DA Article Expo Module

Business Green

BusinessGreen

Government should collect data on damaged forest areas

Director of the Institute for Development of Economics and Finance Enny Sri Hartati suggested the government collect data on damaged forest areas to prove that palm oil plantations do not cause...

Seoul, Washington fail to revise nuclear energy pact

South Korea and the US have agreed to extend their bilateral atomic energy accord by two years after Seoul failed to secure Washington's consent to develop independent nuclear fuel production...

Seismic testing in fishers' sights

Commercial fishers are asking for seismic testing in Australian waters to be declared an environmental threat, in a move opposed by the petroleum industry.

With or without moratorium, Indonesian forests still under threat

The Forestry Ministry has failed to show its commitment to reducing greenhouse gas emissions and deforestation despite its support for the extension of the moratorium on forest clearance, activists...

Easing pressure on land resources through natural farming

Cruising through the winding roads of the Halsema highway, one is delighted with the scenery of fields on a rolling terrain of temperate vegetables.

Government plans new policy to cut airline emissions

As commercial aviation grows rapidly, more planes crowd the sky spewing out carbon dioxide, something the government wants to tackle.Deputy Transportation Minister Bambang Susantono plans a broad...

Log exports threaten Indonesia forests

The government's plan to extend the moratorium on forest clearance may prove pointless as it also plans to restart log exports, a move activists say will only make illegal logging more rampant....

Hong Kong says more sunshine led to smoggy days this year

Hong Kong recorded more than twice as many hours of very high roadside pollution in the first quarter, blaming an increase in sunshine for contributing to the smog in the city's financial and...

Sir Richard Branson takes carbon war to Singapore

Sir Richard Branson needs no introduction. The serial entrepreneur and founder of the Virgin Group has a finger in the world's biggest industries from air and ground travel to telecommunications,...