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News / Carbon & Climate

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

...Renewable energy is being set up faster than ever Rick Greenough, professor of energy systems, De Montfort University 2018 saw the largest annual increase in global renewable generation capacity ever,...

7 Jan 2019

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

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Opinion / Carbon & Climate

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

...renewable energy technology and reduce waste – it can save money even now. Let governments and politicians hear your voice. Try to convince friends and family that things need to change. In the long t...

31 Mar 2020

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

News / Energy

Legal fight over Bali coal power plant illuminates Indonesia energy dilemma

...renewable energy is for local governments to make, he said, adding that energy security, the environment and cost should all be considered. Central government policy on renewable energy has sought to ...

28 Jun 2018

Legal fight over Bali coal power plant illuminates Indonesia energy dilemma

News / Energy

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

...renewable energy act as insurance against the contingency of higher grid electricity prices in the future, the report finds. There are now clear bottom-line benefits to switching to renewable energies...

23 May 2018

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

Opinion / Water

Making ocean protection an investment priority

...renewable energy and natural resources. Their environmental value is huge. Oceans have taken up between 20-30 per cent of human-induced carbon dioxide emissions since the 1980s. They produce over half...

29 Oct 2019

Making ocean protection an investment priority

News / Policy & Finance

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

...renewable energy sector which is struggling to get financing. A report by the Asian Development Bank (ADB) published in April said that while policies exist to push for renewable energy development in...

4 Jul 2018

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

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

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 / Corporate Responsibility

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

...renewable energy in a bid to reduce its carbon emissions and mitigate climate change. He added that groups from the United States had no business criticizing Indonesia on this point, given the U.S. wi...

13 Mar 2019

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

News / Carbon & Climate

Green New Deal aims for triple payback

...renewable energy, zero carbon homes, efficient and clean mass transport systems delivered by switching investments from old, dirty ways of doing things and with innovative financial mechanisms. The op...

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

...renewable energy infrastructure or more efficient cook stoves. To the extent they provide a buffer against the effects of climate harms already occurring, they are on the right side of the moral ledge...

18 Mar 2019

If you are flying, you should be buying carbon offsets

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 / 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

News / Policy & Finance

Brics turns ten

...renewable energy projects, it defers to recipient countries’ environmental standards. This means that the NDB, despite promising to be a revolutionary tool for sustainable development, has not ruled o...

21 Nov 2019

Brics turns ten

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 / Policy & Finance

Competition fears threaten Chinese investment in US clean tech

...renewable energy by 2020. US cleantech companies have welcomed this fresh source of capital after enduring funding dry spells over the last decade.A new investment fund is looking to strengthen this r...

17 Dec 2018

Competition fears threaten Chinese investment in US clean tech

News / Energy

Cambodia to boost clean energy use—but coal plants planned too

...renewables such as solar accounting for less than 1 per cent, he said. But Jona said the government has plans to develop more clean energy, especially in hard-to-reach communities. "We hope that solar...

7 Nov 2018

Cambodia to boost clean energy use—but coal plants planned too

News / Energy

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

...renewable power source. However, in a review paper, recently published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America (PNAS), researchers argue that the true costs ...

7 Mar 2019

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

Tourists taste betel nut in a village in Southeast Asia

Opinion / Lifestyle

Experiences aren’t always better for the planet—here’s how to make memories sustainably

In the age of FOMO (fear of missing out) and YOLO (you only live once), people are pursuing sensations and memories over material products more than ever. Statistics from Barclaycard show that in the ...

13 Dec 2019

Experiences aren’t always better for the planet—here’s how to make memories sustainably

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