GreenBites: Recent Episodes
GreenBites
New-season of Sustainable Asia Podcast … 10-minute update highlighting environment news in Asia. Our hosts cherry-pick and wrap up the latest green news for you.
The world’s largest exporter of thermal coal, Indonesia plans to tighten restrictions on coal miners and build an industrial park that generates energy from renewables. In this episode, we also cover the hope for Vietnam’s IUU fishing issue, a suspended clean energy plant in China and a controversial China-funded climate project in Thailand.
Production credits: Production by Sustainable Asia
Hosts: Stella Chan and Chermaine Lee
Producers: Stella Chan, Chermaine Lee
Production Supervisor: Chermaine Lee, Khoa Tran
Executive Producer: Marcy Trent Long
Intro/outro music: Alex Mauboussin
We also have a Mandarin Greenbites show, check it out now!
China unveils the details of its green transition towards carbon neutrality starting with reforms and incentives given to major polluting industries. A fragile climate victory prevails in Indonesia’s court despite the country’s ambiguous and often contradictory position on domestic deforestation. The cane toad, a species globally introduced into farmland for pest control, is starting to become a problem in Taiwan.
Production credits: Production by Sustainable Asia
Hosts: Khoa Tran and Chermaine Lee
Producers: Khoa Tran, Chermaine Lee, Avery Choi
Production Supervisor: Chermaine Lee, Khoa Tran
Executive Producer: Marcy Trent Long
Intro/outro music: Alex Mauboussin
We also have a Mandarin Greenbites show, check it out now!
This week we close our coverage of COP26 with some main takeaways, and discuss two new green innovative projects in Asia: a net-zero emissions airport in India and lab-grown seafood in Singapore.
Production credits: Production by Sustainable Asia
Hosts: Khoa Tran and Stella Chan
Producers: Khoa Tran, Stella Chan and Avery Choi
Production Supervisor: Chermaine Lee, Khoa Tran
Executive Producer: Marcy Trent Long
Intro/outro music: Alex Mauboussin
We also have a Mandarin Greenbites show, check it out now!
Talks at COP26 have finally begun starting from the first week of November, here’s a catchup on what has been discussed on the table so far.
Production credits: Production by Sustainable Asia
Hosts: Khoa Tran and Chermaine Lee
Producers: Khoa Tran, Chermaine Lee and Avery Choi
Production Supervisor: Bonnie Au, Chermaine Lee, Khoa Tran
Executive Producer: Marcy Trent Long
Intro/outro music: Alex Mauboussin
We also have a Mandarin Greenbites show, check it out now!
Things are looking dire as COP26 is starting. This week we look at the UN emissions gap report released ahead of what many describe as the world’s last best hope to curb emissions. Singapore is exploring geothermal energy, a promising renewable that’s been around for a while and comes at a high cost. Lastly, we cover a development for electric vehicles: how there is some hope on how standardizing certain practices could lead to a healthier secondhand market.
Production credits: Production by Sustainable Asia
Hosts: Avery Choi, Stella Chan
Producers: Avery Choi, Stella Chan, Chermaine Lee
Production Supervisor: Bonnie Au, Chermaine Lee
Executive Producer: Marcy Trent Long
Intro/outro music: Alex Mauboussin
Transition Music: Xylo-Ziko - Termites
We also have a Mandarin Greenbites show, check it out now!
This week, we explore methane emissions in Turkmenistan, what they are and what is being done about them; a concerning document leak ahead of COP26; and more extreme weather forecasts for Northern China.
Production credits: Production by Sustainable Asia
Hosts: Khoa Tran, Chermaine Lee
Producers: Khoa Tran, Stella Chan, Chermaine Lee
Production Supervisor: Bonnie Au, Chermaine Lee
Executive Producer: Marcy Trent Long
Intro/outro music: Alex Mauboussin
Transition Music: Xylo-Ziko - Termites
We also have a Mandarin Greenbites show, check it out now!
This week, we touch upon a few important points to expect from COP26 happening at the end of the month, the struggle for China to balance out its new climate commitments with its ongoing urban development goals, and COP15, the UN Biodiversity Conference.
Production credits: Production by Sustainable Asia
Hosts: Khoa Tran, Chermaine Lee
Producers: Khoa Tran, Stella Chan, Chermaine Lee
Production Supervisor: Bonnie Au, Chermaine Lee
Executive Producer: Marcy Trent Long
Intro/outro music: Alex Mauboussin
Transition Music: Xylo-Ziko - Termites
We also have a Mandarin Greenbites show, check it out now!
Nobel Prize in Physics goes to a Japanese scientist who has dedicated his academic life to studying global warming and climate change. A restaurant has decided to embrace the ongoing heavy floods in Thailand by offering meals in the floods. Indonesia is keen to increase the use of palm oil in jet fuel, but what does that mean for the environment? In the Philippines, environmental groups are protesting against two gas facilities’ construction plans that will happen in a region that spans across dozens of marine protected areas. Find out more in this episode of GreenBites.
Production credits: Production by Sustainable Asia
Hosts: Bonnie Au, Stella Chan
Producers: Stella Chan and Bonnie Au
Production Supervisor: Stella Chan and Bonnie Au
Executive Producer: Marcy Trent Long
Intro/outro music: Alex Mauboussin
Transition Music: Xylo-Ziko - Termites
We also have a Mandarin Greenbites show, check it out now!
Greta Thunberg made a landmark speech in Milan, calling out world leaders for their lip service in mitigating climate change. Cambodia’s expansion of coal plants go opposite the world’s direction, seemingly proving Thunberg’s fears. In this episode, we also cover Indonesia’s illegal wood timber trade, and Southeast Asia’s climate education.
Production credits: Production by Sustainable Asia
Hosts: Chermaine Lee, Stella Chan
Producers: Chermaine Lee, Stella Chan and Bonnie Au
Production Supervisor: Chermaine Lee and Khoa Tran
Executive Producer: Marcy Trent Long
Intro/outro music: Alex Mauboussin
Transition Music: Xylo-Ziko - Termites
We also have a Mandarin Greenbites show, check it out now!
A year after pledging carbon neutrality by 2060, China made another climate commitment at the UN General Assembly to stop funding coal projects overseas. Following a year of Covid-related slumber, climate protests are back on the global agenda of activists. Also, we will be launching a new audio documentary series on marine noise pollution: Asia’s Noisy Oceans. This new season will be featured on our main Sustainable Asia podcast, and in this week’s GreenBites, we will be sharing a little sneak peak of the content.
Production credits:
Production by Sustainable Asia
Hosts: Khoa Tran and Bonnie Au
Producers: Chermaine Lee, Khoa Tran and Bonnie Au
Production Supervisor: Bonnie Au and Chermaine Lee
Executive Producer: Marcy Trent Long
Intro/outro music: Alex Mauboussin
Transition Music: Xylo-Ziko - Termites
We also have a Mandarin Greenbites show, check it out now!
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.
Production credits:
Production by Sustainable Asia
Hosts: Khoa Tran and Chermaine Lee
Producers: Chermaine Lee, Khoa Tran and Bonnie Au
Production Supervisor: Bonnie Au and Chermaine Lee
Executive Producer: Marcy Trent Long
Intro/outro music: Alex Mauboussin
Transition Music: Xylo-Ziko - Termites
We also have a Mandarin Greenbites show, check it out now!
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.
Production credits:
Production by Sustainable Asia
Hosts: Khoa Tran and Chermaine Lee
Producers: Chermaine Lee, Khoa Tran and Bonnie Au
Production Supervisor: Bonnie Au and Chermaine Lee
Executive Producer: Marcy Trent Long
Intro/outro music: Alex Mauboussin
Transition Music: Xylo-Ziko - Termites
We also have a Mandarin Greenbites show, check it out now!
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.
Production credits:
Production by Sustainable Asia
Hosts: Bonnie Au and Chermaine Lee
Producers: Chermaine Lee, Khoa Tran, Rachel Li, Bonnie Au and Avery Choi
Production Supervisor: Bonnie Au and Chermaine Lee
Executive Producer: Marcy Trent Long
Intro/outro music: Alex Mauboussin
Transition Music: Xylo-Ziko - Termites
We also have a Mandarin Greenbites show, check it out now!
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.
Production credits:
Production by Sustainable Asia
Hosts: Khoa Tran and Avery Choi
Producers: Chermaine Lee, Khoa Tran, Rachel Li, Bonnie Au and Avery Choi
Production Supervisor: Bonnie Au and Chermaine Lee
Executive Producer: Marcy Trent Long
Intro/outro music: Alex Mauboussin
Transition Music: Xylo-Ziko - Termites
We also have a Mandarin Greenbites show, check it out now!
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.
Production credits:
Production by Sustainable Asia
Hosts: Khoa Tran and Stella Chan
Producers: Chermaine Lee, Khoa Tran, Rachel Li, Stella Chan and Avery Choi
Production Supervisor: Bonnie Au
Executive Producer: Marcy Trent Long
Intro/outro music: Alex Mauboussin
Transition Music: Xylo-Ziko - Termites
We also have a Mandarin Greenbites show, check it out now!
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.
Production credits:Production by Sustainable Asia
Hosts: Bonnie Au and Khoa Tran
Producers: Bonnie Au and Khoa Tran
Production Supervisor: Bonnie Au
Executive Producer: Marcy Trent Long
Intro/outro music: Alex Mauboussin
Transition Music: Xylo-Ziko - Termites
We also have a Mandarin Greenbites show, check it out now!
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”.
Production credits:Production by Sustainable Asia
Hosts: Chermaine Lee and Avery Choi
Producers: Chermaine Lee and Avery Choi
Production Supervisor: Bonnie Au and Chermaine Lee
Executive Producer: Marcy Trent Long
Intro/outro music: Alex Mauboussin
Transition Music: Xylo-Ziko - Termites
We also have a Mandarin Greenbites show, check it out now!
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.
Production credits:Production by Sustainable Asia
Hosts: Chermaine Lee and Stella Chan
Producers: Chermaine Lee and Stella Chan
Production Supervisor: Bonnie Au and Chermaine Lee
Executive Producer: Marcy Trent Long
Intro/outro music: Alex Mauboussin
Transition Music: Xylo-Ziko - Termites
We also have a Mandarin Greenbites show, check it out now!
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.
We also cover China’s national emissions trading scheme, a key to regulating greenhouse gas emissions, which is facing a delay in the launch of its trading platform. And finally, some good news for pandas!
Production credits:
Production by Sustainable Asia
Hosts: Khoa Tran and Stella Chan
Producers: Khoa Tran and Stella Chan
Production Supervisor: Bonnie Au
Executive Producer: Marcy Trent Long
Intro/outro music: Alex Mauboussin
Transition Music: Xylo-Ziko - Termites
We also have a Mandarin Greenbites show, check it out now!
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.
Production credits:
Production by Sustainable Asia
Hosts: Khoa Tran and Chermaine Lee
Producers: Khoa Tran and Chermaine Lee
Production Supervisor: Bonnie Au
Executive Producer: Marcy Trent Long
Intro/outro music: Alex Mauboussin
We also have a Mandarin Greenbites show, check it out now!
This week’s episode looks at an environmental activist court case in Cambodia, China's battles to contain illicit buildings in conservation areas, and a mysterious skin disease amongst sharks in Malaysia.
Production credits:
Production by Sustainable Asia
Hosts: Bonnie Au and Avery Choi
Producers: Bonnie Au and Avery Choi
Production Supervisors: Bonnie Au and Chermaine Lee
Executive Producer: Marcy Trent Long
Intro/outro music: Alex Mauboussin
We also have a Mandarin Greenbites show, check it out now!
A recent news report revealed a possible leak in China’s Taishan Nuclear Power plant. Are we at risk of a nuclear disaster? In this week’s Greenbites, we will also give an update on China’s carbon neutrality plan, introduce tin mining in Indonesia and look at Hong Kong’s largest smuggling case involving endangered species and rare plants.
Production credits:
Production by Sustainable Asia
Hosts: Bonnie Au and Stella Chan
Producers: Bonnie Au and Stella Chan
Production Supervisors: Bonnie Au and Chermaine Lee
Executive Producer: Marcy Trent Long
Intro/outro music: Alex Mauboussin
We also have a Mandarin Greenbites show, check it out now!
As Asia heads into its monsoon season, we look at how these tropical rainstorms have changed over the last million years against varying carbon emissions data. Meanwhile, farmers in the Chinese Gobi desert, despite reforesting nearly a quarter of China’s total area since the late 70s, now have to deal with increasingly challenging weather conditions. Finally, the internet-famous herd of elephants trekking in China’s Yunnan province continues its journey, reminding us of the consequences of human expansion into wild habitats.
Production credits:Production by Sustainable Asia
Hosts: Chermaine Lee and Khoa Tran
Producers: Bonnie Au, Chermaine Lee and Khoa Tran
Executive Producer: Marcy Trent Long
Intro/outro music: Alex Mauboussin
We also have a Mandarin Greenbites show, check it out now!
Following a successful pilot show of Greenbites on Sustainable Asia’s main podcast channel, we are back as a standalone podcast, where we deliver you a weekly digest of environmental news from around Asia summarised in just 10 mins. So be sure to grab your bite every Monday and munch on!
Production credits:Production by Sustainable AsiaHosts: Chermaine Lee, Bonnie Au, Stella Chan, Khoa Tran and Avery Choi
Lead producers: Chermaine Lee and Bonnie Au
Executive producer: Marcy Trent Long
Intro/outro music: Alex Mauboussin
We also have a Mandarin Greenbites show, check it out now!