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Opinion / Food & Agriculture

Yes, eating meat affects the environment, but cows are not killing the climate

...flood of media coverage. To its credit, the FAO immediately owned up to its error. Unfortunately, the agency’s initial claim that livestock was responsible for the lion’s share of world greenhouse gas...

31 Oct 2018

Yes, eating meat affects the environment, but cows are not killing the climate

News / Transport

New study: Risky roads cause more than just environmental harm

...flooding, mudslides and slumping of the road, all of which would be costly to repair. Corruption and a lack of transparency during the construction process also drive up the price of many road project...

25 Oct 2017

New study: Risky roads cause more than just environmental harm

Opinion / Cities

Greener, greater cities

...flooding to biodiversity loss. As climate change reshapes our planet, these threats are growing and shifting, compounding the challenge further. We cannot solve the problems created by concrete and tu...

22 Jun 2018

Greener, greater cities

News / Cities

A river restored breathes new life into Kuala Lumpur

...flood of investment, a sizable share coming from China, contributed to more than a doubling of Malaysia’s national debt during Najib’s term to $250 billion, or 80 percent of the country’s gross nation...

13 Aug 2018

A river restored breathes new life into Kuala Lumpur

Opinion / Policy & Finance

Low-carbon growth Is a $26 trillion opportunity. Here are 4 ways to seize It.

...flooding turned deadly and caused billions in damages. Unless we make a decisive shift now to a low-carbon economy, we risk the enormous costs of runaway climate change. Today, the New Climate Economy...

7 Sep 2018

Low-carbon growth Is a $26 trillion opportunity. Here are 4 ways to seize It.

News / Carbon & Climate

Nutrition will suffer as warming affects diet

...floods – will threaten global food security: they will reduce fruit and vegetable yields, hit grain crop harvests and in particular affect wheat harvests in one of the most populous – and poorest – na...

7 Aug 2017

Nutrition will suffer as warming affects diet

News / Cities

Cities best armed to fight climate change: UN climate chief

...flooding and other extreme weather. "The risk to cities from climate impacts carries great social and economic cost, and of course, the loss of human lives," said Espinosa. "The ability of communities...

5 May 2017

Cities best armed to fight climate change: UN climate chief

Opinion / Carbon & Climate

Strengthening regional cooperation to mitigate weather extremes

...floods in Thailand are a worrisome reminder of the increasing uncertainty of extreme weather events. Thailand’s flood season usually ends in November, but this year, influenced by a low depression and...

1 Feb 2017

Strengthening regional cooperation to mitigate weather extremes

community members patrol forests in Vietnam

News / Policy & Finance

Most countries lose out with forest-to-farm conversions

...flood protection and water purification. The findings show that while gains by agriculture are US$32 billion to US$53 billion per year, the environmental damage caused by tropical deforestation during...

17 Aug 2017

Most countries lose out with forest-to-farm conversions

News / Carbon & Climate

Restricting global warming to 1.5C would ‘halve’ risk of marine heatwaves

...flooding, which resulted in a death toll of several hundred, widespread damage to infrastructure and civil works and significant economic losses.” The findings provide “an important step forward in un...

17 Aug 2018

Restricting global warming to 1.5C would ‘halve’ risk of marine heatwaves

News / Carbon & Climate

Climate summit opens in year of record disasters

...flooding affecting many millions of people and a relentless drought in East Africa.” “Many of these events—and detailed scientific studies will determine exactly how many—bear the tell-tale sign of cl...

7 Nov 2017

Climate summit opens in year of record disasters

Opinion / Water

Confronting Africa's water challenge

...floods from 15 incidents per year to just three. And with a $40 million sanitation project, the AfDB helped to lower the proportion of the city’s malaria-afflicted population from 16 per cent to 12 pe...

29 Jun 2017

Confronting Africa's water challenge

News / Cities

World Bank invests $4.5 bln to arm cities against climate change

...floods, storms and heatwaves, while improving housing and reducing inequality. Through the World Bank-led City Resilience Program, cities will be assisted to structure projects to make them more "bank...

15 Dec 2017

World Bank invests $4.5 bln to arm cities against climate change

News / Carbon & Climate

Heatwave threats rarely an urban priority, even as risks rise

...flood risks. "We're already a fairly warm part of the world," she said, with the number of days hitting more than 35 degrees Celsius (95 degrees Fahrenheit) now on the rise. The good news is, "our dis...

22 Jun 2018

Heatwave threats rarely an urban priority, even as risks rise

News / Cities

Lessons from India in building urban resilience

...flood control and building public health capacity — efforts that have made that Indian city an example for building resilience in the developing world. Bhat and his team have just come out with their ...

31 May 2017

Lessons from India in building urban resilience

Fossil fuel divestment march on Valentine's Day 2015

Opinion / Policy & Finance

Climate leadership means ending fossil fuel production

...floods, hurricanes, wildfires, and droughts on virtually every continent. Yet the real storm is yet to come. If we are to avoid its most devastating impacts, phasing out coal – climate killer number o...

2 Nov 2017

Climate leadership means ending fossil fuel production

Opinion / Carbon & Climate

Is China getting the ‘cli-fi’ it needs?

...floods threaten humanity’s future, China’s factories come to the rescue, working day and night to produce high-tech floating arks before the waters rise.But as David S Roh and others have pointed out,...

19 Jun 2018

Is China getting the ‘cli-fi’ it needs?

Opinion / Carbon & Climate

What a giant snake can teach us about designing cities for the future

...flooding, improve water quality, store carbon and improve urban climates. Native wildlife can help limit pests and disease vectors like mosquitoes and rats. And exposing urban children to nature is on...

14 Jun 2018

What a giant snake can teach us about designing cities for the future

Maria Frostic investigates the shrinking population of puffins in Iceland

Opinion / Carbon & Climate

The pathway from Paris starts and ends with the media

...floods, extreme weather, rising seas and rising temperatures are affecting economies, health, agriculture, water, conflict and more. Take this a step further, and they also need to look at how basic h...

14 Sep 2017

The pathway from Paris starts and ends with the media

News / Policy & Finance

As climate threats grow clearer, risk-lowering investment is crucial - bankers

As worsening mega-storms, floods and droughts claim more lives and cause billions of dollars in damage around the world, recognition of the need to act quickly to curb climate change is growing, banki...

13 Sep 2017

As climate threats grow clearer, risk-lowering investment is crucial - bankers

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