Eco-Business

As Western countries cut reliance on China for renewable energy technologies, shifting power dynamics could see other Asian nations like India and Indonesia emerge with bigger roles in the global green energy supply chain, says former UN sustainable investment envoy.

Invasive alien species are spreading around the world at “unprecedented and increasing rates”, according to a landmark new report from the Intergovernmental Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES).

We asked six experts what to expect from China’s Belt and Road Initiative as it enters its second decade.

Battery recycling needs standardising, say experts, who also call for loopholes to be closed and awareness raised among EV owners.

By Zhang Yongping, Zhou Feng, Peng Linan, Yu Yang

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By Zhang Yongping, Zhou Feng, Peng Linan, Yu Yang

By Wanyuan Song

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Engaging the world’s largest polluter on climate solutions has not been smooth sailing. Supply chains are highly inter-connected and businesses find that they need to tread along a tightrope between China and the West, even on climate. By Junice Yeo

Liberalising cross-border flows of green products and services could be the key to saving the planet. By Jong Woo Kang and Albert Park

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Indonesian president Joko Widodo sees building infrastructure as a key national priority. China’s lending filled a funding gap, but can Indonesia avoid a debt trap? By Nur Rachmat Yuliantoro

The International Maritime Organization (IMO) has one more chance to commit to a 1.5°C future. By Razan Al Mubarak

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By Mekala Krishnan and Olivia White

By Ming Wang

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Hong Kong government’s three-step plan to ban ivory trade by 2021 received the go-ahead from the Chief Executive in Council, and the legislature amendments will be tabled before the Legislative Council in the first half of 2017.

Demand for Tibetan prayer beads from China have brought Nepal’s Timal village into the limelight, but the sustainability of this opaque market is leading to concerns.

Non-profit groups WildAid and African Wildlife Foundation have released a video containing undercover footage, exposing ivory laundering in Hong Kong and the loopholes in its regulations on smuggled tusks.

A new programme using innovative technology and unmanned aerial vehicles is proving that zero poaching is possible in African game reserves. Watch the video here.

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EB Studio An alliance between an environmental group and an agribusiness company aims to reduce encroachment by smallholder coffee farmers in the Bukit Barisan Selatan National Park, one of Sumatra’s last stands of lowland forest.

EB Studio [The EB Podcast] In the third episode of the series Tomorrow’s cities: Engineering the energy transition, we explore how the shipping industry is charting a course to a low-carbon future.

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