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Drilling for oil in the Tun Mustapha Marine Park in Borneo would risk 45,000 hectares of reefs and the livelihoods of 85,000 people, Rimbawatch warns. Petronas, part of a group of firms involved in the venture, declined to comment.
While this year’s forum is the first to include civil society talks, a group of 250 NGOs says the China-based multilateral bank did not give them control over the agenda, casting doubt over the efficacy of AIIB’s accountability mechanism.
While shipping is essential to the global economy, so is reducing the associated pollution. Requiring shipping companies to pay for their vessels’ greenhouse-gas emissions would go a long way toward advancing this objective.
Ground-level ozone, an invisible pollutant, hampers tree growth and reduces carbon absorption, potentially making tropical forests less effective as carbon sinks than previously estimated.
Post-pandemic Asia is working to revive tourism revenues, but overtourism is straining the environment and local communities, highlighting the need for sustainable tourism support from sending countries.
The growing demand for lithium-ion batteries, driven by electric vehicles, is expected to result in a surge of spent batteries in developing countries, raising concerns about the destructive mining practices used to extract lithium.
Clothing makers in Bangladesh and other parts of Asia worry they’ll shoulder the burden of meeting new climate and labour rules.