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Food & Agriculture
Aida Greenbury steps down from HCSA Foundation board
The former Asia Pulp and Paper chief sustainability officer has stepped down from the High Carbon Stock Approach Foundation board after 10 years with the tropical forest conservation group. The Indonesian palm oil smallholders union that Greenbury advises, SPKS, has also resigned from HCSA.
Food & Agriculture
‘Forest promises pulped’: Greenpeace publishes critique of APP’s no-deforestation pledge, 10 years on
Greenpeace, which helped forge the Indonesian paper giant's historic pledge in 2013, says it has not lived up to its decade-old commitment to weed deforestation out of its supply chain. APP has rejected the allegations.
Food & Agriculture
Indonesia’s peatlands are more fire-prone than official figures claim as dry season looms: study
As a dry season exacerbated by El Niño approaches, a new study warns that large expanses of Indonesia's climate-critical peatlands may not be sufficiently restored after the fires of 2015, despite government claims.
The Malaysia-based entrepreneur has struggled to secure investment to scale his bamboo tissue business The Nurturing Co beyond the Singapore market.
Food & Agriculture
Foodpanda sustainability head Laura Kantor joins abillion
#paper Opinion
There's been a lot of focus on getting households to sort their waste, but what happens after it's been collected?
Increasingly, we’re hearing that individual action is insignificant relative to needed political change, but that doesn’t mean you’re off the hook.
Policy & Finance
Building ‘blocks’ to fight the haze
To combat the fires in Indonesia and worsening haze, a Singaporean-based blockchain development company has launched the Global Ledger initiative to develop a coordinated regional and global response to such catastrophes.
Carbon & Climate
The bleak fate of the Amazon
What does Brazil's new president mean for the Amazon? Paulo Artaxo from the University of Sao Paulo's examines the damage right-wing Jair Bolsonaro could do to one of the world's most important ecosystems, and what that would mean for the rest of us.
Food & Agriculture
A new normal in the battle against fire and haze
Food & Agriculture
Indonesia's deforestation dropped 60% in 2017, but there's more to do
Food & Agriculture
The roadmap to decarbonisation won’t go far without land
#paper Videos
As Singapore-based salad bar chain SaladStop! marks its 10th anniversary, co-owner Katherine Desbaillets talks to Eco-Business about phasing out meat, food waste and single-use packaging, and dealing with customers who refuse to pay 10 cents for a plastic bag.
Food & Agriculture
Protecting the ‘wild and difficult’ forests of Sumatra
The sea of green on the Kampar Peninsula is one of last large intact lowland peatland forests of Sumatra. Five years ago, Restorasi Ekosistem Riau was established to ensure the biodiversity and the livelihoods it supports are protected and restored.
Carbon & Climate
Can Indonesia stay haze free?
Indonesia has made significant progress in fighting the fires caused by slash-and-burn forestry that choke Southeast Asia annually with toxic air pollution. Eco-Business spoke to the chair of Indonesia's Investment Coordinating Board (BKPM) about what it will take to put the fires out permanently.
Manufacturing
Here’s a way to re-use paper over and over again
Toshiba's newly unveiled multi-functional printer with in-built erasable printing capabilities is a world first, and can slash paper use in offices by as much as 80 per cent.
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Carbon & Climate
What does it take to save one of Indonesia’s last peatland forests?
EB Studio
The once abundant peat forests of Indonesia's Kampar peninsula have been deforested to half its size over the last two decades. Is there hope in saving the country's largest remaining forest reserve?
