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'Second-party opinions’: a greenwash safeguard or just for show?

...the ones in the credit ratings world between the analytical and commercial divisions, they “are easily breached". “There’s nothing that tells me that wouldn’t be the same with SPOs, especially if they...

28 Aug 2024

'Second-party opinions’: a greenwash safeguard or just for show?

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News / Policy & Finance

Bangladesh handed CITES suspension as illegal wildlife trade continues

...the threat of extinction, but their trade needs to be controlled. Meanwhile, Appendix III includes the species that need the countries’ cooperation with each other for their sustainable existence in t...

28 Aug 2024

Bangladesh handed CITES suspension as illegal wildlife trade continues

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News / Policy & Finance

MUFG sustainability-linked loans financed deforestation in Indonesia: NGO

...The image on the left shows the plantation before tree clearance took place, the image on the right show the area post-deforestation. RGE has said that in this area, "there was no secondary dryland fo...

28 Aug 2024

MUFG sustainability-linked loans financed deforestation in Indonesia: NGO

News / Carbon & Climate

Nature should not be overlooked in the race to deploy clean energy: BirdLife International CEO Martin Harper

...the progress,] we are not complacent. There's a lot of work to be done. If governments embrace it, they are signalling to the renewable energy industry that these are standards that they expect, and t...

27 Aug 2024

Nature should not be overlooked in the race to deploy clean energy: BirdLife International CEO Martin Harper

News / Policy & Finance

B Lab Singapore 'evaluating best team structure' after latest staff exit

...the most rigorous assessment of social and environmental performance in the certification industry. There are currently 53 B Corps in Singapore, more than twice the number as in 2021, when B Lab was ...

27 Aug 2024

B Lab Singapore 'evaluating best team structure' after latest staff exit

News / Waste

Managing Asia's healthcare waste and emissions remains challenging amid increasing climate risks

...the region’s gross carbon emissions. There are some reasons for this: the region’s aging population – set to host two-thirds of the world’s population above the age of 65 by 2030 – combined with stead...

27 Aug 2024

Managing Asia's healthcare waste and emissions remains challenging amid increasing climate risks

News / Energy

China faces three challenges to a coal-free future

...the past five years. This means the grid needs additional flexibility to cope, because renewable generation fluctuates with the weather. In Shandong, the rapid expansion of solar has transformed the e...

26 Aug 2024

China faces three challenges to a coal-free future

News / Food & Agriculture

Five charts: How climate change is driving up food prices around the world

...their fields to plant any crops” after the extreme weather. In February, the Guardian spoke to a crop farmer who anticipated an “appalling” yield after the winter rain. Another arable farmer in the s...

26 Aug 2024

Five charts: How climate change is driving up food prices around the world

Farmer working on a rice field in Bali, Indonesia.

Opinion / Food & Agriculture

La Niña: boon or bane for Southeast Asia’s food security?

...when the El Niño-Southern Oscillation (ENSO) is in the neutral phase. Some climate authorities are cautious; Indonesia’s, the Philippines’, Vietnam’s and Malaysia’s state weather bureaus are monitorin...

23 Aug 2024

La Niña: boon or bane for Southeast Asia’s food security?

News / Carbon & Climate

Analysis: China’s CO2 falls 1% in Q2 2024 in first quarterly drop since Covid-19

...the Paris Agreement. The most important political meeting of the year, the “third plenum” of the Central Committee of the Communist Party, took place in July. The readout of the meeting mentioned carb...

23 Aug 2024

Analysis: China’s CO2 falls 1% in Q2 2024 in first quarterly drop since Covid-19

News / Carbon & Climate

Climate change made ‘monsoon downpour’ behind Kerala landslides 10% more intense

...the impacts on the stability of hill slopes in the area. On 31 July, the day after disaster struck, India’s climate ministry issued the sixth draft of a notification to classify parts of the Western ...

23 Aug 2024

Climate change made ‘monsoon downpour’ behind Kerala landslides 10% more intense

News / Carbon & Climate

How biochar can help China reach carbon neutrality

...the gas is first removed from the atmosphere via plant photosynthesis. These plants then undergo pyrolysis, during which around 30-40 per cent of the carbon they hold is converted and fixed into more ...

23 Aug 2024

How biochar can help China reach carbon neutrality

Opinion / Energy

Lip service to Indonesia's energy transition in Jokowi's speech

...the energy transition. The involvement of NU and Muhammadiyah in the dirty business of coal energy is not only a washing machine for the ecological sins of the coal industry but will also weaken the e...

22 Aug 2024

Lip service to Indonesia's energy transition in Jokowi's speech

News / Energy

Coal mining has led to 35% loss of native land cover in India’s central coal belt

...thermal power production in India, most of it concentrated in the eastern coal belt of the country. Over the last 10 years, coal public sector undertakings have increased their green cover by only 18,...

22 Aug 2024

Coal mining has led to 35% loss of native land cover in India’s central coal belt

News / Policy & Finance

How is an election-packed 2024 shaping up for women in power?

...the world. While there have been historic moments, such as the election of Mexico's first female president Claudia Sheinbaum in June and Kamala Harris' bid to become the first female president of the ...

22 Aug 2024

How is an election-packed 2024 shaping up for women in power?

Breakfast Tales: Choose your own adventure game

News / Food & Agriculture

Can a game increase awareness and demand for local produce in Singapore? Agroath says yes

...the game as a tool to engage the youth on topics of food security in the next three months. When testing the beta version of the game at the Conscious Festival x i Light festival, we received excellen...

21 Aug 2024

Can a game increase awareness and demand for local produce in Singapore? Agroath says yes

News / Carbon & Climate

Meeting 1.5°C warming limit hinges on governments more than technology, study says

...These are known as the “C1 scenarios”. However, these scenarios do not consider all of the feasibility constraints outlined by the IPCC. (Furthermore, these scenarios – which run from 2019 – assume th...

21 Aug 2024

Meeting 1.5°C warming limit hinges on governments more than technology, study says

News / Policy & Finance

Indonesia’s president-elect should get real on nickel

...the Center for Research on Energy and Clean Air (CREA), highlights the significant economic impact of these emissions on the region.Our research also indicates that if the nickel industry continues to...

21 Aug 2024

Indonesia’s president-elect should get real on nickel

News / Transport

Electric ships could be a breakthrough for China

...These costs will hamper the introduction of electric shipping. Another challenge to the widespread uptake of electric ships is recharging. Development of the ships might be steaming ahead, but the pla...

21 Aug 2024

Electric ships could be a breakthrough for China

News / Cities

To engage China’s Gen Z on climate, speak to their life values

...their career choices. But when I asked for other concrete changes that those targets might encourage them to make in their lives, “buying an electric car” was the most common answer. This is despite t...

20 Aug 2024

To engage China’s Gen Z on climate, speak to their life values

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