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Palm oil growers, traders show slow progress towards sustainability while retailers lead the way

...Carbon Stock Approach, and exerting greater influence over trading partners. While WWF has long supported RSPO as a means to drive sustainability in the palm oil sector, other environmental campaign g...

7 Oct 2020

Palm oil growers, traders show slow progress towards sustainability while retailers lead the way

Forests cleared for palm oil cultivation.

News / Food & Agriculture

Palm oil giant Wilmar quits High Carbon Stock Approach citing governance issues

Wilmar International has resigned from High Carbon Stock Approach (HCSA), a civil society organisation that determines which forests should be protected according to their conservation value, after si...

3 Apr 2020

Palm oil giant Wilmar quits High Carbon Stock Approach citing governance issues

Press Releases / Ricoh Asia Pacific Pte Ltd

Ricoh launches 14th annual Eco Action Day, pledging to tackle key sustainability issues in the areas of energy use, climate action, and responsible consumption

...carbon emissions. Beyond that, the pledge campaign seeks to inspire long-term behavioural change for the environment. Ricoh will match carbon savings from pledges made by each organisation and school...

14 Apr 2020

Ricoh launches 14th annual Eco Action Day, pledging to tackle key sustainability issues in the areas of energy use, climate action, and responsible consumption

News / Transport

Singapore shipping company guilty of illegally dumping waste oil in US waters

Singapore shipping company Pacific International Lines (PIL) has admitted to dumping oily wastewater in United States waters. PIL admitted to knowingly polluting American waters and attempting to cove...

13 Jan 2021

Singapore shipping company guilty of illegally dumping waste oil in US waters

News / Policy & Finance

Sustainable investment expert Arisa Kishigami joins Chronos Sustainability as specialist advisor for Asia

Chronos Sustainability, a social and environmental performance consultancy, has appointed Arisa Kishigami as a specialist advisor for sustainable investment in Asia. A widely referenced authority on e...

17 Sep 2020

Sustainable investment expert Arisa Kishigami joins Chronos Sustainability as specialist advisor for Asia

Opinion / Corporate Responsibility

Individual action is climate action

...carbonise. With the general absence of environmental concern among Singaporeans, the environmental movement is now led by activists who conclude that calling out the big polluters is more impactful t...

5 Oct 2020

Individual action is climate action

News / Carbon & Climate

Philippines’ mangroves could generate first-of-its-kind blue carbon credits in Asia-Pacific

...carbon stored in mangroves. Blue carbon refers to carbon captured by oceans and coastal ecosystems such as mangroves and seagrasses, which are rich carbon sinks that store more carbon than terrestrial...

13 Dec 2019

Philippines’ mangroves could generate first-of-its-kind blue carbon credits in Asia-Pacific

News / Waste

Greener PPE: Inventors tackle Covid-19 plastic waste mountain

From surgical masks and gloves to disposable hospital gowns and aprons, the Covid-19 pandemic is creating a mountain of plastic medical waste that is polluting the land and sea – alarming doctors and ...

29 Jul 2021

Greener PPE: Inventors tackle Covid-19 plastic waste mountain

News / Food & Agriculture

Drinking coffee in the US? Worry about forests in Vietnam, study warns

Consumption patterns, especially in wealthier countries, are eating away at forests in some of the world’s most biodiverse regions. In the US, the thirst for coffee drives forest loss in central Vietn...

5 Apr 2021

Drinking coffee in the US? Worry about forests in Vietnam, study warns

News / Food & Agriculture

Organic composting offers hope to deal with stubble burning

...carbon dioxide, carbon monoxide, nitrogen oxides and sulphur dioxide as well as soot. These pollutants can remain in the atmosphere for an extended period of time if lower temperatures do not permit ...

2 Dec 2020

Organic composting offers hope to deal with stubble burning

News / Green Buildings

More and more homeowners are renovating existing homes to make them 'net zero' energy consumers. Here’s how.

...carbon A recently released report from WorldGBC identified that “embodied carbon” in building and construction is responsible for 11 per cent of all human-generated carbon emissions in the world. That...

8 Jan 2020

More and more homeowners are renovating existing homes to make them 'net zero' energy consumers. Here’s how.

forest in the Kapuas Hulu District in West Kalimantan, Indonesia

News / Policy & Finance

What are the obstacles in protecting Indonesia’s forests and cutting emissions?

...carbon stock have to be protected,” Teguh told Mongabay. “So it’s time to map [all natural forests] to see which areas have high carbon stock, and for the rest, they can be developed. So it’s a win-wi...

24 Apr 2020

What are the obstacles in protecting Indonesia’s forests and cutting emissions?

Opinion / Energy

Bioenergy can land a blow against climate change

...carbon. This challenge persists, because the process of carbon capture remains contentious. We simply do not know what long-term effects might follow from capturing carbon and compressing it into hard...

17 Feb 2020

Bioenergy can land a blow against climate change

News / Carbon & Climate

Southeast Asian nations missing from push to protect 30% of planet

A growing global push to safeguard nature by pledging to protect about a third of the planet's land and oceans by 2030 will fall short unless biodiversity-rich Southeast Asian nations get behind the a...

29 Jun 2021

Southeast Asian nations missing from push to protect 30% of planet

News / Carbon & Climate

Antarctica’s ice loss could soon be irreversible

...carbon dioxide levels can already be reached in the near future,” said Professor Winkelmann. “We decide now whether we manage to halt the warming. So Antarctica’s fate really lies in our hands – and w...

2 Oct 2020

Antarctica’s ice loss could soon be irreversible

Residents of Kasiglahan Village in Rodriguez, Rizal, walk through the wreckage caused by Typhoon Ulysses. Image: Greenpeace Philippines

News / Policy & Finance

What will Asia be like in 10 years, if banks avoid green finance?

What will Asia be like in 10 years, if banks continue to support business ventures that pollute, degrade and warm the planet? A new report by Fair Finance Asia, a network of civic society groups that...

3 Dec 2020

What will Asia be like in 10 years, if banks avoid green finance?

News / Corporate Responsibility

Scents and sustainability: Do the ESG credentials of the flavours and fragrances industry stink?

A US$30 billion sector that has long worn a stinky reputation for unsustainable sourcing and animal testing seems to be waking up to pressure to change. In June, the International Fragrance Associa...

25 Jul 2021

Scents and sustainability: Do the ESG credentials of the flavours and fragrances industry stink?

potato farm near geothermal plant indonesia

News / Policy & Finance

Helping the poor can protect forests too, Indonesian welfare programme finds

...carbon-rich rainforests were disappearing at an alarming rate to make way for oil palm plantations and other monocrops. The country lost more than 6 million hectares (15 million acres) of natural fore...

6 Aug 2020

Helping the poor can protect forests too, Indonesian welfare programme finds

News / Carbon & Climate

World can avoid catastrophic global warming with climate solutions in hand today—study

...carbon sinks. Image: Project Drawdown Preventing ozone-depleting hydrofluorocarbons from escaping into the atmosphere is another climate-saver. Greenhouse gases hundreds to thousands of times more cl...

5 Mar 2020

World can avoid catastrophic global warming with climate solutions in hand today—study

News / Carbon & Climate

Save wildlife, save forests, and avoid pandemics

...carbon dioxide emissions linked to forest destruction, and then matched the total against the global loss of gross domestic product, the cost of the estimated 590,000 dead from the virus at the end of...

6 Aug 2020

Save wildlife, save forests, and avoid pandemics

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