United Kingdom News

China shipyard
More than half of the world's largest proprietors of shipping vessels are from Asia. Eco-Business explores what the region's biggest maritime companies are doing to lower their environmental impact.
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Climate experts offer their views on Rishi Sunak’s weakening of net zero policies.
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Developing countries call for more support to fight global warming at a climate ambition summit which failed to attract the world's biggest emitters.
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Urban heat islands can face higher temperatures than green or rural areas, increasing risk of illness and death for city residents.
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United Kingdom Opinion

Peace with Nature Singapore
Founder and managing director Jessica Cheam investigates the relationship between business and our natural world, and shares about the genesis of Eco-Business in this book chapter contribution to 'Peace and Nature', a book compilation of 50 essays and edited by Professor Tommy Koh, Lye Lin Heng and Shawn Lum launched in Singapore recently.
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Despite the challenges of addressing climate change, technology and innovation are accelerating the net-zero transition.
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The Covid-19 pandemic showed that industrialized countries can help reduce atmospheric carbon emissions only insofar as they can keep fossil fuel in the ground. Focusing only on reducing their demand will not even put a dent in the problem.
"Sustainability is in our DNA"
If sustainability really was at the heart of everything businesses did, the planet probably would not be 1.2°C warmer than it should be. It's time for corporates to stop using the same meaningless catchphrase – or risk alienating consumers
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United Kingdom Videos

Climate spirals
As planetary temperatures reach an all-time high, a climate scientist has designed a new way to show how global temperatures have changed every month since the start of the industrial revolution and 2021.
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What can you do to help quell the devastating impacts of climate change? Start life on a greener path in the countryside.
UK flood barriers
The risks of tidal flooding are worsening across much of Britain—and that is leading to more protective barriers being put in place.
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A study released on Wednesday shows women in every country still do far more unpaid work, like childcare and chores, than men.
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United Kingdom Podcasts

Plant-based food
EB Studio The booming alternative protein sector has experienced turbulence this year. The Eco-Business Podcast asks if growth in plant-based meat alternatives can go the distance.
An Eco-Business debate in 2019
EB Studio Covid-19 didn't kill events, but it did change them. Teymoor Nabili and Veemal Gungadin tell the Eco-Business Podcast how a pandemic transformed the way sustainability events are conceived and organised.
Healthcare and sustainability: Why aren't we talking about it?
If the global healthcare sector was a country, it would be the fifth largest emitter in the world — not great for a sector that promises 'to do no harm'. But a growing movement is emerging to decarbonise healthcare.
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