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Opinion / Food & Agriculture

How the gig economy can transform farms in the developing world

...powerful impact in the developing world, whose mostly smallholder farmers face enormous challenges producing quality food and selling it for a decent price. The green shoots of this transformation are...

3 Apr 2018

How the gig economy can transform farms in the developing world

News / Energy

Cost of renewables fell in 2016, lowering global investment in clean energy – UN

...power capacity in 2016, up from 127.5 gigawatts added the year before. According to the press release, this difference is roughly equals to the energy created from the world's 16 largest existing powe...

10 Apr 2017

Cost of renewables fell in 2016, lowering global investment in clean energy – UN

News / Transport

How the aviation industry is lowering its carbon footprint

Imagine how much cleaner the air would be if 3 million cars were taken off the roads in your city. A hint: Banning just half of Beijing’s 3.3 million cars before the 2008 Olympics cleared its skyline ...

18 Dec 2017

How the aviation industry is lowering its carbon footprint

Opinion / Carbon & Climate

Preparing for disaster pays by saving lives, cutting losses

...powerful hurricanes that smashed into the Caribbean in September last year to the insidious, and equally disruptive onset of drought in Africa, most recently in South Africa. While the impacts may dif...

26 Jun 2018

Preparing for disaster pays by saving lives, cutting losses

Sophia the robot unveiled as the UNDP's Innovation Champion at the Responsible Business Forum in Singapore, 2017

News / Policy & Finance

What does a lipstick-wearing robot mean for the SDGs?

...powered droid fielded questions from selected journalists and development experts at the Sands Expo and Convention Centre. Addressing the elephant in the room—the fear that AI and robots will take hu...

24 Nov 2017

What does a lipstick-wearing robot mean for the SDGs?

News / Transport

Chinese coal town embraces electric vehicles

...power is still being wasted. So the electricity system could be better managed,” so that coal power is displaced by renewables, said Zhao Yongqiang, deputy head of the Renewable Energy Centre at the N...

12 Jan 2018

Chinese coal town embraces electric vehicles

News / Carbon & Climate

The financial case against coal power in Indonesia

...power stations more readily distributed across regions. A sweeping global pivot away from centralized power plants and fossil fuels and towards cleaner wind, solar, geothermal, and small hydropower is...

7 Sep 2017

The financial case against coal power in Indonesia

News / Transport

India has a better option than electric cars

...power installed in photovoltaic plants will generate no more electricity than 60,000 MW generated by conventional power plants today. They will thus meet only 10 per cent of the additional power the c...

1 Jun 2017

India has a better option than electric cars

Opinion / Carbon & Climate

4 ways we can step up adaptation and protect vulnerable communities from climate change impact

Last month, a blistering heat wave killed at least 60 people in Karachi, Pakistan. Across East Africa, severe flash flooding displaced hundreds of thousands, and just days into this year’s hurricane s...

18 Jun 2018

4 ways we can step up adaptation and protect vulnerable communities from climate change impact

News / Carbon & Climate

Three-year cut to life expectancy from coal heating

...power district heating produces air pollution that is harmful to human health, with the average life expectancy in the north 3.1 years shorter than in the south.The research was carried out jointly by...

14 Dec 2017

Three-year cut to life expectancy from coal heating

News / Energy

Renewable energy to power 139 countries by 2050 -- scientists

...power could help to quench our ever-growing thirst for the energy that powers the transportation, electricity and agriculture on which we rely. “ Our findings suggest that the benefits are so great t...

24 Aug 2017

Renewable energy to power 139 countries by 2050 -- scientists

News / Cities

Urban forests add to cities’ health and wealth

...power and found room for improvement: the same cities could find room for 20 per cent more forest. “By cultivating the trees within the city, residents and visitors get direct benefits,” Professor End...

23 Jan 2018

Urban forests add to cities’ health and wealth

In a rousing keynote address during the Singapore International Water Week’s Water Leaders Summit, former United Nations secretary-general Ban Ki-moon called for more global partnerships to tackle the world’s water problems.

News / Water

Top 10 moments from the Singapore International Water Week 2018

...power generation. By putting the two facilities together, Singapore will avert more than 200,000 tonnes of carbon dioxide emissions per year, equivalent to taking 42,500 cars off the country’s roads. ...

13 Aug 2018

Top 10 moments from the Singapore International Water Week 2018

Opinion / Policy & Finance

Restoring peat, improving welfare and empowering women: can we have it all?

...power of the weavers. Improving their access into more equitable and sustainable financing mechanisms (e.g. microloans) can go a long way. Lastly, we observe a knowledge gap between market demands and...

3 Jul 2018

Restoring peat, improving welfare and empowering women: can we have it all?

News / Corporate Responsibility

$100 million dollar fund launched to secure indigenous land rights

...powerful solution to save the world’s forests from the ground up—keeping a lid on the carbon they contain and sheltering the communities they support.” Underscoring the importance of the initiative, o...

10 Oct 2017

$100 million dollar fund launched to secure indigenous land rights

News / Energy

Silicon fires up renewable energy revolution

...power for use at peak times. But there is increasing interest in storing energy as heat, which can be used for district heating schemes or for creating steam to turn turbines and make electricity when...

11 Sep 2017

Silicon fires up renewable energy revolution

Opinion / Carbon & Climate

4 ways companies can price carbon: Lessons from India that can work anywhere

...power plant in one of its Indian subsidiaries, which is expected to reduce 80,000 tonnes of carbon emissions annually. Internal cap and trade: This approach sets an upper limit on total emissions from...

6 Apr 2018

4 ways companies can price carbon: Lessons from India that can work anywhere

News / Policy & Finance

Climate investment incubator branches out into cloud forests, cattle ranches

...power profits while helping suck carbon from the atmosphere. And a private equity fund aims to be the first to invest in climate change adaptation technologies for developing countries. In Brazil, whi...

22 Sep 2017

Climate investment incubator branches out into cloud forests, cattle ranches

Cyclists on a busy bicycle lane in Vancouver, Canada

News / Cities

Building the world’s greenest city

...ads" in Gregor Robertson, the mayor since 2008, said Reimer. Three months after his election, Robertson, who is on track to become the City of Vancouver's longest serving mayor, put together the Green...

19 Sep 2017

Building the world’s greenest city

News / Policy & Finance

Emerging economies take lead on going green, but investment needed

...power. In India, for example, recent auctions to construct and run solar plants have seen prices for solar energy drop as low as for coal-fired power, tilting the economics of the electricity market t...

13 Jul 2017

Emerging economies take lead on going green, but investment needed

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