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Companies in climate probe could lose investors: Philippine Human Rights Commission

...to the petition, the CHR in October this year sent notices to the companies mentioned in the petition, requesting them to attend the 11 December meeting to discuss how the investigation will be conduc...

14 Dec 2017

Companies in climate probe could lose investors: Philippine Human Rights Commission

News / Transport

End of the road for Volvo’s purely petrol and diesel-powered cars

...tteries that can be charged from a plug point, mild hybrids don't have an electric motor and battery storage. Rather, they have a combustion engine with an electric starter motor that turns off the en...

11 Jul 2017

End of the road for Volvo’s purely petrol and diesel-powered cars

News / Manufacturing

Send children 'to work' at school to end child labour in India - activists

...toring more difficult," said Venkat Reddy of the M V Foundation, a charity in the coalition. The coalition's guidelines urge the private sector, civil society and government to work together on interv...

3 May 2017

Send children 'to work' at school to end child labour in India - activists

News / Energy

Skin powered by the sun? Energy-saving prosthetic limbs get better feeling

...thetic skin, he told the Thomson Reuters Foundation. The technology could also increase the functionality of robots, allowing them to have a better understanding of what they touch and interact with, ...

27 Mar 2017

Skin powered by the sun? Energy-saving prosthetic limbs get better feeling

News / Food & Agriculture

As millions go hungry, India eyes ways to stop wasting $14 billion of food a year

...trict of Uttar Pradesh state. "A small quantity of good quality rice is mixed with rotten portion to increase the volume and sold to us at subsidy. It is better to starve than to eat rodent-infested f...

5 Jan 2018

As millions go hungry, India eyes ways to stop wasting $14 billion of food a year

News / Carbon & Climate

As rural Sri Lanka dries out, young farmers look for new job options

...to be substantial, with more than a quarter of the country's labour force working in agriculture, a sector that contributes 8 percent of GDP, the report said. The situation is worst in villages like A...

21 Aug 2017

As rural Sri Lanka dries out, young farmers look for new job options

Press Releases / Spintelligent

National Water Week and World Water Day: are PPPs the solution?

...tation targets set out in the Sustainable Development Goals. In addition, improve the environmental footprints of utilities and municipalities in response to the Paris Agreement. The water track at Af...

20 Mar 2017

National Water Week and World Water Day: are PPPs the solution?

Opinion / Energy

Energy efficiency: Why not enough is being invested

...toward a decarbonised energy system. For that pathway to emerge, the IEA estimates that global energy intensity must improve 2.6 per cent annually until 2030. The IEA’s projection is consistent with t...

13 Oct 2017

Energy efficiency: Why not enough is being invested

News / Policy & Finance

Fears of SDG clashes overblown, study finds

...t's being written: in the first place, they have not contributed to it.” He added that Nigeria has resorted to creating a special unit to translate such reports. But Nilsson says that at this stage, t...

14 Jun 2017

Fears of SDG clashes overblown, study finds

News / Lifestyle

What to read, watch and listen to this Earth Day

...that collates data on environmental, economic and demographic indicators. Check it out for quantitative insights into everything from air pollution to income inequality to social attitudes like trust,...

21 Apr 2017

What to read, watch and listen to this Earth Day

Videos / Policy & Finance

'Stand up for someone's rights today,' UN urges on Human Rights Day

...ting that human rights are also at the heart of the work of the UN. The Universal Declaration of Human Rights was adopted in 1948. One of its foundations is the notion that everyone is entitled to the...

12 Dec 2016

'Stand up for someone's rights today,' UN urges on Human Rights Day

Farmer under agricultural training in Thailand

News / Food & Agriculture

Lessons from GM crops: Agritech will not take root without better communication

...the audience raised the possibility that digitisation could leave agriculture exposed to cyberattacks, such as the recent Ransomware attacks that shook internet-connected infrastructure all over the w...

14 Jul 2017

Lessons from GM crops: Agritech will not take root without better communication

News / Policy & Finance

Trump signs executive order to withdraw US from TPP

...to the trade strategy put forward by the Trump administration, the strategy starts by withdrawing from the TPP and renegotiating the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA). The White House also s...

25 Jan 2017

Trump signs executive order to withdraw US from TPP

Opinion / Policy & Finance

Are impact investors missing a trick by overlooking local communities?

...tform for people to self-organise, enabling them to collectively negotiate with governments to get the services they need: they know their city, they know how to design infrastructure that works and t...

8 Sep 2017

Are impact investors missing a trick by overlooking local communities?

News / Carbon & Climate

From traffic jams to floods, can Indonesia's 'Big Durian' be fixed?

...tructure and public transport to keep pace with its expansion. In addition to its infamous congestion - which is often cited by traffic studies as the worst in the world, and costs the city an estimat...

27 Nov 2017

From traffic jams to floods, can Indonesia's 'Big Durian' be fixed?

Press Releases / International Tourism Partnership

Share your sustainability journey with the Green Hotelier Awards

...tainability history. Other properties recognised in the Awards include hotels in Costa Rica with an extraordinarily low environmental footprint thanks to methane capture and black water treatments, a...

10 Mar 2017

Share your sustainability journey with the Green Hotelier Awards

Opinion / Transport

Uber's new campaign is disruptive—to Singapore's health and green ambitions

...t the top of the station’s staircase. Just as Netflix once said that sleep is its biggest competitor, Uber is taking on human locomotion. Which is almost the opposite approach to the one it took abou...

6 Sep 2017

Uber's new campaign is disruptive—to Singapore's health and green ambitions

News / Carbon & Climate

Climate change puts Cambodians at risk of mental health disorders

...tly, farmers can’t farm. There's no doubt that they get stressed, and that eventually leads to mental health problems. The more severe the disaster, the greater the impact on mental health,” he adds. ...

30 Oct 2017

Climate change puts Cambodians at risk of mental health disorders

Party at Owl Bar, 2 College Road, Singapore

Opinion / Lifestyle

Was this the worst ever attempt to talk to young people about the environment?

...toxic air that is due to drift into the city-state sometime over the next few months. Does anyone here want to hear a talk about palm oil? But even though this party - which was free for all to atte...

19 Jun 2017

Was this the worst ever attempt to talk to young people about the environment?

Opinion / Transport

When investing in infrastructure, don't forget gender

...the same period these two sectors contributed only about one-third of gender-mainstreamed projects. Time to better integrate gender features in infrastructure investments In contrast, agriculture and ...

5 Jul 2017

When investing in infrastructure, don't forget gender

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