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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.

Covering Climate Now

The Fossil Fuel Lobby’s Misinformation Campaign Against the EPA’s EV Rules Has Begun

Green Queen Team Mar 30, 2024

The American Fuel & Petrochemical Manufacturers, a major oil refining group, is once again behind a push to keep cars running on oil. By Adam M Lowenstein Fossil fuel interest groups have mobilized quickly to oppose a new rule…
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Covering Climate Now

The War on Meat: Why Legislators are Trying to Ban Cultivated Meat

Green Queen Team Mar 25, 2024

Restricting the sale of protein cultured from animal cells, developed as a way to raise meat without the climate impacts of livestock, has become a trendy right-wing legislative focus in states from Arizona to Florida. By Wyatt Myskow…
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Covering Climate Now

Big Oil, Big Lawsuits: The Fossil Fuel Industry is Bracing Itself for Climate Trials

Green Queen Team Mar 23, 2024

A quarter of Americans now live in cities and states taking companies to court over lying to the public. By Kate Yoder It’s been six years since cities in California started the trend of taking Big Oil to court for deceiving the…
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Covering Climate Now

Can Behavioural Science Help Us Live More Climate-Friendly Lives?

Green Queen Team Mar 16, 2024

By Chiara Longoni, associate professor, marketing and social science, Bocconi University; and Kimberly Doell, senior researcher in environmental and climate change psychology, Universität Wien Quick and easy interventions that inspire…
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Policy & Regulation

2024 Elections: Climate Change is All Over the Ballot This Year

Green Queen Team Mar 9, 2024

From Biden vs Trump to an oil well referendum in California, climate change debate is all over the ballot in federal, state and local contests. By Marcus Baram In the wake of the hottest year on record, with fossil fuel…
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Health

Analysing 700 Plant-Based Foods in Australian Supermarkets to Find Out What’s Healthy

Green Queen Team Mar 2, 2024

By Laura Marchese, PhD Student at the Institute for Physical Activity and Nutrition, Deakin University; and Katherine Livingstone, Senior Research Fellow at the Institute for Physical Activity and Nutrition, Deakin University If you’re…
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Covering Climate Now

Taylor Swift Flew 5,500 Miles to Watch Travis Kelce Win the Super Bowl – But This is the Problem with Carbon Removal

Green Queen Team Feb 24, 2024

A "quite radical" report suggests governments and communities, not the private sector, should be leading the carbon removal industry. By Tik Root To get to the Super Bowl on time, Taylor Swift took a private jet from Tokyo to Los…
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Covering Climate Now

Big Ag vs Climate Change: Are Farmers Really Protesting Against the EU’s Green Reforms?

Green Queen Team Feb 17, 2024

Big agriculture and far-right parties set farmers against the environment, but producers on the ground in Brussels told a different story. By Rachel Sherrington Across France, Italy and Belgium last week thousands of farmers …
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Covering Climate Now

Generation Climate: Should Global Warming Prevent You From Having Kids?

Green Queen Team Feb 13, 2024

The authors of a new book, ‘The Conceivable Future’, discuss how people are thinking about family planning in a time of climate change. By Daisy Simmons A particular sort of demographic thing was going on for us both — you know, the…
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Food & Nutrition

How Food and the Gut Microbiome Can Stimulate Your Body’s ‘Natural Ozempic’

Green Queen Team Feb 13, 2024

By Christopher Damman, Associate Professor of Gastroenterology, School of Medicine, University of Washington Wegovy, Ozempic and Mounjaro are weight loss and diabetes drugs that have made quite a splash in health news. They target…
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Covering Climate Now

2024 is a Climate Election Year – The Media Must Cover It That Way

Green Queen Team Feb 12, 2024

The press is covering the 2024 campaign as if climate isn’t on the ballot, but 56% of US voters are ‘concerned’ or ‘alarmed’ about the crisis. By Mark Hertsgaard and Kyle Pope Fact one: more voters face national elections in 2024…
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Alt Protein

L’Oréal Launches Animal-Free Collagen Skincare in China, As Recombinant Technology Gains Steam

Green Queen Team Feb 12, 2024

With leading beauty conglomerates announcing new beauty lines featuring recombinant collagen, the potential for China to be a leader in the synthetic biotechnology ingredient industry. In December 2023, the leading international beauty…
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Covering Climate Now

The Surprising Connection Between Eco-Anxiety and Loneliness

Green Queen Team Jan 11, 2024

Recent research shows that the unfolding crises in climate change and social isolation may actually be connected. By James Arnott and Shannon Stirone The climate crisis isn’t just altering our physical environments. It could even be…
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Covering Climate Now

Why People Still Fall for Fake News About Climate Change

Green Queen Team Jan 11, 2024

It was the hottest year in 125,000 years, yet #climatescam is taking off. By Kate Yoder In 1995, a leading group of scientists convened by the United Nations declared that they had detected a “human influence” on global…
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Covering Climate Now

In Focus: Climate Stories Set to Dominate 2024

Green Queen Team Jan 6, 2024

The world made major progress on climate change in 2023. Here’s what could come next. By Dana Nuccitelli The past year broke a plethora of climate and energy records — some bad, but some good. The year 2023 easily became the…
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Alt Protein

Addressing The Facts: UPSIDE Foods Responds To Recent Press

Green Queen Team Jan 5, 2024

Editor's Note: Given the urgency of the climate crisis, the outsized global greenhouse gas emissions footprint of animal protein production and the need to support a variety of future food solutions, including cultivated meat, we believe…
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Climate Change

‘Global Boiling’: 2023’s Term of the Year?

Green Queen Team Dec 31, 2023

Forget "rizz." These 10 words defined the hottest year ever. By Kate Yoder, Grist To say that 2023 is one for the record books is a vast understatement — the year was so out of the norm that you’re forced to go back at least 125,000…
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Climate Change

Can Remote Work Be Good for Climate Change? This Study Thinks So

Green Queen Team Dec 30, 2023

Working from home can cut your employment-related carbon footprint by more than half, a study found. By Kristen Pope, Yale Climate Connections Driving into the office used to be a normal part of the workday. Sipping coffee from a…
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Climate Change

Recipe For Change: How Climate Cookbooks Can Help Transform How We Eat

Green Queen Team Nov 29, 2023

Sustainable diets have been around for decades, but an emerging cookbook genre signals a new appetite for change. By Caroline Saunders, Grist Kitchen Arts & Letters, a legendary cookbook store on Manhattan’s Upper East Side, is…
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Climate Change

Despite Public Targets, Most Countries Are Not Reducing Fossil Fuel Productions

Green Queen Team Nov 11, 2023

A new report shows that the world’s governments, despite the targets they set for themselves in the 2015 Paris Climate Agreement, are failing to sufficiently reduce fuel production and consumption. By WhoWhatWhy Staff, WhoWhatWhy …
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Climate Change

The Net-Zero Challenge: Carbon Offsets Need to Stop

Green Queen Team Nov 4, 2023

Stop pretending planting trees can justify fossil fuel emissions. By Mark Schapiro, Capital & Main Fossil fuel companies are no longer denying the realities of climate change — which many of them reported on privately…
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