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We INFORM. We INSPIRE. We EMPOWER. Founded by serial entrepreneur Sonalie Figueiras in 2011, Green Queen is an award-winning sustainability & impact media platform advocating for social & environmental change in Asia. Our mission is to shift consumer behaviour through our authentic, original and ground-breaking content.

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Electric Cars Alone Won’t Save The Planet. We’ll Need to Design Cities So People Can Walk and Cycle Safely

Green Queen Team Nov 28, 2021

By Timothy Welch At the COP26 climate summit, world politicians patted themselves on their backs for coming to a last-minute agreement. Humanity now waits with bated breath to see if countries implement the commitments they made,…
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Shipping Emissions Must Fall By a Third by 2030 and Reach Zero Before 2050 – New Research

Green Queen Team Nov 25, 2021

By Simon Bullock, Alice Larkin and James Mason International shipping is a crucial part of the global economy – 90% of the world’s trade is transported by sea. But almost all ships use fossil fuels, and so the sector is also a…
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Why Nitrates and Nitrites in Processed Meats are Harmful, But Those in Vegetables Aren’t

Green Queen Team Nov 25, 2021

By Richard Hoffman Many of us know that we should steer away from processed meats and eat more vegetables if we want to be healthier and lower our chances of developing certain types of cancers. While there are many reasons processed…
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Oil Companies Ploughing Money into Fossil Fuelled Plastics Production at a Record Rate – New Research

Green Queen Team Nov 24, 2021

By Fredric Bauer and Tobias Dan Nielsen Visiting a modern petrochemical plant makes you feel incredibly small. Enormous compressors roar incessantly, distillation columns tower high above your head, large pipelines full of oil and gas…
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The Climate Crisis Is Forcing Women and Girls to Sell Their Bodies

Green Queen Team Nov 22, 2021

By Anya Zoledziowski A family fell on such hard times after a cyclone that when a man offered their daughter, 17, a job, they agreed. They later learned she was forced into the sex trade. In May 2020, when the catastrophic…
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6 Books To Read on Climate Justice and Nature Centring Marginalised People

Green Queen Team Nov 19, 2021

By Francisca Rockey If you walk into your local library or bookshop and you’re looking for a book on nature or the climate crisis, you’re likely to find that most of the texts are written by white people; meaning most of our…
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COP26 Ends With Promises, But Not Nearly Enough Progress

Green Queen Team Nov 18, 2021

By Tina Gerhardt The UN climate conference’s agreement acknowledges several key issues for the first time—but doesn’t do enough to address them. As COP26 drew to a close with the Glasgow Climate Pact, a 10-page document,…
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Vegan, Vegetarian and Flexitarian Diets Could Save You Money – New Study

Green Queen Team Nov 17, 2021

By: Marco Springmann Many people are choosing to make the switch to plant-based diets for many reasons – including as a way of cutting their climate footprint or to be healthier. Yet there’s long been the notion that…
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How Climate Change Threatens Pregnant Women and Their Fetuses

Green Queen Team Nov 15, 2021

By Cara Korte World leaders will turn their focus to gender Tuesday at the U.N. global climate summit in Glasgow, Scotland. Globally, women are more vulnerable to the effects of climate change than men, as they make…
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‘Nice’ Isn’t Going to Save the Planet

Green Queen Team Nov 15, 2021

By Mary Annaïse Heglar and Amy Westervelt In a rapidly heating world, we don’t have time for etiquette. “No matter what he says today,” climate activist Lauren MacDonald said through tears in her opening lines at…
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How Young People Are Using Climate Litigation to Fight for Their Future

Green Queen Team Nov 12, 2021

By Alex Robinson Millennials and Gen Zs are suing governments and pension funds over their failures to address the climate crisis. It all started with an email. Mark McVeigh was procrastinating one day, as university students do,…
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Q&A w/ Eugene Wang of Sophie’s Bionutrients: Why We Moved Our Production From Singapore to the Netherlands

Green Queen Team Nov 12, 2021

We recently had the chance to speak to Eugene Wang, co-founder and CEO of Sophie's Bionutrients. The Singapore-based company, which grows microalgae in bioreactors, recently announced a move to Europe, and we wanted to know more: why would…
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Whose Voices Are (and Aren’t) Being Heard at COP26?

Green Queen Team Nov 9, 2021

By Rachel Sarah “COP26 is looking like one of the most inequitable, White, and segregated COPs to ever occur,” says Ayisha Siddiqa, a climate activist who traveled from New York City to Glasgow for the long-awaited…
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What Is Deforestation? And Is Stopping It Really Possible?

Green Queen Team Nov 8, 2021

By: Patrick Greenfield As world leaders prepare to commit to halting the destruction of forests, here’s everything you need to know about some of the planet’s most biodiverse places. Forests and nature are centre stage at Cop26. On…
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Is the Global Methane Pledge Just “Words on Paper”?

Green Queen Team Nov 8, 2021

By Amy Westervelt More than 70 countries, including the United States, have promised to reduce methane emissions by 30 percent by 2030. Is it enough? This week at COP26, more than 70 countries, led by the European Union and the…
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There’s Still Time to Fix the Climate—About 11 Years

Green Queen Team Nov 7, 2021

By Mark Fischetti On October 31 world leaders will descend on Glasgow, Scotland, for the United Nations Climate Change Conference, or COP26, in a last-ditch effort to defuse the climate emergency by limiting global warming to…
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‘We Need To Find Solutions That Work For Everyone’ – A Chat with Chris Huriwai and Amy Taylor of ‘Milked’ Documentary

Green Queen Team Nov 5, 2021

The New Zealand dairy industry is worth close to $8 billion and is home to some of the world's largest dairy companies. 'Milked', a new documentary premiering in New Zealand this week, wants to help the public take a deeper look into a…
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Reasons To Be Hopeful: The Climate Solutions Available Now

Green Queen Team Nov 4, 2021

By: Damian Carrington and Guardian reporters The climate emergency is the biggest threat to civilisation we have ever faced. But there is good news: we already have every tool we need to beat it. The challenge is not identifying the…
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Exxon Is Desperate to Keep People From Realizing It Lied About Climate

Green Queen Team Nov 4, 2021

By Geoff Dembicki Oil executives delayed and deflected at a historic congressional hearing into climate denial Thursday. Experts say once people learn the truth it could be game over for Big Oil. Exxon had been dreading this day…
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‘Breathtaking’ Lack of Commitment as Rich Countries Delay Climate Finance Pledge to 2023

Green Queen Team Nov 3, 2021

The UK will have to open COP26 with a last-ditch bid to mobilize US$100 billion per year in climate finance from the world’s richest nations,
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45% of Americans Don’t Believe Humans Cause Climate Change, VICE News/Guardian Poll Shows

Green Queen Team Oct 28, 2021

VICE News partnered with the Guardian and pollster YouGov to find out how people living in the US think and feel about climate change.
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