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Can marketing solve Asia’s plastic pollution problem?

...te in the city-state, an NGO representative suggested that this has given citizens an “out of sight, out of mind” attitude to waste—which explains why the city-state's overall plastic recycling rate i...

31 Jan 2018

Can marketing solve Asia’s plastic pollution problem?

News / Food & Agriculture

Abandoned by banks, Indonesia's poor farmers turn to crowdfunding

...they contribute the most labour but often lack access to farming income and assets. At Indonesian startup CROWDE, the initial target is to get 100,000 farmers to join the scheme and then foster their ...

12 Oct 2018

Abandoned by banks, Indonesia's poor farmers turn to crowdfunding

News / Food & Agriculture

What do Indonesians really think about palm oil?

...tarting to worry about the existence of oil palm plantations. They have become environmentally literate and have started to speak out against oil palm plantations that do not preserve the environment....

16 Jan 2019

What do Indonesians really think about palm oil?

News / Food & Agriculture

UK supermarket Iceland pledges no palm oil in its own-brand products

...Thomson Reuters Foundation, the charitable arm of Thomson Reuters, that covers humanitarian news, women's rights, trafficking, property rights, climate change and resilience. Visit http://news.trust.o...

16 Apr 2018

UK supermarket Iceland pledges no palm oil in its own-brand products

News / Food & Agriculture

Wilmar launches landmark sustainable finance deal, child protection policy

...tainability, Wilmar, told Eco-Business that in addition to its ongoing sustainability efforts, the company would be taking additional steps as part of its efforts to meet the Sustainalytics targets. T...

1 Dec 2017

Wilmar launches landmark sustainable finance deal, child protection policy

Opinion / Policy & Finance

Environmental impact assessments aren't protecting the environment

...t to incorporate all impacts related to the development? In short, vested interests. Most governments require the developer to fund the EIA. And the last thing the developer wants is an EIA that stop...

19 Dec 2018

Environmental impact assessments aren't protecting the environment

News / Cities

Forget mansions, modest homes needed amid land pressures, Indian architect says

...ties that factors in the environment, climate and the community, besides economics. Those factors don't feature much in India's Smart Cities plan to create 100 hi-tech urban hubs that activists say wi...

11 Oct 2017

Forget mansions, modest homes needed amid land pressures, Indian architect says

News / Waste

Despite state-level bans, plastic bags still suffocate India's cities

...to the flimsy carrier bags while plastic waste still litters the streets of the South Asian nation. In mid-January, Indian-administered Jammu and Kashmir became the latest state to prohibit all polyth...

2 Mar 2018

Despite state-level bans, plastic bags still suffocate India's cities

Singapore uses more airconditioning per person than any country in Southeast Asia, and energy expended on ai 73 per cent more energy on cooling more by 2030, to a total of 666,748 terrajoules. Image: Eco-Business

News / Green Buildings

Air-con addicted Singapore seeks new ways to escape urban heat trap

...tional obsession with keeping cool. The city is getting hotter. As it gets hotter, the air-conditioning is cranked up. The more air-conditioning that is blasted out, the hotter it gets. The outside a...

28 Sep 2018

Air-con addicted Singapore seeks new ways to escape urban heat trap

News / Carbon & Climate

How will development in the Arctic affect Asia?

...tions with opportunities to benefit from its wealth of natural resources. Mikaa Mered, professor at the Free Institute of International Relations Studies (ILERI) pointed out at a recent event in Singa...

18 May 2018

How will development in the Arctic affect Asia?

News / Carbon & Climate

Where will you be when the sea rises?

...talking at the Singapore Writers Festival at the Victoria Theatre on Sunday. In this interview with Eco-Business, Goodell talks about his reaction to the latest report from the Intergovernmental Panel...

9 Nov 2018

Where will you be when the sea rises?

News / Energy

Refugees ready to go green and become 'innovation hubs'

...t tend to think of refugees as potential energy consumers, but the opportunities to build a relationship with them are huge," Mattia Vianello, one of the report's authors, told the Thomson Reuters Fou...

31 Jan 2018

Refugees ready to go green and become 'innovation hubs'

Videos / Lifestyle

The Conscious Festival draws biggest turnout yet in Singapore

...t to introduce visitors to vegan gelato and show them that the texture of vegan gelato is just as good as dairy products," Jack Chan, co-founder of Butterknife Folk, a local vegan dessert store, told ...

9 Nov 2018

The Conscious Festival draws biggest turnout yet in Singapore

Opinion / Food & Agriculture

History teaches us that careful thought must go into planting trees

...t planted trees were leading to the loss of water in rivers that they forced the government to investigate the relationship between trees and water. The subsequent research showed unequivocally that t...

29 Jun 2018

History teaches us that careful thought must go into planting trees

News / Carbon & Climate

Zeroing in on air pollution

...tter city centre as a result. “About half the people who’ve responded to the consultation so far have said that they’re against the scheme and that it’s a dreadful infringement of the right to drive t...

31 Oct 2017

Zeroing in on air pollution

News / Energy

Power play—who's winning Southeast Asia's renewables race?

...ttle progress over the past decade that a magnifying glass is needed to see the difference. But while the prosperous city-state has traditionally been reluctant to take action, it now seems willing to...

31 Jul 2019

Power play—who's winning Southeast Asia's renewables race?

News / Policy & Finance

Coal in the Philippines—Are banks risking US$21 billion on stranded assets?

...the Philippines do not take into account that the coal plant is not used as much as expected. If it is used less than 85 per cent of capacity, it affects the project’s ability to pay back the loan. Th...

14 Sep 2018

Coal in the Philippines—Are banks risking US$21 billion on stranded assets?

News / Food & Agriculture

Can agriculture and the climate fix their 'unhappy marriage' in 2018?

...t, how to plant, what variety to plant," he said. Another pilot run by Microsoft and the International Crop Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics sends text messages and automated calls to tell...

2 Jan 2018

Can agriculture and the climate fix their 'unhappy marriage' in 2018?

News / Energy

Australia's rising electricity prices are turning businesses on to renewables

...t to spend their money with companies that are doing the right thing, and that also applies to where people want to work," he said, pointing to a large mining company that has struggled to attract tal...

23 May 2018

Australia's rising electricity prices are turning businesses on to renewables

News / Carbon & Climate

As scientists ponder 'hacking the climate,' poor countries are wary

...t Climate Centre Poor countries have disproportionately born the brunt of climate change even as they had little to do with causing it. In 2015, the United States alone emitted more planet-warming ca...

23 Oct 2017

As scientists ponder 'hacking the climate,' poor countries are wary

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