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Podcasts / Policy & Finance

Mining and the cost of the energy transition

Biodiversity loss. Soil contamination. Erosion. Pollution. Mining can have a major impact on the environment and local communities — not only where mines are located, but where mined materials are use...

6 Oct 2020

Mining and the cost of the energy transition

Opinion / Waste

Tackling Asia’s plastic pollution

...carbon dioxide. Plastic waste and microplastics in the world’s oceans are a much-discussed problem. But few realise that plastic pollution of agricultural lands can be between four and 23 times higher...

31 May 2021

Tackling Asia’s plastic pollution

News / Energy

Solar power’s future could soon be overshadowed

As more households and industries have opted to harness the sun’s energy, a small but definite shadow is nagging at the many manufacturers who have put their faith in solar power’s future. Prices have...

16 Feb 2021

Solar power’s future could soon be overshadowed

Press Releases / Fair Finance Asia

Asia’s Dystopian Future?—Banks need to put sustainable finance clearly In their sights

Fair Finance Asia, in partnership with SOMO (Centre for Multinational Corporations) today launched its report, ‘Asia’s Dystopian Future? - Why Banks Need To Put Sustainable Finance Clearly...

9 Dec 2020

Asia’s Dystopian Future?—Banks need to put sustainable finance clearly In their sights

Opinion / Policy & Finance

Roving bandits and looted coastlines: How the global appetite for sand is fuelling a crisis

...Carbon emissions, land loss Unsustainable or illegal sand extraction from marine, coastal and freshwater ecosystems has led to serious sustainability challenges, including carbon emissions and land lo...

8 May 2020

Roving bandits and looted coastlines: How the global appetite for sand is fuelling a crisis

News / Carbon & Climate

Connections to coal mining add to Indonesian palm oil sector’s risk for buyers

Consumer goods behemoths such as Unilever, PepsiCo and Nestlé that buy palm oil from Indonesia may be exposed to the environmental and social fallout from a seemingly unrelated industry there: coal mi...

27 Sep 2021

Connections to coal mining add to Indonesian palm oil sector’s risk for buyers

News / Policy & Finance

Data exposes flaws in Mekong Delta resilience plans

...carbon dioxide. “AWD can reduce water use by 20 per cent and keep the same rice yield. People have already used this method in different areas of Vietnam and in other countries,” Vân said, adding that...

26 Jan 2022

Data exposes flaws in Mekong Delta resilience plans

Opinion / Energy

‘Growing momentum’ to make 2021 the global action year for sustainable energy

Despite that the world is not on track to meet climate objectives and achieve Sustainable Development Goal 7 (SDG7) for universal access to clean, affordable and reliable energy, Marcel Alers, UNDP He...

8 Jan 2021

‘Growing momentum’ to make 2021 the global action year for sustainable energy

News / Policy & Finance

Indigenous opposition to Philippine mine project falters

For nearly a decade, Nora Sukal was the public face of Indigenous opposition to the Tampakan project, a planned gold and copper mine on Blaan tribal land in Mindanao in the southern Philippines. “The ...

2 Mar 2022

Indigenous opposition to Philippine mine project falters

Renewables, human rights, mineral mining