Eco-Business

Can India follow in China’s footsteps and bend the curve with its declared war on pollution? Latest data shows that political will and strong policies are needed to bring about air quality improvements.

Experts link increased dengue cases to unplanned urbanisation and climate change.

The Malaysia-based entrepreneur has struggled to secure investment to scale his bamboo tissue business The Nurturing Co beyond the Singapore market.

Half of the industry’s global revenue comes from Asia Pacific sales. The ballooning bottled water business is “distracting” efforts to quench thirst for all, a United Nations report said.

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By Susanna De Guio, Francisco Parra Galaz

By Hannah Alcoseba Fernandez

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Better water access and sanitation is a social and public good, and it needs investment. By Alan Nicol and Lyla Mehta

Technology for modernising waste management favours male workers. Urban development should focus on the needs of everyday people, instead of chasing aesthetic ideals and profit-making imperatives. By Josie Wittmer

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As the world warms, diseases transmitted by insects may spread. For World Health Day, we look at how certain prevention strategies can break the link between climate change and animal diseases which spread to humans. By Ilan Kelman

Sual 1 coal plant Pangasinan, Philippines

Ahead of the COP26 climate summit in Glasgow in November, Eco-Business highlights some of the major issues the Southeast Asian country must address to attain its vision of a low-carbon future. By Hannah Alcoseba Fernandez

By Kevin Rudd

By Aditi Hazra

By Michael Ferrari, Parag Khanna and Spencer Wells

By Claudia Sadoff and Mark Smith

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The Philippine government has begun the process of relocating more than 200,000 families living along waterways to restore Manila Bay, the main body of water in the capital.

child receives a drink of water in Sudan

Worldwide, 100 million families are stuck in a cycle of poverty and disease because of the lack of access to clean water. What would it take to slake humanity's thirst for water in a sustainable way?