The Global Green Growth Institute is looking for opportunities for the Cambodian government and investors that can be developed into profitable activities. Their approach is that greening offers economic opportunities.
Category: Region
Selected environmental stories from media outlets in the Mekong region and beyond.
How indigenous ‘vigilante’ grandfathers protect forest life
A group of elders, frustrated with state response, protect forest from looting against backdrop of rising deforestation.
Lao think tank tackles plan to maximize value of Laos-China railway
The Lao government’s top economic research agency has suggested that investment focus in areas that would make use of and maximize the benefits of the Laos-China railway.
Seminar talks marine planning, coastal ecosystems in Mekong Delta
The Delta’s marine economic activities have not yet been harmoniously associated with social development and environmental protection.
Is the race to the bottom over?
Everybody speaks about a ‘race to the bottom’ in the world of work. For brick workers enduring debt-bondage in Cambodia the race might already be over.
Meet the ‘vigilante’ grandfathers protecting indigenous forest life in Cambodia
At the edge of a forest on the northern plains of Cambodia, an indigenous community is building its own security system.
New forest monitoring system to help fight climate change
Wants to measure its success at reducing emissions from deforestation and forest degradation and carbon stocks preservation (REDD+).
China helps Myanmar top LDC investment chart
Myanmar attracted the most foreign direct investment of any of the world’s LDCs in 2017, even though it was forcing the expulsion of tens of thousands of Rohingya Muslims.
Lao dam victems see brighter future due to China
Bridges, decorated with Lao and Chinese flags, that Chinese companies have participated in constructing, are particularly outstanding.