#regenerative agriculture News
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 local economies.
Waste
Climate action through circularity and waste management: Malaysian palm oil company IOI’s approach
Integrated palm oil player IOI Corporation Berhad identified circularity as a material matter or an issue that will significantly affect its stakeholders and businesses in 2023. This case study looks at how it aims to achieve net-zero carbon emissions by 2040.
Food & Agriculture
Activists pressure RSPO to reject Astra Agro Lestari membership application
The sustainable palm oil certification body defended its decision to accept AAL's membership application, which NGOs say undermine its credibility. In an investigation, AAL's subsidiaries were found to be involved in land-grabbing in Sulawesi, Indonesia, allegations which AAL has denied.
Carbon & Climate
Carbon credits a ‘catalyst’ for climate action, not just a method to offset emissions: ecosecurities chief
EB Studio
Carbon financing, be it through nature or technology-based solutions, will be key to near and long-term decarbonisation in Asia. With the region’s emissions trading systems seeing some progress, regulation is still crucial to momentum and expansion.
Carbon & Climate
What are chief sustainability officers prioritising in 2024?
#regenerative agriculture Opinion
Food & Agriculture
Empowering Indonesian women farmers in the face of climate change
Community-based initiatives like cooperative farming ventures and water conservation projects can play a vital role in building resilience among women farmers.
Food & Agriculture
Decarbonising our food
Averting catastrophic climate scenarios requires that we phase out fossil fuels and transform food systems at the same time. A growing body of scientific research shows that the two challenges are not just equally urgent, but also mutually dependent.
Policy & Finance
A new playbook for preserving nature
Market-based solutions must be harnessed to prevent the exploitation of ecosystems. But such an approach will succeed only if markets' governance principles and operating methods are designed to promote equity and sustainable prosperity.
Food & Agriculture
Lobby groups want to kill nature policies – here’s what we can do
With laws to regenerate biodiversity facing resistance, we must explain how nature can work for people
Food & Agriculture
The corporate capture of the UN Food Summit
Policy & Finance
Closing the nature-finance gap
#regenerative agriculture Podcasts
Goumbook launched a regional oceans network that brought discussions on the blue economy to the forefront at the last COP summit. Founder Tatiana Abella tells the Eco-Business Podcast why healthy oceans are important for the Middle East.
David Antonioli says current rules spur piecemeal offsetting instead of enabling faster growth of climate ventures. He expects pushback to his ideas in a market polarised over integrity issues, but wants players to think big-picture.
Carbon & Climate
‘Five years ago, everyone wanted to be Elon Musk’: Where is climate tech in Southeast Asia now?
Entrepreneur Steve Melhuish tells the EB Podcast where the biggest opportunities to reduce emissions and make money are in Southeast Asia, and why finding the right economic incentives is critical for climate tech startups.
#regenerative agriculture Press Releases
International Association for Agriculture Sustainability
Experts from 26 nations gathering to discuss the sustainable agriculture of post-Covid-19 era
