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A decade after the floods, is Kedarnath safer?

...Therefore, more people are reaching the shrine and adding to the load. The area is basically systematically being degraded… If another [flood like that in] 2013 happens, then the impact of the disaste...

24 Aug 2023

A decade after the floods, is Kedarnath safer?

News / Policy & Finance

Roundtable: The Belt and Road at 10

...the MEE but rather by industrial policymakers such as the National Development and Reform Commission, with the assistance of their financing arms. Today, not only has the BRI dropped the original poli...

14 Sep 2023

Roundtable: The Belt and Road at 10

News / Waste

The case for mandatory extended producer responsibility in Malaysia

...the first is political will, the second is political will, the third is also political will.” At the EPR roundtable, Nik Nazmi emphasised the Malaysian government’s commitment to strengthening legisla...

20 Aug 2024

The case for mandatory extended producer responsibility in Malaysia

News / Water

Rising global shark mortality rates persist despite bans on finning, reveals study

...the past decade, when international legislative steps were taken to decrease shark catches. “There are now opportunities to change the management of these fisheries, especially with the new CITES list...

25 Jan 2024

Rising global shark mortality rates persist despite bans on finning, reveals study

News / Policy & Finance

Index-based insurance shrinks payout delays for flooded farmland in Nepal

...ther-based index schemes, no other insurers are jumping in. The major reason, according to Fadera, is that the government does not provide the subsidies for these schemes that it does for others. The ...

11 Oct 2023

Index-based insurance shrinks payout delays for flooded farmland in Nepal

News / Policy & Finance

Experts: How will the next decade of China’s ‘belt and road initiative’ impact climate action?

...These further undermine their efforts to achieve the UN sustainable development goals. Building on existing guidelines on greening the BRI and the pledge to increase the support for green and low-carb...

11 Oct 2023

Experts: How will the next decade of China’s ‘belt and road initiative’ impact climate action?

News / Transport

Climate change is fuelling turbulence and posing threats to South Asian aviation

...the white contrails they paint across the sky — has an even bigger warming effect, one that is set to triple by 2050. The study said, “Planes create their mesmerising contrails as they soar high in th...

27 May 2024

Climate change is fuelling turbulence and posing threats to South Asian aviation

News / Policy & Finance

Analysis: Why the US$300 billion climate-finance goal is even less ambitious than it seems

...the wake of COP29 is the impact of inflation. Campaigners have noted that the failure to factor this into the 2035 climate-finance target means that, by the time it is met, the true value of the money...

5 Dec 2024

Analysis: Why the US$300 billion climate-finance goal is even less ambitious than it seems

A smallholder farmer on a plantation in Indonesia

News / Food & Agriculture

CIMB sets science-based targets for palm oil sector

...the bank's only contact with smallholders is through its large corporate clients who purchase FFB from them. The bank said it is in the early stages of engaging with its palm oil clients on how they c...

28 Nov 2023

CIMB sets science-based targets for palm oil sector

News / Carbon & Climate

Why are heatwaves getting worse?

...the world's economy results in the release of gases that blanket the planet, trapping ever more of the sun's energy in the atmosphere rather than letting much of it escape. About 90 per cent of that e...

19 May 2023

Why are heatwaves getting worse?

News / Carbon & Climate

Tackling Scope 3 emissions in chemicals industry crucial to net zero by 2050

...the suppliers are important because they are the ones who can reduce these emissions. For Scope 3 ‘downstream’ emissions, the impact on the companies is even lower,” Saling said, referring to the Scop...

8 Jul 2024

Tackling Scope 3 emissions in chemicals industry crucial to net zero by 2050

News / Carbon & Climate

1.5°C for planet, 1°C for people: Scientists step up climate warning

...the most dangerous effects for the planet. But a new analysis says the limit to prevent significant harm to people is just 1°C. The warning - issued this week in research published in the journal Natu...

7 Jun 2023

1.5°C for planet, 1°C for people: Scientists step up climate warning

News / Cities

Improving China’s extreme weather response

...When the authorities receive the first warning, they know what is coming and can make necessary preparations. The system was used prior to heavy rain in June 2020. When the second warning was issued, ...

17 Jan 2023

Improving China’s extreme weather response

News / Policy & Finance

AI supercharges disinformation and censorship, report warns

...the 13th consecutive year, with China, Myanmar and Iran having the worst conditions of the 70 countries surveyed by the Freedom on the Net report, which highlighted the risks posed by easy access to g...

9 Oct 2023

AI supercharges disinformation and censorship, report warns

News / Policy & Finance

The EU struggles to respond to US green subsidy race

...the EU? Why EU state aid rules matter Understanding the importance of the 27-nation bloc’s state aid rules requires a trip back 30 years when the EU’s single market was created. The internal market al...

27 Mar 2023

The EU struggles to respond to US green subsidy race

Dutch airline KLM was one of the first companies to get into trouble for using carbon offsets to claim that air travel was "carbon neutral".

News / Policy & Finance

The next wave of greenwashing: Offsets, competitor claims and 'transition-washing'

...the Environmental Defenders Office. NGOs are now focusing their work on how well aligned companies' businesses models are with climate goals rather than how well prepared they say they are for the ene...

8 May 2023

The next wave of greenwashing: Offsets, competitor claims and 'transition-washing'

News / Manufacturing

Mining, extractive industries spur significant deforestation, shows study

...the development of human civilisation and the life we live today. But the footprint left by the extraction of these commodities has a heavy toll on ecosystems,” said WWF Mining Global Lead Tobias Kind...

25 Apr 2023

Mining, extractive industries spur significant deforestation, shows study

Press Releases / World Wide Fund

Shift to renewable energy must protect nature, says clean energy coalition

...the disposal of end-of-life equipment. When mining occurs, rigorous environmental and social safeguards must be in place to avoid the degradation of natural habitat and other harms, according to the r...

25 Apr 2023

Shift to renewable energy must protect nature, says clean energy coalition

Opinion / Cities

If your city is sinking, why not make it float?

...ther they are a viable solution for sinking cities without extending the impact of our urban footprint further offshore. Katherine Dafforn is an Associate Professor in the School of Natural Sciences a...

15 May 2023

If your city is sinking, why not make it float?

News / Policy & Finance

Rohingya refugees face soaring hunger and crime after aid cuts

...when his family couldn't pay the ransom," said Karim, adding that criminals target families with members abroad who they think will send money. Acute malnutrition The WFP first cut the value of the m...

23 Jun 2023

Rohingya refugees face soaring hunger and crime after aid cuts

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