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Fossil fuel tax proposed to cover rising costs of wild weather

...floods and rising seas, while providing a stronger incentive to wean the world off carbon-heavy energy, green groups said on Monday. A "climate damages tax" levied on oil, gas and coal companies could...

11 Dec 2018

Fossil fuel tax proposed to cover rising costs of wild weather

News / Cities

Indians demand a say as construction chokes cities

...flooding and more slums, analysts say. Authorities have introduced stricter environmental laws for businesses in recent years, but analysts say they are poorly implemented in a rush to lure investors....

16 Aug 2018

Indians demand a say as construction chokes cities

News / Food & Agriculture

Biofuel-friendly trees may boost landscape restoration efforts in Indonesia

...flooded area in the rainy season and very dried out in the dry season, leading to fires,” said Siti Maimunah, dean of the Faculty of Agriculture and Forestry at UMP. After planting tree trials, the sc...

23 Oct 2018

Biofuel-friendly trees may boost landscape restoration efforts in Indonesia

Opinion / Carbon & Climate

5 under-recognised impacts of air pollution

Most of the rising global attention to air pollution focuses on the impacts that ozone, particulate matter and other pollutants have on human health. This is natural; the numbers in the headlines are ...

6 Jun 2019

5 under-recognised impacts of air pollution

Opinion / Carbon & Climate

San Francisco hosted a star-studded climate summit but what did we actually learn?

...flooding American homes. Alongside other examples of extreme weather events elsewhere around the world, there was a tangible sense in the room that this is no abstract issue. It was a reminder that ...

19 Sep 2018

San Francisco hosted a star-studded climate summit but what did we actually learn?

News / Carbon & Climate

Japan’s deadly 2018 heatwave ‘could not have happened without climate change’

...floods and droughts. It follows analysis published in December which found that climate change made the UK 2018 summer heatwave up to 30 times more likely. The study is “very interesting”, but require...

3 Jun 2019

Japan’s deadly 2018 heatwave ‘could not have happened without climate change’

News / Policy & Finance

World Bank ups funds to tackle 'existential threat' of climate change

...flooding that is contaminating fresh water with salt. The new World Bank funds would "help to build resilience, make us safer, and improve lives", she said. "Global action needs to accelerate before i...

4 Dec 2018

World Bank ups funds to tackle 'existential threat' of climate change

News / Food & Agriculture

Rising carbon levels threaten diets of hundreds of millions of poor

...floods, these findings warn of a direct yet mostly invisible impact on people's diets, said Matthew Smith, an author of the study. "It's more hidden ... most people wouldn't necessarily notice if they...

29 Aug 2018

Rising carbon levels threaten diets of hundreds of millions of poor

News / Carbon & Climate

Climate change is triple risk to Europe

...floods – up to 15 days earlier – and in northeastern Europe, half of all hydrometric stations recorded an advance in the flood timing of around eight days. Around the North Sea, half the stations regi...

15 Aug 2017

Climate change is triple risk to Europe

Opinion / Policy & Finance

Breaking barriers to local climate finance for the triple win

...flooding. Reducing poverty, building climate resilience and increasing carbon storage are the triple win. But to negotiate and secure rights to land, basic services and natural resources ̶ and to d...

4 May 2018

Breaking barriers to local climate finance for the triple win

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News / Energy

Jakarta citizens take legal action on air pollution

...flood of coal power station construction—at one time, the country was opening one a week. These had very low emission standards, which led to horrific air pollution in the late 2010s, dubbed the ‘airp...

9 May 2019

Jakarta citizens take legal action on air pollution

Press Releases / 350.org East Asia

Singapore joins global Rise for Climate

...floods on the other, is getting more and more common: along with the heatwave in the northern hemisphere this past summer, search and rescue operations in the north and south of Thailand, and concurre...

10 Sep 2018

Singapore joins global Rise for Climate

News / Energy

Analysis: Global fossil-fuel emissions up 0.6 per cent in 2019 due to China

...flooded coal mines and high hydropower generation. The Indian economy has also slowed, contributing to a slower-than-average increase in emissions compared to prior years. The 2019 increase in Indian ...

4 Dec 2019

Analysis: Global fossil-fuel emissions up 0.6 per cent in 2019 due to China

karnataka water treatment plant in india

News / Water

Cities and companies team up to tackle urban water crises - study

...flooding. “ We are seeing critical shifts in leadership from cities and companies in response to the very real threat of flooding, for example, to local economies. Morgan Gillespy, head, Water Progra...

30 Aug 2017

Cities and companies team up to tackle urban water crises - study

Opinion / Manufacturing

The invisible women and girls who make your clothes

...floods. They are the women and girls in India who toil at the bottom of global garment supply chains, earning between $0.13 and $0.15 per hour sewing, embroidering, and adding the finishing touches to...

15 Feb 2019

The invisible women and girls who make your clothes

Residents fleeing floods in Moulvibazar Bangladesh

News / Water

Transboundary data sharing helps Bangladesh prepare for floods

...flooded, and the Brahmaputra and Ganga rivers are expected to burst their banks sooner rather than later. But the people of Bangladesh are now more aware of potential disasters, thanks to improved flo...

13 Jul 2017

Transboundary data sharing helps Bangladesh prepare for floods

News / Carbon & Climate

Vulnerable infrastructure at risk from climate

...floods will remain the most critical hazard in many floodplains and coastal stretches of western, central, and eastern Europe, the study says, including the British Isles, Poland, the Czech Republic, ...

4 Dec 2017

Vulnerable infrastructure at risk from climate

News / Policy & Finance

Investors fear to tread risky path towards building a greener world

...flood protection, and move towards decarbonising their economies—all while limiting annual spending on new infrastructure to 4.5 per cent of their gross domestic product up to 2030, a new report from ...

11 Mar 2019

Investors fear to tread risky path towards building a greener world

A water shop in Pakistan supplied by Sukoon Water, whose founder Rehan Adamjee will be attending Singapore International Water Week. Image: Sukoon Water

News / Water

Giving a voice to young water leaders

...flood risk management, sanitation, water governance and water security. They have also gotten tips from senior water professionals such as Henk Ovink, the Netherlands’ special envoy for international ...

1 Jun 2018

Giving a voice to young water leaders

News / Energy

Trump says America needs coal for grid security. The military proves otherwise.

...floods, storms or cyber attack. “The [Department of Defense] is deploying these projects because of increasing threats to the US electric grid,” said Wilson Rickerson, a principal at Converge Strategi...

20 Nov 2018

Trump says America needs coal for grid security. The military proves otherwise.

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