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Opinion / Carbon & Climate

Want to really hold businesses to account? Look at their supply chains

...ional level firms are calculating their carbon footprint and identifying opportunities for improvements, providing their supply chain with targets and incentives. “ Supply chains contribute significa...

24 Jan 2020

Want to really hold businesses to account? Look at their supply chains

Videos / Corporate Responsibility

What is it like being a woman working in palm oil?

...ity in the workplace, and in a male-dominated industry such as palm oil, being able to work without fear of discrimination or harassment is ever more critical. "This is not only for job activities, b...

10 Apr 2019

What is it like being a woman working in palm oil?

News / Energy

Activists stop coal operations in protest of planned US$1 billion Australian mine

...il, stopping operations anew. Identified only as "Freya", the activist held a banner that said “Adani, this is only the beginning”, before police whisked her away. “ I am risking arrest and fines be...

5 Mar 2019

Activists stop coal operations in protest of planned US$1 billion Australian mine

Opinion / Policy & Finance

Overcoming the ideology of climate inaction

...ints that neoliberal thinking has placed on the public imagination. “ It is critical for the public to understand the role that neoliberalism has played in derailing policies to curtail emissions, ph...

26 Feb 2019

Overcoming the ideology of climate inaction

News / Transport

Car companies aren’t even trying to sell electric cars

...in the business of incentivising the thing that is the most healthy for its constituents,” Sifuentes said. “Clearly this is one of those cases.” This story was published with permission from Nexus Me...

23 Jan 2019

Car companies aren’t even trying to sell electric cars

Sperm Whale(Physeter macrocephalus) playing with plastic bag, Vulnerable (IUCN), Pico Island, Azores, Portugal, Atlantic Ocean.

Opinion / Carbon & Climate

Valuable–but vulnerable: why sustainability must be at the heart of the marine economy

...iples to guide finance and investment in ocean-based industries to ensure future investments in the Blue Economy will support its sustainability. WWF is working with its partners to realise our visi...

23 Oct 2019

Valuable–but vulnerable: why sustainability must be at the heart of the marine economy

A beach covered in oily clumps in Bintan, Indonesia.

News / Transport

Southeast Asia is the world's bilge dumping hotspot—what can be done to stop ships discharging waste oil?

...itical and regulatory pressure. Whether Indonesia likes it or not, it's [bilge dumping] happening in their territory. Indonesia is active at tackling illegal fishing. Why don't they police bilge dumpi...

11 Mar 2020

Southeast Asia is the world's bilge dumping hotspot—what can be done to stop ships discharging waste oil?

Wildflowers growing on the lawn outside the National Museum of Singapore, which is currently closed to the public.

News / Cities

In pictures: Nature is thriving in locked-down Singapore—is it time to rethink the city in a garden?

...ity than seniors living in greyer areas. Greener areas can even re-connect communities and rekindle a sense of neighbourliness, a trait that is often said to be missing in modern Singapore. The site ...

20 May 2020

In pictures: Nature is thriving in locked-down Singapore—is it time to rethink the city in a garden?

News / Carbon & Climate

Wildfire-hit countries in need of new strategies to tame burning threat

...ions. After loss-hit insurers ended policies in some areas scorched by wildfires in 2018, California last year mandated that insurers maintain existing policies in fire-hit and adjoining areas for at ...

17 Jan 2020

Wildfire-hit countries in need of new strategies to tame burning threat

Opinion / Carbon & Climate

How can comedy help us deal with the climate crisis?

...ilisation of our climate. And yet, as environmental scientists and communication specialists point out, such narratives are problematic because they tend to inspire inertia and anxiety rather than act...

19 Dec 2019

How can comedy help us deal with the climate crisis?

News / Carbon & Climate

Is this the best way yet to tell the global warming story?

...Image: #ShowYourStripes And here's India's 117-year warming history. How India has warmed from 1901 to 2018. Image: #ShowYourStripes And Singapore's history of warming. How Singapore has warmed fr...

22 Jun 2019

Is this the best way yet to tell the global warming story?

News / Food & Agriculture

Bangladesh’s polluting fish farms

...is now loaded with fertilisers, pesticides and antibiotics. Emissions, import bills, and pollution Production and sale of non-organic fertilisers are heavily subsidised in Bangladesh. Traditionally, a...

26 Jul 2019

Bangladesh’s polluting fish farms

Opinion / Policy & Finance

Climate conferences are male, pale and stale—it’s time to bring in women

...itious and gender-inclusive climate action”. That is, recognising the need to integrate gender considerations into national and international climate action. The first step to achieving this aim would...

17 Dec 2019

Climate conferences are male, pale and stale—it’s time to bring in women

A drone image from the Stop Adani campaign at Coffs Harbour, New South Wales, Australia.

News / Energy

Approved Adani mine could open up new coal district in Australia

...in scope to 27.5 million tonnes a year with initial outlay of $2 billion. After failing to find finance with major Australian and Chinese banks, it will reportedly be self-financed by Indian billionai...

17 Jun 2019

Approved Adani mine could open up new coal district in Australia

Opinion / Policy & Finance

High time for a Green New Deal for Singapore

...ines of suffering from its impact. Air-conditioning and plastic First, the low-hanging fruit: Air-conditioning and plastic. Did you recently suffer freezing temperatures at the office in Singapore? I...

28 Aug 2019

High time for a Green New Deal for Singapore

Opinion / Carbon & Climate

The science is clear: We have to start creating our low-carbon future today

...ible picture of the consequences and feasible solutions. It is not my intention in this article to offer a detailed commentary on the IPCC’s findings. I commend the many scientists with expertise in c...

15 Oct 2018

The science is clear: We have to start creating our low-carbon future today

News / Cities

Should the Philippines copy Indonesia and relocate its sinking capital?

...ion of 13 million live in coastal communities, placing them on the frontlines of disaster. Cities with land subsidence worsened by pre-exisitng earthquake fault lines like Quezon City, Marikina, Pasig...

16 Oct 2019

Should the Philippines copy Indonesia and relocate its sinking capital?

Opinion / Policy & Finance

Why covering the environment is one of the most dangerous beats in journalism

...ial business and economic interests, political battles, criminal activities, anti-government insurgents or corruption. Other factors include ambiguous distinctions between “journalist” and “activist” ...

16 Nov 2018

Why covering the environment is one of the most dangerous beats in journalism

News / Carbon & Climate

Bali mangrove bay is now a conservation zone

...ion zone. The designation allows religious and cultural activities, and sustainable and traditional fisheries, but effectively bans reclamation projects. “The decree is the state’s affirmative policy ...

14 Oct 2019

Bali mangrove bay is now a conservation zone

News / Policy & Finance

Merry or misery? Shoppers urged to avoid Christmas gifts linked to slavery

...ing Disney and Fisher-Price dolls worked illegal overtime and received no holiday or sick pay, according to an investigation by rights groups Solidar Suisse and China Labor Watch. Neither Disney nor M...

20 Dec 2018

Merry or misery? Shoppers urged to avoid Christmas gifts linked to slavery

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