Covid-19 News
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Biosurveillance of markets and legal wildlife trade needed to limit pandemic risk: expertsPolicy & Finance
Biosurveillance of markets and legal wildlife trade needed to limit pandemic risk: experts
Almost 90 per cent of the 180 recognised RNA viruses that can harm humans are zoonotic in origin. But disease biosurveillance of the world’s wildlife markets and legal trade is largely absent, putting humanity at significant risk. -
How to tackle Covid-19 jobs crisis and climate change? Invest in clean energyPutting money into solar equipment manufacturing creates 1.5 times as many jobs as the same spending on fossil fuels, while for wind power the figure is 1.2 times, report finds.
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Has the spring sprung for China’s crop biodiversity?Maintaining crop genetic diversity needs the involvement of farming communities, and a system for sharing the benefits with them. -
Cloud infrastructure could be key to meeting climate goalsAdopting cloud-first policies, enabling corporate renewable energy investment, and greater public-private collaboration are needed for the path to net-zero carbon.
Covid-19 Opinion
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Is Singapore poised to become Asia’s hub for alternative protein?– Singapore is the first country in the world to approve cell-based meat, but that’s just one of the five reasons why the city-state is well-positioned to provide an enabling environment for food tech innovators to thrive. -
Rise of the chief sustainability officer– In 2020, Fortune 500 companies hired more chief sustainability officers than in the previous three years combined. What makes a good CSO and why are CSOs becoming indispensable to businesses? -
Biodiversity loss is one of the greatest existential crises of our time. A long-term, flexible solution is needed.Policy & Finance
Biodiversity loss is one of the greatest existential crises of our time. A long-term, flexible solution is needed.
– Stopping biodiversity loss will take decades of sustained work. That’s why the time is now for donors to increase unrestricted funding to conservation organisations.
Videos
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Pandemics and the exploitation of wildlife — what's the connection?– The origin of Covid-19 is believed to be a market selling live wild animals. Eco-Business asked Anbarasi Boopal of Singapore-based animal welfare charity Acres about the link between the exploitation of animals and pandemics, and what can be done to curb the illegal wildlife trade.
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