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‘What we need is for mining companies to leave our town’: Brooke's Point vice-mayor Mary Jean Feliciano

Mary Jean Feliciano never wanted to be a politician. A practising lawyer for five years before she ran for office in the town of Brooke’s Point in Palawan, she dreamt of becoming a municipal judge in ...

6 Mar 2023

‘What we need is for mining companies to leave our town’: Brooke's Point vice-mayor Mary Jean Feliciano

News / Carbon & Climate

Global turbulence may herald 'giant leap' to a greener era, says top scientist

As rocketing energy and food prices fuel inflation and social discontent in many countries, the world may have entered a period of "big turbulence" that could force a green transition in the global ec...

2 Sep 2022

Global turbulence may herald 'giant leap' to a greener era, says top scientist

Opinion / Water

India raises the heat on the Indus Waters Treaty

India has delivered a message to Pakistan that it wants to modify the Indus Waters Treaty (IWT). The treaty was signed between the two countries in 1960, with the World Bank as guarantor, to regulate ...

6 Feb 2023

India raises the heat on the Indus Waters Treaty

News / Water

Bycatch almost eradicated when Pakistan’s fishers embrace different methods

Shakil’s eyes light up as he remembers rescuing an endangered green turtle in early January 2023. “We had set up a fishing net and were anxiously waiting for the catch,” says the fisher, whose boat ha...

27 Feb 2023

Bycatch almost eradicated when Pakistan’s fishers embrace different methods

Muslims praying and wearing face masks as precaution against Covid-19

Opinion / Carbon & Climate

What can we learn from Indonesian Muslim environmentalism?

The Religion of Twenty or “R20” conference was recently held in Bali as a precursor to the G20 Leaders’ Summit (15-16 November 2022), initiated by Nahdlatul Ulama (NU) Chairman Yahya Cholil Staquf. Ec...

21 Nov 2022

What can we learn from Indonesian Muslim environmentalism?

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7 sustainability dates to look out for in 2023

2022 has had its fair share of successes and innovations, but 2023 also promises to be an important year for environmental progress. According to a report published last October by the United Nations ...

9 Jan 2023

7 sustainability dates to look out for in 2023

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Asia's biggest firms are not joining the dots between biodiversity loss and business survival: study

Climate risk may have shot up the corporate agenda in Asia in recent years, but why biodiversity matters to business has yet to sink in for boardrooms around the region. Less than half of listed compa...

23 Sep 2022

Asia's biggest firms are not joining the dots between biodiversity loss and business survival: study

News / Transport

Bangladesh roads flagged for cutting across national parks, wildlife sanctuaries

Two Asian elephants trundle along the rail tracks. From the window of the train, Phileas Fogg looks on. As the train speeds up, so do the elephants. The train passes through the forest, almost brushin...

5 Jan 2023

Bangladesh roads flagged for cutting across national parks, wildlife sanctuaries

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The next Amazon? Congo Basin faces rising deforestation threat

At the COP27 climate talks in Egypt this week, world leaders have sought to accelerate efforts to halt deforestation by 2030 - in line with a pledge 140 countries made last year to preserve forests. ...

14 Nov 2022

The next Amazon? Congo Basin faces rising deforestation threat

Opinion / Food & Agriculture

When tourism and sustainable agriculture make good bedfellows

The world’s food system is at risk. Extreme weather patterns continue to undermine agrifood production. A report published by the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) in 2021 suggests that current ...

17 Oct 2022

When tourism and sustainable agriculture make good bedfellows

News / Policy & Finance

Improving palm oil awareness in China

"Remember, recently you got in the habit of checking the list of contents whenever you buy something? Thanks to that little act of yours, nature is already changing…” At the COP15 biodiversity talks i...

13 Jun 2023

Improving palm oil awareness in China

News / Cities

Pandemic worsened animal welfare abuse in Thailand's zoos, pet trade

A run-down department store tucked among Bangkok’s skyscrapers is home to the rooftop Pata Zoo, where nearly 300 animals pace in cages littered with feces, food scraps and trash. Bua Noi, the main att...

10 Oct 2022

Pandemic worsened animal welfare abuse in Thailand's zoos, pet trade

Opinion / Carbon & Climate

Exploring the intersection of business and our ecology

From the small window of the propeller plane where I sat in freezing temperatures, the landscape that greeted me below seared into my memory. A modern-day Mordor — barren, charred, marked with pools o...

23 Sep 2023

Exploring the intersection of business and our ecology

News / Carbon & Climate

State of the climate: Growing El Niño threatens more extreme heat in 2023

Exceptionally warm conditions are being driven by the end of a persistent triple-dip La Niña and a rapid transition into warmer El Niño conditions. Taking the first three months of the year, global s...

3 May 2023

State of the climate: Growing El Niño threatens more extreme heat in 2023

News / Carbon & Climate

Climate change: 'Unprecedented' economic transformation now needed

At the UN COP26 climate summit last year, nations agreed to make more ambitious plans to cut greenhouse gas emissions and boost efforts to prevent the worst impacts of climate change. But a year on, ...

28 Oct 2022

Climate change: 'Unprecedented' economic transformation now needed

News / Policy & Finance

Explainer: Why has blended finance not lived up to its promise?

This story is part of our Decoding Sustainable Finance series, where we attempt to break down complex terminology surrounding the latest regulations and trends in sustainable finance. In 2015, “blende...

13 Sep 2023

Explainer: Why has blended finance not lived up to its promise?

News / Policy & Finance

How will India achieve the new global goals for nature?

In December 2022, the world’s governments agreed on a set of actions to address the rapid disappearance of wild plants and animals everywhere. For India, turning these goals into reality will require ...

30 Jan 2023

How will India achieve the new global goals for nature?

Press Releases / Taronga Ventures

Global ESG innovations drive sustainability projects in the real estate sector

Real estate and infrastructure technology investor Taronga Ventures held an industry event recently to conclude its ESG Impact innovation program for 2022. Supported by leading global real estate corp...

14 Mar 2023

Global ESG innovations drive sustainability projects in the real estate sector

News / Carbon & Climate

Q&A: Climate tipping points have put Earth on ‘disastrous trajectory,’ says new report

These tipping points “pose some of the gravest threats faced by humanity”, according to the authors. They identify more than 25 tipping points across the Earth system, ranging from ice-sheet collapse ...

4 Jan 2024

Q&A: Climate tipping points have put Earth on ‘disastrous trajectory,’ says new report

News / Carbon & Climate

How much does air travel warm the planet? New report gives a figure

When Milan Klöwer spoke to Mongabay, he was fresh off the train in Germany. As a postdoctoral researcher and climate scientist at the University of Oxford, Klöwer said he does his best to avoid flying...

7 Apr 2022

How much does air travel warm the planet? New report gives a figure

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