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Podcasts / Food & Agriculture

Food crisis: how to build resilient supply chains in Asia

...there was an interesting study that was published by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations that points out that global food production contributes to more than a third of total g...

16 Aug 2022

Food crisis: how to build resilient supply chains in Asia

News / Carbon & Climate

Climate litigation takes its first steps in China

...that climate litigation is necessary and will be supported by the state, and noted that if China fails to achieve its dual carbon goals, that would affect its international reputation. The state is un...

4 Aug 2023

Climate litigation takes its first steps in China

News / Policy & Finance

COP27: How can the world fund the growth of nature protection?

...tact nature - and who are widely credited as its most effective guardians. "We need to invest in the people who are committed to protecting their territories, their resources, even at the cost of thei...

9 Nov 2022

COP27: How can the world fund the growth of nature protection?

News / Carbon & Climate

African leaders aim to put climate finance top of COP27 agenda

...tries, told the Africa Adaptation Summit. "If we want our continent to thrive, we have to adapt to climate change - and to achieve this, adaptation financing needs to start flowing at scale." The leve...

12 Sep 2022

African leaders aim to put climate finance top of COP27 agenda

Donald Trump 2024 election campaign materials.

News / Carbon & Climate

From climate ‘quiet quitting’ to human rights decline, how will Trump's re-election trouble Asia?

...tic pollution treaty all at sea? If the United States backs out of negotations to create the first legally binding treaty to tackle plastic pollution, as Trump may well do, other countries, including ...

20 Feb 2024

From climate ‘quiet quitting’ to human rights decline, how will Trump's re-election trouble Asia?

News / Carbon & Climate

As El Niño fuels fire risk, Southeast Asia braces for haze crisis

...t. The fires cost the country about US$16 billion, it found. “ Strengthening institutions and coordination with ASEAN member states and other institutions is a must. At the national level, monitoring...

31 Jul 2023

As El Niño fuels fire risk, Southeast Asia braces for haze crisis

Men in Assam, India, preparing flood defences.

Opinion / Carbon & Climate

Voluntary carbon markets: a misunderstood climate solution

...t that these guys need to plant 20 million trees in the next two years just to account for their scope 1 and 2 emissions for the next five years – even after they met their internal reduction target o...

30 Jan 2023

Voluntary carbon markets: a misunderstood climate solution

A woman sips from a fresh coconut using a plastic straw outside New Delhi's Jahanpannah forest park.

News / Waste

India's single-use plastic ban faces pushback from industry

...talists. “We believe that this ban is too limited, but we have to admit that it is a critical step towards controlling the plastic menace…Our cities are littered with non-biodegradable plastic materi...

6 Jul 2022

India's single-use plastic ban faces pushback from industry

News / Waste

A year after EPR implementation, plastics still end up in landfills, creeks in Philippines’ major islands

...ther highlighted that sachet waste numbers could be higher, given that the sachets that are thin, can sink or escape being caught by the waste interceptors installed for the study. These sachets end u...

5 Dec 2023

A year after EPR implementation, plastics still end up in landfills, creeks in Philippines’ major islands

News / Policy & Finance

How emerging economies adjust to inflation

...the component that contributed the most to an increase in inflation throughout 2022. It was followed by the volatile foods group, the second largest contributor. According to the Central Statistics Ag...

4 Jul 2023

How emerging economies adjust to inflation

News / Water

Deep-sea mining: a new gold rush or environmental disaster?

...to ecosystems that scientists know little about, yet mining companies argue that it is better for the environment than land-based extraction as part of the world's shift from fossil fuels to renewable...

27 Jul 2023

Deep-sea mining: a new gold rush or environmental disaster?

Children fetching water in Maharashtra, India

Podcasts / Water

‘Complex yet interconnected problems’: Xylem’s VP of Global Lifecycle Services on solving water security in Asia Pacific

...tewater treatment, water transport, and other water-related challenges across utility, industrial, commercial, and residential markets. In addition to water scarcity, Koh notes that other areas that r...

20 Mar 2024

‘Complex yet interconnected problems’: Xylem’s VP of Global Lifecycle Services on solving water security in Asia Pacific

News / Policy & Finance

Don't lock Indigenous peoples into bad carbon deals: experts

...t the time of the negotiation, told Choudhury that the carbon price offered to his father for their customary forest more than a decade ago — US$2 a tonne — seemed fair then, but it does not now. The ...

18 Jul 2022

Don't lock Indigenous peoples into bad carbon deals: experts

Activists criticising brands for making exaggerated green claims have put some companies off promoting their green credentials.

News / Corporate Responsibility

'Green hush': Are fears of getting called out for greenwashing hurting firms' climate ambitions?

...that the steps they are taking aren’t yet good enough to communicate to stakeholders or may feel that they cannot communicate on sustainability initiatives until they’ve hit their targets," she told E...

31 Oct 2022

'Green hush': Are fears of getting called out for greenwashing hurting firms' climate ambitions?

News / Policy & Finance

How can India's women-led startups beat gender funding gap?

...terparts during pitching meetings. Some did not ask her any questions at all while others switched to talking about the weather. "As an investor, you have to be neutral to the gender that's in front o...

30 Jun 2023

How can India's women-led startups beat gender funding gap?

25 year-old Sneha Shahi, a climate activist

News / Carbon & Climate

India's young climate activists fight on despite crackdown on political freedoms

...ted that policymakers find different ways to stifle activists, and this holds true at all levels of government, not just at the federal level. “Hostility towards climate activists and environmentalist...

28 Jun 2023

India's young climate activists fight on despite crackdown on political freedoms

News / Food & Agriculture

India bets on seaweed's future as food industry appetite grows

...traction is drastically depleting yields and hitting the fragile marine ecosystem, but the government efforts to curb foraging and replace it with cultivation are met with distrust - partly due to the...

6 Sep 2023

India bets on seaweed's future as food industry appetite grows

Podcasts / Green Buildings

Post-pandemic tourism boom — good news for hoteliers, bad news for sustainability?

...tices, or even better, inviting the guests to go and visit the farm. That is the sort of mindset that makes sense. I think there are a lot of opportunities to not downplay sustainability. To me, there...

26 Jul 2022

Post-pandemic tourism boom — good news for hoteliers, bad news for sustainability?

News / Cities

G20 benefits big business in Bali but hobbles local communities

...trict that neighbours Nusa Dua, the southern part of Bali where the event is being held, told Eco-Business that local businesses have not seen any trickle-down benefits from the summit. Sutan Ramadan,...

17 Nov 2022

G20 benefits big business in Bali but hobbles local communities

News / Cities

Floods and early snow risk killing off Kashmir's nomadic culture

...tment did not respond to several requests for comment, but at the start of this year's migration, the state government said it would provide transportation to help nomads make it to the highlands fast...

25 Oct 2022

Floods and early snow risk killing off Kashmir's nomadic culture

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