GNA Op-ed Article Guidelines

Dear Green Network Asia members, communities, readers, and literally everyone!

Thank you for visiting Green Network Asia! 

We would like to invite you to write and publish your op-ed articles with Green Network Asia on our “Opinion” platform.

Mission

Green Network Asia’s “Opinion” platform intends to showcase thought leadership and valuable insights that promote points of view, voices, and tacit knowledge of authors from different nationalities and backgrounds to help address environmental, social, economic, governance, cultural, scientific, and technological problems on interrelated topics of interest in sustainable development and sustainability.

You can explore any issue, case study, or event at the local, regional, or global level as long as the context and messaging are relevant and valuable for global and international audiences.

By publishing your op-ed articles with Green Network Asia, you may persuade governments, businesses, civil society organizations, grassroots communities, and individual citizens and customers across the Asia Pacific and beyond on matters that you find important and are close to your heart.

This can serve as a strategic platform for you to advocate for policy reform, create public awareness, and more.

Benefits

You will benefit from the careful curation, meticulous editing, and beautiful illustration that our team will dedicate to your pieces.

You will also gain exposure in our ecosystem that will strategically promote your insights, points of view, voices, and profile to our multi-stakeholder communities and global audiences.

Our multi-stakeholder communities have passion, enthusiasm, aspiration, and interest in sustainability-related issues and sustainable development. Moreover, they have power, influence, and potential in their respective fields and organizations.

We continuously create an ecosystem of shared value for sustainable development with our multi-stakeholder communities across sectors to solve problems and achieve collective impact in society.

We do not provide honorarium for the organically earned publications in Green Network Asia’s “Opinion” platform.

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As of 31 December 2024, Green Network Asia's digital publications have gained over 1 million readers globally.

Feedback from the Authors

Learn how our editorial support can create value to your work that will strengthen your portfolio, directly from the feedback we received from the authors:

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Pisith Hun

Lecturer, Paragon International University, Cambodia

“My article, “Amending Phnom Penh’s Green Spaces: Should we go small with pocket parks?” was my first op-ed published outside of Cambodia. After its publication, I was interviewed about my insights on Phnom Penh’s green spaces and spoke at various events on similar topics. Overall, I had a great experience with GNA. Their op-ed guidelines are very clear, and the editing process enhances the clarity and impact of the writing. Thanks to the reviewers who made my article more polished and informative! I find GNA to be an impactful digital media and believe it will continue to be a global platform in the future.”

Alexandria Virginski

Associate, Law firm, United States

I find the editing, curation, and publication process very responsive and useful. They were very easy to work with and had great, meaningful feedback. I would recommend GNA to others who are looking at getting published.

Royanto Purba

Chairman, Federasi Serikat Pekerja Kerah Biru (Federation of Blue Collar Workers Union)

“The curation and editing process by Green Network Asia’s editorial team has made my “Opinion” article more direct and easy to understand. I am very happy with the publication of my article by Green Network Asia, and I always share it with others. The positive outcome I experienced directly from publishing my op-ed with Green Network Asia was that I became a speaker for ILO event to talk about Just Energy Transition in Samarinda on 05th September 2023.”

 
 
 

Emmanuel Ariananto Waluyo Adi

Legal Analyst, Ministry of State Secretariat of the Republic of Indonesia

“The curation and editing by Green Network Asia’s editorial team on my opinion article was very detailed and interactive. I felt confident because the article had gone through a credible process before publication. The benefit I get from Green Network Asia is that my article can also become a reference for others’ writings.”

 

Topics of Interest

To be relevant to Green Network Asia’s audiences, your op-ed articles should cover any of the following topics:

Poverty Eradication | Rural Development | Food Security | Nutrition | Sustainable Agriculture | Herbs and Spices | Health and Well-Being | Health and Population | Education | Culture | Gender Equality and Women’s Empowerment | Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion | Water and Sanitation | Energy Transition| Green Economy | Sustainable Tourism | Employment and Decent Work for All | Social Protection | Industry | Sustainable Transport | Reduced Inequalities | Youth | Children | Peoples with Disabilities | Indigenous Peoples Disaster Risk Reduction | Sustainable Cities and Human Settlements | Sustainable Consumption and Production | Sustainable Value Chain | Chemicals and Waste | Climate Change | Atmosphere | Small Island Developing States | Oceans and Seas | Biodiversity and Ecosystems | Forest | Mountain | Desertification, Land Degradation, and Drought | Integrated Decision Making and Participation | Institutional Framework and International Cooperation for Sustainable Development | Capacity Development | Sustainable Finance | Financial Inclusion | Blended Finance | Multi-stakeholder Partnership and Voluntary Commitments | Science | Technology | Trade | Impact Investing |  Corporate Responsibility | Corporate Sustainability | Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) | Corporate Accountability 

Technical Guidelines

  • Your op-ed must be original, not a result of plagiarism, not AI-generated, and has not been previously published on any other platform before.
  • Your op-ed should be grounded in solid research, supported by relevant evidence, facts, and data. You may use any of the two basic methods: field research (using primary materials from interviews, observations, visiting the scene, and your own knowledge) or library, academic, and internet research (using secondary materials; graphs, charts, scholarly articles).
  • You should hyperlink all sources/references available online into your draft to ensure credibility and allow our community readers to learn further. Only legitimate sources are accepted.
  • Our community readers are diverse, spanning policymakers, experts, practitioners, activists, journalists, entrepreneurs, investors, educators, students, local communities, and youth with diverse backgrounds and affiliations, as well as the general public. You should deliver your op-ed in an easy-to-read and popular writing style while maintaining the quality of the content.
  • Your op-ed should be within 700 – 1000 words, including the title and subheadings.
  • We highly recommend you use subheadings to  highlight important points in your op-ed and help our community readers navigate your op-ed more quickly and easily.
  • We recommend your op-ed to include: the problem you see and want to help tackle, solutions that you propose to address that problem, and supporting evidence/case study/fact/data that strengthens your argument.

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Editorial Decision

We do our best to read your op-ed submission and notify you about our editorial decision as soon as possible within one week.

If we don’t get back to you within one week, you may assume that we will not publish your op-ed.

Curation and Editing

We do careful final editing on the op-ed that we have approved to be published. We ask the author to approve all the changes before publishing the final version on the web.

Submission

Please submit your op-ed with the subject “Op-ed Submission: [Title]” to our editorial team via email: [email protected]

In the body of the email, please include a short profile (name, job title, organization, academic background, industry, sector, expertise, experience, etc, a maximum of 50 words) and a photo of the author.

We hope to learn, share, and collaborate with you in the ecosystem of shared value for sustainable development.

Thank you!

Last updated: 17 October 2025

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