Unsustainable

OCTOBER 20, 2019

Drought aggravated by climate change is hurting coffee growers in the Mekong region, and intensive farming techniques are part of the problem This is the first of Karoline Kan’s two-part series on coffee growing in the Mekong region. In 2016, it caused a state of emergency in the central and southern regions of the country.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 30, 2020

Over the past decade, our Smart Power Initiative's investments have improved the lives of almost 500,000 people in India, Myanmar, and parts of sub-Saharan Africa, so we know this can work," said Ashvin Dayal, senior vice-president of the Power and Climate Initiative at The Rockefeller Foundation. "By

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Unsustainable

JANUARY 27, 2020

The fragmentation of waste management systems is also shown in the Regional Study on Mercury Waste Management in the ASEAN countries , that was published in 2017 and supervised by the International Environmental Technology Centre of the United Nations. disposal fees) instead of on re-use and recycling of materials.

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Planet Pulse

MARCH 2, 2021

In Peru , the Ministry of Environment (MINAM) and the Forest Wildlife Service (SERFOR) are leveraging the data via the UN-REDD Programme to improve its Forest Reference Emission Level (FREL), a key benchmark for its measurement of the Amazon region and reporting to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change.

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Grist

APRIL 29, 2020

Global Health Program workers sample bumble bee bat in Kjwe Min Gu Cave in Myanmar. Mazet said that PREDICT had partnered with a scientist at the Wuhan Institute of Virology, but the region just wasn’t a top priority for USAID, which was more focused on funding research into disease outbreaks in Southeast Asia. Courtesy PREDICT.

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