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COP27 climate marchers demand justice despite protest restrictions

...the protest tightly. The activists, including many Africans, insisted there could be "no climate justice without human rights" - and lamented that they had not been permitted to demonstrate outside th...

17 Nov 2022

COP27 climate marchers demand justice despite protest restrictions

Press Releases / CDP

Singapore-based organisation tops action towards decarbonisation rankings in transport benchmark from WBA, CDP

...ts which are incompatible with a low-carbon future but the majority failed to disclose any plans for changing this. Some of the solutions that transport operators need to adopt, such as alternative f...

21 Oct 2022

Singapore-based organisation tops action towards decarbonisation rankings in transport benchmark from WBA, CDP

News / Policy & Finance

Climate-vulnerable nations demand more financial support in COP26 draft deal

...t adapt to starvation, you cannot adapt to extinction, you cannot adapt to lost cultural heritage and you cannot adapt to lost biodiversity," she said, calling for loss and damage to be put at the cen...

11 Nov 2021

Climate-vulnerable nations demand more financial support in COP26 draft deal

Press Releases / GAIA Asia Pacific

Extinguishing waste-to-energy incineration myths

...tal costs on cities and communities. Dr. Emmanuel substantiates the fears that waste incinerators do fail in living up to their promises. “Continuous monitoring of the state-of-the-art waste-to...

26 Nov 2021

Extinguishing waste-to-energy incineration myths

News / Manufacturing

Crisis after Covid-19 for Sri Lankan women who dress the West

...ted blackouts - power often dies for hours at a time - have shuttered the most energy-intensive industries, textiles among them, and disrupted shipments to the West. The government says help is on its...

17 May 2022

Crisis after Covid-19 for Sri Lankan women who dress the West

News / Policy & Finance

Afghan women fear for their jobs and daughters' futures under Taliban

...t in jeans and coats, but I saw no sign of that today." She said only women teachers and doctors had been allowed to return to work, with female government employees told to wait at home until the Tal...

19 Aug 2021

Afghan women fear for their jobs and daughters' futures under Taliban

News / Policy & Finance

The next Amazon? Congo Basin faces rising deforestation threat

...This is particularly difficult in the DRC – by far the most populated nation in the region – where poverty rates are high and the government is looking to boost its oil output. "The opportunity cost f...

14 Nov 2022

The next Amazon? Congo Basin faces rising deforestation threat

Labourers carry baskets of coal in Tamil Nadu, India.

News / Energy

Nuclear tipped to be a 'game-changer' for India's energy transition

...t startup, we won't give you a return.' That's the wrong mindset." To achieve net-zero by 2070, a target set at the COP26 climate talks, India will require US$10.1 trillion in investment. The stage is...

19 Sep 2022

Nuclear tipped to be a 'game-changer' for India's energy transition

News / Carbon & Climate

Dark future? Climate change fuels higher heat, flood threats for children

...the most powerful tropical cyclones in history that killed over 6,300 people. "Everything was at its worst during those times — I don't want anyone to experience that," said the teenager, now 16. Othe...

29 Sep 2021

Dark future? Climate change fuels higher heat, flood threats for children

News / Food & Agriculture

Major brands bought palm oil from plantation rife with modern slavery and torture

...the more fortunate. At least two men died of injuries they sustained at the site in Langkat, North Sumatra, while being held captive. As the victims toiled in the plantation and nearby factory without...

6 Dec 2022

Major brands bought palm oil from plantation rife with modern slavery and torture

News / Waste

Should Southeast Asia return to 'native' packaging to tackle the plastic crisis?

...t to change. "Some people still refuse to bring their own containers to the refill stations — they're so used to the convenience of sachets. We thought we could change their mindset, but the transitio...

22 Nov 2021

Should Southeast Asia return to 'native' packaging to tackle the plastic crisis?

News / Policy & Finance

Climate action is 'good business', UN climate chief says at COP27

...tation to climate threats is to break the job down into what needs to be done in each of the eight years left. "You can get lost in the weeds - and the weeds don't provide the clarity and the directio...

10 Nov 2022

Climate action is 'good business', UN climate chief says at COP27

News / Food & Agriculture

As conflict and climate change bite, are high food prices here to stay?

...told the Thomson Reuters Foundation. He fears that, as climate change adds to existing food security threats, price hikes are "a runaway train you can't stop". Worse, as costly food threatens to stoke...

9 May 2022

As conflict and climate change bite, are high food prices here to stay?

News / Waste

AI-powered solutions can turn tide for once-futile fight against marine pollution: Hong Kong start-up founder Sidhant Gupta

...t beyond the team’s expectations, and it was at that moment that Gupta knew they were on to something. “Though the prototype didn’t pick up too much rubbish at first, the reception proved that there w...

24 Mar 2023

AI-powered solutions can turn tide for once-futile fight against marine pollution: Hong Kong start-up founder Sidhant Gupta

News / Cities

School's out: Pakistan floods raise education fears for millions

...the teacher, said the latter in particular was a concern with temperatures falling in winter. He worried that a lack of heat would make it impossible for children to continue to learn in the tent thro...

28 Nov 2022

School's out: Pakistan floods raise education fears for millions

Opinion / Carbon & Climate

1.5°C warming limit: Unrealistic but we should stick to it

...the two weeks of negotiations and side conversations at the climate summit, like I did, the target seems like a joke. World leaders could not make concrete commitments to move towards that target at a...

25 Nov 2022

1.5°C warming limit: Unrealistic but we should stick to it

Employees work on their laptops at the Start-up Village, India

News / Policy & Finance

Asian workers pushed to upskill as pandemic quickens digital shift

...the digital sector, the green economy and the care sector as the three "priority economic growth pillars" that can create tens of thousands of jobs in the country. With disruptions brought about by th...

8 Mar 2022

Asian workers pushed to upskill as pandemic quickens digital shift

Press Releases / Taronga Ventures

Global ESG innovations drive sustainability projects in the real estate sector

...they haven't been designed optimally, so let's get the designers at the table, let's get the property managers at the table, and let's get the investors at the table as well. If we all talk about mutu...

14 Mar 2023

Global ESG innovations drive sustainability projects in the real estate sector

Dechen Tsering talking at the Responsible Business Forum in Thailand

News / Policy & Finance

How I got here... UNEP Asia Pacific director Dechen Tsering

...tant career moments. The first was in Bhutan. I was one of 39 members of its constitution drafting committee. Article 5 of the constitution was devoted to the environment. [It contains a commitment to...

4 Mar 2022

How I got here... UNEP Asia Pacific director Dechen Tsering

News / Policy & Finance

WEF’s head of nature and biodiversity: we are using public funds to destroy public goods

...tions to move towards a nature positive economy. I was pleasantly surprised that one of the top things that came up was the pricing of externalities. They recognise that it’s important but they also r...

13 Oct 2021

WEF’s head of nature and biodiversity: we are using public funds to destroy public goods

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