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Opinion / Carbon & Climate

The ides of the climate crisis

On the Ides of March (March 15), the day by which ancient Romans were expected to settle their debts, young people in 60 countries around the world will stage a school walkout to press world leaders f...

14 Mar 2019

The ides of the climate crisis

Opinion / Carbon & Climate

Why Asian hospitals need to shrink their carbon footprint

Despite its mandate to protect and save lives, the healthcare sector is a major source of carbon emissions. Hospitals use vast resources, energy-intensive equipment, operate around the clock, and gene...

2 Apr 2019

Why Asian hospitals need to shrink their carbon footprint

Economic growth spelled out in Scrabble tiles

Opinion / Policy & Finance

Sooner or later, we have to stop economic growth—and we'll be better for it

Both the US economy and the global economy have expanded dramatically in the past century, as have life expectancies and material progress. Economists raised in this period of plenty assume that growt...

11 Jan 2019

Sooner or later, we have to stop economic growth—and we'll be better for it

Martyn Tickner, Alliance to End Plastic Waste. Image: supplied

News / Waste

From plastic producer to pollution fighter: Martyn Tickner on the dilemma facing the war on waste

Martyn Tickner has spent a 40-year career in the petrochemicals industry working for plastic producers, and wants to finish it in a job tackling a problem his industry is often blamed for creating. Th...

20 May 2020

From plastic producer to pollution fighter: Martyn Tickner on the dilemma facing the war on waste

News / Carbon & Climate

As Covid-19 pandemic deepens, global wildlife treaty faces scrutiny

The Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species, popularly known as CITES, is a rare animal: an international environmental treaty with teeth. It regulates the global trade in some of the ...

18 May 2020

As Covid-19 pandemic deepens, global wildlife treaty faces scrutiny

Antonio Guterres and Patricia Espinosa COP25

News / Policy & Finance

What’s at stake at the COP25 climate conference?

“Who said it is impossible?”The slogan of October’s COP25 preparatory meeting in Costa Rica was designed to spur global climate action. It was followed, oddly enough, by a series of improbable events....

3 Dec 2019

What’s at stake at the COP25 climate conference?

News / Corporate Responsibility

PepsiCo updates sustainable palm oil policy to close supplier loophole

Environmental activists have welcomed food and beverage giant PepsiCo’s move to update its palm oil sustainability policy, following years of pressure over a supply chain tainted by deforestation, pea...

12 Mar 2020

PepsiCo updates sustainable palm oil policy to close supplier loophole

News / Transport

Hyperloop promises ultrafast transportation. But what does it mean for the environment?

...renewables industry is beginning to acknowledge. Ahlborn said the concrete needed to construct the hyperloop infrastructure poses another environmental challenge. Concrete will likely be used for the ...

13 Dec 2018

Hyperloop promises ultrafast transportation. But what does it mean for the environment?

News / Carbon & Climate

This powder could cheaply capture carbon pollution from power plants

A recent UN report found that to prevent catastrophic climate change, humans will not only need to drastically cut emissions in just a few short years. People will also need to generate power from win...

11 Jan 2019

This powder could cheaply capture carbon pollution from power plants

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

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

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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

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

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

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 / 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 / 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

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

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

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