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New 'clean burning' joss paper claims to reduce air pollution at Chinese religious festivals

...the main ingredient in modern gunpowder. The Eco Hell note launches in the run-up to the Qingming Festival, when traditionally paper is burned to honour dead relatives. The practice often raises comp...

22 Mar 2024

New 'clean burning' joss paper claims to reduce air pollution at Chinese religious festivals

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REDD+ doesn’t work without Indigenous peoples, but fails to engage them: report

...The importance of Indigenous Peoples in the protection of the Amazon is not reflected in the design of international climate policy,” the study says. “Given their historical and ongoing struggles agai...

28 Oct 2024

REDD+ doesn’t work without Indigenous peoples, but fails to engage them: report

News / Cities

Gay, teenaged and online: LGBTQ+ Indians fight for safe space

...ther issued comment nor revealed the cause of Yadav's suicide, saying it was still under investigation, while his mother voiced concern in local media about the online abuse her son had faced. Cyberbu...

14 Feb 2024

Gay, teenaged and online: LGBTQ+ Indians fight for safe space

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Singapore's plastic recycling rate drops to 5 per cent

...the lowest for more a decade, with the exception of 2020, the height of the Covid-19 pandemic, when waste recovery services were disrupted. The drop in overall recycling rate has been attributed to a ...

19 Jun 2024

Singapore's plastic recycling rate drops to 5 per cent

Phong Dien Solar PV Park in Thua Thien-Hue, Vietnam

Opinion / Policy & Finance

Cut the climate doom – exponential green change is possible

...when the world adopted the Paris Agreement at COP21. Since those historic climate talks in 2015, so much has changed – and yet so little at the same time. Now, as we hurtle towards the 28th annual Uni...

7 Aug 2023

Cut the climate doom – exponential green change is possible

News / Carbon & Climate

Explained: Climate change, earthquakes and hydropower in the Himalayas

...the Himalayas? The Himalayas host some 100,000 km2 of glaciers, making the region the largest ice reserve on Earth outside the two poles. The Himalayas are also warming faster than the global average...

12 May 2023

Explained: Climate change, earthquakes and hydropower in the Himalayas

News / Lifestyle

Too hot to party? Extreme temperatures threaten live music shows

...The viability of the event industry relies on their ability to be able to make plans and stick to them," Haghani said. "If the weather is constantly going to intervene, it is going to threaten the ver...

25 Jan 2024

Too hot to party? Extreme temperatures threaten live music shows

Opinion / Carbon & Climate

Only public-private cooperation can accelerate decarbonisation

...these technologies represent the most reliable and flexible way to accelerate the energy transition. Renewables will undoubtedly shape the global energy landscape in the coming years. Both solar and w...

20 May 2024

Only public-private cooperation can accelerate decarbonisation

News / Policy & Finance

Renewable energy certificates, defying criticism, take off in Southeast Asia

...the figure drops to under 10 per cent when RECs are excluded. In theory, the environmental benefit from green power production already contributes to lowering the grid emissions factor on the local po...

28 Feb 2024

Renewable energy certificates, defying criticism, take off in Southeast Asia

News / Energy

Why power spot markets are key to China’s new energy system

...the market. Such generators usually produce electricity at the same time of day within a region; that is, the middle of the day for solar and the middle of the night for onshore wind. Good weather cou...

12 Sep 2023

Why power spot markets are key to China’s new energy system

News / Cities

Environmental laws ‘given pass’ in Kashmir’s tourism drive

The Gurez Valley lies on the Indian side of the Line of Control, which separates the two parts of the former princely state of Jammu & Kashmir between Indian and Pakistani administrations. Its loc...

23 Oct 2024

Environmental laws ‘given pass’ in Kashmir’s tourism drive

News / Food & Agriculture

Trees like women best: Nepal's forests thrive with female bosses

...When the women took over leadership 15 years ago, they put a stop to encroachment," said Pariyar. "They made sure that every household understood the importance of the forest." This story was publishe...

7 Jul 2023

Trees like women best: Nepal's forests thrive with female bosses

News / Carbon & Climate

Majority of Singaporeans aware of net zero concept, but less clear on national climate targets: study

...their lack of understanding of the concept, but when tested, about 36 per cent of the group were assessed to have poor knowledge. Researchers involved in the study voiced concerns over these findings...

17 May 2024

Majority of Singaporeans aware of net zero concept, but less clear on national climate targets: study

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News / Lifestyle

From K-Pop to Coldplay, the music industry is leaning in to climate action. Does it matter to Asian fans?

...the artistes. “We need to remove the burden from the artistes and see this as fundamentally the responsibility of the entire industry,” he said. “I see it as the venues’ responsibility, as the festiva...

25 Jul 2023

From K-Pop to Coldplay, the music industry is leaning in to climate action. Does it matter to Asian fans?

Management consulting has finally found its climate mojo. Image: Markus Spiske via Unsplash

Opinion / Carbon & Climate

Consultants find climate crisis is good for business

...theless, the choice of McKinsey as the experts modelling these scenarios seemed to fit with a government keen to continue the expansion of the fossil fuel sector. McKinsey, after all, had worked for 4...

14 Aug 2023

Consultants find climate crisis is good for business

News / Waste

Trash to treasure: Indonesian firm turns plastic into bricks

...The buildings and construction industry is the overlooked giant when we talk about climate change and how we tackle climate change," she said. "Without really tackling the sector, when we talk about t...

21 Aug 2023

Trash to treasure: Indonesian firm turns plastic into bricks

News / Policy & Finance

15 things that frustrated chief sustainability officers in 2023

...them exposed in board meetings when they are asked to justify their existence. Geopolitics As if CSOs didn't have enough to worry about. The Ukraine war and tensions between China and the United Stat...

19 Dec 2023

15 things that frustrated chief sustainability officers in 2023

News / Food & Agriculture

Indonesia’s ‘extreme’ wildlife market, in pictures

...the stomachs of the faint-hearted visitor. “Adam and Eve would not have eaten the forbidden fruit and been expelled from the Garden of Eden, if only the Minahasa people had devoured the serpent,” joke...

12 Jan 2024

Indonesia’s ‘extreme’ wildlife market, in pictures

Opinion / Carbon & Climate

Power-hungry AI is driving a surge in tech giant carbon emissions. Nobody knows what to do about it

...they were concerned about increased energy consumption for AI needs. However, there is also significant uncertainty about the size of the increase. Many IT managers also lack the necessary skills to a...

10 Jul 2024

Power-hungry AI is driving a surge in tech giant carbon emissions. Nobody knows what to do about it

News / Carbon & Climate

COP16: What’s on the agenda at this year’s biodiversity talks?

...the conservation of biodiversity, the sustainable use of its components, and the fair sharing of the benefits derived from the use of genetic resources. The CBD currently counts 193 member countries, ...

18 Oct 2024

COP16: What’s on the agenda at this year’s biodiversity talks?

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