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Opinion / Energy

The energy transition confronts reality

...the Indian Ocean. Members of the European Parliament objected that the project would adversely affect the climate, the environment, and “human rights.” Yet they cast their votes from a body located in...

25 Jan 2023

The energy transition confronts reality

News / Transport

Electric scooters for nurses speed up healthcare in Indian mining hub

...ther locals on a daily basis, as she aims to do. "Villagers often leave early for work and it is important for us to reach (them) at the right time to give them information or check on their health. T...

13 May 2022

Electric scooters for nurses speed up healthcare in Indian mining hub

News / Policy & Finance

Global nature pact urged to reform harmful subsidies of US$1.8 trillion a year

...the Paris climate agreement - at a UN summit, known as COP15, scheduled for April 25-May 8 in the Chinese city of Kunming. But the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic could further delay the meeting, which has ...

18 Feb 2022

Global nature pact urged to reform harmful subsidies of US$1.8 trillion a year

Press Releases / Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung (FES) and Climate Action Network Southeast Asia (CANSEA)

'Just transition' pushed by experts, activists and sectors amid record floods, droughts in Asia

...theast Asia (CANSEA).In his keynote speech, Peter Govindasamy said: “we are experiencing the double impact of the energy transition: the effects of climate change and the economic and social imp...

14 Sep 2022

'Just transition' pushed by experts, activists and sectors amid record floods, droughts in Asia

News / Corporate Responsibility

Wild release signals return of giant forest tortoises to Bangladesh hills

...the evergreen forests of the Chattogram Hill Tracts. This initiative, in the rugged mountain range in the extreme southeast of the country bordering Myanmar and India, was the first rewilding of the A...

13 Jan 2022

Wild release signals return of giant forest tortoises to Bangladesh hills

Opinion / Policy & Finance

Don't dismiss green finance just yet

...when asked to pivot to environmentally-friendly practices. Among other reasons are the structural inability of the financial system to account for the long-term, the tendency for profit-making to corr...

7 Jul 2022

Don't dismiss green finance just yet

Opinion / Policy & Finance

Sustainability-linked finance: the unresolved dilemmas

...ther or not they were able to switch a good portion of the energy generation to renewables by the end of 2021. If they fail to produce 55 per cent of their electricity renewably by that date, they wil...

2 Nov 2021

Sustainability-linked finance: the unresolved dilemmas

Opinion / Cities

How people can climate-proof their homes

...their performance using potential warmer and more extreme future weather scenarios and adapt their design in the hope to save costs in retrofitting later. In the long term, though, the resilience of o...

14 Mar 2023

How people can climate-proof their homes

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News / Waste

'How do we become a protector for the oceans?': Malaysian leading recycler on being ocean bound plastic-certified

...their vision was aligned to ours, which is a focus on traceability and the authenticity of the chain of custody. We studied the certification guidelines, got in touch, showed them the data we had and ...

14 Oct 2022

'How do we become a protector for the oceans?': Malaysian leading recycler on being ocean bound plastic-certified

News / Food & Agriculture

Seychelles adopts transparency in fisheries, but gaps in data and action remain

...the kinds of things that we need to know because the whole resource extraction is based on these almost secret agreements between the Seychelles and the EU.” Yet the report shows it isn’t just the EU ...

15 Feb 2022

Seychelles adopts transparency in fisheries, but gaps in data and action remain

Opinion / Carbon & Climate

The Sixth Mass Extinction is happening now, and it doesn’t look good for us

...the buckling of the Earth’s crust from the asteroid’s impact. Together, about 76 percent of all species around at the time went extinct, of which the disappearance of the dinosaurs is most well-known....

2 Mar 2022

The Sixth Mass Extinction is happening now, and it doesn’t look good for us

Opinion / Cities

Parallel parks: strategic green spaces can cool cities

...the city. During summer days, the breeze from the sea and forested mountains follows the major river valleys of the Danshui, Keelung, and Dahan Rivers through the city, cooling as they pass. However m...

22 Jul 2022

Parallel parks: strategic green spaces can cool cities

News / Policy & Finance

UNEP at 50: what has the world’s ‘environmental conscience’ achieved?

...the UN to hold a Conference on the Human Environment, which took place in Stockholm in June 1972. This landmark meeting placed the environment on the global agenda for the first time, with the Stockh...

3 Jun 2022

UNEP at 50: what has the world’s ‘environmental conscience’ achieved?

News / Carbon & Climate

Youth street protesters turn sights on climate 'villains'

...the strikes. "They're trying to blind us with the nice words and promises, and prevent us from looking into the details and (calling) them out," the 26-year-old told the Thomson Reuters Foundation. No...

4 Jul 2022

Youth street protesters turn sights on climate 'villains'

Woman threshing wheat in Bakchur, India.

News / Policy & Finance

Climate forensics is fast and accurate. Now what?

...the frequency of extreme weather events,” Li said. The value of the message does not go away even as extreme weather becomes more common, she said, as it takes time for the public to absorb the knowle...

8 Aug 2022

Climate forensics is fast and accurate. Now what?

News / Energy

‘Dangerously fast’ methane increase suggests feedback mechanism may have begun

...the 30 per cent reduction pledge at COP 26 fell short of what was needed. The new research shows the problem getting worse. “The growth of methane emissions slowed around the turn of the millennium, b...

14 Feb 2022

‘Dangerously fast’ methane increase suggests feedback mechanism may have begun

News / Policy & Finance

Indigenous opposition to Philippine mine project falters

...the Blaan away from the forest — their source of food when they are hungry, or medicine when they are sick, and their spiritual ground to commune or praise their gods. In early February, however, when...

2 Mar 2022

Indigenous opposition to Philippine mine project falters

News / Cities

China’s next air quality challenge – cleaning up its industrial heartlands

...the year Beijing hosted the Olympic games. “Those industries ballooned in scale in the subsequent years,” he said, explaining the higher air pollution. “The next steps will involve switching from foss...

25 Jan 2022

China’s next air quality challenge – cleaning up its industrial heartlands

News / Cities

Nepal has ‘world’s highest’ lung disease death rate

...the study said. “The burden of COPD reaches its peak in older adults.” The overall incidence of COPD is likely to be just the tip of an iceberg as most patients seek medical help only when they have s...

26 Aug 2022

Nepal has ‘world’s highest’ lung disease death rate

Satellite imagery of logging in Cambodia

News / Carbon & Climate

Protecting the planet with all-seeing eyes in space

...their marine coral areas since. It is not that these companies didn’t know they had corals in their space, but that now everyone else knew they are there, so suddenly there was accountability and the ...

2 Jun 2022

Protecting the planet with all-seeing eyes in space

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