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Polisi & Kewangan
Women’s forest and land rights remain fragile across the Global South
A new report by the Rights and Resources Initiative finds little progress in securing Indigenous and local community women's rights to forests, with many legal frameworks remaining gender-blind or regressive.
Three new irrigation dams have been approved in Cambodia’s Cardamom Mountains, overlapping with two carbon credit projects. The new developments join five hydropower projects that are already eating into these same forests.
Though disproportionately affected by plastic pollution, Indigenous Peoples are struggling to shape a global treaty on it.
Polisi & Kewangan
Indigenous Ngata Toro seek larger role in Indonesia national park
Despite losing most of their customary forest, Ngata Toro Indigenous community in Central Sulawesi still vowed to protect nature.
Makanan & Pertanian
Can Indonesia produce more food without deforestation?
#Indigenous peoples Pendapat
Karbon & Cuaca
How Indigenous communities in Malaysia stopped the chop
For years, Indigenous communities in Sarawak fought against logging on their lands. Today, they can claim a rare victory as timber giant Samling has withdrawn from logging native forests in the Baram area.
Karbon & Cuaca
The false promise of ‘responsible mining’
Major industry players are working together to create a voluntary global standard that can certify minerals as responsibly produced. But such a framework would consolidate the power and influence of these mining giants and allow them to act with impunity, while providing false assurances to investors, governments, and consumers.
Polisi & Kewangan
‘No-Go’ mining zones can protect nature as renewable energy surges
Prohibiting mining in key areas can safeguard biodiversity and Indigenous rights in the energy transition.
Karbon & Cuaca
Redefine the romanticised narrative of the ‘resilient Filipino’ for broader climate policy transformation
Climate change is clearly affecting the Philippines. Whether it can transform a long-held national attribute into successful climate adaptation will determine what the future holds.
Makanan & Pertanian
Plantations are not forests
Karbon & Cuaca
Women leading the green charge
#Indigenous peoples Video
Polisi & Kewangan
‘We are not afraid’: Locals in biodiversity-rich Philippine island fight back against nickel mine
Mining operations at Altai Philippines Mining Corporation have been suspended for now, after week-long protests from locals of Sibuyan Island in Romblon, who claimed the extraction of nickel ore will disrupt the island’s intact ecosystems.
#Indigenous peoples Audio
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.
Karbon & Cuaca
‘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.
Polisi & Kewangan
‘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.
The stories of Malaysia’s indigenous tribes are now being captured through the fresh lenses of young female filmmakers. In this bilingual podcast recorded in English and Bahasa Melayu, they tell Eco-Business why they've picked up the camera.
#Indigenous peoples Siaran Akhbar
United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (ESCAP)
Community-driven innovations closing SDG data gaps in Asia and the Pacific
International Labour Organization
More countries affirm support for ending the gender pay gap by 2030
UN Development Programme
Ten countries to bag UNDP's 2023 Equator Prize
SAVE Rivers Network
Upper Baram Forest Area set to launch
