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Opinion / Carbon & Climate

Australia has two decades to avoid the most damaging impacts of climate change

...1.5℃, an additional 550 billion tonnes of carbon dioxide (or its equivalent) can be emitted globally from the beginning of 2018. Increasing the risk to a 50 per cent chance at limiting global warming ...

10 Oct 2018

Australia has two decades to avoid the most damaging impacts of climate change

News / Policy & Finance

Red Cross plans to fight disasters with fast funding

...16, former U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon called on states to dedicate at least 1 percent of international development assistance by 2020 to reducing the risks of disasters and preparing for them....

9 May 2018

Red Cross plans to fight disasters with fast funding

News / Carbon & Climate

"We are ready": Fijian villagers prepare for climate disasters

...10 percent of its gross domestic product to guard against natural disasters, more than quadruple the level of five years ago. It is set to spend more than 350 million Fiji dollars ($166 million) this ...

22 Dec 2017

"We are ready": Fijian villagers prepare for climate disasters

News / Carbon & Climate

Deforestation leads to big hikes in local temperature, says new study

...1 degree Celsius to local maximum temperatures. One degree might not seem like much, but even minute shifts in temperature can have drastic impacts on climate. Take, for instance, the Paris Agreement....

8 May 2018

Deforestation leads to big hikes in local temperature, says new study

News / Carbon & Climate

Scientists differ on climate’s CO₂ sensitivity

...1.5°C and 2°C above the average levels for most of human history? These were set in 2015 when 195 nations agreed in Paris to contain global warming to “well below” 2°C by 2100 and spoke openly of hold...

12 Jul 2018

Scientists differ on climate’s CO₂ sensitivity

News / Food & Agriculture

Indonesia forest-clearing ban is made permanent, amid protests

...11. A huge number of permits were granted that year and in subsequent years under the Yudhoyono administration, he said. The size of permits issued under Yudhoyono, from 2011 to 2014, while the morato...

19 Aug 2019

Indonesia forest-clearing ban is made permanent, amid protests

News / Food & Agriculture

Peat-mapping technology to be adopted in Indonesia

...11. In a 2013 report, the Dutch consultancy Deltares concluded that neither of these maps was suitable for spatial planning or policymaking, as both consistently underestimated the extent of the peatl...

30 Jan 2018

Peat-mapping technology to be adopted in Indonesia

News / Food & Agriculture

Are small farmers ready as Indonesia looks to impose its palm oil sustainability standard on all?

...1,850 square kilometers (714 square miles) of smallholder plantations this year. “If we don’t do that now, our farmers will lose their potential of high productivity in the next 10 years,” Musdhalifah...

16 Apr 2018

Are small farmers ready as Indonesia looks to impose its palm oil sustainability standard on all?

News / Cities

World’s great cities hold key to fossil fuel cuts

...13,000 cities from data from 187 of the world’s nations. Altogether 195 nations in 2015 in Paris agreed to work together to contain global warming, driven by fossil fuel use and consequential increase...

7 Jun 2018

World’s great cities hold key to fossil fuel cuts

News / Carbon & Climate

Hothouse Earth could soon be unavoidable

...17°C per decade. Even at the ambitious target temperature rise of no more than 2°C by the end of the century—a target endorsed by 195 nations in Paris in 2015—humans might already have triggered a cas...

8 Aug 2018

Hothouse Earth could soon be unavoidable

Opinion / Green Buildings

Three lessons for the building sector from the Global Climate Action Summit

...100 per cent renewable energy, either generated on-site or procured from off-site. In addition, new buildings will be required to be 40 to 50 per cent more efficient than 2018 levels, and be incentivi...

2 Oct 2018

Three lessons for the building sector from the Global Climate Action Summit

News / Green Buildings

Green bonds and green buildings—the perfect match?

...1.2 million (US$877,282) annually from reduced water and energy consumption from the retrocommissioning. Its green bond raised funds to refinance the loan taken out in 2012 to implement water and ene...

2 Oct 2018

Green bonds and green buildings—the perfect match?

News / Waste

Lego follows the green brick road to combat plastic waste

...1-2 per cent of the total amount of plastic pieces it produces, adding that it has joined a World Wildlife Fund (WWF) programme to ensure the raw material is sustainable. “ Children and parents will ...

5 Mar 2018

Lego follows the green brick road to combat plastic waste

News / Food & Agriculture

Fires and haze are back in Indonesia as peat protection bid falls short

...16 and 2017, conditions this year look ripe for the fires to grow out of control. “ The work that the BRG has done on the ground hasn’t had a significant impact over the short term. The fact is that ...

30 Aug 2018

Fires and haze are back in Indonesia as peat protection bid falls short

News / Carbon & Climate

Rain and heat extremes set to grow

...100. If the 195 nations that signed a climate accord in Paris in 2015 actually honour their collective vow to contain planetary average warming to about 1.5°C above historic averages, there will still...

2 Mar 2018

Rain and heat extremes set to grow

Women and children displaced by floods in Pakistan queue for water.

Opinion / Carbon & Climate

The coming wave of climate displacement

...1951 have international standards for refugee protection received so much attention. That year, with more than 80 million people displaced after World War II, UN member countries ratified a comprehens...

28 May 2018

The coming wave of climate displacement

News / Carbon & Climate

Overheard in sustainability: 10 funny moments in 2018

...1. Mahathir, the eel farmer It's been a fine year for Malaysia on the 2. waste management front. Image: Twitter Malaysia’s wily prime minister Mahathir Mohamad probably had his tongue in his cheek w...

2 Jan 2019

Overheard in sustainability: 10 funny moments in 2018

Children plant mangrove saplings in the Philippines

Opinion / Carbon & Climate

Climate change and the Philippine seas: Unlocking blue carbon solutions for a cooler planet

...1 billion in residential and industrial property damages. If mangrove forest cover can be reverted back to their 1950s level, added benefits will be felt by 267,000 people, 61,000 of whom are living i...

3 Apr 2018

Climate change and the Philippine seas: Unlocking blue carbon solutions for a cooler planet

News / Policy & Finance

7 climate change myths that big oil continues to perpetuate

...16, 0.1 per cent in 2015, 0.1 per cent in 2014, and so on. “ Such myths obscure the irreconcilability between burning fossil fuels and environmental protection—yet they continue to be perpetuated to ...

23 Feb 2018

7 climate change myths that big oil continues to perpetuate

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