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News / Carbon & Climate

Global Carbon Project: Coronavirus causes ‘record fall’ in fossil-fuel emissions in 2020

...14 and 2016, he said, which started to get scientists “a little bit excited that maybe emissions were peaking”. However, emissions then “jumped up again” in 2017 and 2018 before levelling out in 2019....

14 Dec 2020

Global Carbon Project: Coronavirus causes ‘record fall’ in fossil-fuel emissions in 2020

News / Policy & Finance

Corruption and coal dug up in Indonesia

...117 new coal-fired power plants to counter the mine closures and economic pain caused by the recent global coal slowdown. China’s imports of Indonesian coal fell by 49 per cent in 2015 alone.His plans...

15 Jul 2019

Corruption and coal dug up in Indonesia

Opinion / Policy & Finance

Greening ODA: 50% of development aid should support environment and climate action

...1 per cent to adaptation (with the remainder going to cross-cutting issues). That US$16.8 billion focused on climate change adaptation is just peanuts compared with the US$10-12 trillion mobilised by...

2 Mar 2021

Greening ODA: 50% of development aid should support environment and climate action

Drone image of alleged clearing for luxury residential estates in Bokor National Park.

News / Policy & Finance

Luxury housing plans threaten Cambodia’s Bokor National Park

...19,000 hectares – equivalent to around 35,000 football fields – of the entire 154,000-hectare park. Once occupied by the Khmer Rouge, the park gained official protected status in 1993, yet was awarded...

1 Mar 2021

Luxury housing plans threaten Cambodia’s Bokor National Park

Farmer Mavis Gofa poses with grains she produced from her hometown in Mutoko, northeastern Zimbabwe

News / Food & Agriculture

Family farmers struggle to keep up with fast-warming world

...11, went without enough to eat in 2019, and the United Nations has warned the Covid-19 pandemic could add another 132 million to that number in 2020. The social implications of even 1C of additional w...

1 Dec 2020

Family farmers struggle to keep up with fast-warming world

Press Releases / Refinitiv

Refinitiv announces the launch of the future of Sustainable Data Alliance

...1 (646) 223-5147 Mobile +1 (917) 805-089 Lemuel.brewster@refinitiv.com

28 Jan 2020

Refinitiv announces the launch of the future of Sustainable Data Alliance

News / Transport

Q&A: What does the Brexit deal say about climate change and energy?

...12-15 months. What about the UK’s new emissions trading scheme? As of 1 January, the UK has a new emissions trading scheme to replace the EU ETS, covering a third of the nation’s emissions and around ...

22 Jan 2021

Q&A: What does the Brexit deal say about climate change and energy?

The Guddu coal power station in Sindh, Pakistan.

News / Energy

Scrapping imported coal projects, Pakistan fails to let go of local lignite

...1,124 MW project at Kohala, the 884 MW project at Suki Kinari and the 720 MW project at Karot. These were in addition to the bigger ones like the Diamer-Bhasha and Mohmand hydel projects, said Aslam. ...

17 Dec 2020

Scrapping imported coal projects, Pakistan fails to let go of local lignite

News / Policy & Finance

Silence on China as Sri Lankans prepare to vote

...17 when Sri Lanka found loan payments too hard to meet, a Chinese state-owned company wrote off $1 billion in debt for the Hambantota port, partially taking over the strategically located hub. Observe...

7 Nov 2019

Silence on China as Sri Lankans prepare to vote

Opinion / Policy & Finance

Refugees are essential to the Covid-19 response

...148 asylum seekers tested positive for Covid-19. In Singapore, 93 per cent of Covid-19 cases occurred in dorms housing migrant workers. In Bangladesh, where refugee camps are full of Rohingya – an est...

4 Aug 2020

Refugees are essential to the Covid-19 response

Opinion / Energy

Why we need a massive redraft of the Philippine Energy Plan

...18.9 gigawatts (GW) of coal capacity will be installed by 2030 and this will rise to 31.5 GW by 2040. Power generation from coal is projected to rise to 218 terawatt hours annually—almost four times g...

25 Sep 2020

Why we need a massive redraft of the Philippine Energy Plan

Singapore, business stewardship, Corporate Citizenship

Opinion / Corporate Responsibility

Amid converging crises, how can stewardship help business leaders navigate the storm?

...155 companies, with a combined market capitalisation of more than $2.4 trillion and representing more than five million employees globally, signed a statement urging governments to align Covid-19 econ...

29 Jun 2020

Amid converging crises, how can stewardship help business leaders navigate the storm?

News / Energy

ExxonMobil takes a gamble on algae biofuel

...17, TerraVia Holdings, formerly Solazyme, filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy. Today, after the pullout of many private companies, and a number of costly failed attempts at producing a working liquid fuel...

7 Jul 2021

ExxonMobil takes a gamble on algae biofuel

News / Carbon & Climate

UK support grows for a green Covid-19 exit

...19 exit instead? A recent opinion poll has found clear support for putting the environment at the heart of the post-Covid-19 economy recovery from across the UK. YouGov, the British market research fi...

29 May 2020

UK support grows for a green Covid-19 exit

Shell claims to be delivering a "carbon neutral" future in this advertising campaign.

News / Corporate Responsibility

Time of reckoning for ad and PR firms promoting carbon-intensive companies

...15 to 2017, led to GB£1.78 billion (US$2.4 billion) in revenue for the carmaker, with £2 profit generated for every £1 spent on advertising. The carbon impact of the campaign was calculated like this:...

6 Oct 2021

Time of reckoning for ad and PR firms promoting carbon-intensive companies

Press Releases / BlueSG

BlueSG’s Electric Vehicle Car-Sharing announced the opening of its 1,000th charging point, across 253 charging stations island-wide

...1 October 2019–BlueSG Pte.Ltd. (a subsidiary of the Bolloré Group), today announced the opening of its 1,000th BlueSG charging point located at Blk 245A, Pasir Ris Street 21 with strong m...

2 Oct 2019

BlueSG’s Electric Vehicle Car-Sharing announced the opening of its 1,000th charging point, across 253 charging stations island-wide

Aveda products, promoted as using post-consumer recycled plastic.

News / Waste

Coronavirus-induced oil price plunge is hurting the circular economy for plastic

...19 - March 2020. Source: The Plastics Exchange The economic pinch from the covid-19 pandemic has led to recycling plant closures all over the world as demand for recycled material has fallen, Dr Stev...

6 Apr 2020

Coronavirus-induced oil price plunge is hurting the circular economy for plastic

Opinion / Waste

Where to with food waste in Australia?

...11 and 2012 promoting home composting as a means of reducing waste to landfill. The programme consisted of free compost bins, workshops and supporting literature and email guidance and troubleshooting...

6 May 2020

Where to with food waste in Australia?

News / Policy & Finance

Eco-Business' 10 most-read stories of 2020

...100 per cent recycled material. According to a source, one of the ways that a mix of new and used plastic has been falsely marketed as 100 per cent post-consumer content is in reuseable “eco” bags mad...

19 Dec 2020

Eco-Business' 10 most-read stories of 2020

Opinion / Policy & Finance

We should not aim to return to normal

...19. Covid-19 is a message from nature. So is the ongoing climate crisis. Normal isn’t working. We need to build back better. Armida Salsiah Alisjahbana is United Nations Under-Secretary-General and Ex...

19 Jun 2020

We should not aim to return to normal

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