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Opinion / Food & Agriculture

Smallholder inclusion in company supply chains: top five success factors

...the political and environmental context that determines their use of natural resources, so that plans to include them in supply chains make the same sense for them as for the company. Develop the busi...

12 Apr 2016

Smallholder inclusion in company supply chains: top five success factors

News / Energy

World Bank money is helping to finance Asia’s coal boom: Report

...the number of IFC intermediaries that support coal plants and the social and environmental problems those projects have caused. “The shocking thing is the scale of the suffering these loans are causin...

21 Oct 2016

World Bank money is helping to finance Asia’s coal boom: Report

Videos / Green Buildings

Thai homes score world's first in storing sunshine

...The system is already in use, said the firm CNX Construction, which will showcase the solution at Phi Suea House Project in Chiang Mai on Friday. The firm said that the four homes at the project are t...

27 Jan 2016

Thai homes score world's first in storing sunshine

News / Carbon & Climate

Humans leave greater green fingerprints

...the US, France and China say they have detected “the first clear evidence of a discernible human fingerprint” on the vegetation of the entire northern hemisphere. They say that at least half the plane...

14 Jul 2016

Humans leave greater green fingerprints

Opinion / Carbon & Climate

Australia should back calls to end coal and save its drowning neighbours

...when it comes to weaning the world off coal. He points out that coal-fired power stations will be needed in the medium-to-long term to heat the colder northern countries. Finding a coal alternative Th...

25 Nov 2015

Australia should back calls to end coal and save its drowning neighbours

News / Manufacturing

Bihar’s toxic textile industry

...the work hasn’t started yet. “ The poor suffer the most here as they have to drink this severely contaminated water. Md Shafeeq, local doctor The marginalised suffer the most The severe pollution ha...

1 Mar 2017

Bihar’s toxic textile industry

orang utan indonesia rainforest swinging

Opinion / Policy & Finance

New EU-Indonesia timber agreement will improve forest protection

...the VPA because they know the logging practices of the past are unsustainable. The Indonesian government and the EU have negotiated the framework for the deal, informed by the expertise of NGOs. APP h...

18 May 2016

New EU-Indonesia timber agreement will improve forest protection

Opinion / Policy & Finance

Why the wildlife of the world needs CITES 2.0

...the World Cup or the Olympics. CITES is the only convention in the world that still allows for private voting, keeping transparency at a minimum when it suits the trading nations who are vested in th...

18 Oct 2016

Why the wildlife of the world needs CITES 2.0

News / Carbon & Climate

Indigenous leaders at COP21: 20 per cent of tropical forest carbon is sitting on indigenous land

...when they don’t have title to their lands. “We who live on the front lines of the changing climate have contributed least to the global crisis, yet we stand to lose the most,” they wrote in a statemen...

3 Dec 2015

Indigenous leaders at COP21: 20 per cent of tropical forest carbon is sitting on indigenous land

Opinion / Corporate Responsibility

Growing social inequality requires global business community to rethink sustainability plans

...their sustainability plans. On one hand, they must focus on environmental goals such as improving the efficiency of their water use and reduce their waste and emissions. On the other, they must engage...

16 Sep 2016

Growing social inequality requires global business community to rethink sustainability plans

News / Carbon & Climate

Indonesian province declares emergency as forest fires flare

...the fires, or put them out once started, have shown little success. Last year's fires ended only when the rainy season arrived to douse them.

9 Mar 2016

Indonesian province declares emergency as forest fires flare

News / Carbon & Climate

Phasing out cookstoves a “win-win” for climate and health, study shows

...they exert their biggest influence locally. This can lead to sharp differences from one region to another, making an assessment of the problem on a global scale tricky, say the authors. The new study ...

2 Feb 2017

Phasing out cookstoves a “win-win” for climate and health, study shows

Opinion / Policy & Finance

Trumped: Ten immediate impacts on energy and climate

...the author of “art of the deal” would be hard-pressed to then move against the industry on nonsensical ideological grounds when business sense would dictate otherwise. Furthermore, I can’t see how the...

14 Nov 2016

Trumped: Ten immediate impacts on energy and climate

News / Carbon & Climate

Push to ward off disasters in Dhaka slum deters early marriage

...the problems the community faces is no easy task. There's a lack of water, as ever-longer dry spells and overuse of the city's groundwater empty wells. There's flooding when heavy rains do come, washi...

26 Apr 2016

Push to ward off disasters in Dhaka slum deters early marriage

Press Releases / Johnson Controls (S) Pte Ltd

Johnson Controls introduces low-GWP chiller offerings with R-513A

...the industry-wide discussion on the use of other low-GWP refrigerant alternatives which have an A2L (mildly flammable) safety rating. They accelerated research on this topic through their donation of...

15 Oct 2016

Johnson Controls introduces low-GWP chiller offerings with R-513A

News / Food & Agriculture

Meet your new "meat"

...the team hopes to eliminate the use of foetal serum altogether and will look to other bio sources such as algae and cyanobacteria as the material to grow his product in. This means the lab-grown meat ...

21 Jan 2016

Meet your new "meat"

Opinion / Carbon & Climate

Climate change is more than a tech problem, so we need more than a tech solution

...the developed world. What they all have in common is that they attend to social and behavioral aspects of the problem. And rather than being piecemeal, such solutions can work together synergistically...

21 Mar 2017

Climate change is more than a tech problem, so we need more than a tech solution

A farmer inspects his crops in a drought-stricken farm land.

News / Food & Agriculture

To fight climate change, invest in agriculture

...Thematic Debate on Achieving the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) at the UN Headquarters. Semedo was in New York to attend the signing ceremony of the Paris Climate Change Agreement as well as oth...

27 Apr 2016

To fight climate change, invest in agriculture

Opinion / Carbon & Climate

What can Singapore expect from COP 22 in Marrakesh?

...the pledges to ensure the agreement targets are met. New task ahead The group tasked with overseeing the process is known as the Conference of the Parties serving as the meeting of the Parties to the ...

11 Nov 2016

What can Singapore expect from COP 22 in Marrakesh?

washing vegetables in the Yamuna river in India

News / Waste

Could bio-toilets solve India's sanitation problems and save the Yamuna river?

...the targets set when the initiative was launched in early October 2014. The challenge of improving the Yamuna’s condition requires more than effective riverside cleanup efforts. The key issue is the n...

11 Nov 2016

Could bio-toilets solve India's sanitation problems and save the Yamuna river?

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