Eco-Business

An ambitious roadmap for smog mitigation has been launched in Pakistan’s Punjab province, but experts are not convinced.

Land deforested in a concession in East Kalimantan owned by Sulaidy.

Palm oil company First Resources has denied that it secured sugarcane concessions in Papua through its subsidiaries, which would jeopardise a no-deforestation pledge the company made almost a decade ago.

Ground-level ozone, an invisible pollutant, hampers tree growth and reduces carbon absorption, potentially making tropical forests less effective as carbon sinks than previously estimated.

Three companies that manage pulpwood plantations in Indonesia are facing a citizen lawsuit over repeated fires on their concessions that have been blamed for illnesses and other disruptions.

Oleh Charles Pekow

SciDev Net

Oleh P M Baigal

Oleh Carolyn Cowan

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As climate change makes smog and bushfires more common, people will die from air pollution at increasingly high rates – especially in densely populated cities. Oleh Yuming Guo dan Wenhua Yu

Air pollution is a 'silent killer', say former New Zealand PM and former WHO chief scientist. Oleh Helen Clark dan Soumya Swaminathan

Both countries must address a lack of awareness among farmers, limited access to machinery and sticking to traditional practices. International funding can better equip these efforts. Oleh Abdul Waheed Bhutto

Smoke from forest fires pollutes populated areas without regard for international boundaries

Governments, civil society and the international community need to work fast as the dry season approaches and smoke haze returns in Southeast Asia. Oleh Helena Varkkey

Oleh Euston Quah

Oleh Rhett A. Butler

Oleh Kamal Prakash Seth

Oleh Gulzhan Musaeva

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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.

In a bid to prevent another haze crisis, Indonesian agribusiness firms have developed innovative ways to work with communities to stop burning land. Here's how the fire free village programme is tackling the issue, one village at a time.

Scientists from Center for International Forestry Research explain the causes and effects of burning peatlands as they visit Central Kalimantan in Indonesia.

From Greenpeace's drones to NASA's satellites, eyes in the sky are revealing the extent of forest fires in Southeast Asia. The bad news: southern New Guinea is now also a hotspot.

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Asia lags the world in natural catastrophe protection. Part of the problem could be counting extreme weather losses only after they happen, industry insiders tell the Eco-Business podcast.

Studio EB Transboundary haze pollution is back with a vengeance in Southeast Asia. The Eco-Business Podcast talks to RSPO CEO Joseph D'Cruz about what the palm oil sector can do to put out the peatland fires that have burned annually for four decades.

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