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Manufacturing

Can the fashion industry adapt to a warming world?

COP30 agreed to triple adaptation finance, but the fashion industry needs adaptation measures now.
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Transport

Will Proton’s electric vehicle spur new local supply chains – and displace the old?

Last December's launch of Malaysia's first national EV could spur local component production, but this could be constrained by market conditions while the country's old supply chain, in which the carmaker remains heavily invested, will endure.
Sneakers_Sustainable_Fashion

Lifestyle

Out of step: Why sneakers and sportswear still lag on sustainability

Sportswear, athleisure and sneakers are big business. But they depend on fossil fuel-based materials, and recycling them is particularly tricky.
Indian_Women_Financial

Policy & Finance

How can fintech innovation supercharge global women’s development?

The pandemic has supercharged fintech innovation, but without thoughtful implementation we risk reinforcing old biases and inequalities and failing to serve women’s needs.

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13 December 2022

Food_Scarcity_Pakistan

Food & Agriculture

Food security is national security

25 November 2022

Haze_Indonesia

Policy & Finance

Indonesia at risk of missing golden economic opportunity

18 November 2022

Covid19_gloves

Corporate Responsibility

Gloves off in Malaysia's modern slavery struggle

15 September 2020

chickens on the farm poultry

Food & Agriculture

Meat is mayhem

16 March 2020

pink sky emissions

Carbon & Climate

Global emissions are way off target. What needs to happen?

26 November 2019

clothing women factory

Manufacturing

Why aren't global clothing brands responding to #MeToo?

17 October 2019

wind turbines purple sky

Policy & Finance

Financing the green transition

1 February 2019

Women in China sort through waste plastics to be sent for recycling.

Waste

Plastic in the oceans is not the fault of the global south

12 September 2018

Oceanfront stroll

Carbon & Climate

6 ways to remove carbon pollution from the sky

7 September 2018

Business meeting and graphs

Policy & Finance

Low-carbon growth Is a $26 trillion opportunity. Here are 4 ways to seize It.

29 August 2018

What's in your smartphone?

Manufacturing

Three ways making a smartphone can harm the environment

1 April 2015

blue econ

Manufacturing

Is Blue the new Green?

2 February 2015

bhopal medical appeal protests

Corporate Responsibility

Deadly lessons from 'Bhopal: A Prayer for Rain'

9 January 2014

US shale boom

Energy

The global impact of US shale

5 December 2013

Fashion retail brands with CSR

Corporate Responsibility

Corporate social responsibility in the fashion industry

20 November 2013

Oxfam's Behind the Brands campaign

Food & Agriculture

The bitterness of sugar

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