Following our exclusive investigation, Ingvild Jenssen from the NGO Platform on Shipbreaking explains how tougher regulations simply relocated the shipbreaking industry, and how the public can help stop the trade
… Shipbreaking: clampdown in Asia will send it to Africa The Ecologist | … vessels are sold to shipbreakers in South Asia for approximately $350 per ton – meaning … and the industry then moved to South Asia. It has therefore been a continuous …
Campaigners urge retailers to follow example of Tesco and Adidas in cutting links with the controversial paper and packaging supplier after latest allegations of greenwashing
… hits back at 'notorious forest destroyer' Asia Pulp and Paper The Ecologist | 23rd February 2011 News Greenpeace Asian Pulp And Paper Deforestation Indonesia … a comment piece in the Ecologist last month, Asian Pulp and Paper (APP) said activists were …
Greenpeace claim packaging for the barbie doll is produced using timber from critically endangered Indonesian rainforest
… Disney, are using packaging produced by Asia Pulp and Paper (APP). APP has been … hits back at 'notorious forest destroyer' Asia Pulp and Paper Campaigners urge retailers … latest allegations of greenwashing COMMENT Asia Pulp and Paper: why activists are wrong …
As China pursues a startling array of energy, mining, logging, agricultural, transport and other infrastructure projects on virtually every continent, it is having an unprecedented impact on the planet, writes William Laurance. It's not that China is any worse than historic colonial powers - the difference is in the sheer scale and pace of environmental destruction, and the total lack of oversight under which Chinese mega-corporations operate.
… an ecologist in the Amazon, Africa, and the Asia-Pacific region on an array of … should slow the epic slaughter of Africa and Asia's elephants. But China's burnishing of … political interests. They will stretch across Asia to Europe and Africa, providing access to …
Campaigners say the Environment Agency failed to heed warnings that the gas tanker Margaret Hill would be sent to ship-breaking yards in India
… illegal dismantling on the beaches of South Asia. International law Under European and … the ship would end up on beaches in South Asia if they allowed it to leave. ‘There is no … the spokesperson said. Shipyards in South Asia are notorious for human rights and …
Britain's trade in waste plastic to the Far East is booming. But it's not good news. The exported plastic is meant to be recycled under UK conditions and standards, but often is not, undermining bona fide UK recycling firms who face falling prices, reduced turnover, collapsing profits, and all too often, closure.
… of 2016, alone. Much of this was shipped to Asia. In evidence to a recent government … exported "illegally for manual sorting in Asia, or being burned for energy recovery" . … - often illegally for manual sorting in Asia. Recycling company PlasRecycle told …
We all know about the risk to elephants and rhinos from the illegal wildlife trade, but now the helmeted hornbills of Borneo and Sumatra are at risk as online traders find ready buyers for their carved beaks in China.
… | 2nd February 2015 News Natural World SE Asia Wildlife Trade China … is a large bird inhabiting the South-East Asia forests of Sumatra and Borneo. The … conversations with traders in Africa and Asia to monitoring the ever-growing online …
The burning forests and peatlands of Indonesia are once again casting a pall of choking smoke across the region, in the process releasing billions of tonnes of carbon. Promises to solve the problems stand betrayed - and COP21 commitments to tackle the problem are being weakened.
… peatland destruction. Greenpeace Southeast Asia's analysis shows 3,464 fire hotspots this … a forest campaigner at Greenpeace Southeast Asia. "Greenpeace urges the government to … Principal source: Greenpeace Southeast Asia . More information: Indonesia's INDC is …
A global taxonomic review of birds has 'discovered' 361 new species that were previously considered 'races' of existing bird species - but many of them are endangered, forcing a rethink of conservation priorities.
… hotspots under threat in Southeast Asia The 2014 assessment also raises the … recognised species are found in South-East Asia, where biodiversity is highly threatened. …
'No deforestation' pledges by global food corporations are yielding results, writes William Laurance. But now the Indonesian and Malaysian governments are calling on them to abandon their promises - even as the region's rainforests go up in smoke, cleared for new oil palm plantations. The companies must hold firm to their commitments.
… closed across large expanses of Southeast Asia. To reduce their risks, residents have … and dense haze that have plagued Southeast Asia this year are certainly not a one-off … recurring air-pollution crisis in Southeast Asia. Its policies will have a huge impact on …
Some 60 million people depend on the Mekong River for their livelihoods but sea level rise and severe weather puts the area at risk, as Gratianne Quade's unique film shows
… Change Flooding Mekong River Hydropower Dams Asia Salinisation 1mekongimg7.jpg Some 60 … Supporters of a controversial dam in one of Asia's poorest countries say it will bring …
New research predicts that coastal regions face massive increases in damages from storm surge flooding over the 21st century - to $100 trillion annually, more than the world's entire economic product today.
… and economic growth in the coastal zone. Asia and Africa may be particularly hard hit … a reduction. Prompt action is needed most in Asia and Africa where large parts of the …
Sub-Saharan African countries top list of those with most vulnerable water supplies as report warns of 'looming crisis' in both Asia and Africa from pollution and depletion of natural water resources
… as report warns of 'looming crisis' in both Asia and Africa from pollution and depletion … Challenge: Water Security in Emerging Asia Water Security Risk Index READ MORE... …
A study of 245 large dams carried out at Oxford University shows that big hydropower is uneconomic. Actual costs are typically double pre-construction estimates - and have not improved over 70 years. ASEAN energy ministers take note!
… | 22nd April 2014 News Water Energy Malaysia Asia Economics Renewables bakun-dam.jpg A … opportunity to promote its dams to Southeast Asia's Energy Ministers as they plan their …
Ecologist investigation reveals three-quarters of London councils giving out wrong advice on the safe disposal of mercury-containing compact fluorescent lamps (CFLs)
… NEWS ANALYSIS Shipbreaking: clampdown in Asia will send it to Africa Ingvild Jenssen …
The world’s tropical forests are falling as fast as ever – at a pace of about 13 million hectares each year, or 50 football fields a minute. But the rainforest killers are changing, with big implications for us all.
… bad guys can see their market shares plummet; Asian Pulp & Paper, widely criticised for promoting forest destruction in southeast Asia, has had its supply contracts cancelled … on Sustainable Palm Oil in southeast Asia, and the Forest Stewardship Council (FSC) …
Environmental groups were pleased at the end of 2007 when the UN announced that its under-resourced adaptation funds - established to help less-industrialised nations adapt to the effects of climate change - were to receive a cash injection.
… Lidy Nacpil, coordinator of the Asia/Pacific Movement on Debt and Development, …
Study predicts the yields of jatropha will fall in the next decade and that it is better suited to community-level, rather than industrial-scale, production for the biofuel market
… grows in Africa, Latin America and south-east Asia and has seeds that contain a non-edible, …
A growing market for bycatch coupled with declining shrimp stocks and profits is prolonging the use of unsustainable trawl fishing practices, a new study says
… . Shrimp fishermen in south and southeast Asia are trawling for longer hours and in more …
Our attempts to adapt to, and mitigate, the effects of climate change, such as using biofuels, could worsen the direct effects of climate change on our ecoystems
… of biodiverse-rich forests across south-east Asia. 'Although the notion that converting …