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Carbon & Climate
Clear climate targets can help clean up palm oil’s image: Malaysian plantation giant KLK sustainability chief
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smallholders
and planters. That is very difficult and complicated for us, though over the next 18 months, we will try to identify the different types of platforms and technologies that we can use [to...
6 Jul 2023
Clear climate targets can help clean up palm oil’s image: Malaysian plantation giant KLK sustainability chief
Opinion /
Food & Agriculture
Governing the right to food
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smallholders
, transforming Global South countries into food importers vulnerable to price spikes. Financial power also buys narrative power, which can be used to praise the latest food tech. No one sh...
21 Jul 2023
Governing the right to food
News /
Food & Agriculture
India's farmers wrestle with shift to eco-friendly agriculture
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smallholders
and make farming more climate-friendly, India is promoting organic and natural farming, encouraging diversification to cut dependence on one major crop and incentivising solar-powered wat...
22 Nov 2023
India's farmers wrestle with shift to eco-friendly agriculture
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Food & Agriculture
In India, 'natural farming' draws young people back to the land
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smallholders
, have embraced natural farming - up from 40,000 when the state government launched a "community-managed natural farming" scheme in 2015. Natural farming shuns synthetic fertilisers and pe...
22 Nov 2023
In India, 'natural farming' draws young people back to the land
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Cities
Record high deforestation hits Sumatra’s ‘orangutan capital’ as palm oil industry expands
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smallholders
. These locally influential individuals wield power and have access to the resources needed to establish significant oil palm plantations, according to RAN. Often this power stems from a p...
28 Mar 2023
Record high deforestation hits Sumatra’s ‘orangutan capital’ as palm oil industry expands
News /
Food & Agriculture
Practising human rights due diligence in the palm oil industry
Concerns over labour rights abuse in Malaysia’s palm oil sector has put the industry under scrutiny in recent years. In 2022, the Human Rights Commission of Malaysia (SUHAKAM) found that eight out of...
3 May 2024
Practising human rights due diligence in the palm oil industry
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Manufacturing
Palm oil derivatives: are sustainability promises lost in the supply chain?
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smallholders
, who grow oil palm on land less than 50 hectares in area. The company’s palm commitment does acknowledge the need to include
smallholders
in supply chains but, based on its ACOP, it has n...
1 Sep 2022
Palm oil derivatives: are sustainability promises lost in the supply chain?
News /
Food & Agriculture
First crops, now animals: Climate change hurts Bangladesh farmers
Along Bangladesh's southern coast, farmers threatened by the impacts of climate change are striving to boost their resilience to rising salinity in the soil and water by growing salt-tolerant crops a...
25 Aug 2023
First crops, now animals: Climate change hurts Bangladesh farmers
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Food & Agriculture
What does the future of climate-resilient rice look like?
Although rice is a diet staple for many in Asia, the harvesting of the crop is fraught with many challenges, including decreasing yield productivity due to the effects of climate change and the pressu...
28 Apr 2022
What does the future of climate-resilient rice look like?
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Food & Agriculture
Booming investor interest in agritech is inspiring a wave of Cambodian entrepreneurs. But can the solutions scale?
Vanilla, a vining orchid, is arguably the second most expensive spice in the world, behind saffron, and seen by most farming communities as an extremely lucrative crop. Even though its commercial vari...
10 Oct 2023
Booming investor interest in agritech is inspiring a wave of Cambodian entrepreneurs. But can the solutions scale?
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Policy & Finance
World needs global carbon price and tax reform for carbon-heavy trade – or will miss 2030 climate goals, warns WTO chief
The head of the World Trade Organization (WTO) has called for a global carbon tax and reforms to trade regulations to enable the world to meet decarbonisation goals this decade. Speaking at the World...
25 Jan 2023
World needs global carbon price and tax reform for carbon-heavy trade – or will miss 2030 climate goals, warns WTO chief
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Carbon & Climate
Climate disinformation campaigns that tried to block climate action in Asia Pacific
Climate disinformation – where scientific data is misrepresented to erode trust in climate science – has been around since the 1980s, when fossil fuel companies ran advertorials in newspapers denying ...
23 Aug 2023
Climate disinformation campaigns that tried to block climate action in Asia Pacific
Opinion /
Food & Agriculture
How technology can help address challenges in agriculture
When agriculture first took root around 12,000 years ago, it triggered a change in how people lived. Dubbed the “Neolithic Revolution", the promise of a reliable food supply enabled humans to give up...
8 Apr 2022
How technology can help address challenges in agriculture
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Energy
Rose, jasmine teas flourish in Indian push for renewable energy
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smallholders
, earning about 10,000 rupees per month. Investments in renewable energies are often unaffordable, except for groups of farmers. An exception, Nishad has set up a small centre outside the ...
21 Jul 2023
Rose, jasmine teas flourish in Indian push for renewable energy
Press Releases /
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Prince William unveils 15 global finalists for the 2023 Earthshot Prize
Prince William and The Earthshot Prize have announced the 15 Finalists for this year’s Prize at the second Earthshot Innovation Summit, an event hosted in partnership with Bloomberg Philanthropi...
23 Sep 2023
Prince William unveils 15 global finalists for the 2023 Earthshot Prize
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Carbon & Climate
'Just the beginning': dawn of greenwash era for journalism in Asia?
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smallholders
of millions owed to them. Legally, palm oil companies have had to ensure that rural communities benefit from the large palm oil plantations near them. Geall said that the palm oil trade h...
26 Aug 2022
'Just the beginning': dawn of greenwash era for journalism in Asia?
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Food & Agriculture
Crisis resilience ‘critical’ to stem rising hunger
A shift towards permanent “crisis resilience” from short-term aid is crucial to mitigate increasingly frequent shocks to the global food system and tackle rising global hunger, say food policy researc...
21 Apr 2023
Crisis resilience ‘critical’ to stem rising hunger
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Cities
Young Bangladeshis push for climate action but workers left out
In fast-growing Dhaka, which is losing what is left of its green spaces and water bodies to urban development, residents are rallying to protect their environment and fight climate change. In May, wh...
2 Aug 2023
Young Bangladeshis push for climate action but workers left out
News /
Food & Agriculture
Project aims to restore degraded Indonesian forests — by partnering with timber giants
Last year, 11 million hectares of tropical tree cover disappeared. If forests continue to be lost at the current rate, they will be mostly be gone by the end of the century, scientists warn. A new typ...
4 Aug 2022
Project aims to restore degraded Indonesian forests — by partnering with timber giants
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Cities
Sumatran elephants cornered by oil palm industry deforestation
Saleh Kadri, a young farmer from Leubok Pusaka village in North Aceh district, was on his way to his plantation when he spotted eight elephants on the riverbank. From his canoe, he recorded a video wi...
15 Aug 2022
Sumatran elephants cornered by oil palm industry deforestation
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Food & Agriculture
India’s food waste is turning into an environmental time bomb
India’s colossal food waste problem is both a symptom and a significant accelerator of the climate crisis.
India’s food waste is turning into an environmental time bomb
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Manufacturing
Malaysia’s chip boom risks soaring Scope 2 emissions, experts warn
EB Studio
At the Semiconductor Sustainability Summit 2025, industry leaders said Malaysia’s push to double its global chip share could …
Malaysia’s chip boom risks soaring Scope 2 emissions, experts warn
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Policy & Finance
South Korea to ban labels on bottled water from 2026 in push to cut plastic waste
Seoul expects more than 2,200 tonnes of plastic savings a year as QR-code packaging becomes standard.
South Korea to ban labels on bottled water from 2026 in push to cut plastic waste
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Energy
Singapore’s Sembcorp eyes $4.3bn acquisition of Australia’s Alinta Energy
The Singapore firm has said it would buy the Chow Tai Fook Enterprises-owned firm, but there are no …
Singapore’s Sembcorp eyes $4.3bn acquisition of Australia’s Alinta Energy
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Policy & Finance
Climate change in court: cases to watch in 2026
Lawsuits are reshaping climate justice following landmark 2025 rulings, with cases rising in the Global South.
Climate change in court: cases to watch in 2026
Opinion /
Carbon & Climate
Three reasons why China wants global green leadership after COP30
China wants to lead the climate agenda on its own terms – exporting clean tech and influence, while …
Three reasons why China wants global green leadership after COP30
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