Climate Change – Page 13 – Terra Link Research

#Thailand organises forestry conference to increase public’s awareness of forestry protection and sustainable urban development #SoutheastAsia #Asean #ESG #Sustainability

An estimate by the World Wildlife Fund concluded that between 1973 and 2009, Thailand’s forests declined by 43%. The Sueb Nakhasathien Foundation reported that 53% of Thailand was covered by forest in 1961. The latest studies by the Thailand Royal Forest Department, showed that only 31.6% of Thailand was covered by forest in 2019. Forest cover in ThailandContinue reading “#Thailand organises forestry conference to increase public’s awareness of forestry protection and sustainable urban development #SoutheastAsia #Asean #ESG #Sustainability”

The lack of development in Indonesia’s maritime infrastructure has been a crucial factor in the country’s high logistics costs. Potential higher trade growth, lower external financing costs and a depressed oil price as well as infrastructure development should drive Indonesia’s logistics industry forward when the country recovers from the Covid-19 pandemic. However, Indonesia’s logistics performanceContinue reading “#Indonesia partnered the #Netherlands to raise the level of professionalism of Indonesians who aspire to work in the water management, sustainable fisheries and marines sector #SoutheastAsia #Asean #ESG #Sustainability”

Climate change is a threat in the present and our meals will likely be quite different in just a few decades. For e.g. rice is a ubiquitous grain in more than 100 countries and provides half of the calories for 520 million people living in Asia. In its many forms, this grain is grown submergedContinue reading “Water scarcity and high temperatures could reduce rice yields in India, Indonesia, Philippines, Thailand and Vietnam to 50% of today’s levels by the year 2100 #SoutheastAsia #Asean #ESG #Sustainability #AI #ML #Predictive”

Travel restrictions during the pandemic prevented many countries from finding new cross-border business partners and that resulted in a sharp drop in Indonesia’s export. Indonesia’s total export (billion dollar) declined by 28.95 percent year-on-year in May 2020. To arrest the situation, Indonesia quickly stepped in with an experiment to facilitate online business matching for itsContinue reading “#Indonesia’s effort to facilitate online business matchings for Indonesian private sector with overseas companies is starting to pay off #SoutheastAsia #Asean #Business #Economy”

Representatives from United Kingdom and Indonesia met to discuss about the preparation leading up to the 26th UN Climate Change Conference of the Parties (COP26). COP26 is an international cooperation that addresses the ESG issues that the world faces and also to encourage each other towards a zero carbon economy. The event is currently scheduledContinue reading “United Kingdom to further cooperate with #Indonesia in tackling climate change and expressed keen interest to kickstart a joint leadership initiative relating to agriculture and forestry #SoutheastAsia #Asean #ESG #Sustainability”

Indonesia has began to conduct carbon trading trials in the electricity sector, beginning from now and estimated to end by August 2021. This move is expected to help with the reduction of reducing greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions in the energy sector. Indonesia plans to reduce the emission by around 350 million tonnes by 2030. ThisContinue reading “#Indonesia has begun carbon trading trials to support the reduction of Greenhouse Gases (GHG) by around 350 million tonnes by 2030 #SoutheastAsia #Asean #ESG #Sustainability”

I recalled an incident during my postgraduate study that made me reflect deeply about how proposed solutions are shaped by one’s experiences. We were doing project work that required us to propose solutions to climate risks issues. The team comprised people from different nationalities. People from a mixture of developed and developing countries. Half anContinue reading “The importance of integrating adaptability with climate risks and sustainability solutions #SoutheastAsia #Asean #ESG #Sustainability #ClimateRisk”

Indonesia, supported by partners from Citibank, United Nations Environment Programme, The Indonesia Business Council for Sustainable Development, The Global Food Banking Network and others, wants to explore to create a business case for Food Loss and Waste prevention that could be used for the transformation of markets beyond Indonesia’s border. The aim is to leverageContinue reading “#Indonesia is working closely with P4G partners to look into halving food loss and waste by accelerating commercially viable models for sustainable food supply chains and to start investor sessions before April #SoutheastAsia #Asean #ESG #Sustainability”

Indonesia’s upcoming energy replacement strategy would mainly depend on harnessing hydropower and solar energy thereby reducing and maybe even to the extent of eliminating fossil fuel imports. Several considerations surfaced during their internal discussions when considering the energy alternatives. The top concerns were the price of implementing the projects plus the land space required forContinue reading “#Indonesia is banking on using a hybrid system of solar panels and hydropower floating platforms to achieve their #sustainability and #renewable energy goals #ESG #Asean #SoutheastAsia”