#UN Berita
Plastic is now ubiquitous in the Mekong, Asia’s Mother of Rivers, and experts and local people are struggling to contain the risks to human health, biodiversity and livelihoods.
Karbon & Iklim
Drought in the Amazon: How the world’s nature is drying out
Drought and desertification is making human life on the planet harder to sustain. What can be done?
The number of new coal plants under development in the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) region has reached record lows since the signing of the Paris Agreement in 2015.
Karbon & Iklim
Southeast Asia’s environmental defenders on the frontline
Environmental defenders across Southeast Asia face threats, violence and legal hurdles in their fight for justice. Five share their struggles.
Kebijakan & Keuangan
Cradle of freedom? Saudis lambasted for hosting UN internet forum
Kebijakan & Keuangan
Q&A: Can China’s ‘ecological redlines’ help other countries hit conservation goals?
#UN Opini
Kebijakan & Keuangan
Need human rights research? Talk to the Global South
If a tea seller or a street vendor in Mumbai had drafted the United Nations Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights, they might have looked very different. The focus on Global North research in academia needs to shift.
Countries which govern half the world's territorial oceans have yet to integrate ocean-focused solutions into their nationally determined contributions, or NDCs, due for an update by February 2025.
Kebijakan & Keuangan
Did COP29 fail women?
The climate crisis is not gender-neutral, so our solutions cannot be. Without a consistent focus on gender-responsive climate finance, we risk perpetuating cycles of vulnerability.
Kebijakan & Keuangan
Universities as ministries for sustainable futures?
Universities, not beholden to election cycles or shareholder demands, can invest in research to generate long-term climate data and transcend disciplinary silos, unlike other traditional institutions.
Kebijakan & Keuangan
COP29 must deliver the goods
#UN Video
Karbon & Iklim
Highlights from Ecosperity Week 2019
Eminent speakers and thousands of attendees discussed strategies for a resource-efficient future at Ecosperity Week 2019. As they heard about the science of global warming, delegates were called upon to be part of the solution.
Karbon & Iklim
Ideas to tackle the existential threat of global warming
Suggestions by delegates at the World Bank's recent Innovate4Climate event in Singapore included: Supporting developing countries in their efforts to conserve the forests, and launching more incubators for climate-friendly solutions.
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?
The IPCC's climate warning is an opportunity for the business world to show leadership, said UNDP's Achim Steiner in the opening speech at the Responsible Business Forum in Singapore.
#UN Podcasts
Kebijakan & Keuangan
‘Never give in to fear’: Nobel peace prize nominee and Filipino Indigenous leader Vicky Tauli Corpuz
In celebration of Indigenous Peoples' month in the Philippines, the former United Nations special rapporteur tells the Eco-Business Podcast about her lifelong work to empower communities in Asia’s most dangerous country for environmental defenders.
Pangan & Agrikultur
How can cold chain secure the future of food?
Studio EB
[The EB Podcast] In this first episode of the series Tomorrow's cities: Engineering the energy transition, we explore how cold chain can secure the future of food in the world's most populous continent.
#UN Rilis Pers
UN Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (ESCAP)
UN forum urges 'whole-of-society' in data to leave no one behind
UN Trade and Development
Empowering women digital entrepreneurs in South Asia
United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (ESCAP)
UN conference calls for renewed, bold efforts to make gender equality commitments a reality in Asia and the Pacific
UN Trade and Development (UNCTAD)
UN Trade and Development drives integrated finance, investment and trade solutions to climate change
#UN Riset
Plastic Credit Exchange (PCX)
How plastic credits are supporting the Global Plastics Treaty
United Nations Environment Programme / International Resource Panel
Building biodiversity – the natural resource management approach
SolAbility Sustainable Intelligence
The Global Sustainable Competitiveness Report 2020
WWF-Singapore
The business case for a UN treaty on plastic pollution
Eco-Business
Sustainable Cities: From Possibility to Reality
