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Judges for the 2018 The Liveability Challenge

News / Carbon & Climate

Finalists unveiled for The Liveability Challenge 2019

Six ideas to make Asia's bustling cities cleaner, greener places to live and work have made the shortlist for this year's The Liveability Challenge, a global search for solutions that change the way w...

7 May 2019

Finalists unveiled for The Liveability Challenge 2019

Opinion / Transport

EV or not, Malaysia does not need another national car project

“If you want to be a country of peasants, planting rice and catching fish, okay, we’ll do that for you.” This is what Malaysian Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad had to say, rather acerbically, in react...

30 Aug 2018

EV or not, Malaysia does not need another national car project

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Opinion / Carbon & Climate

A major scorecard gives the health of Australia’s environment less than 1 out of 10

2019 was the year Australians confronted the fact that a healthy environment is more than just a pretty waterfall in a national park; a nice extra we can do without. We do not survive without air to b...

31 Mar 2020

A major scorecard gives the health of Australia’s environment less than 1 out of 10

China involved in coal projects in BRI countries

News / Policy & Finance

China’s Belt and Road Initiative could lead to 3°C global warming, report warns

China’s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI), one of the most ambitious infrastructure projects in history, promises to improve the lives of 60 per cent of the world’s population by investing US$12 trillion...

2 Sep 2019

China’s Belt and Road Initiative could lead to 3°C global warming, report warns

News / Carbon & Climate

Climate change: six positive news stories you probably missed in 2018

Climate change news can be incredibly depressing. In 2018 alone, The Conversation covered the loss of three trillion tonnes of ice in Antarctica; Brazil’s new president and why he will be disastrous f...

7 Jan 2019

Climate change: six positive news stories you probably missed in 2018

Opinion / Water

Making ocean protection an investment priority

The Earth’s oceans face many threats, none of which have quick fixes. Still, the solutions are known, and with a sufficiently broad coalition of partners, we can get the ball rolling on a number of fr...

29 Oct 2019

Making ocean protection an investment priority

News / Energy

Legal fight over Bali coal power plant illuminates Indonesia energy dilemma

...renewables plants also have to reach a power supply agreement with the state-owned utility and such discussions can lack transparency and lead to delays, power experts added. In addition, government l...

28 Jun 2018

Legal fight over Bali coal power plant illuminates Indonesia energy dilemma

Opinion / Food & Agriculture

Much of Asia still goes to bed unfed

Despite repeatedly faltering on the targets to reduce hunger, the global community renewed its pledge in 2015 to build a hunger-free world by 2030. Ironically, the number of food-insecure people has b...

28 Oct 2019

Much of Asia still goes to bed unfed

News / Energy

Australia's rising electricity prices are turning businesses on to renewables

...Renewables & Business: Cutting Prices & Pollution. At the same time, prices for wind and solar power generation have fallen substantially, making them price competitive with fossil fuels, whil...

23 May 2018

Australia's rising electricity prices are turning businesses on to renewables

Opinion / Green Buildings

The case for green affordable housing

By the year 2030, an estimated 3 billion more people will need housing, which will require a massive industrialised housing construction boom if production is to keep up with demand. However, the envi...

12 Jul 2019

The case for green affordable housing

News / Corporate Responsibility

Bank of China to review funding of dam in orangutan habitat in Sumatra

Bank of China has promised to evaluate a hydroelectric project it is helping fund in Indonesia, which activists say threatens the only known habitat of the Tapanuli orangutan, the rarest great ape spe...

13 Mar 2019

Bank of China to review funding of dam in orangutan habitat in Sumatra

News / Policy & Finance

First Philippine peso green bond by IFC raises US$90 million

The Philippines’ renewable energy sector has received a boost in funding after the International Finance Corporation (IFC) issued its first peso-denominated green bond, worth up to US$90 million, last...

4 Jul 2018

First Philippine peso green bond by IFC raises US$90 million

News / Carbon & Climate

Green New Deal aims for triple payback

If you haven’t yet heard of the Green New Deal, chances are that you soon will. To its growing band of supporters, it looks like an idea whose time has come. Just suppose we could see a way to transf...

19 Mar 2019

Green New Deal aims for triple payback

Opinion / Transport

To clean Delhi's air, reform its transport system

Over the past few years, around the time when Diwali—the Hindu festival of lights and India's biggest holiday—ends and winter sets in, Delhi's air quality has plummeted to dangerous levels, initiating...

22 Nov 2019

To clean Delhi's air, reform its transport system

Opinion / Carbon & Climate

If you are flying, you should be buying carbon offsets

You desperately want to book that flight for the family wedding. But the frightening Fourth National Climate Assessment released by the US Global Change Research Program in November has flipped on the...

18 Mar 2019

If you are flying, you should be buying carbon offsets

News / Policy & Finance

Brics turns ten

Leaders from Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa met in Brazil last week to discuss the future of the Brics bloc.They identified loans supporting sustainable development from the New Develop...

21 Nov 2019

Brics turns ten

News / Green Buildings

Beyond going green, the built environment seeks to improve health

Green buildings are better for the planet, but a growing movement of healthy workplaces shows they can be good for people too. Responding to new research that shows the multiple impacts that the built...

25 Sep 2019

Beyond going green, the built environment seeks to improve health

Podcasts / Green Buildings

How do we build zero carbon cities?

Around a third of the world's emissions come from buildings. If humanity is to cap global warming to 2 degrees Celsius, the world must reach peak emissions by 2020 and become carbon neutral by 2050—an...

27 Feb 2019

How do we build zero carbon cities?

News / Energy

How attractive is Asia for renewables?

...renewables than coal for the first time last year, but the uptake of solar and wind has struggled to meet the country's ambitious renewable energy targets. Japan, ranking eighth, has dropped one place...

5 May 2018

How attractive is Asia for renewables?

News / Energy

The hidden costs of hydro: We need to reconsider world’s dam plans

An estimated 3,700 dams are either planned or under construction in developing countries around the world — including 147 slated for the Amazon basin region. At face value, dams seem like a good deal ...

7 Mar 2019

The hidden costs of hydro: We need to reconsider world’s dam plans

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