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As migration rises, finance can pave the way to benefits for all

...1 billion in loans since 2005. If a migrant is perceived as someone who "takes away" from the local population, then opportunities will be missed, he told a gathering of social entrepreneurs in Oxford...

17 Apr 2018

As migration rises, finance can pave the way to benefits for all

Opinion / Food & Agriculture

Cultured meat seems gross? It’s much better than animal agriculture

...1 per cent of adults identify as vegetarian and report never eating meat. This figure shows little change since the mid-1990s, despite the ongoing activism of the animal rights and environmental movem...

1 Mar 2019

Cultured meat seems gross? It’s much better than animal agriculture

News / Lifestyle

Calling all ad agencies: Make sustainability sexy

...18. The goal of the project is to change the behaviour of a targeted 1 billion global consumers, so that more than half of global purchases are made with sustainability as a deciding factor, by 2020. ...

1 Mar 2018

Calling all ad agencies: Make sustainability sexy

News / Energy

The way we power our lives is undergoing a huge transition. How can we minimise the pain and maximise the gain?

...114 countries around the world, WEF draws three main conclusions. First, though most countries assessed have improved their energy systems in recent years, there is still plenty of room for improvemen...

26 Jul 2018

The way we power our lives is undergoing a huge transition. How can we minimise the pain and maximise the gain?

News / Carbon & Climate

1°C rise has massive polar impact

...1°C or 2°C. These are the temperatures expected within the next 50 and 100 years, under global warming scenarios. With a 1°C warming, a single pioneer species of filter-feeding invertebrate, known as ...

12 Sep 2017

1°C rise has massive polar impact

News / Policy & Finance

Malaysia's top forestry official steps down

...1970s, 1980s, and 1990s, which both destroyed vast areas of primary rainforest and undermined timber productivity, sending revenues into a tailspin. The political pressures that created and enabled th...

12 Aug 2018

Malaysia's top forestry official steps down

News / Energy

People power: An electricity cooperative in the Philippines fights for hydro project rights

...10) per kilowatt-hour (kWh) to P1.30 kWH (US $0.03) over a 25-year cost recovery period. Beneco's network services manager Melchor Licoben points to the screen that shows a map of the Kabayan 1, 2, ...

1 Feb 2018

People power: An electricity cooperative in the Philippines fights for hydro project rights

News / Policy & Finance

Poor countries face $168 billion interest bill due to climate change

Poor countries could have to pay up to $168 billion more in interest over the next decade as extreme weather events brought on by climate change affect their credit ratings, a study said on Monday. Na...

3 Jul 2018

Poor countries face $168 billion interest bill due to climate change

Opinion / Waste

Five ways to unlock the value of the circular economy

...1. Shift from a waste hierarchy to a circularity hierarchy Beginning in the 1970s, governments—in their role as stewards of public health and environmental protection—adopted the concept of a waste hi...

16 Apr 2019

Five ways to unlock the value of the circular economy

News / Carbon & Climate

Vietnam’s new conservation plan prioritises trees and people, but not emissions

...11, hundreds of hydropower plants, as well as some municipal water and ecotourism companies, have paid more than $500 million to thousands of rural households, according to a December 2019 programme u...

13 Mar 2020

Vietnam’s new conservation plan prioritises trees and people, but not emissions

News / Carbon & Climate

UN chief turns up heat on governments to cool climate change

...19, one year before countries are due to enhance their national pledges to cut planet-warming emissions under the Paris Agreement adopted in 2015. Guterres said he wanted to "hear about how we are goi...

12 Sep 2018

UN chief turns up heat on governments to cool climate change

Videos / Cities

Wanted: Million-dollar solutions for better cities

...1 million in funding. Find out more about The Liveability Challenge in the video above.

11 Apr 2018

Wanted: Million-dollar solutions for better cities

Videos / Carbon & Climate

As climate risks surge, flood barriers rise in Britain

...1.25 million Londoners - and 300 billion pounds worth of infrastructure—above the rising tide, officials say. "Until the 1920s, people actually died in floods in central London - and the real catalyst...

7 Sep 2018

As climate risks surge, flood barriers rise in Britain

News / Manufacturing

Cellphones are endangering gorillas, but recycling old ones can help

...115,369 cellphones from 2009-2014. The campaign used displays and keeper talks to encourage visitors to recycle their old phones. Keeper talks were found to be particularly effective, especially at th...

21 Jan 2019

Cellphones are endangering gorillas, but recycling old ones can help

News / Energy

Analysis: Global fossil-fuel emissions up 0.6 per cent in 2019 due to China

...12, emissions only grew by around 0.4 per cent per year between 2013 and 2016. This led to some overconfident predictions that global CO2 emissions might have peaked, before 2017 saw a 1.1 per cent in...

4 Dec 2019

Analysis: Global fossil-fuel emissions up 0.6 per cent in 2019 due to China

News / Cities

China’s action on air quality is saving lives

...1,600 locations in China from 2015 to 2017. Hourly assessments were made of concentrations of nitrogen dioxide (NO2), sulphur dioxide (SO2), ozone (O3), and fine particles measuring less than 2.5 thou...

23 Oct 2018

China’s action on air quality is saving lives

A student asks International Monetary Fund Managing Director Christine Lagarde a question at the Ecole Royale d’Administration December 3, 2013 in Phom Phen, Cambodia

News / Carbon & Climate

The young people calling time on climate change in Asia Pacific

...13. Then only 10 and 12 years of age, the Wijsen sisters’ Bye Bye Plastic Bags initiative has grown rapidly since. They have spoken at 329 events, witnessed the birth of 35 global teams aligned to the...

30 Apr 2019

The young people calling time on climate change in Asia Pacific

News / Corporate Responsibility

Five years after zero-deforestation vow, little sign of progress from Indonesian pulp giant

...10 NGOs of how the FCP had been implemented over the past five years concluded that while APP had made some progress, the company still had a long way to go, and highlighted five key issues. 1. Massiv...

19 Mar 2018

Five years after zero-deforestation vow, little sign of progress from Indonesian pulp giant

News / Waste

Southeast Asia struggles with trash rejected by China

...18, valued at more than 483 million ringgit (U.S. $116 million), according to the Institute of Scrap Recycling Industries (ISRI), a trade association based in Washington, D.C. China’s imports dropped ...

21 May 2019

Southeast Asia struggles with trash rejected by China

News / Water

Indonesia dam burst raises alarm over unchecked forest clearing

...1998 in order to prevent flooding, located 9 miles (14.5 km) away. In late January, the dam overflowed, unleashing run-off from the mountains that swamped thousands of homes close to the city. Disaste...

11 Feb 2019

Indonesia dam burst raises alarm over unchecked forest clearing

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