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Will climate change spark an Asian migrant crisis?

...floods, storms, and droughts, while geophysical disasters such as earthquakes were responsible for the rest. Asia was the most vulnerable region, accounting for 87 per cent of all people displaced. Ch...

2 Oct 2015

Will climate change spark an Asian migrant crisis?

News / Manufacturing

Can cement clean up its act?

...flood the market with cheap cement, CCS becomes a less attractive option. “It will increase our costs by 50 per cent and our competitors outside of Norway will come into the market with cheap cement,”...

17 Jun 2016

Can cement clean up its act?

News / Energy

Energising Singapore's smart nation vision

...flooding the market, choosing ones that are of good quality and compatible with the other devices in the network can be a challenge, says Kuttan. DNV GL’s decades of expertise in independently evaluat...

17 Dec 2015

Energising Singapore's smart nation vision

News / Food & Agriculture

APP takes big move to restore forests ahead of profits

...flooding disasters,” he added. APP's Greenbury told Eco-Business that retiring the plantations will entail allowing natural forest vegetation to grow back in the plantations, and in some areas, cleari...

14 Aug 2015

APP takes big move to restore forests ahead of profits

Opinion / Carbon & Climate

Climate action after Paris

...floods that accompany incessant rains. To this end, the World Bank unveiled a new climate action plan in Paris to help Sub-Saharan Africa in the years ahead. Second, we need a clean-energy transformat...

18 Dec 2015

Climate action after Paris

News / Energy

Energy in 2016: five highlights from World Bank commodities report

...flooding the market — a larger-than-expected increase in exports could suppress prices in 2016, the report warns. It also says that oil production could rise in Libya, following a UN-brokered agreemen...

2 Feb 2016

Energy in 2016: five highlights from World Bank commodities report

News / Manufacturing

Indian suppliers to MNCs like L’Oreal, Dell may lose out if they fail to address climate concerns

...floods, extreme rainfall, droughts, as an issue to be addressed. CDP recommends that given the current lack of policy guidance from the government, suppliers should be more proactive around climate ri...

30 Jan 2015

Indian suppliers to MNCs like L’Oreal, Dell may lose out if they fail to address climate concerns

News / Policy & Finance

National emissions plans too weak to limit climate change - study

...floods, droughts and rising sea levels. About 100 developing nations favour a tougher ceiling of 1.5 degrees. Tony de Brum, Foreign Minister of the Marshall Islands, said that weak national plans woul...

3 Sep 2015

National emissions plans too weak to limit climate change - study

Opinion / Corporate Responsibility

Putting the world’s challenges at the heart of business

...floods in the U.K. The cost of climate change is already high and increasing. The U.N. secretary-general has calculated that, since 2000, economic losses from natural disasters total around US$2.5 tr...

20 May 2015

Putting the world’s challenges at the heart of business

News / Food & Agriculture

Failure to tackle food demand could make 1.5C limit unachievable

...flooded paddy fields for rice. Furthermore, the demand for food has led to global expansion of farmland at a rate of about 10m hectares per year during the last decade. Some of this cleared land is – ...

28 Mar 2016

Failure to tackle food demand could make 1.5C limit unachievable

News / Carbon & Climate

Holes dug to cope with threat of flooding

...flooding when rainy season comes. The holes called bio pore holes would be dug in various areas which prone to flooding in that district. The district has few water absorbing areas, head of the board ...

1 Oct 2014

Holes dug to cope with threat of flooding

News / Food & Agriculture

Weather resistant rice strain being piloted in Ubon

The National Center for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology (BIOTEC) has piloted a project to deploy the newly developed flood- and pest- resistant rice strain in Ubon Ratchathani Province, while pr...

13 Nov 2014

Weather resistant rice strain being piloted in Ubon

News / Water

Vietnam allocates $450 million to clean Nhieu Loc – Thi Nghe canal

...flooding and pollution, benefiting 1.2 million people in many districts. Over 7,000 households had to leave to give way to the project. However, a waste water treatment plant was not built in the firs...

5 Mar 2015

Vietnam allocates $450 million to clean Nhieu Loc – Thi Nghe canal

News / Carbon & Climate

Ocean heat drives surge to global warming record

...floods made 2014 a year to forget as fast as possible. The UK winter was the wettest on record, with 177 per cent of the long-term average precipitation. In May, devastating floods in south-east Europ...

4 Dec 2014

Ocean heat drives surge to global warming record

Videos / Carbon & Climate

Unsung heroines who take action on climate change

...flooding or droughts in India's farming communities to providing access to affordable low-carbon technologies in Thailand and rural Indonesia. For example, Bhungroo, an innovative irrigation system, ...

8 Apr 2015

Unsung heroines who take action on climate change

News / Policy & Finance

Leaked docs reveal TTIP unfriendly to environment, consumers, democracy

...flood of American products not held to the same standards. Likewise, with other foreign companies, formerly encouraged to adopt stronger environmental policies or consumer protections to remain viable...

12 May 2016

Leaked docs reveal TTIP unfriendly to environment, consumers, democracy

News / Food & Agriculture

Development or destruction? An inside look at APP's mega paper mill

...flooding and diseases such as root rot and canker ravage yields. The company is trialling species that thrive on peat - known as paludiculture. But these species are some way off from being commercial...

14 Nov 2017

Development or destruction? An inside look at APP's mega paper mill

Videos / Energy

Fukushima energy drink video raises nuclear concern

A new energy drink made in Fukushima which promises to be 30 per cent stronger than any other energy drink has taken Japan by storm and has been "flooding the market" in the past year, according to a ...

26 Mar 2015

Fukushima energy drink video raises nuclear concern

Videos / Cities

Medellin wins the Lee Kuan Yew World City Prize

...flood protection initiatives. The Lee Kuan Yew World City Prize 2016, which includes a gold medallion, award certificate, and S$300,000 sponsored by Keppel Corporation, will be presented to Medellin a...

18 Mar 2016

Medellin wins the Lee Kuan Yew World City Prize

News / Carbon & Climate

Spread of drylands will hit poorer nations hardest

...flooding. An illustration of factors that will combine to create more drylands. Image: Haipeng Yu Professor Huang and his colleagues took two climate simulations and projected them backwards in time...

2 Nov 2015

Spread of drylands will hit poorer nations hardest

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