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The power of financial pressure to effect change on climate

...renewable-energy technologies become commercially viable. Many existing fossil-fuel projects already have shorter life spans than was previously expected, and financial portfolios that rely heavily on...

3 Dec 2019

The power of financial pressure to effect change on climate

News / Food & Agriculture

Obesity, bad nutrition, climate change pose triple danger, commission says

...renewable energy and sustainable transport, the commission said. The three global dangers are linked in such ways as mass production of processed, nutrient-poor food that causes not only obesity and p...

29 Jan 2019

Obesity, bad nutrition, climate change pose triple danger, commission says

News / Policy & Finance

Report finds World Bank’s coal divestment pledge not stringent enough

...renewable energy, which would effectively exclude coal. Geary said this “ring fencing” approach signaled “the beginning of the end for coal.” Loopholes detected With IFC funds being directed to coal c...

25 Apr 2019

Report finds World Bank’s coal divestment pledge not stringent enough

News / Energy

From German trains to South Korean buses, hydrogen is back in the energy picture

...renewable-fed energy grid, according to Morry Markowitz, president of the Fuel Cell and Hydrogen Energy Association in the US. “Because the sun doesn’t shine all the time and the wind doesn’t blow, re...

12 Nov 2018

From German trains to South Korean buses, hydrogen is back in the energy picture

News / Carbon & Climate

How to stop global warming? The most controversial solutions explained

...renewables. These would limit warming to 1.5C and, in theory, eliminate the need for BECCS. Meanwhile, some call for a “post-growth” economics that entails a deeper shift to smaller or steady-state ec...

1 Oct 2020

How to stop global warming? The most controversial solutions explained

News / Carbon & Climate

7 countries that shook up our planet in 2018

...renewable energy, as shown by the country’s electrification rate more than doubling last year. President Uhuru Kenyatta also revealed at a roundtable in January that renewable energy currently takes u...

8 Dec 2018

7 countries that shook up our planet in 2018

News / Lifestyle

Bursting at the seams: Can a reverse supply chain save the world from fashion waste?

...renewable inputs that can be taken apart and put back into any recycling process, said Laura Balmond, a project manager at Make Fashion Circular, an initiative of the Ellen MacArthur Foundation. Mate...

25 Apr 2020

Bursting at the seams: Can a reverse supply chain save the world from fashion waste?

News / Water

Deep sea mining could destroy 'our last frontier'

As India readies for the United Nations to give a green light to deep sea mining and boost its economy, the environmental group Greenpeace said on Wednesday that drilling the seabed could cause irreve...

4 Jul 2019

Deep sea mining could destroy 'our last frontier'

Opinion / Policy & Finance

Reconciliation must drive development

In a profoundly volatile world riddled with fractures, the temptation to embrace a seemingly reassuring path of withdrawal or isolation may be strong. In fact, avoidance of potential hazards seems on...

25 Sep 2019

Reconciliation must drive development

Opinion / Carbon & Climate

Japan is leading on business climate engagement. Will ambitious policies follow?

...renewable energy—and development of company disclosures as recommended by the Task Force on Climate-related Financial Disclosures (TCFD). Rising investor pressure is starting to turn these initiative...

1 Jul 2019

Japan is leading on business climate engagement. Will ambitious policies follow?

News / Energy

Tiny hydropower plant lights up a remote hill village in Bangladesh

...renewable energy gap. “Though it is our main target to promote solar energy as renewables across the country, currently we are highly focusing on implementing hydro projects in the Chittagong Hill Tra...

29 Aug 2018

Tiny hydropower plant lights up a remote hill village in Bangladesh

Press Releases / Cleantech Solar

Cleantech Solar and Climate Fund Managers enter strategic partnership

...renewable energy solutions to some of the finest corporations in Asia who are committed to transition to renewable energy in the coming years. We are indeed privileged to partner with Climate Fund Man...

11 Sep 2018

Cleantech Solar and Climate Fund Managers enter strategic partnership

Opinion / Carbon & Climate

5 strategies that help achieve both climate mitigation and adaptation

...renewable energy, with shorter transmission lines and smaller distribution areas — are more climate-resilient. In the event of a disaster, a community with its own decentralised energy supply isn’t af...

11 Feb 2020

5 strategies that help achieve both climate mitigation and adaptation

News / Carbon & Climate

As climate impacts hit, cities are still struggling to prepare, researchers warn

...renewable sources. This story was published with permission from the Thomson Reuters Foundation, the charitable arm of Thomson Reuters, that covers humanitarian news, climate change, resilience, women...

24 Oct 2019

As climate impacts hit, cities are still struggling to prepare, researchers warn

News / Energy

Coal plant deemed too polluting for China heads to Cambodia

...Renewable energy is rapidly becoming cost-competitive, and studies have shown that every year coal power causes hundreds of thousands of premature deaths linked to air pollution in India and China. A ...

30 Aug 2019

Coal plant deemed too polluting for China heads to Cambodia

Brian Reilly, founder and chief executive of Revolv, talks on a panel at Unlocking Capital for Sustainability. Reilly raised US$500,000 from Hong Kong-based hedge fund Sylebra and is looking to secure more funding to aid the company’s launch in Singapore. Image: Eco-Business

News / Policy & Finance

How can Asia bridge the gap between finance and sustainability?

...renewable energy certificates (REC) marketplace, said that trust between mature and developing economies is one of the major hurdles for green investment in the region. “There are a lot of green proje...

8 Feb 2019

How can Asia bridge the gap between finance and sustainability?

News / Waste

Xiamen leads the way in tackling ocean trash

...renewable products being brought to the market. “Currently, products travel in a straight line from production to disposal. We need to make that a circle,” he said. This story originally published by ...

13 Jan 2020

Xiamen leads the way in tackling ocean trash

Opinion / Carbon & Climate

Why criticism over the Australian bushfires might be misplaced

...renewable energy over prudent forest-management practices. Moreover, the armchair critics have chosen to disregard the long lead times between greenhouse-gas (GHG) emissions and climate change, and to...

13 Jan 2020

Why criticism over the Australian bushfires might be misplaced

News / Carbon & Climate

Vietnam’s new conservation plan prioritises trees and people, but not emissions

...renewable energy to 15-20 per cent of capacity by 2030. Wind and solar have almost achieved their current goal of providing 10 per cent of power, a decade ahead of schedule. Globally, CO2 emissions fr...

13 Mar 2020

Vietnam’s new conservation plan prioritises trees and people, but not emissions

News / Energy

Communities push back against new 'clean coal' plants in the Philippines

...renewables has grown by a "paltry 3 per cent" in the decade after the introduction of the Renewable Energy Law, which aimed to spur investments in renewable energy. Installed capacity of renewable ene...

24 Jul 2018

Communities push back against new 'clean coal' plants in the Philippines

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