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Opinion / Corporate Responsibility

What we’ve learned from how sustainability and sustainable companies have weathered the Covid-19 crisis

...tainability touched that position, the way in which sustainability metrics were built into the incentive structure for those people and really demonstrated that this is not a function that is in one g...

24 Jun 2020

What we’ve learned from how sustainability and sustainable companies have weathered the Covid-19 crisis

News / Policy & Finance

Climate summit pledges fall short, as big emitters skip 'honest appraisal'

...t in New York asking the United Nations to order its members to act swiftly on accelerating climate change, to protect future generations. The petition, brought by Swedish teen activist Greta Thunberg...

24 Sep 2019

Climate summit pledges fall short, as big emitters skip 'honest appraisal'

News / Energy

Karachi’s green buses to be powered by dung

...the five bus rapid transit (BRT) lines that Karachi, a metropolis without adequate public transport system, will be getting in the next two years. “By then the biogas plant would also have started wor...

24 Jan 2020

Karachi’s green buses to be powered by dung

News / Waste

Dumping plastic waste in Asia found destroying crops and health

...tries that cannot deal with the waste," said Beau Baconguis, a plastics campaigner at GAIA in Manila. "So the pollution is heading south to countries that do not have that capacity," she told the Thom...

23 Apr 2019

Dumping plastic waste in Asia found destroying crops and health

Antoine Amory driving the Whale Warrior during The MV Ocean Warrior's crossing to Hobart with journalists from The Sydney Morning Herald and ABC News

News / Water

Can hardline activists Sea Shepherd have an impact in Southeast Asia?

...tarctica to the Indian Ocean to the Gulf of Guinea, until the captain of The Thunder sank his own ship. Sea Shepherd rescued the crew. Under the constant watch of activists filming the chase, The Thun...

10 Feb 2020

Can hardline activists Sea Shepherd have an impact in Southeast Asia?

Opinion / Waste

Five ways to unlock the value of the circular economy

...t from the UN International Resources Panel (IRP) looked at three industrial sectors in the United States, China, Brazil and Germany. It found that extending the life of products through value-retenti...

16 Apr 2019

Five ways to unlock the value of the circular economy

The formula, here seen in pellet form, has been billed as an eco solution to degrading styrofoam waste, livestock growth, pests, baldness, bad odours, skin conditions, and a human detox treatment has been called out as green tech fraud. Image: Eco-Business

News / Food & Agriculture

‘Plastic-eating enzyme’ marketed in Southeast Asia alleged to be a scam

...the NEA required further studies to substantiate the product's claims, including more rigorous toxicity tests and proof that it was not harzardous to the environment. Use of an unregistered pest contr...

5 Feb 2020

‘Plastic-eating enzyme’ marketed in Southeast Asia alleged to be a scam

A PET bottle being recycled at a recycling plant. Image: EVRYTHNG

News / Waste

Could a digital barcode on consumer products enable the circular economy?

...te that has not been separated arrives at recycling plants and recyclers struggle to sort out what they can use from what they can’t. But what if there was a system that made it easy to distinguish re...

6 Mar 2019

Could a digital barcode on consumer products enable the circular economy?

News / Transport

Charging ahead? India's electric car revolution faces bumps

...the streets now but they are battery operated and have very little speed, so it is of no use to us," Mitra said. "Also, they need six hours to charge the battery at home and with that they can only mo...

3 Sep 2019

Charging ahead? India's electric car revolution faces bumps

News / Carbon & Climate

'Flight shaming' is in the air as UN summit faces climate crisis

...to climate events has started to hit the spotlight. Earlier this year, British actor Emma Thompson was criticised for taking a first-class flight from the United States to Britain to take part in clim...

30 Sep 2019

'Flight shaming' is in the air as UN summit faces climate crisis

News / Food & Agriculture

Poor nations could be future ‘guardians’ of agrobiodiversity

...tion,” the report states. Researchers from the organisation looked at existing species, their use and protection, as well as plans to nurture these species in the future. “ The best in terms of statu...

15 Jun 2019

Poor nations could be future ‘guardians’ of agrobiodiversity

News / Energy

Watershed moment: As renewables rise, world must brace for era of disruption

...ttempt to restrict rare earths supply to foreign buyers for now, but the case showed that recent fears that states endowed with critical materials may use them to exert pressure on others aren't entir...

27 Jan 2020

Watershed moment: As renewables rise, world must brace for era of disruption

News / Carbon & Climate

From tipping cascades to exponential curves: 5 things we learned at Ecosperity 2019

...time to meet the 12-year deadline set by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) to avoid the worst effects of the climate crisis? The ebullient Costa Rican was charasterically forthright...

12 Jun 2019

From tipping cascades to exponential curves: 5 things we learned at Ecosperity 2019

News / Manufacturing

'Perfect time' for ethical businesses to drive social change

...t to products that seek to improve the world. "For-profits create the mess, and then the not-for-profits clean it up," said Andrew O'Brien, director of external affairs at SEUK, which estimates that 2...

16 Nov 2018

'Perfect time' for ethical businesses to drive social change

News / Corporate Responsibility

Meet the Eco-Business A-Listers: Esther An, CDL's ubiquitous partnership builder

...t commit to sustainability. We just felt that that was the right thing to do. We felt that the building sector had a high environmental impact, and we couldn’t continue this model for long. We took a ...

3 Jan 2020

Meet the Eco-Business A-Listers: Esther An, CDL's ubiquitous partnership builder

Press Releases / Sustainability Knowledge Group

Sustainability Knowledge Group and Philanthropy U join forces for good

...ted to strategic stakeholder engagement. The course titled “Stakeholder Engagement Strategy” will touch upon all key stages of strategic stakeholder management and will guide participants ...

19 Apr 2019

Sustainability Knowledge Group and Philanthropy U join forces for good

Greenpeace activists paint "Stop Deforestation Now" onto the hull of a palm oil tanker at the Wilmar International refinery in Bitung, North Sulawesi.

News / Food & Agriculture

Wilmar aims for deforestation-free supply chain by 2020 after protests

...tancy The Forest Trust, whose chief executive Bastien Sachet said in a statement that "a tough road lies ahead" to achieve the commitments. Wilmar said it would pursue the plan is three ways—use sate...

6 Oct 2018

Wilmar aims for deforestation-free supply chain by 2020 after protests

News / Waste

Repair, refurbish, reuse: call to arms for electronics giants

...tor of the e-waste programme at the United Nations University (UNU) told the Thomson Reuters Foundation. The UNU estimates 50 million tonnes of e-waste is produced annually. It expects this to hit 120...

30 Jan 2019

Repair, refurbish, reuse: call to arms for electronics giants

worker burns slipper at brick kiln factory in Pakistan

News / Carbon & Climate

As Lahore chokes on winter smog, Pakistan moves to cut air pollution

...the city's air quality monitors, with the data feeding into the city's own air quality index. That index, updated daily, is posted for public use on the Environmental Protection Department's website. ...

8 Jan 2019

As Lahore chokes on winter smog, Pakistan moves to cut air pollution

News / Carbon & Climate

As protests rock Chile, COP25 move shines a spotlight on inequality

...t” to Chilean civil society which had called on the government to withdraw the military from the streets before hosting the climate talks. “It is a sign that the government does not recognise that the...

5 Nov 2019

As protests rock Chile, COP25 move shines a spotlight on inequality

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