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Muchtazar, head of sustainability, Nickel Industries

There are few jobs that walk the line of moral ambiguity quite like the head of sustainability for a nickel company. The world needs nickel to reduce the climate impact of transport, but getting at it...

7 Jul 2025

...ts live on the ancestral territory of the Kasepuhan Banten Kidul traditional community, 130 km (81 miles) southwest of Jakarta. Its culture of sacred forest protection and rice harvests is under threa...

21 Aug 2025

Agri startups from Southeast Asia to pitch climate-smart solutions at SAFE Impact Showcase

...Timor-Leste, and the Philippines will present their community-driven, climate-smart agriculture solutions at the SAFE Impact Showcase on 3 October 2025. The event highlights how innovation at the gra...

26 Sep 2025

...t Centre at the Lowy Institute, said the United States' retreat represented "an opportunity (for China) to redefine its role in global development" but he did not expect China to take that opportunity...

20 Mar 2025

...ted to help financial institutions measure the risks of nature-related disasters. He said that countries, companies and financiers need to restructure incentives and redirect capital towards sustainab...

10 Dec 2025

...that it would look into carbon crediting methodologies that are suited to the region’s peatlands. “In Asean, we're going to be working with governments, domestic crediting programs who want to talk to...

16 Oct 2025

What is the international agreement to protect the high seas and why is it important?

...tal protections to the high seas. Adopted by UN Member States two years ago, it is designed to safeguard the plants and animals that inhabit the furthest reaches of the ocean. The agreement was two de...

19 Apr 2025

...that much of what constitutes the Chinese competitive edge is not really free market because there is the power and strength of the state behind it,” he said. Balancing the "inequities" between the t...

1 Aug 2025

...th concerns. The city shifted its waste management strategy to focus on recycling efforts and landfilling, with the city currently reliant on three landfills in the New Territories. But now, a waste-t...

2 Apr 2025

...tivist leading protests against the project, told Context. The Kahar Samaj Panch Committee, which represents the fishers, lost a legal case in September to stop the project on the grounds that const...

2 Dec 2024

...t complained that there is a big gap between what sustainability students are taught at university and what they are expected to know in their workplace. Is there anything you learned at college that ...

16 Oct 2024

...tands 42 per cent below the long-term average. "They are saying on TV that there may not be any water left for us tomorrow - I go to bed every night worrying about what this situation is doing to the...

7 Apr 2025

Sustainability reporting: Track your progress

...ther than treating it as an add-on. And finally, act now, starting with incremental improvements while investing in skills and systems that can scale. For ACCA, that last point speaks directly to the...

14 Jan 2026

SM Cares coastal cleanup: A movement for tomorrow

...today has a direct impact on the safety of families tomorrow.” SM Cares' coastal cleanup activities serve both environmental and humanitarian goals: protecting marine ecosystems while mitigatin...

2 Sep 2025

...thout detailed assessments, adaptation efforts risk being reactive and underfunded, and opportunities to mobilise private investment remain untapped,” said the report. “Better data and targeted studie...

20 Feb 2026

Midong solar project in Gobi Desert, China

...tting targets will not be enough to put the world on a 1.5 degree pathway. “NDC goals will need to be embedded in national economic strategies. No country in the world has figured out yet how to get t...

22 Sep 2025

...tations to confidentiality agreements. "That's the way it should be right? Another point to remember is that the EIAs are tax money, so shouldn't taxpayers have a right to know their contents, at leas...

23 Jul 2025

...that resources will continue to be exploited until all state governments adopt the 2022 amendments to Malaysia's National Forest Act 1984 and transparency over land matters is built into the system. S...

23 Apr 2025

...to the need for protections, she noted. “They may come with that conservative mindset that harms LGBTQ+ people,” she said. Barriers to justice Countries like Thailand that do not track data on hate s...

18 Nov 2025

...transportation sector might be affected. This is where electrification of transportation is no longer optional, but the structural shift the region needs.” Reuters data show LNG prices in Asia last tr...

4 Mar 2026

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