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Opinion / Corporate Responsibility

Disaster proofing business and its supply chain

...floods in the country. It is worth noting that La Niña often takes place after El Niño ends. States likely to bear the brunt of the La Niña effects are the East Coast states in Peninsular Malaysia as...

20 Jul 2016

Disaster proofing business and its supply chain

News / Food & Agriculture

Experts push for sustainable standards on rice

...floods and then drains rice fields, reducing water use without reducing yields. This decreases methane emissions by up to 70 per cent, says Bas Bauman, director of IRRI’s Global Rice Science Partnersh...

10 Nov 2015

Experts push for sustainable standards on rice

News / Carbon & Climate

From Easter Island to Stonehenge, climate change threatens iconic tourist sites

...floods, understand climate change impact and test resilience strategies, the report said. To maintain the World Heritage sites it was essential to achieve a goal of keeping global average temperature ...

27 May 2016

From Easter Island to Stonehenge, climate change threatens iconic tourist sites

News / Carbon & Climate

Thorny issue of who will pay for climate damage simmers at UN talks

...floods, storms and rising seas - all threats to development in Bangladesh, where about a third of people live beneath the poverty line. Saleemul Huq, director of the Dhaka-based International Centre f...

14 Nov 2016

Thorny issue of who will pay for climate damage simmers at UN talks

News / Carbon & Climate

El Niño and war drive aid agencies to the brink

...floods expected in Central America in January, the situation is likely to deteriorate further. Oxfam says governments and donors could be acting now to help people cope with drought or flooding, for e...

4 Jan 2016

El Niño and war drive aid agencies to the brink

Press Releases / Aid and International Development Forum

Hear from UNDP, Rescue Global, IMC at Global Disaster Relief Summit

...floods, in order to identify new best practice, challenges, possible solutions and what can be done better next time. ·Cash-Based Programmes for Disaster Relief How to manage the transition t...

15 Jul 2016

Hear from UNDP, Rescue Global, IMC at Global Disaster Relief Summit

News / Manufacturing

New tool aims to help businesses value and manage natural assets

...floodplains and other natural assets. "Nature is free, in effect, and so it has been over-exploited and is being depleted, and that is now having... economic and social and human costs," said Karen El...

14 Jul 2016

New tool aims to help businesses value and manage natural assets

Press Releases / Greenpeace Southeast Asia

Greenpeace statement on Typhoon Lando’s damage to Greater Luzon

...floods destroyed rice fields at harvest time. Leonora Lava, Sr. Ecological Agriculture Campaigner for Greenpeace Philippines said: “Now more than ever, our farmers and the rest of the agri...

22 Oct 2015

Greenpeace statement on Typhoon Lando’s damage to Greater Luzon

News / Water

Conservationists embrace new environmental tool: Water leasing

...flood irrigation may see opportunity in selling their water to farmers that use more efficient sprinkler irrigation. But farmers aren’t the only ones bidding: a conservation group called the Platte Ri...

24 Jan 2017

Conservationists embrace new environmental tool: Water leasing

News / Energy

Doubts pile up about UK’s Hinkley nuclear plant

...flood. The EDF board are split on the decision, senior managers have resigned, the unions are taking legal action, and the ratings agencies have threatened a further downgrade. In the UK, parliamentar...

12 Aug 2016

Doubts pile up about UK’s Hinkley nuclear plant

News / Food & Agriculture

Palm oil expands in Aceh

...floods as a result of upstream deforestation, is overseeing a campaign to eradicate illegal plantations, even felling one of the rogue trees himself. Oil palm plantations are also expanding into Aceh’...

12 Jan 2016

Palm oil expands in Aceh

News / Policy & Finance

Spring Budget 2017: key climate and energy announcements

...flooding, shale gas (a favourite of former chancellor George Osborne) and a diesel scrappage scheme, which campaigners say is needed to tackle the UK’s chronic air pollution. Hammond also did not ment...

9 Mar 2017

Spring Budget 2017: key climate and energy announcements

News / Food & Agriculture

Sustainable farming systems in Bangladesh and Japan receive global recognition

...flood areas; and a trio of sites in Japan: the sustainable river fisheries utilizing Sato-kawa system in Gifu, the Minabe-Tanabe Ume approach to growing apricots on nutrient-poor slopes in Wakayama; a...

17 Dec 2015

Sustainable farming systems in Bangladesh and Japan receive global recognition

Opinion / Policy & Finance

Microfinancing climate resilience

...flooding. According to the World Bank, without effective mitigation measures, climate change could push more than 100 million people into poverty by 2030. To help the most vulnerable communities becom...

8 Aug 2016

Microfinancing climate resilience

News / Food & Agriculture

139 scientists shoot down ‘misleading’ reports from Malaysia peat congress

...flooding. Some of the media reports from the congress in Malaysia, however, ignored these findings, instead highlighting unproven methods of peatland management to support claims that plantations on d...

5 Oct 2016

139 scientists shoot down ‘misleading’ reports from Malaysia peat congress

News / Cities

India names 20 cities for $7.5 billion smart makeover

...floods last year because of flawed urban planning, as well as a part of New Delhi. Other proposed smart cities are the tourist destinations of Jaipur and Udaipur and Bhubaneswar in the east. "This gam...

29 Jan 2016

India names 20 cities for $7.5 billion smart makeover

News / Carbon & Climate

The top 10 stories in 2015

...floods: In Pakistan, the monsoon’s arrival in July eased a record-breaking heatwave, but triggered flash floods that killed almost 170 people and displaced 800,000 others. Tamil Nadu in South India ...

23 Dec 2015

The top 10 stories in 2015

News / Carbon & Climate

Global campaign kicks off to put health in climate talks

...floods and wildfires, food and water shortages, outbreaks of infectious diseases, loss of livelihoods, migration and conflict. The campaign calls on governments to make health the central focus of th...

23 Oct 2015

Global campaign kicks off to put health in climate talks

Opinion / Food & Agriculture

Is it time to resurrect the wartime 'Grow Your Own' campaign?

...floods that hit Queensland in 2011, Brisbane and regional centres came perilously close to running out of fresh food. With the central Rocklea produce market underwater, panic-buying soon set in and s...

28 Oct 2016

Is it time to resurrect the wartime 'Grow Your Own' campaign?

News / Cities

Dying cities can be brought back to life and here's how, says World Bank

...floods. However, the city created a development corporation that reclaimed 200 hectares of land on the riverfront on both sides, funding the costs of the project with the sale of about 15 per cent of ...

14 Jul 2016

Dying cities can be brought back to life and here's how, says World Bank

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