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Opinion / Carbon & Climate

Chile's protests offer lessons on social inequality and climate action

...15, renewables’ share of electricity generation tripled up to 18 per cent in four years, putting the country on track to meet its target of 60 per cent clean energy generation (renewables and hydro) b...

28 Nov 2019

Chile's protests offer lessons on social inequality and climate action

Opinion / None

Ensuring sustainable finance for family planning

...1.1 billion ($836 million) to C$1.4 billion ($1 billion) by 2023. But it is not enough. Developing-country governments must urgently reduce their dependence on outside donors. And yet, so far, they ha...

12 Sep 2019

Ensuring sustainable finance for family planning

Opinion / Policy & Finance

Tackling inequality is a political choice

...15, the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals—specifically Goal 10—have brought unprecedented attention to this issue. And at this month’s High-Level Political Forum, the international communit...

16 Jul 2019

Tackling inequality is a political choice

News / Policy & Finance

Nigeria, Singapore and India fuel wealth gap - Oxfam

...1 percent of the global population nabbing four fifths of wealth created between mid-2016 and mid-2017, while the poorest half saw no increase in wealth. The index of 157 countries is being released a...

9 Oct 2018

Nigeria, Singapore and India fuel wealth gap - Oxfam

Opinion / Energy

Blockchain can speed up Asia’s clean energy transition. Here’s how

...100, a global corporate leadership initiative, is composed of 170 multinationals including 30 of the global Fortune 500, with combined revenues of US$2.75 trillion and electricity demand of 188 terawa...

15 Jul 2019

Blockchain can speed up Asia’s clean energy transition. Here’s how

Videos / Energy

Is the future of power transmission beaming electricity with diamonds?

...100 kilometres, and each antenna will generate enough electricity to supply entire villages, or about 1,500 households, using a moderate amount of electricity. Unlike solar power, combining lasers wit...

24 Jan 2019

Is the future of power transmission beaming electricity with diamonds?

News / Food & Agriculture

Coronavirus hits sustainable aquaculture

...11 March, a month and a half after the Wuhan lockdown, a survey of 55 major markets in Beijing, Shanghai and Guangzhou showed aquatic sales had recovered to just about half of normal levels. The effec...

1 Apr 2020

Coronavirus hits sustainable aquaculture

News / Food & Agriculture

Perpetual haze? Sustained pressure on peatlands will mean no end to Indonesia's forest fires, warns report

...1 to October 31, 2019. Sources: NASA Near Real-Time and VIIRS Active Fire Detections. Peatlands map from Indonesia's Peatlands map from Indonesia's Peatlands Restoration Agency; concession boundaries ...

22 Nov 2019

Perpetual haze? Sustained pressure on peatlands will mean no end to Indonesia's forest fires, warns report

News / Water

Soap and superbugs: 2 bln people lack water at health facilities—UN

...11,300 people between 2013 and 2016. This story was published with permission from Thomson Reuters Foundation, the charitable arm of Thomson Reuters, that covers humanitarian news, climate change, res...

3 Apr 2019

Soap and superbugs: 2 bln people lack water at health facilities—UN

Builders work together to finish a house.

News / Green Buildings

Collaboration and disruption for a greener construction sector

...1 per cent per year since 2010, and more significantly, over 4 million deaths worldwide each year are attributable to illness from household air pollution caused by burning coal to produce electricity...

8 Jul 2019

Collaboration and disruption for a greener construction sector

Opinion / Water

Southeast Asia and the right to safe water

...1 per cent to 2021, as the rural population shrinks by 0.13 per cent. In 1997, the British and French companies Thames Water and Suez signed a 25-year public-private partnership (PPP) contract to deli...

18 Nov 2019

Southeast Asia and the right to safe water

News / Carbon & Climate

Mosquito risk to health may double by 2100

...15, we’re especially worried about what comes next. Colin Carlson, biologist, Georgetown University As temperatures go up – the planet is already 1°C warmer on average than it has been for most of hu...

1 Apr 2019

Mosquito risk to health may double by 2100

News / Carbon & Climate

Conservation groups urge world leaders to protect 30 per cent of the planet

...1, the Wyss Campaign and 12 other conservation groups, including WWF, BirdLife International and the Wildlife Conservation Society, said humanity’s future was tied to that of Earth’s wild places and u...

5 Feb 2019

Conservation groups urge world leaders to protect 30 per cent of the planet

News / Policy & Finance

Heritage site or home? Indigenous Thais fight for right to forest

...15 countries from 1990 to 2014, according to Washington D.C.-based advocacy group Rights and Resources Initiative. In India, more than 1.9 million indigenous families face evictions after their fores...

18 Apr 2019

Heritage site or home? Indigenous Thais fight for right to forest

News / Waste

No more plastic straws at over 270 F&B outlets in Singapore from July

In a major industry-wide push to reduce the use of single-use plastic in Singapore, over 270 food and beverage (F&B) outlets will phase out plastic straws by 1 July, the World Wide Fund for Nature...

4 Jun 2019

No more plastic straws at over 270 F&B outlets in Singapore from July

'Moratorium on new coal plants now!' NGOs protest against coal in the Philippines

News / Energy

Filipinos march for a ban on coal expansion

...14 per cent), solar photovoltaic (PV) and onshore wind (both -13 per cent), hydropower (-12 per cent), geothermal and offshore wind (both -1 per cent), the study found. By 2020, global data from IRE...

25 Sep 2019

Filipinos march for a ban on coal expansion

News / Carbon & Climate

How humans fuelled last summer's extreme heat

...1 degree C. With that amount of warming, humans can expect such heat waves roughly once every six years. If temperatures warm by 1.5 degrees C, an improbably optimistic scenario, 2018-like heat waves ...

3 Jun 2019

How humans fuelled last summer's extreme heat

Chennai residents, water crisis, MS Nagar

News / Water

What's being done to fix water scarcity in Asia's most water-stressed countries?

...17 estimates that only 12 to 15 per cent of the population has access to safe and treated drinking water. In 1998, the government of Nepal pledged to ease Kathmandu Valley’s water crisis through the m...

22 Mar 2020

What's being done to fix water scarcity in Asia's most water-stressed countries?

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News / Policy & Finance

Australian companies 'significantly exposed' to slavery risk—investors

...18 Global Slavery Index estimates that 15,000 of these people are in Australia. "We know that there is a domestic slavery issue," Jenn Morris, chief executive of Australia-based anti-slavery group Wal...

18 Feb 2019

Australian companies 'significantly exposed' to slavery risk—investors

News / Policy & Finance

Pakistani military in charge, provinces sidelined in a revived CPEC

...1,350 (32.9 per cent) in transport costs per container traded with Europe and USD 1,450 (41.4 per cent) per container to the Middle East. For Pakistan there was also the hope is that proposed special ...

6 Oct 2020

Pakistani military in charge, provinces sidelined in a revived CPEC

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