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To India’s chagrin, Bangladesh turns to China to transform Teesta river

...111,000 hectares of irrigable land in the Teesta basin in Bangladesh is uncultivable during this period due to lack of water. In 2013-14 only 35 per cent of the total irrigable area was cultivated. In...

30 Sep 2020

To India’s chagrin, Bangladesh turns to China to transform Teesta river

News / Energy

Q&A: What does the UK’s new energy security strategy mean for climate change?

...13, to the £1.5bn Green Homes Grant which ended up being cancelled after just six months in 2021. Most recently, in his Spring Statement, Sunak announced a reduction in the VAT paid when having insula...

12 Apr 2022

Q&A: What does the UK’s new energy security strategy mean for climate change?

Opinion / Food & Agriculture

Covid-19 has sparked a food loss crisis. Here are 3 ways to tackle it

...1. Government Facilitation and Redistribution Governments have the unique ability to bring important groups together to overcome national, and indeed global, challenges. National governments should or...

27 May 2020

Covid-19 has sparked a food loss crisis. Here are 3 ways to tackle it

Opinion / Waste

How to build a circular economy

We have a waste problem. The world threw away around 300 million tons of plastic in 2019, nearly equivalent to the weight of the human population. Scientists expect there could be more plastic than fi...

12 Aug 2020

How to build a circular economy

Opinion / Water

Are we underestimating the world's water access crisis?

...15-cities analysed don't receive it. And just because residences are connected to city pipes doesn't mean water is always available. In 12 of the 15 cities analysed, households did not receive continu...

14 Aug 2019

Are we underestimating the world's water access crisis?

Antarctica melts under its hottest days on record

News / Carbon & Climate

State of the climate: how the world warmed in 2021

...1900 and 2021 from Palmer et al 2021, Frederikse et al 2020, Dangendorf et al 2019, Hay et al 2015, Jevrejeva et al 2014, Church and White 2011, and Ray and Douglas 2011. Satellite altimeter data from...

18 Jan 2022

State of the climate: how the world warmed in 2021

News / Corporate Responsibility

Investors drop demands after Tyson Foods pledges zero deforestation

...19, in response to the fires in the Amazon, 251 investors representing $17.7 trillion in assets wrote a letter urging “business leadership to reverse the worrying deforestation trends we are witnessin...

24 Feb 2020

Investors drop demands after Tyson Foods pledges zero deforestation

News / Carbon & Climate

The 7 scariest climate stories of 2020

...1970s and 2010s. Scientists have pointed to changing weather patterns as the main cause for the increase. A 2016 study found that man-made heating was mainly responsible for drier forests in the Ameri...

15 Dec 2020

The 7 scariest climate stories of 2020

Opinion / Policy & Finance

The IMF and World Bank gathered virtually in the midst of Covid-19. What next? Invest in people and nature for recovery and resilience

Last week saw some important moves by international financial institutions to respond to the Covid-19 crisis. At their Spring Meetings, the World Bank and IMF rightly focused on ensuring the global fi...

23 Apr 2020

The IMF and World Bank gathered virtually in the midst of Covid-19. What next? Invest in people and nature for recovery and resilience

News / Policy & Finance

The shadow of the coronavirus on Pakistan

...19-nCoV) has killed more than 200 people and infected more than 10,000 people in China and abroad. Speaking to thethirdpole.net, Raja Rashid Ali, Secretary in charge of Health in the Gilgit-Baltistan ...

4 Feb 2020

The shadow of the coronavirus on Pakistan

News / Energy

Offshore wind hopes for a livelier future

...18 to 177 GW by 2030 is based on predictions from the industry that makes and installs the turbines, with manufacturers taking orders from 12 major markets across the globe. The International Energy A...

21 Apr 2020

Offshore wind hopes for a livelier future

News / Carbon & Climate

All is not lost: 8 stories that gave the planet hope in 2019

...19 that gave the planet—and us—hope. 1. Climate strikes have jolted the world awake In just one year, Greta Thunberg has gone from the lone teenager on school strike at the Swedish parliament to a glo...

31 Dec 2019

All is not lost: 8 stories that gave the planet hope in 2019

News / Energy

How the Philippines’ low-carbon plans may fuel a switch to green jobs

...11,540 people employed by solar power plants but if the planned 11,190MW worth of installations pushes through in the coming decade, employment is poised to be the biggest in the green energy sector w...

30 Apr 2021

How the Philippines’ low-carbon plans may fuel a switch to green jobs

News / Carbon & Climate

7 countries that shook up the world in 2019

...1 billion trees over 10 years and investing $14.5 billion into clean mobility. The world also witnessed the first “well-being budget” set aside by a country, as New Zealand’s Labour coalition governme...

30 Dec 2019

7 countries that shook up the world in 2019

Singapore Aquaculture Technologies' fish farm

News / Food & Agriculture

Fish farms turn to AI, recirculating systems to scale up sustainable aquaculture

...18, Singapore farms produced 5,915 tonnes of fish and 613 tonnes of other seafood, government statistics show. At the launch of SAT’s new farm, Masagos said Singapore—which imports more than 90 per ce...

19 Feb 2020

Fish farms turn to AI, recirculating systems to scale up sustainable aquaculture

News / Food & Agriculture

Singapore makes room for allotment gardens as urban farming takes root

...17, modelled after England's programme which dates back to at least the 19th century. Singapore now has more than 1,000 allotment gardens in a dozen of its national parks. Each is a raised planter bed...

17 Apr 2019

Singapore makes room for allotment gardens as urban farming takes root

Opinion / Green Buildings

Buildings are an ideal but overlooked climate solution

In her speech before the United Nations in September 2019, Greta Thunberg called out the assembled world leaders for their stubborn adherence to the status quo in the face of an escalating climate cri...

5 Nov 2019

Buildings are an ideal but overlooked climate solution

News / Carbon & Climate

Is Manila’s new white sand coast a threat to marine life?

...19-kilometer (12-mile) coastline have reported dwindling fish catches; mass fish die-offs and red tide alerts prompted by algal blooms are an annual occurrence. The state of Manila’s iconic bay birthe...

14 Sep 2020

Is Manila’s new white sand coast a threat to marine life?

News / Carbon & Climate

Can Indonesia build a ‘green’ capital in a biodiversity hotspot?

...19 is expected to delay things.The government is betting on the private sector, including international investors, to help pay for at least 80 per cent of the project. China is reportedly interested i...

8 Jun 2020

Can Indonesia build a ‘green’ capital in a biodiversity hotspot?

Opinion / Cities

Living in Asia’s unliveable cities

...1 million), Beijing (18.5 million), Karachi (18 million), Dhaka (14.5), Tokyo (13.6 million), Manila (12.8 million), Tianjin (12.7 million), and Mumbai (12.4 million). (1). These population figures ...

8 Oct 2019

Living in Asia’s unliveable cities

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