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How can banks spur the palm oil industry toward sustainability?

Pek Shibao 8 Feb 2016
Human-wildlife conflicts could potentially be reduced with the introduction of fully certified palm oil for Sabah. Photo shows an elephant stranded in a smallholder’s farm. Photo and caption courtesy of LEAP.

Do poor environmental practices affect palm oil firms’ bottom lines on a scale meaningful for investors and financiers?

Pek Shibao 1 Feb 2016

What’s preventing palm oil investors from going green?

Pek Shibao 28 Jan 2016

Do palm oil financiers care about sustainability?

Pek Shibao 26 Jan 2016

Report: Borneo could save billions while still meeting conservation and development goals

Mike Gaworecki 27 Apr 2015

Big surprise in the greenhouse: study finds economic costs of climate change hugely underestimated

Glenn Scherer 30 Mar 2015

Low crop prices means time is ripe for new forest protection programs

Heather D'angelo 27 Mar 2015

Human impacts are ‘decoupling’ coral reef ecosystems

Jeremy Hance 9 Mar 2015

Employing shame for environmental change

Jeremy Hance 3 Mar 2015

Norway sovereign fund drops coal, tar sands, gold-mining companies

Jeremy Hance 9 Feb 2015

Accounting for natural capital on financial exchanges

Sarah Friedman 26 Jan 2015

Did palm oil expansion play a role in the Ebola crisis?

Emmanuel K. Urey 14 Jan 2015

How black rhinos and local communities help each other in Namibia

Jeremy Hance 7 Jan 2015

Green Climate Fund nears $7 billion after U.S. pledges $3 billion

Jeremy Hance 17 Nov 2014

Can we stop runaway global warming? ‘All we need is the will to change’

Jeremy Hance 3 Nov 2014

Scientific association calls on Nicaragua to scrap its Gran Canal

Jeremy Hance 27 Oct 2014

Elephants worth much, much more alive than dead, says new report

Morgan Erickson-Davis 6 Oct 2014

Climate coup: Rockefeller announces they are dropping fossil fuel investments

Jeremy Hance 22 Sep 2014

The Gran Canal: will Nicaragua’s big bet create prosperity or environmental ruin?

Jeremy Hance 27 Aug 2014

The threat of traditional medicine: China’s boom may mean doom for turtles

Erin Crandall 8 Aug 2014

Want to save Africa’s elephants? Close all ivory markets

Jeremy Hance 7 Aug 2014

Peru slashes environmental protections to attract more mining and fossil fuel investment

Jeremy Hance 23 Jul 2014

Booming populations, rising economies, threatened biodiversity: the tropics will never be the same

Jeremy Hance 7 Jul 2014

Price of ivory triples in China

Jeremy Hance 7 Jul 2014

Next big idea in forest conservation? Playing games to understand what drives deforestation

Dr Liz Kimbrough 26 Jun 2014

Global warming puts trillions at stake, but mitigation offers big economic gains

Jeremy Hance 25 Jun 2014

EPA carbon proposal may be crucial step in addressing global climate change

Owen Reynolds 10 Jun 2014

New study finds environmental damage globally may cost more than U.S. GDP

Morgan Erickson-Davis 6 Jun 2014

Tipping the scale: how a political economist could save the world’s forests

Wendee Nicole 29 May 2014

Dams be damned: study finds large dams are too expensive

Paul Sutherland 19 May 2014

China pledges $10 million to combat poaching in Africa

Jeremy Hance 8 May 2014

Stanford kicks coal out of its $18 billion endowment

Jeremy Hance 7 May 2014

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