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Olam urges international brands to adopt new rice eco-label to allow consumers to support farmers

Olam International is calling for retailers and food brands to back the new “Sustainable Rice Platform-Verified” Assurance Scheme and consumer pack label, which will allow consumers t...

23 Sep 2020

Vietnam has been a Southeast Asia solar success story. It went from having barely any generation in 2018 to a quarter of its total installed capacity being solar – a 100-fold increase in two years. Th...

1 Jul 2021

Antarctica melts under its hottest days on record

The latest climate data shows that 2021 was another noteworthy year, but not for the right reason. Ocean surface and land surface temperatures were at their warmest on records. In this article, Carbon...

18 Jan 2022

Chana Rana Rabari picks up a wooden staff as he enters the forest. He requires it to balance while crossing the undulating terrain and thorny vegetation in the jungle. “This is khair (Capparis decidua...

21 Apr 2022

The construction of a hydroelectric power plant in Sumatra is risking the livelihoods of local communities, increasing the risk of disasters and threatening the habitat of the Tapanuli orangutan, the ...

6 Sep 2021

This year, the demand for coal set a new record in Asia, pushing prices to record-highs. While many industrialised countries have been shutting down coal plants for years to reduce carbon emissions...

6 Jan 2022

Deforestation in Indonesia’s Leuser Ecosystem, home to some of the rarest species on Earth, declined in 2021 to its lowest level in seven years, following a surge in 2020 when the Covid-19 pandemic be...

4 Jan 2022

Biogas has been used as an energy source for centuries, to warm bathwater or light streetlamps, for example. But it is our slate of 21st-century socioenvironmental challenges that have sparked greater...

2 Jul 2021

In June last year, an analyst from S&P Global Market Intelligence told an audience of investors and business owners that workplace wellbeing — defined as the overall mental, physical, emotional, a...

12 Apr 2022

Covid-19 and the African swine fever, which wiped out millions of pigs and created a shortage of meat protein in Asia in 2018, have exposed the vulnerability of the food system in the region which is ...

26 Aug 2021

China risks cutting emissions too slowly if it fails to reconcile climate goals with other national priorities in the coming years, and only an economic collapse would then see it hit climate targets,...

26 Feb 2021

Joe Biden has won a closely fought presidential election in the United States, removing from office an incumbent who laid seige to the environment over his four-year term. President Donald Trump false...

9 Nov 2020

Oat, soy, almond, rice… and Bambara? Drinkers of plant-based milk may have a new option in 2021, with food technology firm NamZ set to launch a product made from the Bambara groundnut, a hardy legume...

13 Jan 2021

Food and beverage businesses in Singapore that use sustainable palm oil are being asked to carry signage indicating they are "haze-free", as part of a new campaign called "Haze-Free Foodstand" by loca...

4 Nov 2020

Amid the global decarbonisation effort, nature-based climate solutions such as habitat conservation, reforestation, avoided deforestation and improved landscape management have been gaining momentum a...

12 Jul 2021

coral reef landscape in Komodo National Park in Indonesia

Toxic Bubble Bounce Mushrooms or Green Iguana Disco Mushrooms may sound like psychedelic drugs, but they are, in fact, names of live corals available for sale online. These brilliantly colored corals ...

19 May 2021

IFC supports India’s Continuum in first green bond offering in Singapore

One of India’s leading renewable energy developers has tapped the International Finance Corporation (IFC) to anchor its first green bond, helping the country achieve its ambitions to reduce gree...

16 Feb 2021

The pandemic-induced economic slowdown led to considerably better air quality almost everywhere in 2020, but climate-related calamities such as wildfires and sandstorms made air pollution much worse i...

16 Mar 2021

CapitaLand unveils S$50 million innovation fund and crowns winners of first CapitaLand Sustainability X Challenge

Singapore, 11 June 2021 – CapitaLand has set up a S$50 million CapitaLand Innovation Fund to support the testbedding of sustainability and other high-tech innovations in the built environme...

11 Jun 2021

Glacial lakes in the Himalayas are becoming increasingly unstable and at risk of flooding, a trend evident in regions as far apart and different as the Everest area and Ladakh’s arid upland deserts, t...

9 Apr 2021

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