The real issue is big corporations invade the forest. This is very significant. Deforestation happens mostly from large scale corporation rather than small scale farmers.
Category: Region
Selected environmental stories from media outlets in the Mekong region and beyond.
Conviction of Prey Lang activist marks further repression of environmental defenders
“Time and time again, the Cambodian courts fail to deliver genuine justice in cases involving human rights defenders and environmental activists. Meanwhile, the Cambodian government continues to trample on Indigenous Peoples’ rights and allows logging companies to pursue their illegal activities with impunity.”
Once upon a river – Cambodia’s Mekong crisis
New hydropower dams on the Mekong River are leaving fishing and farming communities high and dry. The dams provide clean electricity, but they also cause massive damage to Cambodia’s plant and animal worlds.
What the AidData report reveals about BRI lending in Southeast Asia
This kind of fuzzy debt is neither new nor unique to Chinese development financing. Many other countries, including the United States, have been financing infrastructure in Southeast Asia for decades with deals that obfuscate the precise role of the state and its responsibilit
Southeast Asia energy policies on track to disaster
ASEAN leaders’ climate change pledges are undeliverable empty promises
Myanmar’s forests under pressure from illegal logging, smuggling
Criminal gangs, with a long history of involvement in illegal logging in Myanmar and across Asia, have become better organized and efficient in harvesting and exporting illegal timber.
Chinese firms claim their bright ideas protect ecosystem in Laos
“We release and stock the fish along the Nam Ou River every year, ” Wang Peng, a PowerChina staff in charge of the Nam Ou reservoir immigration, adding that his company pays attention to the choice of fish, “even if the price is higher, we choose local fish fry, but not foreign species.”
What does the data tell us about electricity pricing in Laos?
Through a variety of data sources an evidence-based picture of electricity pricing and the electricity-generation business in Laos is revealed.
Selected bidders announced for community-based renewable power projects
This initial bid round is for approximately 150MW, to be produced in equal amounts from biomass and biogas resources. Biomass power plants under this scheme cannot be larger than 6MW, and biogas plants may not exceed 3MW.
Carbon neutrality by 2065, vows PM
Gen Prayut promised that the government would try its best to help businesses with their transition to a low carbon economy and ensure that any negative consequences are minimised.