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News / Carbon & Climate

El Niño blows hot and cold

El Niño, the mysterious meteorological phenomenon that periodically upsets global weather patterns, bringing catastrophic flooding to the arid lands of North and South America, and forest fires to Sou...

27 May 2014

El Niño blows hot and cold

News / Water

Two reservoirs, big tunnel planned to ease flooding

...flooding the city in the coming years. Leaders present at the meeting included Governor Joko “Jokowi” Widodo, West Java Governor Ahmad Heryawan, Bogor Mayor Diani Budiarto, Bogor Regent Rahmat Yasin, ...

22 Jan 2014

Two reservoirs, big tunnel planned to ease flooding

News / Water

Nation's water security threat has reached alarming proportions

...floods, while in the Cuu Long Delta, water reservoirs have been recognised as an effective solution for preventing drought. What are the long-term consequences of water deficiency? Scientists have war...

28 Apr 2015

Nation's water security threat has reached alarming proportions

News / Corporate Responsibility

Prototype for cooling techniques among S'pore-Swiss collaborations

...flooded, and ways to prevent that. He also saw how structures can be made resilient in the face of natural disasters, like tsunamis. Some National University of Singapore students on an exchange progr...

8 May 2014

Prototype for cooling techniques among S'pore-Swiss collaborations

News / Policy & Finance

56 countries seek carbon capture incentives in next climate deal

...floods, heatwaves, ocean acidification and rising seas. “ Commercial development of carbon capture and storage...does not have enough political support, and should have at least as much as other low ...

26 Nov 2014

56 countries seek carbon capture incentives in next climate deal

News / Energy

Solar for the people @Darling Harbour and how they did it

...flood of interest in the Hepburn community windfarm Holmes a Court helped establish. So how is the Sydney Renewable project and others like it starting to change the game? Because you have to suspect ...

19 Jun 2015

Solar for the people @Darling Harbour and how they did it

News / Water

Heineken raises the bar on water sustainability in Asia Pacific

...flooding, says van Dort, adding that the effectiveness of these relatively new measures will be monitored over time. And at Bintang's Sampang Agung site, 10,000 bamboo seeds were donated to local comm...

12 Jan 2015

Heineken raises the bar on water sustainability in Asia Pacific

News / Energy

Mini-hydroplant gets nod

...flood control; reduction of sedimentation and siltation at Wawa, Marikina River, Laguna de Bay, Pasig River; and Manila Bay and funding from the project income to be used in support of reforestation. ...

7 May 2014

Mini-hydroplant gets nod

Opinion / Carbon & Climate

In a global warming world: protect and rebuild or retreat?

...flood protection systems” (i.e., “a system of strategically placed floodwalls, levees and other features [that] would provide a strong line of defense against flooding”). Bill de Blasio, New York’s ne...

31 Jan 2014

In a global warming world: protect and rebuild or retreat?

Opinion / Carbon & Climate

Safer climate disasters

...floods, storms, earthquakes, heat waves, cold snaps, droughts, and landslides that mankind has come to expect much more potent. It is this vital point that the IPCC’s latest updates address in calling...

16 Jun 2014

Safer climate disasters

News / Carbon & Climate

Leaked UN climate change report paints grim picture of Philippines, rest of Asia

Millions of people in vulnerable areas, such as some parts of Asia, will have to deal with a worrying scenario of conflicts, food crises, flooding, droughts and huge economic losses caused by climate ...

21 Mar 2014

Leaked UN climate change report paints grim picture of Philippines, rest of Asia

News / Carbon & Climate

Wetland emissions mean more methane

...flooded and drained areas. The amount of atmospheric methane had remained relatively stable for about a decade, but concentrations began to rise again in 2007. Scientists assumed that wetland methane ...

2 May 2014

Wetland emissions mean more methane

News / Policy & Finance

UN climate change summit: China pledges emissions cuts

...flood risks and changes to crop yields. Mr Zhang told the summit China would aim to cap emissions or have them peak "as early as possible". "As a responsible major country, a major developing country,...

24 Sep 2014

UN climate change summit: China pledges emissions cuts

Opinion / Carbon & Climate

New momentum on climate must generate action in Asia and the Pacific

...floods across Pakistan caused more than 300 deaths and impacted more than 1.8 million people. Typhoon Haiyan caused the death of more than 8000 people in the central Philippines last year, with an est...

1 Oct 2014

New momentum on climate must generate action in Asia and the Pacific

News / Policy & Finance

Germany sets example, pledges $1 billion to UN climate fund

...floods, droughts, heatwaves and rising sea levels. It is regarded as a key part of the puzzle in securing a new global deal to tackle climate change due to be agreed in Paris in late 2015. Climate gam...

17 Jul 2014

Germany sets example, pledges $1 billion to UN climate fund

News / Energy

Power plants add to flood woes

...floods when they discharge water in the rainy seasons when lowland areas are flooded with water from high rainfalls. This affects crops and claims lives, as well as floods the properties of local resi...

25 Dec 2013

Power plants add to flood woes

News / Green Buildings

Capturing the 'spiritual essence' of places

...flood plains, among other factors," he explains. By taking cues from this indigenous design culture, "we were able to avoid overbuilding or compensating for planning deficiencies through costly and un...

21 Aug 2015

Capturing the 'spiritual essence' of places

News / Food & Agriculture

Pakistan farmers shift from wheat to cope with floods

As millions of farmers in Pakistan and neighbouring India bear the brunt of unseasonal, heavy rains that have destroyed their crops, some have devised their own mitigation plans to cope with the crisi...

7 Apr 2015

Pakistan farmers shift from wheat to cope with floods

News / Carbon & Climate

Karachi should prepare for more heatwaves

...floods and so on in the past, some of them really bad. But, “What climate change does is that it adds to these threats by increasing their likelihood, or frequency or ferocity.” Heatwave took authorit...

30 Jun 2015

Karachi should prepare for more heatwaves

News / Carbon & Climate

Agroforestry systems can repair degraded watersheds

...floods, droughts, reductions in water quality and increases in soil erosion and downstream sedimentation of irrigation networks. "The degraded watershed has been largely deforested and replaced with e...

1 Apr 2014

Agroforestry systems can repair degraded watersheds