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Opinion / Policy & Finance

How and why we are moving beyond GDP as a measure of human progress

...The focus on GDP leads to mantras such as “jobs and growth” with an urgency that implies that there is neither the time nor the resources to make economic growth fair or sustainable. Further, short el...

4 Jan 2017

How and why we are moving beyond GDP as a measure of human progress

News / Manufacturing

Send children 'to work' at school to end child labour in India - activists

...ther down the supply chain, making monitoring more difficult," said Venkat Reddy of the M V Foundation, a charity in the coalition. The coalition's guidelines urge the private sector, civil society an...

3 May 2017

Send children 'to work' at school to end child labour in India - activists

News / Energy

Skin powered by the sun? Energy-saving prosthetic limbs get better feeling

...The researchers hope to further develop the prototype in the next two years, Dahiya said. Eventually, he hopes to power the limb’s motors with the renewable energy as well — rather than just the skin....

27 Mar 2017

Skin powered by the sun? Energy-saving prosthetic limbs get better feeling

News / Corporate Responsibility

5 ways Wonderfruit makes sustainable living easy and fun

...the importance of preserving the fragile rainforest environment. Another addition to the festival was an interactive installation called the Sustainability Pavilion, where the mission of the festival ...

20 Feb 2018

5 ways Wonderfruit makes sustainable living easy and fun

A waterway runs through a palm oil estate owned by Golden Agri Resources. Water is critical to restoring peat forests burned in the fires of 2015

News / Food & Agriculture

Palm oil giant makes debut in global sustainability index

...The palm oil firm's bigger rival, Wilmar International, is not included in the ranking. GAR features in the Asia Pacific edition of DJSI, which tracks the performance of the top 20 per cent of the 600...

21 Sep 2017

Palm oil giant makes debut in global sustainability index

News / Transport

Beijing charts a green footprint along the Belt and Road

...the need for a green footprint, Macro Lambertini, the director-general of the World Wildlife Fund (WWF), said all countries should discard the old model of development pursued at the expense of the en...

18 May 2017

Beijing charts a green footprint along the Belt and Road

News / Cities

Earthquake kills at least three people, destroys ancient pagodas in Central Myanmar

...ther was injured when a tobacco-processing factory collapsed in the town of Pakkoku, according to media reports. “I heard the noise first and then someone said it was an earthquake,” a Magway township...

25 Aug 2016

Earthquake kills at least three people, destroys ancient pagodas in Central Myanmar

The winner of the International Tropical Architecture Design Competition, Vertical Farm Acupunture, by Ridwan Arifin and his team. The 11-storey building in Bandung has facilities for hydroponic farming and water harvesting. Image: ITAD

News / Green Buildings

Green homes for Indonesia's migrant farmers

...These farmers do not own the land they cultivate, and once urban development goes full steam ahead, they will be rendered jobless. The designers of the Fill-In Kampung, five students from the Bandung ...

20 Sep 2017

Green homes for Indonesia's migrant farmers

News / Green Buildings

CDL unveils bold 2030 sustainability plan

...ther businesses to raise the bar, how are we to meet the 36 per cent goal as a nation?” she asked. The year 2030 is a significant one for Singapore’s construction industry, as by then the city-state ...

17 May 2017

CDL unveils bold 2030 sustainability plan

News / Policy & Finance

Scarce resource pushes Indonesia to chart a 'green development' course

...ther. We list down the programs and how to implement them and how to finance them. In the end, the development plans of both the government and the private sector will be the same, going in the same d...

20 Jun 2018

Scarce resource pushes Indonesia to chart a 'green development' course

Opinion / Policy & Finance

Business models based on services, not stuff

...they follow Western patterns of consumption, there simply will not be enough raw materials at the start of the consumption cycle or a planetary ability to absorb the waste at the end of the cycle. Wit...

22 Nov 2016

Business models based on services, not stuff

News / Manufacturing

Cleaner, healthier cookstoves may — at long last — be catching on

...the world’s poorest people, the simple act of cooking dinner is fraught with risk. They burn wood, charcoal, dung or crop waste, often on open fires, fouling the air they breathe. It’s no small matter...

2 Nov 2016

Cleaner, healthier cookstoves may — at long last — be catching on

Kesara Manchusree, president, Stock Exchange of Thailand

News / Corporate Responsibility

How Thailand built Southeast Asia's most sustainable stock exchange

...the index, would you like to follow them?’ We want the CEOs to compete with one another." It is not mandatory for the 741 companies listed on Thailand's stock exchange to report their sustainability ...

17 Oct 2017

How Thailand built Southeast Asia's most sustainable stock exchange

Opinion / Policy & Finance

Reporting fatigue and the ESG rating and ranking industry

...the subjective weights allocated to the different dimensions of ESG. The questions around the credibility on the one hand, and the widespread use of this industry on the other hand, is reason for conc...

21 Jul 2017

Reporting fatigue and the ESG rating and ranking industry

News / Lifestyle

Search the web, plant a tree

...the top right corner of the screen, displaying a personal record of how many trees the user has helped plant. Vivaldi, which claims to be the most feature-rich browser in the market, was launched by t...

27 Apr 2017

Search the web, plant a tree

News / Food & Agriculture

Growing pains: The fight to end malnutrition

...the end of the study, the 100 students who received the fortified rice had higher levels of iron, zinc and vitamins A, B3 and B12 compared to their counterparts in the control group, in line with the ...

24 Jan 2018

Growing pains: The fight to end malnutrition

Opinion / Corporate Responsibility

APP uninvites selected press from visiting controversial mill

...the plane. Well, the focus of the trip will now be on the commercial and financial aspect of the new mill, and not the sustainability angle. So there’s no story for you at the moment, I was told. "You...

27 Feb 2017

APP uninvites selected press from visiting controversial mill

Opinion / Policy & Finance

See you in court: The rise of climate justice

...when 900 citizens and local group the Urgenda Foundation won their landmark case against the Netherlands. The courts found the current climate actions by the Dutch government to be insufficient, and o...

19 Jul 2017

See you in court: The rise of climate justice

Shavante Indian mother with her baby in Brazil.

Opinion / Policy & Finance

Brazil’s proposed environmental laws would weaken indigenous rights, forfeit billions in economic benefits

...the liability of their investments, among other modifications. The second government decree would limit Indigenous Peoples’ rights over the lands they inhabit. Supporters of the proposal believe the l...

27 Dec 2016

Brazil’s proposed environmental laws would weaken indigenous rights, forfeit billions in economic benefits

News / Policy & Finance

Commbank's new climate policy 'flagrant hypocrisy', say activists

...the same day that chief executive officer Ian Narev would quit his role at the end of the financial year in 2018. The key pledges made by the policy include: Reducing carbon emissions per employee fr...

18 Aug 2017

Commbank's new climate policy 'flagrant hypocrisy', say activists