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Why attacks on environment defenders should scare big business

On October 20, 2018, gunmen shot dead nine sugarcane farmers in Negros Occidental, the Philippines. The victims were defending a patch of a plantation they had tilled for generations. The incident hig...

31 Jul 2019

Why attacks on environment defenders should scare big business

An activist protesting against JP Morgan Chase's fossil fuel financing in the United States.

News / Policy & Finance

Fossil fuel funding by world's biggest banks has grown every year since the Paris Agreement, report finds

It's as if the penny hasn't dropped for the financial services industry that climate change is not only an increasingly disruptive environmental phenomenon, but a grave risk to the stability of the gl...

20 Mar 2020

Fossil fuel funding by world's biggest banks has grown every year since the Paris Agreement, report finds

News / Policy & Finance

With its mining boom past, Australia deals with cleaning up

About 80 kilometers (50 miles) south of Darwin and 14 km (9 mi) northeast of the town of Batchelor lies Woodcutters, an open-cut lead and zinc mine that shut in 1999. Here, at the top end of Australia...

21 Aug 2020

With its mining boom past, Australia deals with cleaning up

News / Policy & Finance

US$900 billion a year: China is bearing the world's highest cost of air pollution from fossil fuels

US$900 billion a year. That's how much air pollution caused by fossil fuels is costing China each year, through greater likelihood of respiratory and non-communicable diseases, years of life lost thro...

14 Feb 2020

US$900 billion a year: China is bearing the world's highest cost of air pollution from fossil fuels

News / Food & Agriculture

In a bid to phase out palm biofuel, Europe leaves fans and foes dismayed

The European Commission has officially approved a measure to phase out palm oil-based biofuel by 2030. But while the move has angered major palm oil producers, it hasn’t entirely pleased environmental...

19 Mar 2019

In a bid to phase out palm biofuel, Europe leaves fans and foes dismayed

News / Transport

Singapore’s road to electric mobility: What’s the hold-up?

...renewables-powered microgrids can be handy, says NUS’ Goh. “It would strain power networks if EVs were all charged in the evening using power from the grid,” says Goh. “But renewable energy, battery ...

28 May 2019

Singapore’s road to electric mobility: What’s the hold-up?

News / Policy & Finance

Corruption and coal dug up in Indonesia

...renewables.Ginting believes China could take the lead by shifting its foreign investment from coal to clean energy, thereby helping Indonesia to meet its Paris Agreement goals: “China is the biggest i...

15 Jul 2019

Corruption and coal dug up in Indonesia

Opinion / Policy & Finance

Central banks must target a green recovery after coronavirus

This week something happened which, in other times, would have seemed extraordinary: the Bank of England told British banks not to pay out shareholder dividends and to cancel bankers’ bonuses, as part...

8 Apr 2020

Central banks must target a green recovery after coronavirus

Opinion / Policy & Finance

Land seizures and Covid-19: the twin threats to Brazil’s indigenous peoples

Across Brazil, many Indigenous peoples have gone into voluntary isolation, barricading access roads to protect their villages from the Covid-19 pandemic. As one Indigenous nurse told recently Amnesty ...

7 Apr 2020

Land seizures and Covid-19: the twin threats to Brazil’s indigenous peoples

Opinion / Energy

How to neutralise your greenhouse gas footprint

...renewables reduces electricity from coal by a similar amount, and therefore avoids about 0.9 tonnes of carbon dioxide emissions. The above pie chart, based on federal government data, shows the vario...

12 Mar 2019

How to neutralise your greenhouse gas footprint

Japanese plastics manufacturer Sekisui Chemical is the highest ranked Asian firm in a global index of the most sustainable corporations by Canadian publisher Corporate Knights.

News / Corporate Responsibility

Japanese plastics firm shines for Asia in ranking of world's greenest corporate giants

...renewables, but has now reversed that ratio, and aims to be carbon neutral by 2025. The firm scored well for the percentage of taxes paid, CEO-to-average-worker pay ratio and women in management roles...

21 Jan 2020

Japanese plastics firm shines for Asia in ranking of world's greenest corporate giants

News / Policy & Finance

Without climate action, economic growth 'will be reversed', economist warns

Without rapid transformation of global economies to largely eliminate climate-changing emissions, countries face economic decline as the costs of wilder weather and other threats soar, British economi...

5 Jul 2019

Without climate action, economic growth 'will be reversed', economist warns

News / Lifestyle

22 ways to live better in 2022

...renewables revolution (no, not Michael Moore's error-strewn Planet of the humans, which has been dumped on by climate scientists and removed from YouTube) is Headwind 21, the story of a former financi...

2 Feb 2022

22 ways to live better in 2022

News / Energy

BP’s outlook for fossil fuels could be undermined by slowing energy demand

...renewables, in particular wind and solar. Changing outlook Indeed, BP has once again raised its renewables outlook in 2019, with a 9 per cent increase for 2040 compared to the 2018 figure, shown in th...

19 Feb 2019

BP’s outlook for fossil fuels could be undermined by slowing energy demand

News / Energy

The curse of hydropower?

As the world continues to suffer from climate change impacts, decarbonisation of the global economy is one of the most urgent needs faced by governments. This, though, will never be the only axis on w...

22 Apr 2019

The curse of hydropower?

Press Releases / blueleaf energy

Conergy rebrands as blueleaf energy

SINGAPORE, August 26, 2019 – Conergy, one of the region‘s largest downstream solar companies, changed its name to blueleaf energy on Friday. Over its 20 year history, Conergy installed al...

26 Aug 2019

Conergy rebrands as blueleaf energy

News / Transport

Long wait seen for electric planes despite historic first flight

The pioneers behind the world's first fully electric, commercial flight say they have made history, but climate-change activists see electric air travel as a dream yet to come true. The Harbour Air se...

13 Dec 2019

Long wait seen for electric planes despite historic first flight

Opinion / Carbon & Climate

Climate scientists may not be the best communicators of climate threats

The American public ranks scientists as some of the most trusted voices in the country. So it made sense for eminent climate scientists, such as James Hansen, Michael Mann, and Peter Kalmus, to sound ...

22 Aug 2019

Climate scientists may not be the best communicators of climate threats

Opinion / Carbon & Climate

5 under-recognised impacts of air pollution

...renewables. Overall, pollution appears to cost China about 11 GW of power annually, for example. Air pollution affects food and vegetation Ozone can damage plant cells and negatively affect photosynth...

6 Jun 2019

5 under-recognised impacts of air pollution

News / Policy & Finance

All eyes on China’s post-lockdown Twin Sessions

Even though parts of the country are still battling a minor rebound of Covid-19 cases, the general message is clear: China has emerged from the abysmal months of lockdown and is ready to resume busine...

21 May 2020

All eyes on China’s post-lockdown Twin Sessions

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