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Opinion / Carbon & Climate

Where will you live in 2050?

...flooding, regularly devastates the urban poor in such Asian megacities as Bangkok, Manila and Dhaka. The population exposed to flooding could triple by 2070, according to a recent Organization for Eco...

8 Aug 2013

Where will you live in 2050?

News / Policy & Finance

Australian parties sidetrack CO2 threat

...floods, and there has been long-lasting drought in many areas and a series of devastating bushfires. Many lives have been lost, and the economic damage caused has been considerable. Earlier this month...

9 Sep 2013

Australian parties sidetrack CO2 threat

News / Waste

Singapore urged to recycle ships safely and not on South Asian beaches

...floods when the coastal green belt of mangrove trees is cut down in Bangladesh. Further to the environmental damage, Shipbreaking Platform said that workers are exposed to dangerous waste in the yards...

10 Mar 2014

Singapore urged to recycle ships safely and not on South Asian beaches

Opinion / Carbon & Climate

Can voodoo help to resolve climate change?

...flood") movement, and their supporting Haitian-American counterparts. With the return from exile of the first democratically elected Haitian President Jean-Bertrand Aristide, the air was electric with...

15 May 2014

Can voodoo help to resolve climate change?

News / Carbon & Climate

New York lays out $20 billion plan to adapt to climate change

...Floodwalls, dunes and tidal barriers In addition to new walls, dune systems and tidal barriers, the plan envisaged $1.2 billion in loans and grants to help owners make buildings more resilient to floo...

12 Jun 2013

New York lays out $20 billion plan to adapt to climate change

News / Cities

Saving coastal cities from the rising sea

WHEN heavy floods hit Jakarta in January, sections of the city were crippled for days. A levee close to the centre of the city broke, effectively turning the main thoroughfare into a river for 24 hour...

19 Mar 2013

Saving coastal cities from the rising sea

News / Carbon & Climate

Global warming may cause extreme droughts in India: World Bank

...floods of 2010, which affected more than 20 million people, could become common place. More extreme droughts in large parts of India could lead to widespread food shortages and hardship," the report s...

20 Jun 2013

Global warming may cause extreme droughts in India: World Bank

Opinion / Carbon & Climate

World environment and new pledge for green economies

...flooding, famine and rising sea levels putting hundreds of millions at risk. With Asia accounting for a growing share of greenhouse gas emissions, it is clear that the global battle against climate ch...

6 Jun 2014

World environment and new pledge for green economies

Opinion / Carbon & Climate

Why is it so hard to get people to talk about women and climate change?

The impacts of climate change will disproportionately affect people living in poverty in poorer countries, notwithstanding their minimal per-capita contributions to greenhouse-gas emissions. It’s here...

27 Aug 2014

Why is it so hard to get people to talk about women and climate change?

News / Carbon & Climate

Australian-Indonesian carbon project abandoned

...flood 200,000 hectares of dried peatland, protect 70,000 hectares of peat forests, and plant 100 million trees in Central Kalimantan. But as the project ran into difficulties and delays it was later s...

2 Jul 2013

Australian-Indonesian carbon project abandoned

News / Carbon & Climate

Disaster risk experts from Asia gather in Manila for confab

...flood management and earthquake risks reduction. On the second day of the event, the MMDA will lead the participants in a study tour of the Marikina Youth Camp and Amang Rodriguez Hospital where the M...

11 Jul 2013

Disaster risk experts from Asia gather in Manila for confab

News / Food & Agriculture

California goes nuts for water

...floods, are potentially going to be costlier, and they’re going to be harsher.” Under an unprecedented range of restrictions, no water from state projects is being supplied to the agricultural sector....

31 Mar 2014

California goes nuts for water

News / Carbon & Climate

IPCC climate change report: Experts react

...floods, droughts and storms in Europe, North America and Australia have shown, but because of political inertia and powerful vested interests that have dominated media narratives for decades, they are...

30 Sep 2013

IPCC climate change report: Experts react

News / Water

Water awareness and policy-making: An interview with World Water Council's Benedito Braga

...flooding, and droughts. From there, I focused on the people in the basin, and then water resources management -- the interaction of land, water and people in the river basin. I also became interested ...

2 Dec 2013

Water awareness and policy-making: An interview with World Water Council's Benedito Braga

News / Carbon & Climate

Brazil moves to reduce disaster risk as severe rainfall worsens

...flooding. And in January 2011, also in Rio de Janeiro state’s highlands, more than 1,000 people were killed by massive landslides and flooding. The growing threat is driving officials in São Paulo and...

28 Mar 2013

Brazil moves to reduce disaster risk as severe rainfall worsens

Opinion / Energy

Green investment in Asian cities to reduce natural disaster risks

...floods in Thailand, have had huge impacts on urban systems and their associated infrastructure. The nuclear power plant accident at Fukushima in Japan on 11 March 2011, a result of an earthquake and t...

20 Jan 2014

Green investment in Asian cities to reduce natural disaster risks

Press Releases / GlacialTech Inc

GlacialTech to showcase its latest LED lights and drivers at LED EXPO

...flood lights, LED bay lights, LED panel lights, LED troffer lights, LED down lights (including DL06-IP waterproof IP54), and LED wall-mounted luminaires. Their high energy efficiency, low heat-output,...

4 Dec 2013

GlacialTech to showcase its latest LED lights and drivers at LED EXPO

News / Carbon & Climate

Climate pause – for thought and action

...flooded, you likely run away from the deal, very fast. Not so the deniers: they’ll happily drink themselves to death – while watching the flood waters rise. The deniers say the IPCC and its scientists...

30 Sep 2013

Climate pause – for thought and action

Opinion / Carbon & Climate

Climate action: A consensus of the sensible can beat polluters' PR

...flooding the media with sceptical stories, benefiting from the media’s instinct for “balance” even in an area where the science has become uncontroversial, thus giving undue space to extremists peddli...

21 Oct 2013

Climate action: A consensus of the sensible can beat polluters' PR

Opinion / Carbon & Climate

A house with many rooms: Addressing loss and damage from climate change

...floods or hurricanes and other disasters are due to the climate change human activities have created, and which would have happened anyway. The key to that door has not yet been forged. Its blacksmith...

19 Sep 2013

A house with many rooms: Addressing loss and damage from climate change

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