Eco-Business

By continuing to approve new coal power plants and polluting factories, China’s local governments are courting future environmental and economic problems.

Asian manufacturers are starting to green their operations but also need to make factories and employees resilient to heat and floods.

UN plastics treaty negotiations resume in Paris to protect the environment from worsening impacts of waste worldwide.

As electric vehicle sales soar, report warns of rights and environmental risks in nickel producers Indonesia and the Philippines.

By Ng Wai Mun

By Josh Gabbatiss

Thomson Reuters Foundation

By Tanya Thomas

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The pandemic has supercharged fintech innovation, but without thoughtful implementation we risk reinforcing old biases and inequalities and failing to serve women’s needs. By Mary Ellen Iskenderian and Graham Macmillan

According to the Brookings Institution, Africa spent around $43 billion on food imports in 2019. Due to the current inflationary environment, most recent estimates are probably higher. By Hippolyte Fofack

A difficult road lies ahead for Indonesia. Faced with a rare opportunity to turbo-charge economic growth, it has major problems yet to solve. By Werry Darta Taifur

An updated law prohibiting forced labour is limited to formal employment relationships. Workers in sectors that are unregulated are not sufficiently protected, nor does the law reach workers who have free movement, but suffer mistreatment. By Priya Sharma

Food & Agriculture

Meat is mayhem

By Christine Chemnitz and Inka Dewitz

By Harald Winkler

By Aruna Kashyap

By Bertrand Badré and Antoine Sire

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An abandoned garment factory in Phnom Penh is reclaimed by artists in a haunting exhibition that depicts the impact of the fashion industry on the environment.

EB Studio Amid concerns that the rise of industrial robots may soon render humans obsolete, Swiss automation giant ABB’s latest innovation may help shine a new light on what the future will look like when humans and robots can work together as partners.

More than 3 million have watched Sofia Ashraf’s 'Kodaikanal Won't' - based on American singer Nicki Minaj's 'Anaconda' - which calls for Unilever to clean up a mercury-contaminated factory in India.

In Amsterdam a mobile factory, the size of two shipping containers, ingests rubble at one end, liquifies it …

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Has Covid-19 really improved air quality? Eco-Business spoke to air pollution epidemiologist Dr Vivian Pun about the real air quality story behind the pandemic, and what the virus is telling us about tackling the world's most underrated environmental issue.

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