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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
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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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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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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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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
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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
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The Earthshot Prize
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
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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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Cities
Restoring wildlife to oil palm landscapes
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smallholders
and is frequently done illegally. “That’s why it’s important to have a project on the ground taking care of an area. Otherwise, they just sneak in and start clearing,” he adds. Model for ...
23 Feb 2023
Restoring wildlife to oil palm landscapes
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Food & Agriculture
RSPO CEO Joseph D'Cruz: we need to get better at telling the sustainable palm oil story
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smallholders
; building a sector that provides sustainability for these
smallholders
is a huge opportunity and an important challenge. What about the big markets, India — the world's biggest consumer o...
20 Jun 2022
RSPO CEO Joseph D'Cruz: we need to get better at telling the sustainable palm oil story
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Carbon & Climate
Why carbon markets need data infrastructure, not just carbon credits: an Asia-Pacific perspective
Carbon markets in the region are growing fast, but their credibility still depends on strong evidence grounded in …
Why carbon markets need data infrastructure, not just carbon credits: an Asia-Pacific perspective
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Energy
Pakistan’s solar revolution leans on workers toiling in extreme heat
Nearly a fifth of all Pakistani households rely on solar energy, but the people installing and cleaning these …
Pakistan’s solar revolution leans on workers toiling in extreme heat
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Carbon & Climate
Heat stress could trap Filipinos in poverty: report
Frontline communities are already paying the everyday costs of extreme heat as the government cuts climate resilience funds, …
Heat stress could trap Filipinos in poverty: report
Opinion /
Manufacturing
Indonesia can build a green steel industry, but only if the government creates the market
Green steel faces weak domestic demand in Indonesia, as prices remain 30 to 60 per cent higher than …
Indonesia can build a green steel industry, but only if the government creates the market
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Transport & Logistics
Investigators find Laos’s illegal wildlife trade thriving despite crackdowns
Laotian authorities say they’ve seized illegal wildlife products and launched investigations, but conservation groups argue enforcement remains too …
Investigators find Laos's illegal wildlife trade thriving despite crackdowns
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Carbon & Climate
Fossil fuel free zones: A path to a cleaner future, if governments heed them
These territorial extraction bans are a useful tool in oil and gas phaseouts, if they can survive political …
Fossil fuel free zones: A path to a cleaner future, if governments heed them
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