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Opinion / Green Buildings

Reflections on a shiny facade

...10-20 per cent on the eastern and western façades, where there is a greater risk of glare and direct solar gains. Eliminate glazing below desk level as inclusion in the bottom 1-1.5 metres of the faça...

21 Aug 2017

Reflections on a shiny facade

Opinion / Lifestyle

How window coverings can help homes become more energy efficient

...1. The R-value of window treatments When it comes to insulation, R-value is key. This measurement defines a window treatment's ability to resist heat traveling through it. Therefore, window coverings ...

7 Apr 2017

How window coverings can help homes become more energy efficient

News / Corporate Responsibility

British anti-slavery data bank gets sluggish response from business

...16 Global Slavery Index, which estimated there were 11,700 victims living in Britain. "This is the great human rights issue of our time, and as prime minister I am determined that we will make it a na...

3 Aug 2016

British anti-slavery data bank gets sluggish response from business

Research / Global Canopy Programme

Lessons from REDD+ for achieving water, energy and food security in Indonesia

...1) REDD+ objectives have been integrated into national development planning and (2) legal, regulatory and institutional reforms under the development of REDD+ have facilitated the improved governance ...

25 Jul 2016

Lessons from REDD+ for achieving water, energy and food security in Indonesia

Press Releases / Reed Exhibitions Middle East

MENA catalyses $ 1 trillion in global GDP growth from renewable energy

...16 hosted more than 30,000 attendees from 150 countries, 600 exhibiting companies from 32 countries, including 16 country pavilions. The WFES Conferences program hosted 1,200 delegates and 125 speaker...

16 Jun 2016

MENA catalyses $ 1 trillion in global GDP growth from renewable energy

News / Policy & Finance

Tens of millions face poverty unless cities plan for disasters: World Bank

...1 trillion a year worldwide, according to the Bank. Failure to make these investments could cost cities $314 billion a year from $250 billion per year today, the Bank said. To help pay the bill, addit...

14 Oct 2016

Tens of millions face poverty unless cities plan for disasters: World Bank

Press Releases / Waggener Edstrom

WWF and Toyota form global partnership focusing on sustainability

...1, 2016. As part of the partnership, Toyota will support the Living Asian Forest Project, a new series of existing and planned WWF activities to conserve tropical forests and wildlife in Southeast As...

20 Jul 2016

WWF and Toyota form global partnership focusing on sustainability

Press Releases / IFAD

New IFAD financing facility helps refugees move into rural areas

...1 (917) 215-1470 Email: j.levitan@ifad.org In Rome Susan Beccio Communications Division Tel: +39 06 5459 2479 Mobile: +39 3349533030 Email: s.beccio@ifad.org Press release No.: IFAD/56/2016 IFA...

21 Sep 2016

New IFAD financing facility helps refugees move into rural areas

News / Waste

Plastic bag ban in Singapore sparks consumer backlash

...13 and introducing a range of reusable bags that it charges customers between $0.30 and $1.20. In September last year, a group of local supermarket chains including Sheng Siong Group and Dairy Farm Gr...

1 Apr 2017

Plastic bag ban in Singapore sparks consumer backlash

News / Energy

Financial blow for Adani as Westpac rules out funding Carmichael mine

...15 and 2016. For its reluctance to rule out funding the controversial mine, which activists and industry observers say will destroy wildlife habitats including the Great Barrier Reef, emit 4.7 billio...

28 Apr 2017

Financial blow for Adani as Westpac rules out funding Carmichael mine

News / Carbon & Climate

The US$1 trillion cost of cleaning up China’s cities

...13th Five-Year Plan (2016-2020), China will need to invest 1.65 trillion yuan to support the construction of greener buildings and large-scale retrofits of existing houses and commercial buildings, th...

14 Jun 2016

The US$1 trillion cost of cleaning up China’s cities

Press Releases / Impact Investment Exchange (Asia) Pte Ltd

ICCO Investments awarded the first-ever IIX Trailblazer Award

...12 million of investment, and has impacted more than 10 million people across Asia. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ ...

22 Dec 2016

ICCO Investments awarded the first-ever IIX Trailblazer Award

Press Releases / Geothermal Resources Council (GRC)

GRC 2017 annual meeting announced - Call for papers issued

...1-4, 2017, in Salt Lake City, Utah, USA at the Salt Palace Convention Center. Themed “Geothermal Energy - Power to do More” the 41st GRC Annual Meeting will reflect the world-wide availabi...

24 Jan 2017

GRC 2017 annual meeting announced - Call for papers issued

Press Releases / MANGO-OMC

Energy Revolution Africa 2017 explores the future of renewable energy

...17. This co-located event to African Utility Week will be hosted for the first time in Africa in Cape Town from 16 to 18 May 2017. Located at the Cape Town International Convention Centre, Energy Rev...

24 Jan 2017

Energy Revolution Africa 2017 explores the future of renewable energy

News / Energy

Green certificates to bolster market for renewables

...16, 17 per cent of wind power generation was wasted, with curtailment levels reaching 43 per cent and 38 per cent in Gansu and Xinjiang provinces, respectively. Wastage of wind and solar power has rem...

23 May 2017

Green certificates to bolster market for renewables

News / Transport

Can cities get the global car industry to ‘clean up its act’?

...16, consumers purchased approximately 160,000 such cars out of a total 17.55 million sold. While a small fraction of national car sales, the figure represented a 37 percent jump over 2015. Already, th...

25 Apr 2017

Can cities get the global car industry to ‘clean up its act’?

News / Transport

First emissions mechanism established for aviation

...15 China Civil Aviation Development Forum that passenger numbers in China had grown by 10 per cent a year during the 12th Five Year Plan (2011-2015). As China uses mostly imported Boeing and Airbus ai...

10 Nov 2016

First emissions mechanism established for aviation

Videos / Cities

More land, less sand: Singapore's latest reclamation project

...10 hectares, making the republic's land area 1 per cent bigger than its present size. The development will be in the north western end of Pulau Tekong, Singapore’s largest island, and will deploy a me...

16 Dec 2016

More land, less sand: Singapore's latest reclamation project

Cyclists on a busy bicycle lane in Vancouver, Canada

News / Cities

Building the world’s greenest city

...1 million bike journeys. This year, Vancouverites made the same number of cycle rides in just six months. And it was cheap to do. The bike lane cost less than 0.1 per cent of the city’s budget, and m...

19 Sep 2017

Building the world’s greenest city

News / Policy & Finance

Timber trading platform aims to increase transparency, legality

...15, the organisation said that 1 billion data checks have been performed. “It identifies things that not even an auditor in the field would be able to,” Moura Costa said. The trading platform launched...

28 Nov 2016

Timber trading platform aims to increase transparency, legality

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