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Opinion / Carbon & Climate

What locally led climate resilience looks like in the Philippines

...17. When complete, the project should have a total of 15 buildings with 900 units. So far, 480 families have moved into rent-to-own apartments. The Manggahan Low Rise Building Project in Pasig City,...

7 Jan 2020

What locally led climate resilience looks like in the Philippines

News / Energy

Cambodia chooses coal in rush for power

...18, electricity produced was roughly a third from fossil fuels and two-thirds renewable, mostly hydropower.” The government decided to expand power supply fast after a spate of blackouts in 2019, and ...

4 Nov 2020

Cambodia chooses coal in rush for power

News / Energy

Ayala’s energy arm to divest from coal: Will other Filipino power companies follow suit?

...10 years to divest from coal, AC Energy’s corporate communications and sustainability head Irene Maranan said it was a conservative projection of the time it would take to find the right buyers for it...

24 Apr 2020

Ayala’s energy arm to divest from coal: Will other Filipino power companies follow suit?

News / Carbon & Climate

Cloud forests risk drying out by 2060

...1°C in the past century. And yet another team has warned that the increasingly violent winds that arrived in Puerto Rico with Hurricane Maria in 2017 would in any case change the make-up of forest spe...

24 Apr 2019

Cloud forests risk drying out by 2060

News / Energy

Southeast Asian conglomerates to pump US$30 million into renewable projects in Myanmar

...11 per cent a year until 2030—the year its government aims to achieve full electrification—and estimates that around US$2 billion of investment per year is required. “Supply of electricity is one of ...

16 Oct 2019

Southeast Asian conglomerates to pump US$30 million into renewable projects in Myanmar

News / Energy

Coronavirus crisis threatens to cut off clean electricity lifeline for poor

...1 million people. "We don't want to switch off customers that suddenly have a week or one month of lack of income," said Hamayun, whose business operates off-grid solar systems in 12 countries, includ...

21 Apr 2020

Coronavirus crisis threatens to cut off clean electricity lifeline for poor

Opinion / Waste

As cities grow, the Internet of Things can help us get on top of the waste crisis

...19, SKM Recycling, which has operations in Victoria, Tasmania and South Australia, went into receivership. The company received a A$10 million government bailout to pay for repairs and maintenance of ...

31 Jan 2020

As cities grow, the Internet of Things can help us get on top of the waste crisis

Dr Ashley Brooks has worked on one of the world's most ambitious conservation projects - to double the population of wild tigers by 2022. Image: Ashley Brooks

News / Carbon & Climate

24 hours with... WWF tiger conservationist Dr Ashley Brooks

...10:30am: Shut down emails and WhatsApp. Focus on editing and writing details for the WWF Thailand landscape tiger recovery plan. 12:00pm: Early starts mean I relent for an early lunch. Duck out to a ...

14 May 2020

24 hours with... WWF tiger conservationist Dr Ashley Brooks

Opinion / Energy

How to replace coal power with renewables in developing countries

...1,000 coal-fired power plants are planned or under construction around the world. Furthermore, existing coal-fired facilities in Asia—which have lifespans of 30-40 years—are only 11-years-old on avera...

5 Jun 2020

How to replace coal power with renewables in developing countries

News / Carbon & Climate

Covid-19: Compound growth could kill us — or make us stronger

...150 times better. At the lower rate, 100 cases will not quite double in that space of time, whereas at the higher rate, 100 cases will become 30,000. Now consider that, by one estimate, 10-15 per cent...

20 Mar 2020

Covid-19: Compound growth could kill us — or make us stronger

Opinion / Carbon & Climate

Seven strategies that offer hope for rainforests

...1. Multiple stakeholders In the Amani Forest of Tanzania, “islands” of vegetation have been likened to the Galápagos Islands because of the exceptionally rich wildlife they support. In the 1970s some ...

21 Feb 2020

Seven strategies that offer hope for rainforests

News / Carbon & Climate

Rising heat drives hungry people to hospital

...129 cases – could be attributed to heat exposure. This proportion had risen from 14 per cent in 2000 to 17.5 per cent in 2015, during which time average temperatures rose by 1.1°C. Spreading heat extr...

7 Nov 2019

Rising heat drives hungry people to hospital

Opinion / Carbon & Climate

Global emissions are way off target. What needs to happen?

...10. How much exactly depends on the details. Our conclusions are based on a synthesis of all 10 editions of the United Nations Environment Programme’s gap report. Each year for the past 10 years, this...

16 Mar 2020

Global emissions are way off target. What needs to happen?

Press Releases / Ecostep Building Pte Ltd

New sustainable building consulting firm opens in Singapore

On March 22, 2019, Ecostep Building Pte Ltd. opened for business. This new firm is based in Singapore and has the flexibility to serve all of East Asia. John Covello, the firm’s principle, bring...

12 Apr 2019

New sustainable building consulting firm opens in Singapore

COP26 launch Boris Johnson David Attenborough

Opinion / Carbon & Climate

What does COP26 delay mean for climate action?

...19? In announcing that COP26 is being delayed (made unfortunately on 1 April), UN Climate Change Executive Secretary Patricia Espinosa said the coronavirus is “the most urgent threat facing humanity t...

4 Apr 2020

What does COP26 delay mean for climate action?

Opinion / Carbon & Climate

Hotter temperatures will lead to more deaths from injury

...1961-1990 average. For the whole planet, 2019 is expected to come in second (behind 2016) making the last five years the hottest on record since 1880. As we brace for increasingly hot summers, we are ...

14 Jan 2020

Hotter temperatures will lead to more deaths from injury

News / Policy & Finance

Green Climate Fund expands support to more than 100 developing states

The Green Climate Fund, which provides finance for developing nations to tackle climate change, said on Thursday it had reached a milestone of backing action in more than 100 countries, after approvin...

15 Nov 2019

Green Climate Fund expands support to more than 100 developing states

News / Waste

This new resource aims to help clear up recycling confusion

...1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 or 7? It can be a baffling world for those who want to avoid putting all of their waste into the trash can. DIYSigns, a new online repository of ready-to-edit labels and posters that ...

27 Sep 2019

This new resource aims to help clear up recycling confusion

A coal-fired power station on Lamma Island, Hong Kong. Image: Robin Hicks/Eco-Business

News / Policy & Finance

What's holding sustainable finance back in Asia?

...11.5 trillion by 2030, including US$1.4 trillion a year just to achieve SDG 1, ending poverty for 700 million people, the majority of whom live in Asia. So how can Asia unlock capital for sustainable ...

6 Mar 2020

What's holding sustainable finance back in Asia?

News / Carbon & Climate

UK is now halfway to meeting its ‘net-zero emissions’ target

...1.6 per cent of generation and the UK went without coal power on 180 of the 366 days last year (49 per cent). This compares with just 83 days in 2019 and 21 days in 2018. Last year also saw a marked 1...

19 Mar 2021

UK is now halfway to meeting its ‘net-zero emissions’ target

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