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News / Food & Agriculture

Philippine farmers fear crop, river contamination as mining moratorium is lifted

Farmer Melchor Ortiz waited for three months before harvesting 43 sacks of rice from his one-hectare patch of farmland in January. But the wrinkled lip of 63-year-old Ortiz was drooping slightly, his ...

4 Feb 2022

Philippine farmers fear crop, river contamination as mining moratorium is lifted

Singapore's Pasir Panjang Port Terminal. Image: Tim Ha, Eco-Business

News / Transport

Shaping shipping’s sustainable future: A quest beyond green fuels

...carbon dioxide emissions by 2050 relative to 2008 levels. Change is not new to the sector. Over the centuries, technological progress has enabled seafarers to transition to ever more efficient energy ...

26 May 2020

Shaping shipping’s sustainable future: A quest beyond green fuels

News / Food & Agriculture

Half of rubber trade agrees to new policies to cut deforestation, human rights abuses from supply chains

...Carbon Stock Approach and avoiding peatland development or the use of fire; supporting decent living conditions for workers; and boosting production efficiency. Members must also show how they intend ...

23 Sep 2020

Half of rubber trade agrees to new policies to cut deforestation, human rights abuses from supply chains

Land cleared to make way for palm oil in Indonesia

News / Food & Agriculture

New rule clears Indonesia’s protected forests for agribusiness

...carbon stock should be the objective measure for how cleared forestland should be replanted, noting that oil palms are notoriously poor at sequestering carbon compared to the old-growth and timber tre...

23 Nov 2020

New rule clears Indonesia’s protected forests for agribusiness

Press Releases / The Rockefeller Foundation

The Rockefeller Foundation commits US$1 billion to catalyse a green recovery from pandemic

...carbon-emitting fuels. The energy accessibility gap has further widened because of the pandemic. This year alone, more than 100 million people have seen their electricity access severed because they ...

27 Oct 2020

The Rockefeller Foundation commits US$1 billion to catalyse a green recovery from pandemic

News / Food & Agriculture

Forging a more sustainable path for animal farming

...carbon-dioxide. The livestock sector accounts for a significant 14.5 per cent of man-made greenhouse gas emissions and, in the Asia Pacific region, demand for dairy products is growing along with its ...

3 Nov 2020

Forging a more sustainable path for animal farming

News / Corporate Responsibility

8 brands called out for greenwashing in 2020

...carbon dioxide than coal when used for producing electricity," said another. Industry watchers such as Assaad Razzouk, the chief executive of renewables firm Sindicatum, were not impressed. "Seriousl...

18 Dec 2020

8 brands called out for greenwashing in 2020

News / Corporate Responsibility

DBS and Fujitsu CEOs join expanded WBCSD exco

The head of Singapore's DBS Bank, Piyush Gupta, and Japanese electronics firm Fujitsu, Takahito Tokita, have been appointed as executive committee members for the World Business Council for Sustainabl...

16 Oct 2020

DBS and Fujitsu CEOs join expanded WBCSD exco

News / Energy

General Electric's coal exit is well and good. But what about existing deals?

...carbon dioxide to the atmosphere over their lifetime, according to Market Forces. Eco-Business has reached out to GE for comment. The company said in a statement the exit “may” include divestitures, s...

22 Sep 2020

General Electric's coal exit is well and good. But what about existing deals?

News / Carbon & Climate

Asbestos mining health hazards continues to plague this tribal village in Jharkhand

Mohan Sundi, 35, belongs to the Ho tribal community of a remote Roro village in the West Singhbhum district of Jharkhand. Roro is at the foothills of a mountain where one can see massive mounds of whi...

18 Apr 2022

Asbestos mining health hazards continues to plague this tribal village in Jharkhand

Opinion / Energy

Could Thailand’s renewables sector benefit from Covid-19?

...carbon reduction targets—an area where Southeast Asia is trailing other regions despite suffering the worst effects of climate change—while investors will be able to buy shares in renewables at a disc...

13 Oct 2020

Could Thailand’s renewables sector benefit from Covid-19?

News / Policy & Finance

While negotiators wrangle at COP26, South Asia chokes in toxic air

As delegates from around the world engage in negotiations at COP26, South Asia is shrouded in a thick pall of air pollution. Few other examples show the distance between global ambitions and local cha...

10 Nov 2021

While negotiators wrangle at COP26, South Asia chokes in toxic air

charred cargo ship X-Press Pearl Sri Lanka

News / Transport

No oil spill reported, but Sri Lanka braces for worst after Singapore-flagged cargo ship sinks

The X-Press Pearl cargo ship that caught fire off western Sri Lanka has begun to sink, raising alarms over oil and chemical spills that could have potentially devastating impacts on the marine and coa...

11 Jun 2021

No oil spill reported, but Sri Lanka braces for worst after Singapore-flagged cargo ship sinks

Opinion / Energy

Why should the Asian Development Bank care about sustainable cooling?

...carbonisation of the power grid. But there is room for ADB to do more. Sustainable cooling is a cross-sectoral issue. It sits at the nexus of climate change and development and is vital to human wellb...

10 Jun 2021

Why should the Asian Development Bank care about sustainable cooling?

News / Policy & Finance

ABN Amro Asia Pacific sustainability chief departs as bank cuts non-European corporate finance business

The Asia Pacific head of sustainability of ABN Amro has left the business, as the Dutch multinational bank scales back its operations in the region in the wake of the economic turmoil caused by the Co...

23 Oct 2020

ABN Amro Asia Pacific sustainability chief departs as bank cuts non-European corporate finance business

Press Releases / Coral Guardian

Adopt a coral during lockdown

The NGO Coral Guardian’s restoration actions are not affected during lockdown. Take this time to think about the environment and act by adopting a coral. With "Adopt a coral", Coral Guardian off...

27 Apr 2020

Adopt a coral during lockdown

News / Carbon & Climate

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

...carbon offsetting, such as the UN’s REDD+. An investigation published by ProPublica last year found that carbon offsetting schemes failed to offset the amount of pollution they were supposed to; or th...

13 Mar 2020

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

News / Carbon & Climate

Melting Arctic needs new name to match reality

...carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere soar in response to rapidly-increasing use of fossil fuels, the melting Arctic has been warming far more swiftly than the planet as a whole. The extent of summe...

17 Sep 2020

Melting Arctic needs new name to match reality

News / Energy

Food, waste, power: Ingenuity helps the climate

...carbon dioxide into ethylene. In effect, fuel exhaust could fuel industry − and help contain global heating. And a team in the US Midwest has begun a military project to develop a portable system that...

8 Oct 2020

Food, waste, power: Ingenuity helps the climate

Press Releases / Eco-Business

Temasek Foundation awards $1 million to Turtletree Labs for solution to produce milk using biotechnology

...carbonisation solutions for sustainable and future-ready cities. The chosen themes in 2020 support the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals 2 (Zero Hunger), 9 (...

8 Jul 2020

Temasek Foundation awards $1 million to Turtletree Labs for solution to produce milk using biotechnology

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