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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

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 / 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 / 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?

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?

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

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?

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

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

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

News / Policy & Finance

Covid-hit China urged to move UN summit to save global nature deal

...tical The latest delay means countries will have less time to meet 2030 targets and could ultimately lead them to curtail their ambitions, said Linda Krueger, director of biodiversity at The Nature Co...

24 May 2022

Covid-hit China urged to move UN summit to save global nature deal

Good journalism needs both mainstream media outlets and digital-only alternative media

Opinion / Policy & Finance

How to save Indonesia's independent media voices

...ttack, also known as a DOS attack, which meant the public could not access the site. It was the second DOS attack on the non-profit news platform since it launched in 2016. It wasn't the only site tar...

2 May 2023

How to save Indonesia's independent media voices

News / Carbon & Climate

Scientist fights climate change deniers causing 'dangerous' delay

...tists, we try to bat them down and they come back to life again. The risk is that if we're just forever rebutting arguments, we could never get beyond that. Peter Stott, climate scientist, Met Office ...

21 Oct 2022

Scientist fights climate change deniers causing 'dangerous' delay

News / Cities

UN nature summit set for Montreal as Covid-hit China steps aside

...talks that start on Tuesday in Nairobi. “ Nature isn't only a tool in the fight against climate change. Nature is the reason we need to stop climate change. Tom Crowther, professor, ETH Zurich But t...

21 Jun 2022

UN nature summit set for Montreal as Covid-hit China steps aside

News / Food & Agriculture

Taste for meat, dairy in developing nations drives up emissions

...to 2004. This trend has “changed considerably” under subsequent political leadership, the study noted. Deforestation rebounded under the two immediate past administrations, though the latest President...

20 Jun 2023

Taste for meat, dairy in developing nations drives up emissions

International Sustainability Standards Board

News / Policy & Finance

ISSB votes to make Scope 3 emissions reporting mandatory

...ting the adoption and application of its first two standards, including developing a digital taxonomy to enable digital reporting, and making targeted improvements to the proposed SASB standards to ma...

21 Oct 2022

ISSB votes to make Scope 3 emissions reporting mandatory

Podcasts / Food & Agriculture

Dimsum from microbes, anyone?: How alternative proteins are cheaper, tastier and going local

...The second part is nutrition. If it is relevant to a certain product, you can bring in, say, a cultivated ingredient to better match the nutritional profile of the product that the company is trying t...

19 Jan 2023

Dimsum from microbes, anyone?: How alternative proteins are cheaper, tastier and going local

People wait in queue for kerosene oil in Colombo, Sri Lanka

News / Policy & Finance

Economic crisis forces Sri Lankans to moonlight as prices soar

...te lunch so that we only need to eat something light at night." This story was published with permission from Thomson Reuters Foundation, the charitable arm of Thomson Reuters, that covers humanitaria...

4 Apr 2022

Economic crisis forces Sri Lankans to moonlight as prices soar

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