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Q&A: ‘You can’t grow forever on a finite planet’
On a humid September morning, David Obura speaks to Dialogue Earth from the seaside town of Kilifi in Kenya, 70 kilometres up the coast from Mombasa. His proximity to the ocean is fitting: Obura has...
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A tipping point for mangrove restoration and shrimp farming in Indonesia
The Mahakam River flows for 900km from the highlands of central Borneo through thick rainforest before fanning into a lush delta that feeds the Makassar Strait. Once dense with mangroves and palms,...
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Can China’s new BRI bonds spur sustainable development?
In June this year, the Bank of China (BOC) issued the first sustainable development bonds for which all funds raised are directed towards countries affiliated with the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI),...
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Four lessons from 30 years of US-China climate cooperation
Over the past three decades, the United States and China have brokered several breakthrough climate agreements and policy innovations. From the establishment of the US-China Forum on Environment and...
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Nearshoring in Mexico: more promises than reality
Over the past five years, global supply chains have had to adapt to a number of significant changes, among them delays and disruptions brought by the Covid-19 pandemic, trade tensions between the...
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The challenges of carbon neutrality labelling in China
As you sit in a carbon-neutral building, drinking a carbon-neutral coffee with carbon-neutral milk and munching on your carbon-neutral mooncake, you open your carbon-neutral computer and arrange the...
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Hunting: killing for conservation?
As a teenager in 1970, Patricio Robles Gil and his family travelled from Mexico to Tanzania, where he shot an elephant and claimed its tusks as trophies. He recalls tracking the animal’s footprints...
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Can incinerators solve Vietnam’s waste crisis?
Lam Van Quyet lives three kilometres from the Tay Bac waste facility in Ho Chi Minh City, but he knows exactly what time the garbage trucks arrive there. “By 3pm, the horrible stench hits us,” he...
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What is the future of India-Bangladesh energy cooperation?
Fifteen years ago, the election of Sheikh Hasina as Bangladesh’s prime minister marked the start of the country’s bilateral cooperation with India on various fronts, including energy. In October 2013,...
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Roundtable: Can Latin America build a post-fossil fuel economy?
In recent years, Latin America has taken strides forward in scaling up renewable energy sources such as solar and wind, building on its bedrock of hydropower that has already equipped the region with...
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Indigenous rights under pressure as Philippine minerals boom
The Philippines has emerged as a major supplier for the global energy transition, thanks to its reserves of minerals like class 1 nickel, which were valued at PHP 238.9 billion (USD 4.16 billion) last...
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COP16: Countries point to finance, climate and energy links at UN nature talks
This year’s United Nations biodiversity summit, COP16, has kicked off this week in Colombia, a nature hotspot described as one of the world’s 17 “megadiverse” countries. More than 23,000...
View ArticleStuttering progress on 30×30 ocean protection
Progress towards an international target to protect nearly a third of the ocean by 2030 is faltering: much of the protection enacted so far is largely ineffective, and thousands more protected areas...
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Will Indonesia’s biodiesel push put its climate goals at risk?
Indonesia is aiming to increase its use of biodiesel blends as a renewable and alternative fuel, but critics say it could undermine the country’s climate goals. In August 2023, the country launched...
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Solar power boom stokes disputes with communities in Brazil’s Caatinga
The rapid expansion of solar power plants in a semi-arid region of north-eastern Brazil is destroying the environment and impacting agriculture, according to locals. Rural communities across two...
View ArticleA deal on sharing benefits from genetic resources is key to COP16’s success
A complex issue at the nexus of scientific innovation, social justice, environmental governance, industry and finance for global conservation has become one of the hottest topics on the agenda at the...
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Renewables, rights and relations: Chinese solar projects in Nicaragua
In San Isidro, a mountainous and rural municipality in northern Nicaragua’s Matagalpa department, Chinese investment is helping to establish solar power – one of the latest arrivals in a wave of new...
View ArticleCould the end of UK coal inspire a faster global phase-out?
The UK closed its last coal power plant on 30 September, ending the use of coal for electricity in the country that built the world’s first such power station in 1882. It’s a milestone in the...
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In Argentina, lithium mining leaves a river running dry
Alfredo Morales bears on his face the toll of the relentless cold and searing sun that hangs almost year-round over Antofagasta de la Sierra, a town on the high plains of Catamarca province, northern...
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How climate change is impacting sports in Africa
Africa is the continent most vulnerable to the impacts of climate change, despite only contributing about 3% of global cumulative CO2 emissions. These impacts extend in many directions, including...
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