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Casnadi, who works Southeast Asia's largest landfill near Jakarta, Indonesia

News / Waste

Recycled plastic at virgin prices? Asian recyclers say market volatility making it hard to meet brands' demands

...carbon budget for keeping planetary heating below 1.5°C. A report by Oceana has projected that even if PepsiCo and Coca-Cola met their recycled content targets, aquatic pollution from single-use bottl...

30 Jan 2024

Recycled plastic at virgin prices? Asian recyclers say market volatility making it hard to meet brands' demands

An advertisement for Australian Petroleum Production & Exploration Association (APPEA) was banned because Australia's advertising watchdog determined that the claim that natural gas is '50% cleaner' than coal was not substantiated.

News / Energy

Australian petroleum lobby advertisement banned over 'cleaner' natural gas claim

...carbon dioxide over twenty years. Advertising gas as being somehow ‘clean’ or ‘green’ is not only inaccurate, but also immoral when global warming is causing record temperatures, death and destruction...

18 Jul 2023

Australian petroleum lobby advertisement banned over 'cleaner' natural gas claim

Opinion / Carbon & Climate

Reducing eco-anxiety is a critical step in achieving any climate action

...carbon footprint by 30 per cent!” Instead of the loss-framed “if we do not all immediately reduce our meat consumption by 20 per cent, the planet will be unable to support human life by 2050”. Both st...

7 Aug 2023

Reducing eco-anxiety is a critical step in achieving any climate action

Opinion / Carbon & Climate

'Ghost roads' are cracking open pristine rainforests in Malaysia, Indonesia and Papua New Guinea

One of Brazil’s top scientists, Eneas Salati, once said, “The best thing you could do for the Amazon rainforest is to blow up all the roads.” He wasn’t joking. And he had a point. In an article publis...

12 Apr 2024

'Ghost roads' are cracking open pristine rainforests in Malaysia, Indonesia and Papua New Guinea

Opinion / Carbon & Climate

Exploring the intersection of business and our ecology

...carbon footprint per capita are among the highest in the world, while its recycling rates remain abysmal despite repeated national campaigns. But Singapore has also shown leadership in being the first...

23 Sep 2023

Exploring the intersection of business and our ecology

News / Policy & Finance

Trends that will shape sustainability in 2024

...carbon reduction made by governments and institutions. “Consumers sense that many companies are not being clear about what they are doing to have a positive climate impact, and the positive effect th...

28 Dec 2023

Trends that will shape sustainability in 2024

News / Cities

In South Asia, heat stress kills without a heatwave

Crippling heatwaves are sweeping across South and Southeast Asia. In the southern state of Kerala in India, two people have died reportedly due to high humidity coupled with heatwave conditions as tem...

8 May 2024

In South Asia, heat stress kills without a heatwave

Opinion / Carbon & Climate

Young voters care about climate change. Politicians don't.

Climate change matters a lot to young Indonesians. Several national surveys show that Generation Z and Millennials are concerned about the impact of climate change on their lives. Politicians, howe...

14 Feb 2024

Young voters care about climate change. Politicians don't.

A shoe collection in an average household.

News / Waste

A door-to-door solution for donating unwanted items to charity has come to Singapore

...carbon footprint by making donations, although that feature has yet to launch in Singapore. The service started to gain traction in April and now has made around 200 collections in Singapore, working ...

3 Jun 2023

A door-to-door solution for donating unwanted items to charity has come to Singapore

News / Cities

Analysis: Gwadar floods highlight infrastructural flaws in ‘crown jewel’ city

“It took me three days to take the flood water out of the house,” says Asghar Baloch, a local fisher living in the congested and squalid Mulla Band area adjacent to the Gwadar Port. “It was knee-deep,...

11 Apr 2024

Analysis: Gwadar floods highlight infrastructural flaws in ‘crown jewel’ city

A Sembcorp Energy India Limited (SEIL) coal plant in India higher res

News / Energy

Singapore firm accused by international NGO of 'carbon footprint arbitrage'

...carbon exposure", AFII said in a post on Monday. SEIL's carbon footprint should not be deducted from Sembcorp’s footprint until full payment for the transaction has been made (by 2038 or 2047), or it ...

8 Nov 2022

Singapore firm accused by international NGO of 'carbon footprint arbitrage'

News / Carbon & Climate

Climate risk specialist Thitachai Apipongcharoen moves from Deloitte to KPMG

...carbon market and policy analysis research for a Japanese ceramics producer and developing sustainable natural rubber ESG scorecards for an NGO. Prior to Deloitte, Thitachai worked in the sustainabili...

6 Feb 2023

Climate risk specialist Thitachai Apipongcharoen moves from Deloitte to KPMG

Opinion / Cities

Why disability inclusion is important for climate resilience

Globally, more than a billion people have a disability. Most live in poverty and 80 per cent live in low- and middle-income countries, which are more susceptible to climate disasters. Because of this,...

13 Feb 2024

Why disability inclusion is important for climate resilience

News / Transport

Richest people in UK ‘use more energy flying’ than poorest do overall

...Carbon Brief using Highcharts. Source: Baltruszewicz et al. (2022). Transport experts tell Carbon Brief the figures for air travel are in line with their expectations. “Most people are not aware that ...

15 Dec 2022

Richest people in UK ‘use more energy flying’ than poorest do overall

News / Energy

Japan’s LNG export pivot imperils SE Asia energy security: think tank

...carbon emissions, and also blocks faster scale-up of solar and wind generation. The IEEFA report noted that major utilities are investing in projects such as regasification terminals and gas power pla...

13 Mar 2024

Japan’s LNG export pivot imperils SE Asia energy security: think tank

News / Transport

Why developing Asia should care about an ambitious shipping emissions reduction goal

...carbon by 2050 means an instant uptake of alternative fuels while decarbonisation by 2050 and IMO 2018 scenarios mean a slow uptake of alternative fuels and use of liquified natural gas on ships. Imag...

14 Dec 2022

Why developing Asia should care about an ambitious shipping emissions reduction goal

Opinion / Carbon & Climate

Covid as a natural experiment for climate policy

...carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions, most others are doing little or nothing. The big question, then, is whether unilateral measures implemented by the minority can contribute to mitigating climate change ...

15 Jun 2023

Covid as a natural experiment for climate policy

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News / Energy

Shareholder activism puts board directors of energy majors in difficult positions

...carbon emissions by 2050 amid the crisis,” she said. Goh said when the decision was discussed, the pathways to meet such a target weren’t clear though the company knew what short-term actions it coul...

19 Oct 2023

Shareholder activism puts board directors of energy majors in difficult positions

News / Carbon & Climate

Heat illiteracy in Asia: Are cities prepared for climate-induced heatwaves?

With several Asian cities hitting their hottest day on record last month, questions have been raised about the preparedness of one of the world's most climate-vulnerable regions to climate-induced ext...

29 May 2024

Heat illiteracy in Asia: Are cities prepared for climate-induced heatwaves?

News / Carbon & Climate

China’s draft mining law mandates ecological restoration for first time, but gaps remain

China’s mineral resources law serves as the legal cornerstone of the sustainable development of its mining sectors. Since it came into effect in 1986, the law has been revised twice, in 1996 and 2009....

3 May 2024

China’s draft mining law mandates ecological restoration for first time, but gaps remain

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