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Press Releases / Greenpeace Southeast Asia

For the first time fossil fuel companies face national human rights complaint on climate change

Typhoon survivors and civil society groups in the Philippines today delivered a complaint to the Commission on Human Rights of the Philippines (CHR) calling for an investigation into the responsibilit...

28 Sep 2015

For the first time fossil fuel companies face national human rights complaint on climate change

News / Carbon & Climate

Why forests will make or break the climate fight

...floods, clean air and water, medicinal plants, and are a sacred and cultural place for many people. A perennial problem Despite their value, forests have been shrinking since the 1990s, due to popula...

3 May 2016

Why forests will make or break the climate fight

Machine learning AI helps in conservation

News / Carbon & Climate

Three ways artificial intelligence is helping to save the world

...flooding or rough weather) before they happen. As part of the EarthCube project, the U.S. Geological Survey is collaborating on a National Science Framework project to produce the Digital Crust, a fra...

3 May 2016

Three ways artificial intelligence is helping to save the world

News / Carbon & Climate

Kalimantan forests turning into plantations

...flood and drought. During the dry season, he said, many springs dried out. During the rainy season, he added, the loss of trees that used to absorb rainfall triggered floods. Teguh said restoring fore...

27 Nov 2014

Kalimantan forests turning into plantations

News / Carbon & Climate

Climate data gives mixed message on storm forecasts

...flood and cyclone, typhoon or hurricane. Frederic Laliberté, of the University of Toronto in Canada, and atmospheric physicist colleagues don’t exactly disagree: they just took a closer at the way in ...

9 Feb 2015

Climate data gives mixed message on storm forecasts

Opinion / Food & Agriculture

Inclusive business in agriculture: Leave no farmer behind

...floods and droughts are adding to the challenges faced by farmers. At one end of the value chain, these barriers pose significant challenges to individual farmers. At the other end, the question is br...

21 Jan 2016

Inclusive business in agriculture: Leave no farmer behind

Press Releases / Greenpeace Southeast Asia

Groups cite significance of Laudato Si to Philippine food and agriculture

...floods and droughts caused by human-induced climate change, in part driven by our unsustainable throw-away consumption patterns,” The Philippines—once rice-sufficient, now a rice-importin...

20 Aug 2015

Groups cite significance of Laudato Si to Philippine food and agriculture

Opinion / Cities

We need a smart urban revolution, and Asia is just the place to do it

...flooding. Then Nobel-winning chemist and director of Japan’s RIKEN research institute, Ryoji Nyori, told the symposium that of the 34 million people in the greater Tokyo area, 15 million are at acute ...

23 Jun 2015

We need a smart urban revolution, and Asia is just the place to do it

News / Policy & Finance

Sydney councils and businesses unite to tackle resilience

...flood or Victoria’s extreme heatwave in 2009. “We have never had general managers and other senior representatives from all Sydney councils come together before, which makes this event especially sign...

25 Jun 2015

Sydney councils and businesses unite to tackle resilience

News / Food & Agriculture

Climate-smart villages boost Nepali farmers' harvests

...floods, and landslides interspersed with long dry periods. Villagers also say the monsoon, vital for the crops, is tending to arrive later each year. In one village locals say that a decade ago they h...

6 Oct 2015

Climate-smart villages boost Nepali farmers' harvests

News / Carbon & Climate

Abrupt climate change can occur below 2°C warming rise

...floods – as the average temperatures rise. However, at some point, there must be a dramatic shift to a new set of norms. The researchers explore some of the telltale indicators of such abrupt change. ...

19 Oct 2015

Abrupt climate change can occur below 2°C warming rise

Opinion / Food & Agriculture

The world’s forests will collapse if we don’t learn to say ‘no’

...flooded, and because dams and their power lines require road networks that open up the forest to other human impacts. For instance, the 12 dams planned for Brazil’s Tapajós River are expected to incre...

10 Feb 2016

The world’s forests will collapse if we don’t learn to say ‘no’

News / Food & Agriculture

How will we feed 10 billion people?

...floods, typhoons and hurricanes, and their situation may get more dismal yet. The global population is projected to swell from the current 7.3 billion to 9.7 billion by 2050, according to latest proje...

16 Oct 2015

How will we feed 10 billion people?

News / Carbon & Climate

World needs early warning of climate-linked disasters

...floods 2,689 storms 470 droughts 395 episodes of extreme temperature. Mr Fabius said the creation of a worldwide early warning system for climate disasters could provide the most vulnerable countries...

17 Mar 2015

World needs early warning of climate-linked disasters

News / Carbon & Climate

Deaths mount as Pakistan heatwave is linked to climate

...floods and heatwaves becoming more intense and frequent in recent years,” he says. Climate experts say weather patterns throughout the Asian sub-continent are changing, with more intense periods of he...

7 Jul 2015

Deaths mount as Pakistan heatwave is linked to climate

News / Water

China’s bottled water industry to exploit Asia’s water tower

...flooded upstream to regions like the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau in search of cleaner sources of water. The region is home to China’s largest national parks and the source of major transboundary rivers. It ...

30 Oct 2015

China’s bottled water industry to exploit Asia’s water tower

Opinion / Water

Turning water risk into an opportunity for growth requires a revolution in planning and practice

...floods in Chile, concerns over water – too little or too much – have continued to hit the news in 2015. Floods and droughts are no longer isolated or extreme events, they are the new normal. Growing p...

16 Apr 2015

Turning water risk into an opportunity for growth requires a revolution in planning and practice

Opinion / Water

When it comes to water, control the things you can control

The American West is still in the grip of severe drought. Twelve US states are experiencing extreme drought, and California and parts of Nevada are experiencing exceptional drought – the worst in deca...

29 Sep 2015

When it comes to water, control the things you can control

News / Green Buildings

Pakistani architect pioneers fresh approach to disaster relief

...flood of 2010 submerged a fifth of Pakistan, left 2,000 people dead and hundreds of thousands of people homeless. Their shelters in Sindh Province, says Lari, have since withstood year after year of f...

2 Sep 2014

Pakistani architect pioneers fresh approach to disaster relief

Opinion / Carbon & Climate

Fifty years of climate dithering

...flood large coastal cities and destroy entire island states. The hottest years since record-keeping began in the nineteenth century were 2005, 2010, and 2014, and last year’s record will almost certai...

11 Nov 2015

Fifty years of climate dithering

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