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Climate summit pledges fall short, as big emitters skip 'honest appraisal'

...ing action on climate change Monday, India promised a boost in its use of renewable power and Finland said it aims to become the first industrialised nation to absorb more carbon than it emits. Pakist...

24 Sep 2019

Climate summit pledges fall short, as big emitters skip 'honest appraisal'

News / Energy

How Southeast Asia’s clean energy firms kept the lights on during the pandemic

...ings had never been higher, and the pipeline of projects in countries like Vietnam, the Philippines, Indonesia and Myanmar was steadily growing. Then, along with the explosion in Covid-19 cases and wi...

29 Jan 2021

How Southeast Asia’s clean energy firms kept the lights on during the pandemic

News / Food & Agriculture

Indonesia in joint bid with Malaysia to shield palm oil

...ith Indonesia in this issue and initiate council of palm oil producing countries to save palm oil industry and millions of palm farmers whose livelihood depends on palm oil industry in Malaysia and In...

4 Mar 2021

Indonesia in joint bid with Malaysia to shield palm oil

News / Carbon & Climate

Deforestation moves swiftly once ‘tipping point’ reached: scientists

...ication of the model to other transitions might help reveal other tipping points as well, said Nowosad, now an assistant professor in geoecology and geoinformation at Adam Mickiewicz University in Pol...

10 Jan 2020

Deforestation moves swiftly once ‘tipping point’ reached: scientists

News / Carbon & Climate

Is 2019 the year flying became uncool?

...is challenging aviation directly, or the wider school strike and Extinction Rebellion protests calling for zero emissions, which will make aviation, and its growth projections, increasingly visible,” ...

28 Aug 2019

Is 2019 the year flying became uncool?

Singapore: a greened vision of the future that is not just about liveability, but a more sustainable financial ecosystem, says Steven Stone. Image: Pexels

Opinion / Policy & Finance

Mean, lean and green: Finding a new path for sustainable finance

...imate liabilities and risks in bank and investor holdings. Aligning incentives to reflect the social cost of potential liabilities and the threat they may represent to economic and financial stability...

3 Feb 2019

Mean, lean and green: Finding a new path for sustainable finance

News / Carbon & Climate

It's official: India just experienced its hottest decade on record

...in 1901, according to the Indian Meteorological Department (IMD). Mrutyunjay Mohapatra, IMD's director general of meteorology, said it was difficult to pinpoint a definite cause for any single inciden...

8 Jan 2020

It's official: India just experienced its hottest decade on record

News / Energy

Meet the environment defenders fighting for clean energy in Southeast Asia

...iving scholarships to poor families. “ Electricity is not our main goal. It is building villages that are economically empowered. Tri Mumpuni Iskandar, director, People Centered Business and Economic...

7 Sep 2019

Meet the environment defenders fighting for clean energy in Southeast Asia

News / Carbon & Climate

Grub's up! Can insect pet food cut dogs' carbon pawprint?

...ibes in the Amazon rainforest, which is threatened by the rising demand for farmland to meet the world's booming appetite for meat. But Neish, who is developing a similar food for cats, admitted it co...

11 Jan 2019

Grub's up! Can insect pet food cut dogs' carbon pawprint?

Press Releases / Sime Darby Plantation Berhad

Sime Darby Plantation publishes its oil palm genome to support the company’s ambition for a deforestation-free industry

...ignificantly more oil palm yield on its existing land. The genome sequence that Sime Darby Plantation (SDP) is sharing is 80 per cent more detailed than any findings that has been publicly available ...

15 Jun 2020

Sime Darby Plantation publishes its oil palm genome to support the company’s ambition for a deforestation-free industry

Reuseable drink containers at a Starbucks outlet in Singapore, where BYO is still allowed. Starbucks has banned BYO in some countries, but not in others. Image: Eco-Business

News / Waste

Will coronavirus kill bring-your-own-container schemes?

...ich has operations in Hong Kong and San Fransisco and launched in Singapore last year, told Eco-Business that his firm's containers are sanitised in line with dine-in standards. According to him, they...

23 Mar 2020

Will coronavirus kill bring-your-own-container schemes?

Videos / Carbon & Climate

This robot is replanting endangered reefs with heat-resistant corals

...and University of Technology. “Using an iPad to program the mission, a signal is sent to deliver the larvae and it is gently pushed out by LarvalBot,” Dunbabin said. “ It’s like spreading fertiliser o...

14 Jan 2019

This robot is replanting endangered reefs with heat-resistant corals

Water Bodies, a VR experience by illustrator and visual artist Adeline Tan, takes you on a journey into the human stomach.

News / Lifestyle

Is experiential art better at sustainability storytelling than words?

...ialises in sustainability storytelling. The event, ArtxTechForGood, is a series of interactive exhibits that enable visitors to learn about issues such as plastic pollution, light pollution and the fu...

28 Feb 2019

Is experiential art better at sustainability storytelling than words?

News / Carbon & Climate

'Flight shaming' is in the air as UN summit faces climate crisis

...and a multi-day car trip was not viable. Speaking at the WTTC event, Christoph Wolff, who is head of mobility industries and system initiatives at the World Economic Forum, said it was difficult to ju...

30 Sep 2019

'Flight shaming' is in the air as UN summit faces climate crisis

News / Policy & Finance

This surprising fact about research funding could explain why it’s so hard to get traction against climate change

...ication strategies, incentives and so on,” Øverland wrote. “Finding out which ones are effective is a social science task.” Some funders have restrictions that limit their ability to invest in social ...

17 Feb 2020

This surprising fact about research funding could explain why it’s so hard to get traction against climate change

News / Carbon & Climate

Thunberg proved 'we are not alone', say young Indonesian tree planters

...ion. Emmanuela Shinta, organiser, Heartland Project Initially, the group helped provide medical help and information about the haze to their communities, but it has expanded using social media and no...

25 Jun 2019

Thunberg proved 'we are not alone', say young Indonesian tree planters

News / Carbon & Climate

Restoring soils could remove up to ‘5.5bn tonnes’ of greenhouse gases every year

...is, published in Nature Sustainability, takes a look at how protecting and replenishing soils – both in agricultural and natural landscapes – could instead help to combat warming. If finds that, if te...

17 Mar 2020

Restoring soils could remove up to ‘5.5bn tonnes’ of greenhouse gases every year

News / Policy & Finance

Do slum tours really benefit the poor?

...imes by one of his drinking buddies in one of the stilt houses came to the clinic and we were able to provide him with first aid,” Jurada says. For six months in 2017, she received medicine, and rent ...

20 Mar 2019

Do slum tours really benefit the poor?

Press Releases / Sipahh

Unistraw’s Sipahh brand goes compostable

...ing consumer concern over the environmental impact of single-use plastic straws, Sipahh feels it is time to make the change to a more sustainable alternative. Explaining the motivation for switiching...

29 May 2019

Unistraw’s Sipahh brand goes compostable

News / Cities

Trees alone can't win fight against soaring heat, cities warned

...ing that initiatives to cool cities include poorer communities, as well as smarter neighbourhoods, would also build more social cohesion, said Michael Berkowitz, a founding principal of Resilient Citi...

13 Feb 2020

Trees alone can't win fight against soaring heat, cities warned

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