Despite a good track towards deforestation goals, Indonesia has pulled out of a US$1 billion deal with Norway to protect its rainforests.  China opens a vitrification plant, turning nuclear waste into glass for safer storage.  Southeast Asian professionals are increasingly concerned about food security due to climate change and what their governments are doing in terms of policy and planning.

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Millions of electric car batteries are expected to retire in the next decade. So how are they dealt with after they come to the end of their lifetime? In this week’s GreenBites, we will look into how startups find ways to recycle metal parts from any batteries. We will also share a gruesome claim of stranded dugongs in Indonesia, a vulnerable marine species to extinction on the IUCN list, reportedly being cut up for traditional medicine, as well as how climate change threatens to squeeze out Indonesia’s medicinal plants.

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A recent conflict in Afghanistan has drawn a highlight on the energy war, showing people how natural resources can link up with the war. In this episode of GreenBites, we will briefly look at the underground rare materials and the recent social conditions in Afghanistan, the predicted climate changes after Taliban taking the control of Afghanistan, a new way to treat the sewage which is running under the natural process, and also cover the deforestation in Indonesia these days.

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A recently published United Nations report reveals an alarming fact: humanity cannot escape from a hotter future, which is likely to exacerbate an already climate vulnerable Asia.  In this episode of GreenBites, we will take an in-depth look at the UN report, look at predicted changes in crop production in Asia, and cover green initiatives such as Pakistan’s tree-planting drive against smog and Indonesia’s new floating solar farm. 

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One of the dirtiest industries in the world, aviation is slowly turning to greener alternatives, with Japan becoming more open to food-based jet biofuel. In this episode, we explain how this works, and also cover China’s green path to carbon neutrality taking shape, Japan’s EV newbies and the reappearance of a special species in Indonesia.

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From medals made from recycled metals to podiums, athlete beds and even torches, the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games have been hyped as the greenest games so far. Yet it is not without criticism as NGOs and experts have found evidence suggesting that all of this attention may just simply be greenwashing. In this week’s GreenBites, we will look at some of these concerns , discuss a climate forum held in Bangladesh, and talk about the reintroduction of the trawling ban in Indonesia. 

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This week, we cover China’s new carbon trading platform, the deadly flooding in Henan province, Japan’s revised green energy plan, Southeast Asian delivery giants’ eco-pledges and special quiz at the end “name that species”.

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While China warns its citizens to embrace yet another summer of dangerous floods and droughts, it denies the links of these worsening weather events and climate change. Why is that? This episode covers exactly that, as well as Southeast Asia’s accelerating deforestation and millennials’ new love for sustainable fashion. 

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China is the world’s leading manufacturer and raw materials producer for solar panels, and business has been good in recent years, but will this last?  Freight costs have risen during the pandemic and international pressure to address forced labour allegations in Xinjiang are causing a global supply chain nightmare for solar energy developers.  Despite this, countries like India and Japan remain faithful in their solar agenda.

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Central Asia’s snowmelt runoff is decreasing, affecting more than ten countries in the region. What does this mean for the people living there? In this week’s GreenBites, we also report on Bangladesh’s plan to scrap planned coal-fired power plants, Asia’s richest man renewable energy ambitions and a surprising innovative “employment” of insects in the Philippines.

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