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Policy & Finance

Greenwashing risk could stymie China’s rise as world climate leader

All the pieces are in place for China to step forward as a global climate leader, but the country’s next steps could determine whether its ambitious targets bring about substantive change or fade away into greenwashing.
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Carbon & Climate

Severe climate risk threatens 40 per cent of global fossil reserves

Nearly half of the world’s fossil fuel reserves are vulnerable to extreme weather brought on by climate change, according to an assessment published last month by risk consultancy Verisk Maplecroft.
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Carbon & Climate

Destroy and deny: climate villains that made the headlines in 2021

The list of climate obstructionists and profiteers is getting longer. Eco-Business shortlists those who made the top headlines.
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Manufacturing

Biomicrogels Group adds Oliver Cescotti to board

The UK-based technology company looks to go public in three years.

Carbon & Climate

Data-driven platform aims to clear up fog of palm oil traceability

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Carbon & Climate

Indonesia’s ‘green’ electricity plan undermines its climate vows, activists say

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Energy

Exxon wants to build an ASEAN carbon capture network — so the region can keep using fossil fuels while fighting climate change

By Robin Hicks

Carbon & Climate

US$11 million per minute in fossil subsidies ‘add fuel to the fire’, IMF study shows

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Policy & Finance

Eye of fire: What Mexico's latest gas leak tells us about sustainability scores

Should an affiliation with the state really allow a company to escape accountability and stakeholder scrutiny? By Arabesque
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Carbon & Climate

How colonialism’s legacy makes it harder for countries to escape poverty and fossil fuels today

While fossil fuels were powering wealthy nations’ economic growth in the 19th and 20th centuries, many countries across the Global South remained largely impoverished. By Patrick Greiner
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Carbon & Climate

Keeping trees in the ground where they are already growing is an effective low-tech way to slow climate change

Permanently protecting large, mature forests is a faster and cheaper way to stabilise Earth's climate than complex carbon capture and storage schemes, and more effective than planting new trees. By Beverly Law and William Moomaw
Drilling for oil. Over two-thirds of public finance for new fossil fuels production is to come from China, Japan, Canada, and South Korea. This included US$12 billion per year for the exploration and extraction of new fossil fuel reserves. Image: Flickr/Sasin Tipchai

Carbon & Climate

Moving beyond net zero: How Asia can exhibit climate leadership

We've just celebrated the fifth anniversary of the Paris Climate Agreement. If governments want to limit global warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius, they must address a fundamental issue: plans to expand oil and gas extraction. By Norly Grace Mercado

CSR

Individual action is climate action

By Terese Anne Teoh

Policy & Finance

Not enough climate action in stimulus plans

By Yamide Dagnet and Joel Jaeger

Water

Mauritius oil spill: How coral reefs, mangroves and seagrass could be affected

By Sivajyodee Sannassy Pilly and John Turner and Ronan Roche

Food & Agriculture

Coconut oil production threatens five times more species than palm oil

By Erik Meijaard
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Carbon & Climate

Lawyers file complaint against BP for misleading 'greenwash' in new ad campaign

In the video, environmental law group ClientEarth compares the oil and gas giant's advertisements on its low-carbon investments to a burger chain claiming that they’re vegan because they’ve got salad on the menu.
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Energy

Denmark’s biggest energy company turns its back on fossil fuels

DONG Energy’s shift to 100 per cent renewable energy marks another important step in the global transition away from fossil fuels.
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Policy & Finance

2016 was the deadliest year ever for environmental defenders

A Global Witness report has found that more than 200 people were killed for engaging in peaceful protest against corporate mining, logging, agribusiness and poaching activities last year. The trend is growing.
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CSR

Watch now: Sustainability reporting made simple

Want to know more about sustainability reporting, but don't know where to begin? Eco-Business and simpleshow have produced an easy-to-understand clip that explains it all in less than three minutes.
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The Eco-Business Podcast

Energy

End fossil fuel extraction now: What IEA's net-zero alert means for the climate fight

Eco-Business talks to Peter Kiernan, lead energy analyst for the Economist Intelligence Unit, to unpack a new landmark report from the International Energy Agency, which proposes an immediate ban on fossil fuels extraction to curb global warming.
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Energy

Gas is still needed in the Philippines’ clean energy transition: PEIC chief Don Paulino

The Philippines has ended new coal development as it pursues a low-carbon future. Don Paulino of non-profit Philippine Energy Independence Council and boss of Shell's exploration arm, argues why natural gas should remain in the energy mix.
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Transport

Southeast Asia, we need to talk about bilge dumping

The waste oil dumped into the ocean by ships every year is equivalent to eight Exxon Valdez oil spills, and nowhere is the problem as severe as Southeast Asia. The EB Podcast talks to hotelier Andrew Dixon about how a clever idea using a ship tracking system can help curb an environmental crime that has been largely ignored.
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ERM China

ERM China and China Petroleum Engineering & Construction Company collaborate to advance low carbon energy transition

Schneider Electric

Schneider Electric

Schneider Electric enhances EcoStruxure Triconex safety view

Environmental Paper Network

Environmental Paper Network

Asia Pulp & Paper and APRIL Groups continued in 2018 to source wood from controversial supplier owned by Djarum Group

Energy Market Authority

Energy Market Authority

Rethinking energy; navigating change at the 10th edition of Singapore International Energy Week

Could the moringa industry’s most productive seeds end search for higher seed oil yield?

UK National Oceanography Centre joins World Ocean Council

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Solidiance

Solidiance

Electric Vehicles in Indonesia: The Road Towards Sustainable Transportation

Advanced Biofuel Center

Advanced Biofuel Center

Economic Feasibility of Moringa- Castor Bean - Camelina: Dual cropping in same acreage for Sustainable Feedstock Based Biodiesel Production

Economic Feasibility of Sustainable Non-Food Biodiesel: Castor

Technologies Offer Gasoline from Natural Gas as Low as $75 per Barrel

Economic Feasibility of Non-Food Biodiesel Production: Part 3

Economic Feasibility of Non-Food Feedstock Based Biodiesel Part 2

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