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Aveda products, promoted as using post-consumer recycled plastic.

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Coronavirus-induced oil price plunge is hurting the circular economy for plastic

While the coronavirus-induced collapse in oil demand might be good news for the climate as greenhouse gas emissions ease, it is not good news for the nascent circular economy in a ubiquitous material ...

6 Apr 2020

Coronavirus-induced oil price plunge is hurting the circular economy for plastic

News / Policy & Finance

Eco-Business' 10 most-read stories of 2020

When Covid-19 first emerged and began infecting people around the world, it seemed to have limited relevance to sustainable development. But as all sustainability practitioners now know, the deadly d...

19 Dec 2020

Eco-Business' 10 most-read stories of 2020

Opinion / Cities

The Covid city

No city has escaped the deadly spread of Covid-19. But the virus has had a profoundly uneven impact on different groups of people, even within the same city. When New York City was the global epicent...

9 Sep 2020

The Covid city

News / Policy & Finance

Palawan top cop linked to assault on environmental officer in the Philippines

Lawyers have condemned police officers on the Philippine island of Palawan for holding at gunpoint and arresting environmental law enforcers who visited a coastal village on June 10 to serve a vacate ...

16 Jun 2020

Palawan top cop linked to assault on environmental officer in the Philippines

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Oil tanker fire in Sri Lanka’s rich waters underscores need for preparedness

Authorities in Sri Lanka are seeking millions of dollars in damages after a weeklong firefighting operation to put out a blaze on board an oil tanker in its waters. Some of the fuel oil from the MT Ne...

2 Oct 2020

Oil tanker fire in Sri Lanka’s rich waters underscores need for preparedness

News / Corporate Responsibility

Thai social entrepreneurs helping ex-cons and farmers call for coronavirus cash

Poonchai Chitanuntavitaya's Bangkok clinic, which employs vulnerable Thai women as masseuses, reopened this month with staff wearing masks to protect against the new coronavirus, but its future remain...

14 May 2020

Thai social entrepreneurs helping ex-cons and farmers call for coronavirus cash

News / Cities

As coronavirus forces lockdowns, city dwellers head to parks

As the coronavirus outbreak shutters gyms, malls and swimming pools, residents from Los Angeles to Bangkok are heading to parks and open spaces during lockdowns, highlighting their vital role in prote...

25 Mar 2020

As coronavirus forces lockdowns, city dwellers head to parks

Boon Rueang Wetland Forest Conservation Group Thailand

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With social media and academics, Thai villagers save ancestral forest

The villagers of Ban Boon Rueang in northern Thailand had long known that they benefited from the community wetland forest that supplied them with fish and firewood, but it wasn't until devastating fl...

30 Sep 2020

With social media and academics, Thai villagers save ancestral forest

Opinion / Transport

Safer, more sustainable transport in a post-Covid-19 world

The Covid-19 crisis has shown that effective public transport is vital to keeping cities running. By serving essential workers in health care, emergency services, food services, and other sectors, pub...

24 Apr 2020

Safer, more sustainable transport in a post-Covid-19 world

News / Policy & Finance

In slums and windowless apartments, Asia's poor bear brunt of coronavirus

Millions of homeless people and those living in informal settlements across Asia are at heightened risk of contracting the coronavirus due to their dire living conditions, housing experts said on Tues...

18 Mar 2020

In slums and windowless apartments, Asia's poor bear brunt of coronavirus

Opinion / Food & Agriculture

Vertical farms are overserved: Global food resilience needs a rebalancing act

Recent moves by Singapore's state investment firm Temasek in the food and agritech space have prompted a rethink of what the political economy of food could look like over the next decade. Urban farm ...

11 Oct 2020

Vertical farms are overserved: Global food resilience needs a rebalancing act

Tagebau Garzweiler surface lignite mine Germany

News / Energy

It’s a galloping goodbye to Europe’s coal

The energy that has powered a continent for several hundred years, driving its industry, fighting its wars and keeping its people warm, is on the way out, fast: Europe’s coal is in rapid decline. Coal...

27 Apr 2020

It’s a galloping goodbye to Europe’s coal

Press Releases / Greenpeace

Car industry’s 2018 carbon footprint exceeds EU greenhouse gas emissions—Greenpeace

The carbon footprint of the global car industry equalled 9 per cent of annual global greenhouse gas emissions in 2018, according to a new Greenpeace report [1]. The analysis provides a critical accoun...

11 Sep 2019

Car industry’s 2018 carbon footprint exceeds EU greenhouse gas emissions—Greenpeace

News / Carbon & Climate

Can only western buyers afford sustainable palm oil?

Palm oil is one of the most widely traded and used commodities. Ubiquitous in cooking oils, detergents and beauty products, it is also found in over half of all packaged foods on supermarket shelves. ...

1 Jun 2021

Can only western buyers afford sustainable palm oil?

News / Carbon & Climate

Climate activists to emerge stronger from coronavirus crisis, says Greta Thunberg

The world's young climate activists will come out of the coronavirus crisis even stronger and more motivated than before, their figurehead Greta Thunberg predicted on Wednesday. In an online video con...

23 Apr 2020

Climate activists to emerge stronger from coronavirus crisis, says Greta Thunberg

Press Releases / Greenpeace

Palm oil and pulp companies with most burned land go unpunished as Indonesian forest fires rage

Jakarta, Indonesia, 24 September 2019 – Despite the ongoing Indonesian forest fire crisis, no serious civil or administrative sanctions have been given to the ten palm oil companies with the lar...

24 Sep 2019

Palm oil and pulp companies with most burned land go unpunished as Indonesian forest fires rage

News / Lifestyle

How the Philippines can lead in sustainable tourism in Asia during Covid

Bohol, a province in the Philippines’ Central Visayas region known for its spectacular beaches and emerging destinations, has become one of the country’s top tourist draws in the past five years. The ...

12 Aug 2020

How the Philippines can lead in sustainable tourism in Asia during Covid

Forests cleared for palm oil cultivation-2

News / Food & Agriculture

Investigation begins into alleged deforestation by Olam, ‘world’s largest farmer’

The Forest Stewardship Council (FSC) is carrying out an investigation into whether Singapore-based agribusiness giant Olam deforested more than 25,000 hectares (62,000 acres), in contravention of sust...

12 Aug 2020

Investigation begins into alleged deforestation by Olam, ‘world’s largest farmer’

Environment and sustainability minister Grace Fu

News / Waste

Is industry doing enough to tackle Singapore's waste problem?

Countries around the world have been taking increasingly bold measures to curb plastic pollution in recent years, but one small, meticulously clean tropical island nation has taken a noticeably light ...

21 Oct 2020

Is industry doing enough to tackle Singapore's waste problem?

palm oil farmer Kutai Kartanegara, East Kalimtan, Indonesia

News / Policy & Finance

Indonesia eyes sustainability certification for oil palm smallholders

Environmental and social activists have welcomed a decision by the Indonesian government to require that smallholder palm oil farmers be certified sustainable. Major plantation companies are already r...

29 Apr 2020

Indonesia eyes sustainability certification for oil palm smallholders

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