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Policy & Finance
Green agenda missing from China and Russia’s ‘no limits’ partnership
Environmental issues are subordinate to the strategic imperative of countering US influence. That could ultimately weaken the relationship amid shake-ups in global trade.
Factory bosses are taking action as the country's worst heatwave in 70 years makes workers sick, but unions say more must be done.
Carbon & Climate
China’s manufacturing pushed emissions sky high. What’s next?
The manufacturing drive risks counteracting the emissions gains of China’s clean-energy drive.
Water
After decades of underinvestment, the tide might finally be turning for water innovation in Asia
The water crisis is sparking more interest from private equity and start-ups are dishing out solutions that are less capital-intensive, observe industry watchers. The data, however, points to a picture that is more mixed, with stop-start investment cycles that are largely cyclical.
Manufacturing
How can fashion's net-zero future be paid for fairly?
#factories Opinion
Sportswear, athleisure and sneakers are big business. But they depend on fossil fuel-based materials, and recycling them is particularly tricky.
Policy & Finance
How can fintech innovation supercharge global women’s development?
The pandemic has supercharged fintech innovation, but without thoughtful implementation we risk reinforcing old biases and inequalities and failing to serve women’s needs.
Food & Agriculture
Food security is national security
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.
Policy & Finance
Indonesia at risk of missing golden economic opportunity
A difficult road lies ahead for Indonesia. Faced with a rare opportunity to turbo-charge economic growth, it has major problems yet to solve.
Food & Agriculture
Meat is mayhem
Carbon & Climate
Global emissions are way off target. What needs to happen?
Manufacturing
Why aren't global clothing brands responding to #MeToo?
#factories Videos
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.
Manufacturing
Industry 4.0: When humans and robots go hand in hand
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.
Green Buildings
Disaster debris can become building blocks for a new life
In Amsterdam a mobile factory, the size of two shipping containers, ingests rubble at one end, liquifies it …
#factories Podcasts
Carbon & Climate
How has the pandemic really affected air pollution?
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.
#factories Press Releases
Schneider Electric
Chew’s Agriculture Singapore gets energy efficiency boost
Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung (FES) and Climate Action Network Southeast Asia (CANSEA)
'Just transition' pushed by experts, activists and sectors amid record floods, droughts in Asia
