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Alibaba’s Freshippo Shows How It Harnesses Tech To Combat Climate Change at COP28

3BL Media

The project aims to train villagers in the Xishuangbanna region of Yunnan Province, China, to keep bees and collect and sell their honey, reducing the impact on Asian elephants caused by farmers cutting rubber in the mountains and minimizing conflict between human beings and the elephants. Last year, it harvested 400,000 pumpkins.

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Private investors profiting from US$25 billion in bond debt from climate-vulnerable Asian nations: IIED

Eco-Business

Ahead of the World Bank's annual meeting, a think tank finds that Sri Lanka, Pakistan, Mongolia, Vietnam and Laos have issued the most in sovereign debt to date in the region.

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Viatris 2022 Sustainability Report: Responding to Continued COVID-19 Pandemic Needs

3BL Media

In Thailand, the Philippines, Vietnam, Indonesia, Myanmar, Cambodia, Laos, Sri Lanka, Nepal and Mongolia, a special cross-functional task force called the CARE Team - COVID-19 Alleviation Response - was formed to actively aid in expanding access to needed medicines. million patients in this region. We supplied a total of 2.5

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Rats are more human than you think – and they certainly like being around us

Envirotec Magazine

These rats have followed humans around the world to become one of the most abundant mammals, spreading from their native distribution in northern China and Mongolia and reaching Europe in the 1500s , possibly even earlier. The brown rat, Rattus norvegicus , is one of the species best adapted to modern society.

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Does Asia Need a Unified ESG Taxonomy?

Chris Hall

Conditions are also “ripe”, as a Moody’s report asserts, for the increased issuance of sovereign sustainable bonds in the region. . Taxonomies for sustainable finance have been created in mainland China, South Korea, Japan, Mongolia, Indonesia, Malaysia, and the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) region as a whole.

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Guest Post: Propelling the Energy Transition by Empowering Women and Youth

Sustainable Development Network

Sadly, women are currently severely under-represented in sustainable energy, in all geographic regions and in all sub-sectors [3]. From January 2012 to 2017 she was the Austrian Ambassador to the People’s Republic of China and Mongolia. Since July 2017 she is the Austrian Ambassador to the Federative Republic of Brazil.

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The Data Countries Need Now: Outcomes from Data For Now’s Inception Workshop

Sustainable Development Network

This week, representatives from eight very diverse countries (Bangladesh, Columbia, Ghana, Mongolia, Nepal, Paraguay, Rwanda, and Senegal) convened in Kigali, Rwanda to discuss priority data needs; specifically, the kinds of timely (even real-time) data they need to effectively track sustainable development.