Eco-Business

While the US and EU impose tariffs in response, some developing economies see opportunities to benefit from China’s green manufacturing strengths.

Suspension can temporarily contain increasing capacity but the real issue lies in the slowing of the industry’s decarbonisation.

Artificial intelligence could help the fashion industry become greener, but unions worry workers will pay the price.

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

Thomson Reuters Foundation

By Anika Patel

Thomson Reuters Foundation

By Anders Hove

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Sportswear, athleisure and sneakers are big business. But they depend on fossil fuel-based materials, and recycling them is particularly tricky. By Alexandra Sherlock and Rebecca Van Amber

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

According to the Brookings Institution, Africa spent around $43 billion on food imports in 2019. Due to the current inflationary environment, most recent estimates are probably higher. By Hippolyte Fofack

A difficult road lies ahead for Indonesia. Faced with a rare opportunity to turbo-charge economic growth, it has major problems yet to solve. By Werry Darta Taifur

By Priya Sharma

Food & Agriculture

Meat is mayhem

By Christine Chemnitz and Inka Dewitz

By Harald Winkler

By Aruna Kashyap

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An abandoned garment factory in Phnom Penh is reclaimed by artists in a haunting exhibition that depicts the impact of the fashion industry on the environment.

EB Studio Amid concerns that the rise of industrial robots may soon render humans obsolete, Swiss automation giant ABB’s latest innovation may help shine a new light on what the future will look like when humans and robots can work together as partners.

More than 3 million have watched Sofia Ashraf’s 'Kodaikanal Won't' - based on American singer Nicki Minaj's 'Anaconda' - which calls for Unilever to clean up a mercury-contaminated factory in India.

In Amsterdam a mobile factory, the size of two shipping containers, ingests rubble at one end, liquifies it …

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Has Covid-19 really improved air quality? Eco-Business spoke to air pollution epidemiologist Dr Vivian Pun about the real air quality story behind the pandemic, and what the virus is telling us about tackling the world's most underrated environmental issue.

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