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How AI can help us/Cambodia jails environmental activists/Sustainability: Bangkok to grow another one million trees/Phuket Sustainable Tourism Event/Water: Saving an iconic Thai crab/Plastics: Indorama funds to PET recycling/Renewables: Thailand Encouraged to Embrace Solar Energy/Saha Group and B.Grimm Propel Green Projects/Electric vehicles: Thai EVs face insurance hurdles/Wildlife: Dazzling fireflies face elimination/
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How AI can help us turn our disposable economy into a circular one
The circular economy – this future utopia where waste is not wasted – has entered the business lexicon as we recognize the size of the problem we’ve created for the planet. Every year, globally, we dump 2.12 billion tons of waste in the environment and an astounding 99% of everything we buy is discarded within six months.
The volume of discussion and debate about the circular economy has tripled over the past five years, according to the Circle Economy Foundation. While the dialogue has become louder, the size of the circular economy has, in fact, shrunk. Just 7.2% of the global economy is circular, according to the Circularity Gap Report 2024, a decline of 21% in five years. Continued …
Cambodian court jails environmental activists
Ten activists from the Cambodian environmental group Mother Nature were found guilty on charges of plotting against the government and insulting the king, the group’s founder said on Tuesday.
Five of the defendants from the conservation group were arrested outside the court in Phnom Penh immediately after the verdict, founder Alejandro Gonzales-Davidson said. Continued …
Bangkok to grow another one million trees
The Bangkok Metropolitan Administration (BMA) announced on social media platforms on Tuesday that its 1-million-tree campaign has already reached its goal, two years ahead of schedule.
Making Bangkok greener with 1 million more trees, big and small, was one of the flagship policies of Bangkok Gov. Chadchart Sittipunt. He expected to reach the number by the time his four-year term ends in 2026. Continued …
Phuket Sustainable Tourism Event Reveals Top-Level Speakers for 2024
PHIST (Phuket Hotels for Islands Sustaining Tourism), Southeast Asia’s biggest sustainability event for the travel and hospitality sectors, will return to spark conversation and drive the green agenda this September, with an impressive lineup of key figures and industry innovators, led by Peng Sum Choe, CEO of Pan Pacific Hotels Group.
Organized by the Phuket Hotels Assn., the non-profit organization of hoteliers focused on creating a bright future for Phuket, PHIST 2024 will run under the theme “One on One: Sustainability from the Top”, as it reveals how senior company executives can successfully build a forward-thinking corporate culture and drive positive change, not only within their own companies, but across the entire industry and beyond. Continued …
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