Papua New Guinea News
Policy & Finance
Billion-dollar forest conservation scheme Rimba Collective scrambles to meet first-year targets
With just days to go before the end of the year, it has closed two more projects in Indonesia, bringing the initiative to complement the palm oil industry's efforts to end deforestation in Southeast Asia closer to its near-term target.
Palm oil companies across Southeast Asia are liable for the recovery of a Puerto Rico-sized area of forest because of their history of environmental harm, a new report shows.
The conglomerate has promoted Mark Harper to replace the outgoing Mark Watson.
With Chinese companies having invested heavily in Indonesian nickel, greening the sector is vitally important.
Policy & Finance
Ukraine war gives ammunition to the deep-sea mining lobby
Policy & Finance
What poverty looks like on your plate
Papua New Guinea Opinion
Carbon & Climate
Exploring the intersection of business and our ecology
Founder and managing director Jessica Cheam investigates the relationship between business and our natural world, and shares about the genesis of Eco-Business in this book chapter contribution to 'Peace and Nature', a book compilation of 50 essays and edited by Professor Tommy Koh, Lye Lin Heng and Shawn Lum launched in Singapore recently.
Carbon & Climate
How climate change is killing languages
Forced migration is a major cause of language extinction. Environmental disasters are driving these displacements in the very regions richest in languages.
Four in five of the world’s workforce is on lockdown due to Covid-19, with no end in sight. The post-pandemic world order needs one familiar function to tie social sustainability together – human resources.
Hurricane Harvey isn't a "natural disaster" because disasters are not natural, says University College London researcher Ilan Kelman. Rather, they are the result of social and political forces which shape people's vulnerability to events.
Carbon & Climate
Paris Agreement signed. Now what?
Papua New Guinea Press Releases
NEU Battery Materials
NUS GRIP Deep tech start-up, NEU Battery Materials raises S$800,000 in seed funding
Exponential Roadmap Initiative
New collaborative platform to engage with suppliers to halve GHG emissions before 2030
The Rockefeller Foundation
The Rockefeller Foundation commits US$1 billion to catalyse a green recovery from pandemic
Ethical Corporation by Reuters Events
The Responsible Business Week [June 8-16] is now an online event and entirely free to attend.
Papua New Guinea Research
BirdLife International
State of the World's Birds 2018—taking the pulse of the planet
