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‘We need to make old buildings cooler’, says Bangladesh’s chief heat officer

In May 2023, Bangladeshi social welfare executive Bushra Afreen was appointed north Dhaka’s ‘chief heat officer’ as part of a programme by the Adrienne Arsht-Rockefeller Foundation Resilience Center t...

18 Jun 2024

‘We need to make old buildings cooler’, says Bangladesh’s chief heat officer

News / Energy

Can Nepal’s new wildlife rules balance development and conservation?

On January 4, 2024, the Nepal government approved a change to the law to allow the construction of large infrastructure projects – like hydropower dams, hotels, and tourist resorts – inside national p...

15 Feb 2024

Can Nepal’s new wildlife rules balance development and conservation?

Press Releases / Greenpeace Southeast Asia

Renewed calls for Asean to prioritise and protect citizens’ rights to clean air from transboundary haze

More cases of dangerous haze pollution have been observed in the last few weeks, particularly in Indonesia, Malaysia, Thailand, and Singapore. Today, civil society organisations in the region are cal...

19 Nov 2023

Renewed calls for Asean to prioritise and protect citizens’ rights to clean air from transboundary haze

News / Water

Kashmir's snow shortage leaves ski resort facing bleak winter

For nearly a decade, Mohammad Yousuf has made a living during the winter by giving sledge rides to the tourists who visit the snowy peaks of the Indian Kashmiri mountain town of Gulmarg to enjoy skiin...

18 Jan 2024

Kashmir's snow shortage leaves ski resort facing bleak winter

News / Energy

Energy inequality on the rise in India amid renewable push, claims paper

...carbon dioxide emissions, India is working towards decarbonising the sector. India aims to reach its environmental targets by decreasing the emissions intensity of its GDP by 45 per cent from 2005 lev...

1 Nov 2023

Energy inequality on the rise in India amid renewable push, claims paper

News / Food & Agriculture

Highlands Philippine coffee farmers traded slash-and-burn for agroforestry

...carbon negative” company in the Philippines. While the firm’s annual emissions are estimated at 966,000 tonnes of carbon dioxide equivalent (tCO2e), some 127,608 ha of forestlands and geothermal water...

31 Oct 2022

Highlands Philippine coffee farmers traded slash-and-burn for agroforestry

News / Carbon & Climate

Eco-Business' 10 most read stories of 2022

...carbonisation efforts and stricter national targets to slash oil and gas outputs. Singapore has since pledged to reduce emissions to around 60 million tonnes of carbon dioxide equivalent (MtCO2e) in 2...

14 Dec 2022

Eco-Business' 10 most read stories of 2022

News / Policy & Finance

‘Reckless’: Global responses to UK prime minister’s climate backslide

...carbonisation Progress (iGDP) The UK government’s recent decision to backtrack on previous green targets seems unwise. Not only will it damage global momentum and slow the progress of climate action...

28 Sep 2023

‘Reckless’: Global responses to UK prime minister’s climate backslide

News / Policy & Finance

Will ‘loss and damage’ climate funding reach ocean communities?

Hundreds of millions of dollars have been pledged to compensate for “loss and damage” caused by climate change. Hundreds of billions more will be needed. When the pledges were made by various governme...

29 Jul 2024

Will ‘loss and damage’ climate funding reach ocean communities?

News / Policy & Finance

Put Asia’s children at centre of climate action: UNICEF

...carbon-free economy, she adds. Vanda also stressed the importance of providing spaces to allow girls and women to “share and elevate their voices”, including protecting them online and in public forum...

7 Jun 2023

Put Asia’s children at centre of climate action: UNICEF

News / Transport

In drought-hit Amazon, road paving fears grow as rivers run dry

Behind a narrow border of trees, a crop duster sprays clouds of agrochemicals onto the vast soy fields stretching out on both sides of the BR-319 highway that cuts deep into Brazil's Amazon rainfores...

22 May 2024

In drought-hit Amazon, road paving fears grow as rivers run dry

News / Policy & Finance

Fossil fuel financing decline in 2022 a 'blip' as oil majors plot expansion

...carbon transition fuel. Last year's overall decline in dirty energy financing can be explained by record energy major profits in the wake of the Ukraine invasion, rather than banks living up to climat...

18 Apr 2023

Fossil fuel financing decline in 2022 a 'blip' as oil majors plot expansion

News / Corporate Responsibility

Why having a corporate purpose can help companies to create value

...carbon from real estate development. “The moment we get a hold of a plot of land, we ask ourselves how can we engage with architects, engineers and individuals in our supply chain to ensure that we cr...

22 Mar 2023

Why having a corporate purpose can help companies to create value

News / Policy & Finance

Why China and India disagree on green mineral supply chains

...carbon technologies, found a recent report commissioned by India's Ministry of Mines. Bolivia has the largest deposits of unmined lithium, while 46 per cent of cobalt reserves are in the Democratic Re...

3 Aug 2023

Why China and India disagree on green mineral supply chains

Opinion / Energy

Green power is the first domino

...carbonising other sectors, such as buildings, transportation, and manufacturing. The challenge, then, is to achieve “24/7 carbon-free energy” (24/7 CFE): the total elimination of carbon from the elect...

11 Nov 2022

Green power is the first domino

News / Cities

‘One less mouth to feed’: Climate disasters linked to child marriage in Bangladesh

Rukhsar Begum* is a 21-year-old woman from Rowmari, an area of Kurigram district in the north of Bangladesh. She and her family were displaced from their home on a riverine island on the Brahmaputra r...

20 May 2024

‘One less mouth to feed’: Climate disasters linked to child marriage in Bangladesh

News / Water

Across Asia, China has ‘most to lose’ if mother rivers run dry and don’t recover from climate change

...carbon emissions. It also suggests that the use of less water-intensive plant cooling technologies, when deployed together with a renewable expansion, can reduce the water intensity of Chinese power ...

5 Jun 2023

Across Asia, China has ‘most to lose’ if mother rivers run dry and don’t recover from climate change

News / Energy

Wind over solar, gas over coal: Tracking key changes in Vietnam’s 10-year power plan

...carbon dioxide emissions when burned, will not help Vietnam meet its 2050 net-zero emissions targets. Natural gas is predominantly methane – a much stronger greenhouse gas than carbon dioxide – and le...

24 May 2023

Wind over solar, gas over coal: Tracking key changes in Vietnam’s 10-year power plan

Opinion / Carbon & Climate

4 factors driving 2023’s extreme heat and climate disasters

...carbon dioxide in the atmosphere by 50%, primarily through combustion of fossil fuels in vehicles and power plants. The warming from greenhouse gases is actually greater than 2 F (1.1 C), but it has b...

31 Jul 2023

4 factors driving 2023’s extreme heat and climate disasters

Opinion / Policy & Finance

Eco-economic development amid COP15

...carbon emissions. They are estimated to have an economic wealth valued at $550 billion. First, we are already facing one of the largest food-security crises in modern history. Since fish are an impor...

13 Dec 2022

Eco-economic development amid COP15

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