Business Patterns in politics on palm oil June 7, 2019 0 Written by Otto Hospes. Image Credit: Oil palm by CIFOR/Flickr, Licence CC BY-NC-ND 2.0. The recent controversy between Indonesia and the EU over the revised EU Renewable Energy Directive…
Business Reconciling conflicting visions of ‘sustainable palm oil’ June 6, 2019 0 Written by Rory Padfield. Image Credit: Truck filled with oil palm by CIFOR/Flickr, licence: CC BY-NC-ND 2.0. Diplomatic relations between the EU and the major…
Conservation Palm Oil Futures: Youth Perceptions in Indonesia June 5, 2019 1 Written by Ratih Indraswari, Stanislaus Risadi Apresian, Adam Tyson, Helena Varkkey and Shofwan Al Banna Choiruzzad. Image Credit to the authors. In 2006 Indonesia became…
China A view from somewhere: An alternative to globalised forms of climate knowledge December 14, 2018 0 By Xi Wang. A few years ago I was the grader in an undergraduate environmental policy course. The question that most students wanted the answer…
China Trash politics: Grassroots objection and the incineration boom in China December 13, 2018 0 By Yao Li. In recent years China has become one of the world’s largest producers of trash. With garbage piling up, the government has turned…
Climate Change India and the 1.5°C warning: The power of political targets December 12, 2018 0 By Elizabeth Chatterjee. From the Paris Agreement’s 2°C collective mitigation goal to the EU’s 20-20-20 plan, numerical targets have become a hallmark of environmental governance.…
Climate Change Is Malaysia doing enough to avoid 1.5°C of global warming? December 11, 2018 0 By Matthew Ashfold; Svenja Hanson; Jasmin Irisha Jim Ilham; Peter Moug; Vivek Thuppil. The Paris Agreement (PA) requires that the increase in global average temperature…
Asia Between the Devil and the IPCC: Cultural constraints to achieving 1.5°C warming December 10, 2018 0 By Laurie Parsons. As previous incarnations have arguably failed to do, the IPCC’s Special Report on 1.5°C warming resounded like the tolling of a funeral…
China Drop by Drop, Better Management Makes Dents in China’s Water Stress July 10, 2018 0 Written by Jiao Wang. With more than one-third of its land area facing high or extremely high-water stress, China is working hard to match growing demands for…
China Where is the E In ESG Disclosure in China? May 31, 2018 0 Written by Dawn McGregor and Guo Peiyuan. Environmental and water related risks have consistently been in the World Economic Forum’s Top Five Global Risks for…