving welfare and empowering women: can we have it all?

...them to borrow money from the middlemen via the panjar, which requires the weavers to pay off their loans with the mats they produced at a substantially low price. The system has contributed to the lo...

3 Jul 2018

Restoring peat, improving welfare and empowering women: can we have it all?

Workers at this garment factory in Gazipur, Bangladesh

Opinion / Manufacturing

Empowering Bangladesh’s female garment workers

...their daily production quota of 100 shirts per hour. And, depending on their position, they spend the entirety of their shifts either standing (if they are quality inspectors), sitting (if they are ma...

4 May 2018

Empowering Bangladesh’s female garment workers

Opinion / Policy & Finance

Breaking barriers to local climate finance for the triple win

...the National Alliance of Community Forestry Organisations collectively manage 750,000 hectares of forest. The alliance ensured that when the forest law PROBOSQUE was reformed in 2015, it reflected the...

4 May 2018

Breaking barriers to local climate finance for the triple win

Opinion / Lifestyle

Has the sharing economy really transformed the way we consume?

...the Airbnb peer review system influence the amount sharing providers can charge. The commercialisation of authencity The number of people quitting their full-time jobs to become entrepreneurs of the ...

29 Jan 2019

Has the sharing economy really transformed the way we consume?

News / Carbon & Climate

Flooded internet is possible by 2035

...ther nerve centres of the physical internet, according to a team from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and the University of Oregon. “Most of the damage that’s going to be done in the next 100 year...

23 Jul 2018

Flooded internet is possible by 2035

Greenpeace activists hang clean air campaign billboard in

News / Energy

Jakarta citizens take legal action on air pollution

...the government will appeal it all the way to the Supreme Court. “We are thinking that the earliest we can get the final verdict is the end of 2020,” said Fajri. They plan to also engage the Jakarta go...

9 May 2019

Jakarta citizens take legal action on air pollution

Opinion / Waste

Better plastics for healthier oceans

...the molecular structure of the polymer at the end of its useful life and enables natural decomposition in an open environment. “ As plastics change, the ways countries integrate them into their econo...

8 Jan 2018

Better plastics for healthier oceans

News / Cities

Smoke to ink? Indian inventors try a novel approach to tame air pollution

...there," said Kushagra Srivastava, one of the three engineers who developed the technology, now installed in Gurgaon, a satellite city of New Delhi, and in the southern city of Chennai. The idea, Sriva...

3 May 2018

Smoke to ink? Indian inventors try a novel approach to tame air pollution

Opinion / Food & Agriculture

Chocolate’s sustainability challenge

...their property. As a result, farm rehabilitation is not occurring at the scale or pace that companies like mine need if we are sustainably to meet demand well into the future. The scale of the challen...

3 May 2018

Chocolate’s sustainability challenge

News / Policy & Finance

First Philippine peso green bond by IFC raises US$90 million

...the Filipino greeting, the proceeds of the 15-year bond will be used to mobilise climate finance, said the IFC, which is the private development arm of the World Bank Group. IFC country manager for t...

4 Jul 2018

First Philippine peso green bond by IFC raises US$90 million

News / Cities

Colourful makeover puts Mumbai slum on tourist map

...the 31-year-old said. "When you look at slums, you think they are shabby and dirty, and that also becomes a reflection of the people who live there," Reddy told the Thomson Reuters Foundation. "We use...

2 Feb 2018

Colourful makeover puts Mumbai slum on tourist map

News / Corporate Responsibility

Get a free beer if you recycle at this bar

...their free bottle of beer by bringing their own glass or plastic bottle or aluminium drink can to the bar. The collected items were then recycled. The pop-up bar was constructed using 1,750 beer crate...

8 Aug 2018

Get a free beer if you recycle at this bar

News / Food & Agriculture

Debate follows British supermarket chain’s decision to ban palm oil

...them the food they want to buy,” Hann said when asked if Iceland had considered reducing their offerings of these oil-intensive products. “Our range will evolve in response to their wishes, and will n...

14 May 2018

Debate follows British supermarket chain’s decision to ban palm oil

Opinion / Transport

How growing cities can support at-home electric vehicle charging

...the imposing electrical loads EV charging stations place on the buildings’ existing power systems. Other barriers include the lack of support from non-EV drivers, unclear regulation concerning the rig...

26 Jan 2019

How growing cities can support at-home electric vehicle charging

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