Lifestyle News
Sunscreens have become an important part of people’s sun management routine, protecting skin from harmful solar UV radiation. But many of these products contain chemicals that can be harmful to saltwater and freshwater ecosystems, while preliminary findings indicate some ingredients can have health effects.
Emissions in the apparel sector keep growing alongside demand for fast fashion, despite net-zero pledges.
Carbon & Climate
What’s next for China’s personal carbon accounts?
The world’s biggest experiment in calculating and managing personal carbon footprints swelled and crashed in China over the past three years.
To many locals, the plant is part of Lamma’s eccentric appeal. Yet its four decades of burning coal on the wind-blessed island raise bigger questions about Hong Kong’s commitment to the energy transition.
Carbon & Climate
Explainer: What is ‘climate anxiety’?
Lifestyle Opinion
The classification of animals as ‘property’ underpins harsh judicial decisions and continues to plague the lives of animals in India.
Food & Agriculture
Feed the world but feed it well: Why food systems must be reformed
Food systems are a critical lever for environmental sustainability and public health, making nutrition a smart economic strategy.
Food & Agriculture
Fighting meat with emotions, not facts
Messages based on disgust reduce the appeal of meat by decreasing enjoyment and moral detachment, driving consumers towards a plant-based diet, a study finds.
Urban heat is a public health emergency, an infrastructure challenge and a climate crisis rolled into one. To safeguard cities and their most vulnerable populations, India needs city-level cost-effective long-term mitigation strategies.
Policy & Finance
Fake ‘threats’: How trans issues become a weapon
Manufacturing
Fast fashion has a serious coal problem
Policy & Finance
Making women’s work count, in real time
Lifestyle Videos
Carbon & Climate
Climate ‘last thing on voters’ minds’ in Singapore election
Campaigning for the city-state's general elections has crossed the halfway mark, but climate has hardly featured as an electoral issue. Eco-Business hits the streets to ask Singaporeans from a range of socioeconomic groups: Would they vote for a party that promises bolder climate action?
Exclusive
Jack Johnson says yes, but it is a long road ahead. In this exclusive interview, we ask the American singer-songwriter and UNEP Goodwill Ambassador about his hopes for the state of the world and how music plays a role in providing a dose of optimism in dark times.
The Green Mortician is the city-state's first water cremation service, which has a small carbon footprint compared to traditional funeral options.
Carbon & Climate
Dr Sylvia Earle: Why are we waging war on nature?
Exclusive
In this exclusive interview to mark Earth Day, Eco-Business speaks to Dr Sylvia Earle, oceanographer and founder of Mission Blue, who draws the link between our climate crisis and the health of our oceans.
Lifestyle Podcasts
Indonesian environmental campaigners took a novel approach to raising climate awareness by publishing five children's books about the country's environmental issues. This podcast explores their creative process and the public's response.
Formula 1 emits the carbon equivalent of 30,000 homes as it roars through 21 countries in a season. Mercedes-AMG Petronas F1 head of sustainability Alice Ashpitel says the sport's ambition to decarbonise by 2030 is not unrealistic.
Goumbook launched a regional oceans network that brought discussions on the blue economy to the forefront at the last COP summit. Founder Tatiana Abella tells the Eco-Business Podcast why healthy oceans are important for the Middle East.
Carbon & Climate
‘The problem is not that young people are eco-anxious. It’s that people in positions of power are not’: activist Clover Hogan
Eco-anxiety is a healthy psychological response, says 24-year-old activist Clover Hogan. The founder of nonprofit Force of Nature tells the Eco-Business Podcast how to respond to anxiety in a world that is "numb" to the climate crisis.
Lifestyle Press Releases
Lifestyle Research
Eco-Business, supported by Boehringer Ingelheim
Moving towards a rabies-free Southeast Asia
Eco-Business & Regional Project Energy Security and Climate Change Asia-Pacific of the KAS
The value of biodiversity for Asia's megacities
Eco-Business, in partnership with AWS Institute and Intel
Southeast Asia's cloud story: Impact, inclusivity, and growth
Eco-Business
Tackling Asia’s plastic problem
