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News / Food & Agriculture

No set menu to feed cities' growing appetite

...ty prompted the mayor in 1993 to declare a citizens' right to food and kick-start an action plan to ensure the poor got fed - a campaign that won it worldwide acclaim as "the city that ended hunger". ...

17 May 2017

No set menu to feed cities' growing appetite

Press Releases / My Power

Gloucester Cathedral appoints Mypower for the oldest solar PV install

...t over time but particularly when there’s lead, which expands and contracts with changes in temperature and alters how it sits on the building, so that was one issue to which we had to attend. ...

7 Dec 2016

Gloucester Cathedral appoints Mypower for the oldest solar PV install

News / Food & Agriculture

Zambia tries new way to beat drought: solar grain mills

...t two tonnes of grain, he told the Thomson Reuters Foundation. That means "we have surplus electricity output". Unfortunately, the plant does not have any means of capturing that power in batteries, t...

18 Jan 2017

Zambia tries new way to beat drought: solar grain mills

News / Carbon & Climate

Don't like how government tracks air pollution? Do it yourself

...t homes and at various outdoor locations. After being connected to a home’s internet, the device transmits data to the Luftdaten website and to the Luftdaten Twitter handle, which posts alerts when th...

30 Jun 2017

Don't like how government tracks air pollution? Do it yourself

News / Carbon & Climate

World's "highest" village runs dry as warming hits the Himalayas

...ta Barbara. But at 4,587 metres (15,050 feet), this remote Buddhist hamlet near India's border with Tibet is no doubt among the planet's topmost motorable human settlements. Yet despite its coveted st...

14 Aug 2017

World's "highest" village runs dry as warming hits the Himalayas

News / Food & Agriculture

French MPs say they were pressured into dropping palm oil tax

...ting with a knife to our throats. The French parliament is being blackmailed.” France’s lower National Assembly voted las t week to drop the tax from the nation’s Biodiversity Bill, a decision that st...

1 Jul 2016

French MPs say they were pressured into dropping palm oil tax

Opinion / Carbon & Climate

The three outcomes that matter at the Paris UN climate talks

...te talks are uniquely different from all the twenty iterations that preceded them because outcomes that matter are clear and can be predicted with high certainty. Here are the three most important one...

4 Dec 2015

The three outcomes that matter at the Paris UN climate talks

News / Policy & Finance

'Ability to resist' makes women able climate leaders: Paris mayor

...that the United States will not pull out of this historical agreement," she said. "But should they be tempted to, the key to fighting climate change is in the hands of mayors - not those of the presid...

14 Mar 2017

'Ability to resist' makes women able climate leaders: Paris mayor

Press Releases / EarthCheck

Meliá Hotels International leads by example

...tainable tourism together with the EarthCheck Research Institute. What makes this celebration significant is that both leaders and their respective companies have committed to work together to delive...

13 Jul 2016

Meliá Hotels International leads by example

Farmers in Pakistan use sms to warn of water

News / Water

Satellites and SMS help Pakistan’s farmers with smart irrigation

...th farmers not wanting to leave any fallow land. They also cultivate two or three crops. “Over the last 70 years, the quantity of the water has remained the same but agriculture is competing with oth...

7 Aug 2017

Satellites and SMS help Pakistan’s farmers with smart irrigation

Videos / Waste

New documentary uncovers Singapore’s dirty little waste secrets

...ty, despite the tendency to put the blame on governments and businesses. "It's our consumption patterns that dictate what companies sell and how they sell it; it's our attitudes that dictate the polic...

7 Feb 2017

New documentary uncovers Singapore’s dirty little waste secrets

News / Policy & Finance

A new guide shows how equity investors can integrate ESG and make good profits

...that Integrating ESG factors into analysis of listed equity investments is the most widespread responsible investment practice in the market today. Now that the impact of ESG issues on investment port...

27 Sep 2016

A new guide shows how equity investors can integrate ESG and make good profits

News / Food & Agriculture

Senegal's farmers adopt new tool to boost harvests: mobile phones

...thods. She has now adopted the newer method on the rest of her land. "We now see that traditional ways of predicting the weather just don't work," said Keita. "With climate updates I know that if it r...

17 Jun 2016

Senegal's farmers adopt new tool to boost harvests: mobile phones

News / Corporate Responsibility

Why millennials are driving the sustainable brand revolution

...tive to marketing gimmicks, and quick to reject them. Sometimes, this may mean launching an initiative that does not try to sell something, but instead just focuses on doing something that is genuin...

30 Jun 2016

Why millennials are driving the sustainable brand revolution

Press Releases / IE expo China

Asia's leading environmental trade show continues rapid growth

...the hot topics and latest trends in the environmental protection industry in South China, among them the South China Water Pollution Prevention and Control Summit Forum, the Guangdong Key Industries V...

10 Dec 2016

Asia's leading environmental trade show continues rapid growth

News / Energy

How to make renewable energy work for the economy and environment

...together to further the interests of the industry and collaborate on challenges is a more promising route to a clean energy future than cut-throat competition. In that spirit, it’s important that comp...

6 Jun 2017

How to make renewable energy work for the economy and environment

News / Corporate Responsibility

Asia firms slump in sustainability rankings

...ts of the idea that doing more to help society and the planet can be financially rewarding." This year, Corporate Knights cast its net on 4,973 listed companies with a market capitalisation greater th...

24 Jan 2017

Asia firms slump in sustainability rankings

News / Carbon & Climate

China declares 'People's War' on pollution as smog envelops Beijing

...t, but it's much better than the same time last year." "It comes in fits and starts ... but I'm still not very happy; after all, the air that we breathe is a pretty major issue," he said. "It affects ...

4 Mar 2016

China declares 'People's War' on pollution as smog envelops Beijing

News / Policy & Finance

Brazilian conservationists develop new tool to cut illegal wood from supply chains

...that want to buy Brazilian timber without contributing to illegal deforestation have a new tool to help them ensure stolen wood does not appear in their supply chains - a digital platform tracing the ...

22 Dec 2016

Brazilian conservationists develop new tool to cut illegal wood from supply chains

News / Carbon & Climate

Push to ward off disasters in Dhaka slum deters early marriage

...tation and hospital. With the map in hand, the community - most of them migrants who lost land in different parts of the country - has drawn up a list of its priorities for action. Those include buyin...

26 Apr 2016

Push to ward off disasters in Dhaka slum deters early marriage

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