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UK’s CO2 emissions have fallen 29 per cent over the past decade

...19 seeing similar temperatures to those in 2018. (Both years were around 0.5C above the long-term average for 1981-2010.) Oil demand and emissions fell by nearly 1 per cent in 2019, Carbon Brief’s ana...

5 Mar 2020

UK’s CO2 emissions have fallen 29 per cent over the past decade

News / Water

As rains fall short, Manila trickles into a water crisis

...10 million fine for breach of contract and ordered it to spend $12 million developing a new water source. Water supply has since been partially restored to 98 per cent of customers, for at least eight...

21 May 2019

As rains fall short, Manila trickles into a water crisis

News / Food & Agriculture

Feeding Japan's appetite for meat

...1939, the average Japanese person consumed 1 ounce or about 28 grams of meat a day, which works out to about 10kg per person per year. The modern Japanese citizen ate close to 40kg per capita of chic...

24 Apr 2019

Feeding Japan's appetite for meat

Opinion / Carbon & Climate

Indonesia charts a new, low carbon development path. Will other countries follow suit?

...15.3 million additional and good quality jobs, which are greener and better paid; extreme poverty halving again, to 4.2 per cent of the population relative to 2018; about 40,000 lives saved every year...

26 Mar 2019

Indonesia charts a new, low carbon development path. Will other countries follow suit?

News / Carbon & Climate

Junk fossil fuel plants and stay below 1.5°C

...195 nations can fulfill a promise made in Paris in 2015 to stop global warming at 1.5°C by the end of the century: junk fossil fuel plants. The answer is simple: phase out fossil fuel hardware as soon...

25 Jan 2019

Junk fossil fuel plants and stay below 1.5°C

News / Carbon & Climate

Women 'uniquely placed' to inspire climate action, mayors say

...14 we were just four female mayors running the world's largest cities—now there are 21 of us," including Mexico City, Dakar and Bangalore, she told the event. "But we must go further and make gender e...

23 Feb 2019

Women 'uniquely placed' to inspire climate action, mayors say

Opinion / Waste

Plastic warms the planet twice as much as aviation—here's how to make it climate-friendly

...190 times more plastic than we did in 1950. If the demand for plastic continues to grow at its current rate of 4 per cent a year, emissions from plastic production will reach 15 per cent of global emi...

17 May 2019

Plastic warms the planet twice as much as aviation—here's how to make it climate-friendly

Opinion / Lifestyle

Six ways to fill your wardrobe with sustainable clothing

...1. Reeducate yourself Don’t bury your head in the sand. Buying cheaply-made fast fashion can only mean that prices have been driven down hard. The smallest cost paid will be to the factory worker who ...

22 Mar 2019

Six ways to fill your wardrobe with sustainable clothing

News / Carbon & Climate

Spain brings fresh impetus to climate fight after lost decade

...1-2030, will soon be submitted to the European Union, he said. Officials said the Socialist government also plans to present a new climate change law to parliament by the end of this month. A draft, p...

21 Jan 2019

Spain brings fresh impetus to climate fight after lost decade

News / Carbon & Climate

7 ways climate change was felt in Asia in 2019

...18 study published in Nature. By 2100, three out of four people on earth could be subject to at least 20 days of heat per year if climate change remains unchecked, the study found. The issue is partic...

19 Dec 2019

7 ways climate change was felt in Asia in 2019

Opinion / Policy & Finance

Are the SDGs unsustainable?

...11). This concentrates prosperity within cities and increases inequality between city and rural populations, contradicting the aims of Goal 10, reduced inequality. Reduced poverty leads to greater con...

23 May 2018

Are the SDGs unsustainable?

News / Waste

'War' on food waste can save money and boost profits, tech firm says

...1 trillion—is binned every year, according to the United Nations' Food and Agriculture Organization, and researchers fear annual food waste could rise by a third to 2.1 billion tonnes by 2030. World l...

10 Oct 2018

'War' on food waste can save money and boost profits, tech firm says

News / Cities

'Social business cities' could ease urban growing pains, Nobel laureate says

...1 million prize money to developing social businesses. He set up the Yunus Centre a decade ago to promote social businesses as a way to fight poverty and to help academic institutions develop programm...

21 Sep 2018

'Social business cities' could ease urban growing pains, Nobel laureate says

News / Policy & Finance

Katowice climate talks run short of time

...15 COP, held three years ago in the French capital. That agreed that global temperatures should not be allowed to rise by more than 2°C above their pre-industrial levels, and that every country should...

18 Dec 2018

Katowice climate talks run short of time

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News / Food & Agriculture

Study lays out oil palm development scenarios in Borneo

...11 moratorium on new licenses to develop some of these areas are also fully converted. At the current rates of development, the authors predict total expansion will be achieved by 2035. “ By protecti...

18 Sep 2018

Study lays out oil palm development scenarios in Borneo

News / Food & Agriculture

Not your average pond scum: Could algae win the alternative protein race?

...141 hectares of land needed for the same amount of beef, according to Wang. A kilogramme of the microalgae protein flour will cost US$2 over time, although initial costs will be higher, he said. The c...

2 Jul 2019

Not your average pond scum: Could algae win the alternative protein race?

Opinion / Carbon & Climate

If you are flying, you should be buying carbon offsets

...1. Offsets just allow the rich to keep on polluting while easing their guilt. Offsets do allow payers to keep polluting, and they are mostly used by the rich. But think about it. Stopping people from ...

18 Mar 2019

If you are flying, you should be buying carbon offsets

News / Water

Sea mining project off Papua New Guinea hits choppy waters

...1 aims to extract gold and copper deposits beneath the Bismark Sea under permits given by the PNG government, which also owns 15 per cent equity in the project. “ There are uncertainties about the ti...

19 Feb 2018

Sea mining project off Papua New Guinea hits choppy waters

News / Food & Agriculture

‘China speed’ needed for a breakthrough in sustainable palm oil

...11 to 105 this year. And a lot of the new members are not only multinationals but local, Chinese companies - and that is the most exciting part about our progress. Strechay: We've also increased the n...

14 Aug 2019

‘China speed’ needed for a breakthrough in sustainable palm oil

Opinion / Carbon & Climate

What does the IPCC special report say about forests?

...1. Deforestation is not only a significant contributor to the current greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions problem, protecting and restoring forests could play an outsized role in the solution. Deforestatio...

13 Aug 2019

What does the IPCC special report say about forests?

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