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Will India’s curb on Malaysian palm oil hurt Indonesian forests?
India’s palm oil dispute with Malaysia could undo progress made on sustainable palm oil and put forests in Indonesia and elsewhere at greater risk if it drags on, experts said. Last month, India—Malay...
5 Feb 2020
Will India’s curb on Malaysian palm oil hurt Indonesian forests?
News /
Food & Agriculture
Breakthrough in plant engineering could boost productivity, feed millions more
The yield of many staple crops could be boosted by 40 per cent by a new process that adjusts the way they turn sunlight into energy, potentially feeding hundreds of millions of more people, American r...
4 Jan 2019
Breakthrough in plant engineering could boost productivity, feed millions more
Opinion /
Policy & Finance
A new deal for sustainable development
Almost nine decades ago, newly elected US President Franklin Roosevelt introduced the New Deal in 1933 in response to the Great Depression. The New Deal consisted of a number of mutually supportive in...
15 Nov 2019
A new deal for sustainable development
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PEFC
Committed collaboration for using IT in sustainable forest management in Southeast Asia
...
smallholders
and local communities. “In Myanmar, we are helping stakeholders to use IT at the landscape scale to bring sustainable management to Myanmar’s forests, involving public and pr...
12 Dec 2018
Committed collaboration for using IT in sustainable forest management in Southeast Asia
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Food & Agriculture
Palm oil: the pros and cons of a controversial commodity
...
smallholders
through profitable international trade. To its detractors, it is a cause of deforestation and social conflict, a direct threat to endangered species and a contributor to climate change.Wi...
5 Nov 2019
Palm oil: the pros and cons of a controversial commodity
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Food & Agriculture
Hacking sustainability for smallholder palm oil farmers
...
Smallholders
represent up to 40 per cent of Indonesia’s palm oil plantations but often have little access to resources to farm sustainably. The palm oil industry has drawn flak for labour rights abus...
2 May 2018
Hacking sustainability for smallholder palm oil farmers
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Food & Agriculture
What is sustainable rubber?
Bouncy, elastic, compressible and moldable—the unique properties of natural rubber make it one of the most widely used materials, found in products from pencil erasers and birthday balloons to condoms...
21 May 2019
What is sustainable rubber?
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CSR
How a pandemic changed the chief sustainability officer
A question corporate sustainability officers will have been asking themselves this year is, does my company value its environmental and social impact enough for my job to survive a pandemic? For many ...
6 Oct 2020
How a pandemic changed the chief sustainability officer
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Carbon & Climate
Urbanisation, commercial farms threaten Asia's forests, UN warns
Sprawling urban areas and expanding plantations are placing greater pressure on forests and resources in Asia-Pacific, hurting rural communities and exacerbating the effects of climate change, the Uni...
19 Jun 2019
Urbanisation, commercial farms threaten Asia's forests, UN warns
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Food & Agriculture
Long road ahead for ethical palm oil in booming Indian market
The global agricultural market has been severely shaken by Covid-19. Palm oil is no exception, particularly in India, the world’s largest importer of the commodity.Demand has fallen off a cliff in Ind...
22 Jun 2020
Long road ahead for ethical palm oil in booming Indian market
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Food & Agriculture
'We’ve been negligent,’ Indonesia’s president Widodo says as fire crisis deepens
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smallholders
for setting the fires. He then also claimed that there was a political angle to the arson, linking the burning to the elections that took place in April. Fixing the mistakes In light of t...
18 Sep 2019
'We’ve been negligent,’ Indonesia’s president Widodo says as fire crisis deepens
Opinion /
Carbon & Climate
Who benefits from false climate solutions?
In a recent special report, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) argues that addressing climate change will require fundamental changes to the way we manage forests and farmland. The ...
16 Sep 2019
Who benefits from false climate solutions?
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Policy & Finance
As 2020 fire season nears, Indonesian president blasts officials for last year's burning
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smallholders
for setting the fires. He then also claimed there was a political angle to the arson, linking the burning to the elections that took place in April. Widodo himself later acknowledged that...
12 Feb 2020
As 2020 fire season nears, Indonesian president blasts officials for last year's burning
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Food & Agriculture
Smallholder farmers are key to making the palm oil industry sustainable
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smallholders
will double their production capacity over the next decade, managing a 60 per cent share of Indonesia’s total oil palm plantation area by 2030. Independent
smallholders
are thus critical ...
30 Mar 2018
Smallholder farmers are key to making the palm oil industry sustainable
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Food & Agriculture
Too late to plant green seed among world's forgotten palm oil farmers?
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smallholders
like Kasno have been left behind, say industry officials. Only 78,000
smallholders
are certified by the Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil (RSPO), a body of consumer organisations, enviro...
3 Apr 2018
Too late to plant green seed among world's forgotten palm oil farmers?
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Food & Agriculture
Can the palm oil sector do more with less to save Indonesia's forests?
...
smallholders
who produce fresh fruit bunches for independent mills, making supply chains very hard to manage. Smallholder plantations are known for their low productivity and poor crop quality, which ...
10 Jul 2018
Can the palm oil sector do more with less to save Indonesia's forests?
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Food & Agriculture
Climate crisis hitting bottom 50 per cent hardest, say London protesters
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smallholders
supply 80 per cent of overall food produced in Asia, sub-Saharan Africa and Latin America. Traditional pastoralists are typically highly sustainable producers, but many are facing challen...
22 Apr 2019
Climate crisis hitting bottom 50 per cent hardest, say London protesters
Opinion /
Policy & Finance
Financing the green transition
Four years after world leaders signed the Paris climate agreement and adopted the United Nations’ 2030 Agenda with its 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), the global environmental crisis shows e...
17 Oct 2019
Financing the green transition
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Carbon & Climate
Want to save the planet? Move to Wales
Fighting climate change is much more than a day job for Chris Vernon and Erica Thompson. It is their entire way of life. They are part of a groundbreaking Welsh government scheme under which people ge...
23 Oct 2018
Want to save the planet? Move to Wales
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Food & Agriculture
'Nobel for food' winner tells ailing world to eat more veg
...
smallholders
in Asia miss out on new, resilient seeds that could improve yields in the face of climate change, according to the Netherlands-based Access to Seeds Foundation. Seeds for diversity Diver...
11 Jun 2019
'Nobel for food' winner tells ailing world to eat more veg
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Carbon & Climate
Japan-led decarbonisation forum called out for promoting ‘false’ climate solutions to Indonesia
Billed as a platform to advance decarbonisation and boosting economic growth, environmentalists say the Asia Zero Emission Community …
Japan-led decarbonisation forum called out for promoting 'false' climate solutions to Indonesia
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Carbon & Climate
Why is the weather becoming more extreme?
Climate change is making floods, heatwaves and storms more frequent and more intense; scientists warn emissions must be …
Why is the weather becoming more extreme?
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Manufacturing
‘Too much humiliation’: Why Samsung workers are striking in India
From poor pay to no holiday leave, hundreds of Samsung workers in India say they want basic rights …
'Too much humiliation': Why Samsung workers are striking in India
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Food & Agriculture
Can regenerative agriculture make palm oil sustainable?
Large trials in Indonesia and Malaysia are showing it is possible to become sustainable without damaging productivity or …
Can regenerative agriculture make palm oil sustainable?
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Policy & Finance
Insurers and reinsurers need to play a role in lowering the cost of Asia’s coal phase-out: GFANZ
Several big insurers have pulled out of the coal business due to their exclusion policies in recent years. …
Insurers and reinsurers need to play a role in lowering the cost of Asia’s coal phase-out: GFANZ
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Food & Agriculture
Industry pressure stalls EU anti-deforestation law rollout; NGOs call delay ‘an act of nature vandalism’
After sustained pressure from commodity producers and resistance from its own members, the EU Commission decided to postpone …
Industry pressure stalls EU anti-deforestation law rollout; NGOs call delay 'an act of nature vandalism'
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