Eco-Business

Companies are starting to label their products, from food and drink to cosmetics, to show how their products impact the climate – but will consumers understand?

A gold rush is increasingly despoiling rivers in Kachin state, polluting water with mercury, destroying riverbanks and farmland, and disrupting the traditional way of life of the region’s ethnic groups.

Low pay, long hours, risky conditions: what is the price of the West's wardrobe? As an economic crisis stalls Sri Lanka's pandemic recovery, women garment workers are bearing the brunt.

A campaign for a new alternative protein billed as the solution to the meat industry's environmental and health crisis claims soy feminises men. The startup emerges as alt-protein brands make potentially misleading claims as they jostle for a piece of a market growing by 20 per cent a year.

By Kannikar Petchkaew

By Rohit Shivhare

Thomson Reuters Foundation

By Manish Kumar

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An effective international agreement on ocean plastic pollution should account for all aspects of plastics production – from manufacturing to disposal, and it must involve governments, the private sector, and the public. By Raimund Bleischwitz

Sand mining in the Mekong is happening far more than officially reported — meaning the damage is far worse. More sustainable options are available. By Edward Park

Unless meaningful action is taken to decarbonise traditional hard-to-abate sectors like steel and commercial aviation, we will have little chance of keeping global temperatures at a safe level. By Jules Kortenhorst

Fast-fashion brands are copying designs of sustainable clothing labels but they have not managed to imitate the concept. By Arabesque

By Anna Moore

By Gulzhan Musaeva

Carbon & Climate

Saved by the pandemic?

By Mark Lynas

By Vincent Kneefel and John Duncan

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Southeast Asia's largest energy consumer has been slow to transition to renewables, but recent policies point to greater expansion of the country's solar, tidal and geothermal energy production.

Daughter Riri Damayanti (left) and her father Syamsul Bahri (right) are colleagues at a palm oil company in South Sumatra.

EB Studio What has been the effect of this agribusiness company's dual-income policy on the households of its Indonesian workers?

A freezer running on electricity generated by an off-grid solar system

EB Studio In line with the Sustainable Development Goals' aim to eradicate poverty, a Japanese multinational electronics firm is providing power supply stations, solar storage and products to countries with little or no access to electricity.

Greenpeace ad used by Iceland in the United Kingdom has been banned for being political.

The ad, which was made by Greenpeace and rebadged by Iceland, was blocked from airing on television by the UK's ad watchdog because it broke rules on political advertising. Iceland says it is not anti-palm oil, 'we are anti-deforestation.'

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The World Economic Forum – best known for its Annual Meeting in Davos since 1971 – has been a dynamic platform bringing together the best in business, politics and society to shape global industry agendas. How is WEF helping to shape China’s economic goals alongside its environmental and societal priorities?

Recycling keeps some plastic out of waterways, but it is no silver bullet for ocean pollution. Ryan Schoenike of OceanCycle tells Eco-Business how recycled plastic certification works, and how his firm is faring in a sector rocked by Covid.

Methane emissions, deforestation, water pollution, antibiotics overuse, animal welfare — the dairy industry faces a farmyard of sustainability issues. Eco-Business asked United States Dairy Export Council's Karen Scanlon how dairy farms can lighten their environmental impact.

A Singapore-based firm has just hatched a new plant-based egg product. The company's founder, Vinita Choolani, tells the Eco-Business Podcast why plant-based eggs will soon be a popular addition to nasi lemak and fried noodles dishes all over the region.

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