Tours of deprived parts of Asia's cities are increasingly popular with tourists. But do they help or exploit? Eco-Business reviews slum tours in Mumbai, Jakarta and Manila.
With booming air travel putting significantly more planes in the sky, aerospace firms and governments have sought ways to replace raw materials with renewable and recycled ones in producing their parts. Here’s a look at how the aircraft manufacturing industry has moved towards a circular economy.
A new index quantifies the link between air quality and longevity, but it may not be the best guide to informing policy to address the air pollution problem.
Alison Greenwood-Nguyen and Robin J.Roth –
Plastic pollution in developing Asia is often in the spotlight, but the conversation largely ignores the role of Western countries in the plastic waste trade.
James Mulligan
and Gretchen Ellison and Kelly Levin –
To prevent the worst impacts of climate change, we'll need to not just reduce emissions, but actually remove some carbon dioxide from the sky, say WRI experts.
Andrew Steer
and Helen Mountford, Molly McGregor –
The writing is on the wall: existing resource-intensive, unsustainable businesses will be left behind in the near future. WRI experts offer 4 tips for low-carbon growth.
A radical new way of thinking about business - The Blue Economy - may soon be making its way to Asia, as resource scarcity becomes a reality and sustainability, a necessity.
The lapses in corporate responsibility and government regulation that had a hand in India's worst industrial disaster in Bhopal are still evident in the way companies operate today. This must be urgently addressed.
Alaine Johnson –
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.
Kristie Thong –
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.
Medilyn Manibo –
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 into cement and spurts out Lego-shaped building blocks.
The '2011 Deep Research Report on the Global and Chinese Solar Wafer or Ingot Industry' report, is a professional and in-depth research report on the global and Chinese solar wafer ...
