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Carbon credits key to ending deforestation
Oped, Published on 29/03/2024
» Over the past few years, intense media scrutiny has prompted a growing number of companies to pursue high-quality carbon credits. Seeking to avoid accusations of "greenwashing", many of these firms are no longer content with merely offsetting their emissions and have been actively seeking credits that deliver tangible benefits to local communities.
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Tech-Driven Solution Targets PM 2.5 Pollution Crisis
Published on 19/02/2024
» Bangkok Produce Merchandising Public Company Limited, a subsidiary of the leading agri-food conglomerate Charoen Pokphand Foods Public Company Limited (CP Foods), is leading a unified campaign with governmental bodies, business partners, and farmers to address the ongoing PM 2.5 dust challenge. This initiative encourages farmers to cease the practice of crop burning in preparation for the upcoming planting season as part of the "Partner to Green: Corn Suppliers Fighting Haze Alliance Project." The alliance employs Satellite Imaging Technology to significantly reduce, and ultimately aim to eradicate, burning practices in its corn supply chain. The company invites the Thai people to help monitor and report crop burning incidents via the "F.Farm" application, fostering a collaborative approach to mitigate environmental concerns.
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Breakthrough Technology Revolutionises Renewable Energy Storage Solutions
Published on 15/01/2024
» Bangkok Produce Merchandising Public Company Limited (BKP), a key animal feed raw material supplier for Charoen Pokphand Foods Public Limited (CP Foods), is proactively collaborating with local corn suppliers through the "Corn Burning Monitoring" initiative. This initiative aims to reduce dust emissions from cornfield burning and utilises satellite data to identify hotspots and monitor field-burning activities within the corn supply chain.
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Development the natural way
Asia focus, Apiradee Treerutkuarkul, Published on 11/07/2022
» Southeast Asian countries don't have to follow the economic development models of the last century to grow and thrive, say advocates for a nature-based economic model.
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Help the forest's unsung heroes
Life, Pattarawadee Saengmanee, Published on 09/09/2021
» The Golden Triangle Asian Elephant Foundation is hosting the "Run, Walk, Crawl For Rangers" competition this month, with all funds from the US$25 (811 baht) entry fee going to help save wildlife and forests. Participants can learn about the important work of wildlife rangers in conservation hotspots from Tanzania to Thailand, the Philippines and Cambodia, and get a chance to win prizes worth over $20,000.
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Earth's 'vital signs' worsening as humanity's impact deepens
AFP, Published on 28/07/2021
» PARIS: The global economy's business-as-usual approach to climate change has seen Earth's "vital signs" deteriorate to record levels, an influential group of scientists said on Wednesday, warning that several climate tipping points were now imminent.
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Clearer skies
Asia focus, Published on 19/07/2021
» Southeast Asian citizens accustomed to holding their breath in anticipation of toxic haze generated annually by forest fires in Indonesia can expect clearer skies and breezy days this year, say experts who have been monitoring the region's chronic transboundary haze.
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Holding those behind the haze to account
News, Gary Boyle, Published on 21/03/2021
» Chiang Mai spent several days this month as the most polluted city on the planet, with PM2.5 levels reaching 226 microgrammes per cubic meter (μg/m³) there. The predictability of the annual surge in pollution and the lack of effective preventative action have angered city residents and concerned civil society groups.
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Forest loss 'hotspots' bigger than Germany: WWF
AFP, Published on 13/01/2021
» PARIS: More than 43 million hectares -- an area bigger than Germany -- of forest have been lost in a little over a decade in just a handful of deforestation hotspots, conservation organisation WWF said Wednesday.
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Preventing the next pandemic
Life, Tatat Bunnag, Published on 02/12/2020
» A lot of effort has been made by people around the world to find ways to stop the current pandemic from impacting the planet. Since Covid-19 is a viral illness, it knows nothing about man-made borders as it leaves doctors and frontline healthcare workers scrambling to contain it. Yet, there's another front in this fight; infectious diseases researchers, also known as virus hunters, who are trying to find viruses before they find us. One such person is American scientist Dr Kendra Phelps, a field researcher and ecologist who stars in an upcoming National Geographic documentary titled Virus Hunters which is set to premiere in Thailand tomorrow.
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