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ADB, Indonesia partners sign MOU on retirement of first coal power plant under Energy Transition Mechanism

...1, a 660-megawatt plant owned by CEP in West Java. The planned transaction aims to achieve significant carbon dioxide emission reductions through a replicable model that can be applied to other IPPs ...

14 Nov 2022

...119 countries mapped are living in extreme poverty, from a low level (blue) to high (red). More than a billion people were living below the extreme poverty line of US$1.90 per day in 2014, according ...

18 Feb 2022

...138 professional basketball courts. Apart from fishing, the coastal and marine waters are used for transportation, navigation, and tourism. The sunken tanker was carrying about 800,000 litres (210,000...

10 Mar 2023

NEAR Protocol partners with ESG DAO to support creation of 'OpenESG,' an open and credibly neutral ESG scoring system

...1 blockchain platform that has partnered with a number of climate organisations and incubated several startups such as Open Forest Protocol, Raiz Farms, and BeeTogether to help address some of the wor...

25 Nov 2022

...1.5 per cent on assets owned between US$100 million and US$1 billion, to 3 per cent for assets above US$100 billion. Individuals who would be taxed in the latter range are mostly tech moguls based in ...

3 Feb 2023

...150 kilometres (93 miles). The marine reserve of which the islands are a part spans some 300,000 hectares (741,000 acres), with nearly 6,000 hectares (14,800 acres) of coral reef, 85 hectares (210 acr...

4 Jan 2023

A man carries his dog to be immunised against rabies in Indonesia

...100 per cent fatal once it enters the central nervous system, has spread because the resources needed to control the disease have been diverted to control Covid-19, according to experts in a new study...

3 Nov 2023

...1 per cent) of land growing genetically modified crops is in five countries: the US (71.5m hectares), Brazil (52.8m hectares), Argentina (24m hectares), Canada (12.5m hectares) and India (11.9m hectar...

7 Jun 2024

ADB safeguards policy update must prioritise people and the planet, says NGO Forum on ADB

...1 of 1.5C. Our planet cannot afford anything less. The ADB must show true leadership in tackling the climate crisis and prioritizing a sustainable future for all", he added. Lastly, the NGO Forum on ...

17 May 2023

...1 March 2022, she declared that 100 per cent of the country’s population now had electricity, outstripping its south Asian neighbours. She could not have known that 17 months later, the plant would ha...

9 Jun 2023

...1.4 million at the COP26 UN climate talks, with the Belgian region of Wallonia making a 1 million-euro ($1-million) commitment. Denmark in September offered another $13 million, with $5 million of tha...

11 Oct 2022

Native forests (right) stand alongside monoculture teak plantations (left) in protected areas of the Western Ghats, India.

...19,424 ha – followed by 18,847 ha for mining, 13,344 ha for irrigation, 9,469 ha for transmission lines, and 7,630 ha for defence projects, the UCM’s submissions to the joint parliamentary committee p...

5 Jun 2023

...1 (US$0.12) at the end of last year. The government told retailers to put plastic bags further from self-checkout counters, and conducted plainclothes spot checks, according to newspaper South China M...

27 Jun 2023

CIME inauguration marks key effort to boost Africa’s economies through innovation, entrepreneurship

Despite the Covid-19 pandemic, Africa's digital economy system has still achieved strong growth. With an estimated market size of US$72 billion for digital trade by 2025, the digital economy in Africa...

10 Oct 2022

...17-2018 fiscal year to more than US$4 billion. Clothing production doubled from 2000 to 2014, while the number of garments purchased per capita between 2000 and 2014 increased by about 60 per cent, ac...

30 May 2023

...1. The Amazing Spider-Man 2 (2014) While Hollywood blockbusters usually entail huge emissions and waste footprints, their big budget also allows them to adopt more sustainable production practices, ...

23 Dec 2022

...1. Scrap subsidies The first thing countries should do is stop paying for the destruction of ecosystems. The Montreal pact calls for reducing incentives for environmentally harmful practices by $US500...

22 Dec 2022

...1991-92 and 2009-10 El Niño events and the 1998-2000 and 2010-11 La Niña events. In the figure below, the map (top) shows the difference in 3.5-month lead forecast skill (SEDI) when ENSO is in an act...

11 May 2022

Indigenous peoples workers in Rio Tuba Mining Corp

...1,3000 hectares in its mine site, according to its website. The mining company, however, also had a standoff with the local community during the pandemic. The 1996 Marcopper mine disaster left the B...

14 Mar 2023

A record number of journalists were jailed this year, according to data from the Committee for the Protection of Journalists.

...11. Soon after Al-Qaeda launched its attacks on that horrific day, then-US President George W. Bush declared the 'war on terror'. At the time, with the dust still settling on the wreckage of the Twin...

2 May 2023

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