Business Green

MAY 7, 2021

With many developing countries in Asia among the world's largest coal power markets, ADB's decision to back away from fossil fuel infrastructure could well mark a significant step in the continent's decarbonisation journey.

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Investment Fossil fuels Policy Global warming 97

Eco-Business

SEPTEMBER 22, 2020

As the biggest consumer of palm oil, India can take a lead in demanding ethical production that can stop deforestation in Southeast Asia and reduce air pollution.

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Asia Ethics Pollution Demand 19

Business Green

JANUARY 26, 2021

Demand for such products continues to grow rapidly around the world and is widely blamed for fuelling mass deforestation - both legal and illegal - in Asia, Africa, and South America, where forests are frequently cleared to make way for commodity cultivation and production.

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The Angry Clean Energy Guy

JULY 5, 2018

Climate change, ethical finance and people power are bound to force ASEAN to turn the corner on renewables and adopt global environmental technology innovations that allow its citizens to live healthier lives fueled by clean energy. FourthWave Southeast Asia is the global laggard in renewables, but for how much longer?

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Sustainability Consulting

SEPTEMBER 30, 2020

To meet growing demand, roughly 23 billion shoes are produced every year, mostly in factories across China and Southeast Asia. And consumers should support companies using clean energy and ethical manufacturing processes. Sneaker consumption is at an all-time high with Americans purchasing 3 pairs a year on average.

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Ethics Carbon Fossil fuels Fashion 66

Business Green

FEBRUARY 12, 2020

In parts of Asia such as Indonesia and Malaysia, meanwhile, rising global demand for palm oil has been driving farmers to clear forest to make way for palm oil plantations. Yet as Global Canopy's report stresses, the challenge is not insurmountable.

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Green Market Oracle

SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

As businesses and society continue to transition towards further sustainable development and corporate social responsibility, the key challenge faced is in rethinking the philosophy of management and business ethics to achieve this change in deep and lasting ways.

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Climate change Ethics Sustainability Health 95

AFN Sustainable Protein

OCTOBER 3, 2019

“Demand for meat is growing faster in Asia, especially China, than anywhere else on the planet, and satiating the continent’s demand has global implications,” says Impossible Foods. Fitch also notes that environmental, ethical, and health concerns may also be driving demand for fake meat in China. ”, here. .

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Asia Startups Demand Health 52

Grist

DECEMBER 21, 2019

When women do engage on geoengineering issues, they do so largely through a governance and ethics lens, says Tina Sikka, a critical race and gender theorist at Newcastle University who published a book on solar geoengineering last year. But in terms of actually working on the science, “there are almost no women.”.

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Business Green

AUGUST 16, 2021

Agriculture's impact on local communities is a pertinent issue in South America and Southeast Asia where land conversion seriously impacts Indigenous peoples. In mid-July, Extinction Rebellion UK blockaded a McDonald's supplier to protest meat-eating as damaging to the climate.

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AGreenLiving

JULY 14, 2021

Edge Environment taylor flores Wed, 07/14/2021 – 09:37 Edge is an international sustainability consultancy focused on serving clients based in Asia-Pacific and the Americas. We were founded in 2008 and our teams are based in Australia, Chile, and the United States.

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Ethics Asia Sustainability Agriculture 28

Business Green

MAY 19, 2021

The names of these mills - all in South America and Asia Pacific - are public and all produce oil certified by the RSPO. The process has focused on awarding longer term contracts to suppliers who can commit to Mars' environmental, social and ethical expectations, and driving positive improvements throughout their extended supply chains.".

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Asia South America Carbon Sustainability 58

Eco-Business

OCTOBER 14, 2019

Norway’s Arctic residents are facing hardships from rapid warming, which is also affecting communities in Asia. But the Nordic country’s wealth is built on oil, and exploration is moving further north. Can it find a middle ground?

Ethics 15

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AGreenLiving

JUNE 4, 2021

From the beginning, giving back to animal protection organizations was essential to Pievani, who had seen moon bears rescued from the bear bile industry when she visited Animals Asia and witnessed the organization’s efforts first-hand. Aesthetics and ethics can and must coexist.”

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The Guardian: Energy

APRIL 17, 2024

As vast solar plants multiply, so does the scrap, set to reach 19m tonnes by 2050. But disposing of the waste often falls to informal traders who risk injury when dismantling broken panels Under the scorching sun, a sea of solar panels gleams in the semi-arid landscape.

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Grist

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

And more heat will come, bringing parts of Mexico’s coasts and more of South Asia into the danger zone. That’s not ethical.” In recent years, parts of Pakistan and the Arabian Peninsula have already briefly crossed this scary threshold. Newer research suggests that the limit might be even lower than 35 degrees C. Rykaczewski said.

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Eco-Business

FEBRUARY 18, 2020

Air pollution kills an estimated seven million people worldwide every year.

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Pollution Ethics Asia 10

Business Green

DECEMBER 20, 2020

Meanwhile, uncertainty and disruption wrought by the pandemic and Brexit have brought food and farming systems into sharper focus for consumers in 2020, and countless studies have highlighted an uptick in veganism , flexitarianism, and overall demand for sustainable and ethical food.

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Carbon-negative Meat alternatives Innovation Biotech 85

AGreenLiving

MAY 21, 2021

Losses came in the Atlantic Forest and Cerrado savanna in Brazil, the grasslands of the Northern Great Plains in the United States and, more recently, similar ecoregions in Central Asia and Africa. “Unfortunately, no one comes out ahead here,” said Jason Clay, WWF’s senior vice president of markets.

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Agriculture Ethics Demand Asia 36

Sustainability Consulting

MARCH 11, 2021

It ranges from 10 percent of GDP in advanced economies to more than 30 percent in South Asia and the Middle East and North Africa. However, according to the International Monetary Fund, women earn 63 percent less than men, and the resulting loss of economic output is staggering. ESG is also focusing on human rights.

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Aviation Carbon-neutral Climate change Sustainability 59

Grist

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

For years, controversy has swirled around the ethics of using novel biotechnology for species conservation. Before turning to genetic engineering, the foundation tried unsuccessfully to breed a hybrid chestnut that looked and grew like an American chestnut but had genes from species native to Asia that gave it blight resistance.

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Biotechnology Agriculture Government Technology 145

Low Impact

APRIL 18, 2021

Do you think these ideas will spread more rapidly in Africa, Asia and Latin America? We have a lot of potential allies too – there are a lot of ethical banks, like Triodos and others, who want to see this stuff happen. I interviewed Mercedes from Quipu Markets in Colombia. I think she visited you to see how you do things.

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Unsustainable

FEBRUARY 17, 2020

With all the changes that are happening rapidly to our environment and the very recent fires in Australia and floods in Asia, the so-called deception turned into reality. Yet, some claim it a hoax and deny actual changes happening to our planet.

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AGreenLiving

DECEMBER 1, 2021

As a company, it’s been awarded as one of the 2021 World’s Most Ethical Companies, earned an ‘A’ Climate 2020 score, and been recognized by Energy Star. Artist Yi Hsuan Sung developed the material from a gel sourced from red seaweed and ubiquitous in food throughout Asia. It’s zero-waste, biodegradable and handcrafted.

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AGreenLiving

APRIL 9, 2021

New golf course developments in Asia, the Middle East and Africa are incorporating sustainability into the design and implementation phases of their projects. Particularly, Laguna L?ng We need more sustainability commitments from golf equipment manufacturers.

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Climate change Real Estate Agriculture Sustainability 36

AGreenLiving

SEPTEMBER 21, 2020

Most significant, in the aftermath of the 2015 Paris Climate Accord, these firms increasingly collaborate through organizations such as Climate Action 100+, known as CA100+ (which presently has more than 450 investor members with over $40 trillion in assets), Ceres and the Asia Investor Group on Climate Change.

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AFN Sustainable Protein

SEPTEMBER 21, 2019

This may not be the meat our fathers will eat, but with no antibiotics, chemicals, or ethical objections, it may be the meat our children will eat. Still, there seem to be many opportunities in food ingredients and processed products like dumplings, meatballs, hotdogs and hybrid plant/cell ag burgers.

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Business Green

JULY 23, 2021

But those jobs are quickly taking on higher-order tasks and responsibilities, as S&P's Mattison explained: "We're looking for people who understand metrics and data and can do analysis and can build products around analytics and data for sustainability with intellectual rigor, analytical rigor and high ethics and credentials.".

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Green Market Oracle

OCTOBER 9, 2019

They spend your money to buy a seat at the UN Security Council, and also, they are giving your money to other countries to fight climate change in Asia and build roads in Africa. If this election is anything, it’s about trust and ethics, and we are in a climate emergency. The other leaders on this stage are globalist.

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The Guardian: Energy

JUNE 25, 2024

Global demand for renewable energy is surging so why make solar panels, wind turbines and EVs dearer for western consumers? With historic heatwaves sweeping across the US and other parts of the northern hemisphere, June is expected to be the 13th consecutive month of record-breaking global temperatures.

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AGreenLiving

JANUARY 18, 2021

Tesla and other companies have found more ethical sources of cobalt elsewhere, but Tesla has been accused of tolerating maiming and deaths of kids in the DRC. Via Nikkei Asia and Clean Technica Image via Dylan Scarsone. Much of cobalt is mined in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, sometimes via child slavery. Read the rest here:Â .

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Climate Tech VC

OCTOBER 10, 2023

The company is expected to expand across Asia, Australia, and Europe and is also pushing into Latin American markets. Carbon removal startup Heirloom wrote an open letter asking the industry to conform to a set of quality and ethical standards. Heirloom recently received part of a $1.2B

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Grist

MARCH 26, 2025

Before hitting these theoretical limits, though, demand for the metals is likely to outstrip the worlds ability to economically and ethically mine them, said Beatrice Browning, an expert on battery recycling at Benchmark Mineral Intelligence, which tracks the industry. at scale manufacturers are buying it from Asia.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 9, 2024

Just one Republican appears to have accepted, according to documents filed by Heritage with the House Committee on Ethics that were reviewed by DeSmog. The ethics filing was signed by the Heritage Foundation’s general counsel Daniel Mauler, who is listed as a contributor to Project 2025. What was the purpose of these discussions?

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