Though the 2024 presidential candidates have given more attention to climate and environmental issues in their campaign platforms to during past elections, analysts say their programs are still not ambitious enough.

Over 7,000 substances are associated with plastics, and more than 3,200 of them have hazardous impacts on the environment and human health.

The regulator often acts as the "owner" of the area and you should never challenge it with facts or criticize it in forums, no matter how strong your arguments or how noble your goals.

Carbon credits have been debated since their inclusion in the 1997 Kyoto Protocol.

Rare earths are a crucial component used in products including mobile phones, hybrid cars and flat-screen televisions, but there are only a few producers outside of China.

The country's communist government tolerates no opposition to its one-party rule and regularly jails critics, but its recent focus on environmental activists appears to carry a particular message, said Jonathan London, an expert on contemporary Vietnam.

More than 140 countries - representing the vast majority of the world's woodlands - pledged at the 2021 United Nations climate summit in Glasgow to halt and reverse forest loss and degradation by the end of the decade.

Developing countries prefer to borrow from China because it simply means business and does not take elements like human rights, press freedom, and economic liberalization into account.

The WEF projects that digitizing trade documentation worldwide could potentially increase global GDP by almost 5 percent and boost international trade by a staggering 15 percent.

Governments must ensure adequate, stable and predictable supplies of critical raw materials needed to construct the millions of solar panels, wind turbines and batteries of the future.

Armed conflict, drought, widespread poverty and scarce rural health services already mean the world's newest country has one of its highest maternal mortality rates. Heatwaves linked to climate change are increasing the risks.

The long-term environmental and labor implications of nickel mining in Indonesia can be devastating. 

Presidential candidates must convince voters that they prioritize sustainable infrastructure development, which is geared toward the well-being of all citizens. 

Malaysia on Friday warned residents of high pollution levels in most areas on the west coast of Peninsular Malaysia and the western Kalimantan region of Sarawak, blaming trans-boundary haze from Indonesia, its Department of Environment said in a statement. 

Given past form, the Norwegian Nobel Committee is also capable of a complete surprise in the Oct. 6 announcement.

The court said 9 of its 11 justices rejected the deadline because it countered constitutional guarantees on Indigenous rights to ancestral lands.

Vote-buying has become common in national elections over the last 25 years, despite crackdowns by the Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK).

The lack of focus on climate issues might hurt political parties and their politicians in seeking the votes of millennials and Gen Zers, which make up a third of registered voters for the 2024 elections.

Marine scientists say some areas in the Gulf of Thailand have more than 10 times the normal amount of plankton, turning the water a bright green and killing off marine life.

According to the World Bank, 95 percent of Indonesia’s wastewater flows into agricultural fields, rivers, and open drains.

The Suralaya power plant complex in Cilegon, around 100 kilometers west of Jakarta, is presently the largest such facility in Southeast Asia. The complex currently has eight power generation units (PGUs) with a total output capacity of 4,025 megawatts (MW).

Heavy rains caused by the extratropical cyclone have affected 80 cities and left more than 2,300 people homeless and over 3,900 displaced.

These directives rely on the assumption that the EU will have significant market power to increase the bar on environmental and human rights standards for developing-country businesses that are connected to it.

The move comes a little over a year before the 2024 election, as Biden seeks to shore up his green credentials that were damaged by a decision earlier this year to greenlight a project by US energy giant ConocoPhillips in the same area. 

A Javan hawk-eagle has hatched in the Mount Gede Pangrango National Park in Bogor, West Java, according to a report by park officials on Monday.

Unexpected summer rain turned the weeklong, annual counterculture arts festival into a muddy nightmare.

Sadly, many people in the former colonized countries are also proud when they can wear branded names. 

Accelerating low-carbon solutions would be central in strengthening ASEAN’s centrality and its role as a global center of green growth.

Scientists have grown weary over the rising temperatures on the planet and extreme weather from heat waves to typhoons that have swept across the globe in the past years.

The domestic mining and energy industry say the indirect coal subsidies in their current format are insufficient to incentivize investment in coal gasification.