Eco-Business

A new deal could boost the economy in Bhutan and Nepal while helping India and Bangladesh – but it is based on increasingly precarious hydro.

Bangladesh’s interim government remains dependent on India as a dollar crisis limits its ability to generate its own electricity.

Post-pandemic Asia is working to revive tourism revenues, but overtourism is straining the environment and local communities, highlighting the need for sustainable tourism support from sending countries.

In Bhutan, local communities are increasingly turning to eco-tourism as a way to both revive their economies — and help protect the surrounding environment and endangered species.

Oleh Spoorthy Raman

Oleh Sushmita Kunwar, Ramesh Timilsina

Oleh Siva Selan

Oleh Z Rahman

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Founder and managing director Jessica Cheam investigates the relationship between business and our natural world, and shares about the genesis of Eco-Business in this book chapter contribution to 'Peace and Nature', a book compilation of 50 essays and edited by Professor Tommy Koh, Lye Lin Heng and Shawn Lum launched in Singapore recently. Oleh Jessica Cheam

The spike in plastics waste during the pandemic is worsening marine pollution.

Mounting marine pollution is choking the world’s oceans and rivers, especially in Southeast Asia — and it’ll only get worse unless something changes. Oleh Danny Marks

Renewables could spur the post-pandemic recovery in Asia. But as this year’s climate change conference approaches, the region's energy planners have a lot of catching up to do. Oleh Tim Ha

Oleh Jyotiraj Patra

Oleh Tolullah Oni

Oleh M Niaz Asadullah

Oleh Amita Chaudhury dan Junice Yeo

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