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The desperate but effective attempts to silence climate scientists

...iversity of Virginia and one of the scientists implicated in “Climategate.” The Virginia Supreme Court sided with Mann, who lamented the “coordinated assault against the scientific community by powerf...

3 Oct 2017

The desperate but effective attempts to silence climate scientists

News / Food & Agriculture

Climate change could heighten risk of global food production ‘shocks’

...in which the entirety of the crop is lost. Warming-induced changes in yield variability in top-producing regions of the six largest corn producing and exporting countries: Probability density functi...

12 Jun 2018

Climate change could heighten risk of global food production ‘shocks’

News / Carbon & Climate

Vanuatu to sue fossil fuel firms for climate change

...ith five other island countries, including Fiji and the Philippines, the country released the People’s Declaration for Climate Justice at its capital, Port Vila, in 2015. “ “The Pacific islands have ...

24 Nov 2018

Vanuatu to sue fossil fuel firms for climate change

Dr bambang Brodjonegoro and Simon Tay from Singapore Institute of International Affairs

News / Policy & Finance

Asean's dilemma: Must economic growth cost the Earth?

...ith Simon Tay, chairman of the Singapore Institute of International Affairs (SIIA), the host organisation of the event. But he said that Indonesia was open to new ways to build sustainability into it...

25 May 2018

Asean's dilemma: Must economic growth cost the Earth?

News / Energy

Fracking threatens Aboriginal land rights in pristine Western Australia country

...ing following the publication of its own independent inquiry. However, the decision was met with controversy due to some of the inquiry’s findings. The inquiry highlighted that “high conservation valu...

22 Nov 2018

Fracking threatens Aboriginal land rights in pristine Western Australia country

News / Waste

'Green mountaineers' clean up Everest's litter

...iority in those extreme circumstances. You’re at your physical and psychological limits; there’s little time for thinking about the environment. It’s difficult to make the entire trip without leaving ...

30 Jul 2018

'Green mountaineers' clean up Everest's litter

News / Corporate Responsibility

Why sustainability is a risk issue for businesses

...inability risks identified in their sustainability reports in their legal filings. "This is a worrying trend, the question is: How do we get companies in Asia to realise that sustainability concerns a...

26 Sep 2018

Why sustainability is a risk issue for businesses

The lush courtyard of Khoo Teck Puat Hospital, a 590-bed facility in Yishun, Singapore, designed by Jerry Ong and colleagues: Image CPG Consultants

News / Green Buildings

How to build a hospital for the people

...ig role in designing the award-winning building that opened in 2010. The purpose of the louvre windows was to provide ventilation and natural lighting across the block, reducing the need for artificia...

21 Sep 2017

How to build a hospital for the people

News / Cities

UN forum spotlights cities, where struggle for sustainability ‘will be won or lost’

...ignificant achievements in cleaner air and water, record job and wage growth, and tripling the number of children in free pre-Kindergarten. “We encourage cities and communities to join the urgent disc...

12 Jul 2018

UN forum spotlights cities, where struggle for sustainability ‘will be won or lost’

News / Policy & Finance

The path to a rewarding sustainability career

...ing little work experience, and that her sustainability qualifications had a lot to do with this. And once she had clinched the job, which entails responsibilities ranging from reporting and auditing ...

15 May 2017

The path to a rewarding sustainability career

News / Corporate Responsibility

Samsung won’t partner with Korindo following outrage over forest destruction in Indonesia

...indo, amid an NGO campaign highlighting Korindo’s rainforest destruction for palm oil in Indonesia’s Tanah Papua region. Samsung’s announcement that it would partner with Korindo in the logistics sect...

15 Sep 2017

Samsung won’t partner with Korindo following outrage over forest destruction in Indonesia

Eco-Business managing editor Jessica Cheam, Moxie Future founder Jessica Robinson, Standard Chartered Bank executive director, capital solutions, Rahul Sheth, and Georg Kell, chairman, Arabesque, and founding executive director, United Nations Global Compact. Image: Eco-Business

News / Energy

Funding coal in Southeast Asia is 'collective suicide' say experts

...ition on coal, which is shared by many other Asian banking institutions, is that developing countries still depend on coal to power their economies and meet expanding energy demand in a way that is af...

14 Feb 2018

Funding coal in Southeast Asia is 'collective suicide' say experts

The Asian Development Bank has agreed to lend €9.2 to Singapore-based Sunseap Group for the building of a 10 MW solar facility in Cambodia

Opinion / Policy & Finance

How MDBs can unlock private finance for development

...icipation; (b) improve the risk profiles of projects via credit enhancement products such as guarantees; and (c) pilot new approaches and technologies. ADB is expanding political risk and partial risk...

11 Dec 2017

How MDBs can unlock private finance for development

News / Water

Harsh sentence for blogger may haunt Vietnam’s environmental movement

...ing into what is considered the largest environmental disaster in the country’s history. Fishing communities in Hà Tĩnh, Quảng Bình, Quảng Trị and Thừa Thiên-Huế provinces were decimated and l...

8 Aug 2017

Harsh sentence for blogger may haunt Vietnam’s environmental movement

News / Carbon & Climate

1°C rise has massive polar impact

...ing a significant observable difference in communities warmed by just 1°C in the Antarctic,” says Gail Ashton, a marine benthic ecologist at the British Antarctic Survey in Cambridge and the Smithsoni...

12 Sep 2017

1°C rise has massive polar impact

Saulo Chuc Moo, a community leader from Tabi, a Mayan community

Opinion / Policy & Finance

This is not the end of the Green Climate Fund, but its next steps are critical

...in 2010. A line in the sand. A truly innovative concept based on multilateral cooperation between rich and poor. It is relatively young and it is clearly enjoying growing pains. The board is not worki...

23 Jul 2018

This is not the end of the Green Climate Fund, but its next steps are critical

Stand up paddling against very clear waters

News / Manufacturing

Thai water sports company wants to take back its historical emissions

...irst time. Plastic pollution is also killing marine life including, most recently, a sperm whale that was found washed up on a beach in Indonesia with more than 1,000 pieces of plastic in its stomach...

10 Dec 2018

Thai water sports company wants to take back its historical emissions

News / Carbon & Climate

Taking back carbon 'imperative' to stop planet overheating, backers say

...ing down the pike", she said. But getting millions of farmers and ranchers to alter how they work would require significant investment - and monitoring carbon reductions from soil use remains an inexa...

20 Sep 2018

Taking back carbon 'imperative' to stop planet overheating, backers say

Opinion / Food & Agriculture

Sustainable diets will remain a minefield until we change the way we approach food

...ined grand shared ambitions for society and development. New policy initiatives such as FOOD 2030 are now drawing from these frameworks in an attempt to define the collective roles and responsibilitie...

2 Mar 2018

Sustainable diets will remain a minefield until we change the way we approach food

News / Carbon & Climate

The top 10 most read stories of 2018

...ies trying to look good with a high-profile corporate social responsibility programme, but lacking the expertise, experience or genuine motivation to make it work—and failing with tragic results for t...

2 Jan 2019

The top 10 most read stories of 2018

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