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Waste

Plastics set to overtake coal plants on GHG emissions, new study shows

It argues that plastics production in the US is responsible for 232 million metric tonnes of greenhouse gases every year, the equivalent of 116.5 gigawatts of coal plants. These numbers are likely to increase as production expands.
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Energy

Hydroelectric project in Sumatra risks extinction of world’s rarest orangutan

As well as threatening the home of the critically endangered Tapanuli orangutan, environmentalists say the Batang Toru hydropower plant in Indonesia jeopardises the livelihoods of 130,000 people and increases the risk of landslides
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CSR

Acquittal of Indonesian villagers protesting pollution signifies rare win against SLAPP

An Indonesian court has acquitted six villagers on the island of Bangka in a criminal case widely seen as an attempt to silence them by a company accused of polluting their village.
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Manufacturing

‘Child labour rampant in Bangladesh’s leather industry’

A study finds Bangladesh’s leather industry employing children in hazardous work for a pittance.

Energy

US bans imports of solar panel material tied to forced labour in China

By Michelle Tay

Carbon & Climate

UK is now halfway to meeting its ‘net-zero emissions’ target

By Simon Evans, Carbon Brief

Manufacturing

Myanmar: Fashion houses face ethical bind as military junta cracks down on civil protests

By Gillian Parker

Manufacturing

Britain's M&S backs call to stop forced labour in China's Xinjiang

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Food & Agriculture

Meat is mayhem

We must use the knowledge we already have to transform our agricultural and food systems, or face the prospect of a prolonged epoch of contagion, fear, and economic stagnation. By Christine Chemnitz and Inka Dewitz
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Carbon & Climate

Global emissions are way off target. What needs to happen?

The overall trend of rising emissions has not been reversed over the last decade meaning there is less time to reach the Paris goal. What urgent steps need to be taken? By Harald Winkler
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Manufacturing

Why aren't global clothing brands responding to #MeToo?

The clothing industry should work harder to prevent and address gender-based violence in their supply chains. In order to do so, they first need to confront how badly their inspection or social auditing programs fail to protect women. By Aruna Kashyap
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Policy & Finance

Financing the green transition

Changing the energy-financing models of banks, or developing sustainability-linked loans and green bonds, will simply not be enough to facilitate the transition to a more sustainable economy. A new approach that is effective and scalable must take investors’ expectations fully into account. By Bertrand Badré and Antoine Sire

Waste

Plastic in the oceans is not the fault of the global south

By Alison Greenwood-Nguyen and Robin J.Roth

Carbon & Climate

6 ways to remove carbon pollution from the sky

By James Mulligan and Gretchen Ellison and Kelly Levin

Policy & Finance

Low-carbon growth Is a $26 trillion opportunity. Here are 4 ways to seize It.

By Andrew Steer and Helen Mountford, Molly McGregor

Manufacturing

Three ways making a smartphone can harm the environment

By Patrick Byrne and Karen Hudson-Edwards
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Manufacturing

Clothing the Loop: Art made from textile scraps shows the true cost of fashion

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.
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Manufacturing

Industry 4.0: When humans and robots go hand in hand

Sponsored 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.
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CSR

Indian rapping about Unilever's mercury mess makes a hit

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.
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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 …
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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.
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Jinko Solar Co.,Ltd.

JinkoSolar successfully supplies 541MW Tiger Mono facial to Xuan Thien Ea-Sub Project Phase I in Vietnam

Ethical Corporation

Ethical Corporation

CEO & Executive Director, UN Global Compact joins Ethical Corporation’s Responsible Business Summit New York 2019

The region's longest running CarbonNeutral® apparel factory

Fourth Green Industry conference concludes in Korea

Reducing mercury emissions in China’s zinc smelting plants

Asia Plantation Capital celebrates 1st anniversary of Agarwood distillery

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2011 deep research report on the global and Chinese solar wafer or ingot industry

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