https://www.scmp.com/rss/509980/feed Dechen Tsering is Regional Director of the UN Environment Programme in Asia and the Pacific. en https://assets.i-scmp.com/static/img/icons/scmp-meta-1200x630.png https://www.scmp.com With Covid-19’s devastating effects on our lives and livelihoods, it has been easy to overlook its impacts on the natural environment. Mountains of personal protective equipment have piled up in landfills. Other plastic waste has proliferated with our changes in lifestyle. Much of it has floated out to sea. We’ve also seen what ostensibly looks like good news for the environment. Clear Venetian canals and blue Manila skies showed nature’s ability to self-heal with humans locked away. But we will... https://www.scmp.com/week-asia/opinion/article/3135737/why-women-should-be-forefront-worlds-sustainable-covid-19?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/week-asia/opinion/article/3135737/why-women-should-be-forefront-worlds-sustainable-covid-19?utm_source=rss_feed Fri, 04 Jun 2021 00:00:14 +0000