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Activists protest CommBank's coal lending in Sydney

...16 and 2017 editions of the Global 100 Most Sustainable Corporations Index, which is compiled by Canadian research firm Corporate Knights. In response to demands from campaigners, CommBank released a ...

8 May 2017

Activists protest CommBank's coal lending in Sydney

News / Water

From waste to energy: Danish plant flexes the power of wastewater

...100,000 persons would be a good guess (for the investment to be feasible) but it simply depends on what facilities you have in the plant and the local context." ($1 = 0.9371 euros) This story was publ...

7 Apr 2017

From waste to energy: Danish plant flexes the power of wastewater

News / Policy & Finance

Wanted: Big ideas for a circular economy

...100 per cent reusable, recyclable and compostable by 2025. The Circular Economy Challenge is asking tertiary students and young professionals from ages 17 to 30 to come up with similar proposals for c...

5 Apr 2017

Wanted: Big ideas for a circular economy

News / Carbon & Climate

Extreme heat threat rises for megacities

...1.5°C – the ideal target identified at the 2015 climate summit in Paris − the researchers say the number of megacities, with populations over 10 million, in the danger zone will double from today’s fi...

4 Apr 2017

Extreme heat threat rises for megacities

Press Releases / CompaniesVsClimateChange

Climate change solutions must be business driven

...17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), and setting climate targets to address the various challenges ahead. Innovative businesses are eliminating waste in the supply chain, pushing through energy e...

14 Feb 2017

Climate change solutions must be business driven

News / Cities

Four things countries are doing right now to implement the New Urban Agenda

...1. Promoting the New Urban Agenda locally The New Urban Agenda was approved in October at a 20-year summit known as Habitat III, an event that brought some 30,000 global urbanists to Quito, Ecuador. B...

1 Jun 2017

Four things countries are doing right now to implement the New Urban Agenda

Press Releases / Aid and International Development Forum

Aid & Development Africa Summit to discuss progress in combating HIV

...15, the global HIV epidemic claimed fewer lives than at any point in almost two decades. Between 2000 and 2015, the number of HIV infections declined by 35 per cent. Furthermore, the number of AIDS-re...

3 Dec 2016

Aid & Development Africa Summit to discuss progress in combating HIV

Opinion / Cities

Five keys to a healthy and liveable city

...15, the city found 20 percent more people spent time in public spaces compared to 2010. And 80 per cent of residents felt satisfied with the public realm. The yearly collection of data has allowed Cop...

30 Oct 2017

Five keys to a healthy and liveable city

News / Policy & Finance

Can crowd funding help scale up solar power for Africa's poor?

...14) to solar firms which aim to help the world's poorest. Using crowd funding, it has raised more than 750,000 euros ($814,200) for 10 renewable energy projects since its launch last year, said Matthe...

2 May 2017

Can crowd funding help scale up solar power for Africa's poor?

Press Releases / Conergy Asia/ blueleaf energy

Blue Solar & Conergy complete new solar project in Thailand

...1 MW in 2015 to 6,000 MW by 2036. Conergy has built more than 132 MWp of solar electricity capacity across Thailand in key locations such as Ayutthaya, Lop Buri, Suphanburi and Kanchanaburi, and has ...

10 Feb 2017

Blue Solar & Conergy complete new solar project in Thailand

Opinion / Lifestyle

'Sustainable tourism' is not working – here's how we can change that

...16, more than 1.2 billion people travelled as tourists internationally, and another 6 billion people travelled domestically. According to the UN World Tourism Organisation, sustainable tourism is: "… ...

28 Apr 2017

'Sustainable tourism' is not working – here's how we can change that

Press Releases / Olam International

Olam reports on 2015 sustainability progress

...177.17 million in short, medium and long-term finance to support smallholders ·254,146 smallholders trained in Good Agricultural Practices ·1,816 model farms, demo plots and farmer fie...

29 Jun 2016

Olam reports on 2015 sustainability progress

News / Policy & Finance

Urgency needed over UN goals to slash global poverty, inequality - think tank

...11-20 to follow up on the goals. ODI researcher Liz Stuart said the first 1,000 days for the goals that came into effect on January 1 this year, replacing the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), were...

11 Jul 2016

Urgency needed over UN goals to slash global poverty, inequality - think tank

Press Releases / Expotrade

Smart Skyscrapers Summit launches in the Southern Hemisphere

...108, set to overtake the Eureka Tower as Australia’s tallest residential skyscraper by 2019, will be profiled as the Southern Hemisphere’s only building with 100 stories. Founding Director...

26 Sep 2016

Smart Skyscrapers Summit launches in the Southern Hemisphere

News / Carbon & Climate

64 dead in Indonesia landslides as La Nina brings heavy rains

...19th century, Java’s forests spanned 10 million hectares, an area the size of South Korea. By 1989 they covered only 1 million hectares, and in 2005 they spanned 400,000 hectares. Deforestation create...

28 Jun 2016

64 dead in Indonesia landslides as La Nina brings heavy rains

Opinion / Waste

Getting rid of plastic bags: a windfall for supermarkets but it won't do much for the environment

...10 years. South Australia was the first to ban plastic bags from supermarkets in 2009, followed by the ACT in 2010, Northern Territory in 2011 and Tasmania in 2012. In 2016 the Queensland Government r...

19 Jul 2017

Getting rid of plastic bags: a windfall for supermarkets but it won't do much for the environment

Press Releases / EarthCheck

City of Sydney confirms $10,000 grants for EarthCheck Certified

...10. For water, the average annual reduction rate was 0.4 per cent, while average waste production was reduced by 10.6 per cent each year, equating to a total average saving of $1,097,323 across all A...

21 Feb 2017

City of Sydney confirms $10,000 grants for EarthCheck Certified

Press Releases / GlacialTech Inc

GlacialPower adds new 300mA LED driver to GP-HS08N series

...1C1 is rated for 300mA with a current tolerance of 7 per cent. Robust protections and reliability The GP-HS08N-21C1 comes in an IP67-rated dust and waterproof enclosure suitable for outdoor as well ...

3 Nov 2016

GlacialPower adds new 300mA LED driver to GP-HS08N series

Opinion / Policy & Finance

Will China and India lead on global climate action and environmental protection?

...1, 2017, marked a decisive shift in global leadership on climate change following President Donald Trump’s decision to withdraw from the Paris Agreement, which all but two countries signed in 2015. Th...

14 Jul 2017

Will China and India lead on global climate action and environmental protection?

Press Releases / Green Initiatives

Green initiatives expands reach to engage local Chinese community

...16 Forum Dates The Joy of Sharing “享”乐多多，Thursday, August 11 Do You Know Where Your Food Comes From? 你的食物，从何而来？Thursday, September 1 Eco is the New Lux 生态无价，Tuesday, September 27 Sm...

8 Aug 2016

Green initiatives expands reach to engage local Chinese community

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