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Opinion / Carbon & Climate

ASEAN countries must act together to confront climate change

...flooding is predicted to affect 5.9 million people every year by 2100. With rising sea levels, cities on the coast are threatened, territories will shrink, and maritime territorial conflicts could wor...

17 Nov 2017

ASEAN countries must act together to confront climate change

News / Carbon & Climate

From drought to floods in 45 days

...flooded Relative to its size, Bhutan is perhaps the worst flood-hit country in South Asia right now. King Jigme Khesar Namgyel Wangchuk has joined ministers and officials in the rescue and relief effo...

4 Aug 2016

From drought to floods in 45 days

News / Carbon & Climate

China’s carbon emissions drive global uptick in 2017

...flooding and drought in southern China that required more coal power to be brought online. The country’s oil and gas sectors also grew strongly at 5 per cent and 12 per cent, respectively. By the end ...

15 Nov 2017

China’s carbon emissions drive global uptick in 2017

Opinion / Policy & Finance

Green bonds are taking off – and could help save the planet

...floods and monster hurricanes continue, industries like the insurance sector will be less likely to take on clients or insure assets that do not meet climate change resilience standards. This is where...

9 Jan 2018

Green bonds are taking off – and could help save the planet

News / Carbon & Climate

Mangrove deforestation emits as much CO2 as Myanmar each year

...flooding from incoming tides. Their roots filter out freshwater from the saltwater they live in. The unwanted salt is then excreted through pores in the mangrove’s waxy leaves. Mangrove forest distri...

2 Mar 2018

Mangrove deforestation emits as much CO2 as Myanmar each year

News / Waste

Global brands are the Philippines' biggest plastic polluters, study reveals

...flooding and pollute marine ecosystems. These thin films of plastic and aluminium made up 32.82 per cent of the plastic waste collected by the volunteers. Nestlé did not respond directly to Eco-Busine...

27 Sep 2017

Global brands are the Philippines' biggest plastic polluters, study reveals

News / Carbon & Climate

Hottest years will soon be the new normal

...floods of 2010; it has led to the worst ever damage to the Great Barrier Reef and more violent storms could arrive as the thermometer rises. Climate change could make life more difficult for the nati...

21 Nov 2016

Hottest years will soon be the new normal

News / Carbon & Climate

Alarm at rise in forest carbon

...flood coastal communities, hurricanes and typhoons become more intense and destructive, heatwaves become more lethal and droughts become more devastating. And these things are happening because more c...

9 Oct 2017

Alarm at rise in forest carbon

Press Releases / IE expo China

Sponge Cities: New market trend in China's water and wastewater treatment

...flooding caused by surface sealing Background: Many cities in China suffer from serious water shortages – and are also plagued by flooding. One of the reasons for this is that underground urban...

9 Feb 2017

Sponge Cities: New market trend in China's water and wastewater treatment

News / Carbon & Climate

Flood toll hits 164, another official sacked

...floods. Public anger is mounting as many say they were not informed of the impending floods, and that officials had failed to organize evacuation before the flood crested. Guo Tongheng, deputy Party c...

26 Jul 2016

Flood toll hits 164, another official sacked

News / Food & Agriculture

Can agriculture and the climate fix their 'unhappy marriage' in 2018?

...floods and storms - upping the pressure on agriculture. Curbing climate change will require overhauling the world's food production and distribution system, which is "off the rails", said Olav Kjørven...

2 Jan 2018

Can agriculture and the climate fix their 'unhappy marriage' in 2018?

A farmer inspects his crops in a drought-stricken farm land.

Opinion / Food & Agriculture

Why the next Tesla should take on agriculture

...flooding in South Asia. All of these have had an impact on our global food supplies. But as devastated countries rebuild and others brace themselves for more unpredictable conditions, creating a more ...

3 Nov 2017

Why the next Tesla should take on agriculture

News / Carbon & Climate

Investing in disaster resilience now 'mission critical' for business

In the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina in 2005, Gillis, Ellis & Baker, a New Orleans-based insurance company, relocated from the battered, flooded city to nearby Baton Rouge so it could carry on se...

17 Feb 2017

Investing in disaster resilience now 'mission critical' for business

Spectators on the floating platform at Marina Bay are cooled by 'recycled' cold air from a district cooling system. Image: SP Group

News / Carbon & Climate

3 firms winning in Singapore's sustainable business space

...floods and droughts. But the city-state is not invulnerable to the effects of climate change. Rises in sea level, rainfall intensity, dry spells, heat stress, flash flooding and vector-borne diseases...

8 Aug 2017

3 firms winning in Singapore's sustainable business space

News / Food & Agriculture

World hunger on the rise again due to conflict and climate - UN

...floods caused by global warming, he said. "About 60 per cent of the people suffering from hunger in the world live in areas affected by conflict and the impact of climate change," he said. Achieving z...

4 Jul 2017

World hunger on the rise again due to conflict and climate - UN

News / Carbon & Climate

Climate change is a threat – but it won't hurt me, Americans say

...flooding, forest fires and more intense storms. A majority of people surveyed, however, feel global warming could hurt others in the United States, as well as people in developing countries, future ge...

2 Mar 2017

Climate change is a threat – but it won't hurt me, Americans say

Opinion / Carbon & Climate

Capitalising on climate unity

...floods in Bangladesh and the US demonstrate this. As the United Nations Environment Programme recently reminded us, even if every country hits its existing 2030 emissions-reduction targets, we will be...

20 Nov 2017

Capitalising on climate unity

News / Carbon & Climate

Climate change may turn Africa's arid Sahel green - researchers

...floods, the researchers said. This level of unpredictability makes it very hard for people to plan for coming changes, they said. "The enormous change that we might see would clearly pose a huge adapt...

17 Jul 2017

Climate change may turn Africa's arid Sahel green - researchers

Press Releases / GlacialTech Inc

Installing GlacialLight Lighting in the largest Taiwanese auto parts company

...flood lights. The wide array of lighting scenarios in this huge building demonstrate the flexibility of GlacialLight’s suite of LED lighting solutions.The varied needs of different indoor and ou...

22 Dec 2016

Installing GlacialLight Lighting in the largest Taiwanese auto parts company

News / Carbon & Climate

Trump climate pullout will help child traffickers - Nobel Laureate

...floods, droughts and cyclones. Post-disaster human trafficking is already common in regions such as South Asia where the breakdown of institutions in devastated areas creates difficulties in securing ...

9 Jun 2017

Trump climate pullout will help child traffickers - Nobel Laureate

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