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Global banking rules need review
News, Vera Songwe & Jendayi Frazer & Peter Blair Henry, Published on 29/07/2025
» In an era of shrinking resources for development finance, global policymakers must shift their focus to making better use of existing funds. Identifying and removing regulatory barriers that hinder the efficient deployment of capital to emerging markets and developing economies (EMDEs) is a good place to start.
Toxic tide still flows
Oped, Editorial, Published on 06/06/2025
» A tip-off from a US environmental group about more than 200 hazardous waste containers arriving in Thailand this month highlights the urgent need for more decisive government action to prevent the country from becoming the world's dumping ground for toxic waste.
Keep toxic waste away
Oped, Editorial, Published on 23/08/2024
» Thailand just won a small battle against illegal toxic waste smuggling. Finally, two cargo vessels loaded with toxic waste were forced to return to their original destinations -- suspected to be Albania and another country in Europe -- after local officials blocked the ships from docking.
Rising rates won't trigger crisis
Oped, Hoe Ee Khor, Published on 09/08/2022
» Hawkish shifts in the US Federal Reserve’s monetary policy have often led to heightened financial and economic stress in emerging economies. In the early 1990s, the Fed raised interest rates preemptively to curb inflation, precipitating the 1994 Mexican “tequila” crisis. In 2013, the Fed signalled its intention to tighten monetary policy, resulting in the major emerging-markets sell-off known as the “taper tantrum”.
Unity needed to fight 'waste colonialism'
News, Punyathorn Jeungsmarn, Published on 29/06/2022
» In many areas countrywide, imported waste releases dangerous toxic chemicals, including Persistent Organic Pollutants (POPs) or "forever chemicals" -- so called because of their ability to remain in an environment and organisms for a long time.
The world's banks and the green leap forward
Oped, Stuart PM Mackintosh, Published on 01/02/2022
» Many of us had hoped, perhaps naively, that global leaders gathering at the United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP26) in Glasgow last autumn would significantly accelerate international and national efforts to slash greenhouse-gas emissions. It was not to be. Governments made some progress on methane emissions, deforestation, and the transition to electric vehicles. But other necessary action -- above all, much more ambitious national pledges and plans -- was postponed for another year.
Time to ratify Basel ban on toxic waste
News, Penchom Saetang & Punyathorn Jeungsmarn, Published on 11/10/2021
» Last month, the Pollution Control Department (PCD) held an important public hearing that might end the problem of the import of hazardous waste to Thailand.
UK report shines a light on e-waste
News, Pornphrom Vikitsreth, Published on 16/12/2020
» The long-awaited entrance of the new iPhone series to Thai stores has become a trending subject. In addition to the upgraded technology and lavish exterior, one notable contrast is that this series does not come with the customary wall charger and wired earphones. While such omission has reasonably raised eyebrows, especially when there is no trace of any price reduction, Apple justified their action by claiming that the smaller packaging will help them deliver more units at once and, thus, reduce their carbon footprint.
End plastic waste trade for a healthier future
News, Inger Andersen & Pamela Coke-Hamilton, Published on 09/11/2020
» New trade deals heighten fears that countries in Africa and small island developing states may become the world's next dumping ground for plastic waste. Trade agreements cannot ignore environmental commitments.
Climate change urgency grows
Asia focus, Nareerat Wiriyapong, Published on 01/07/2019
» Climate change is global in nature but it is having an especially severe impact on Asia. Chennai, one of India's largest cities, has run out of water as the summer heat intensifies. With monsoon rains below average, four lakes in the city of 4.7 million have dried up. Residents don't have enough water to drink, bathe or wash clothes, malls have closed their washrooms and restaurants are not open for customers.