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News / Carbon & Climate

Study counts lives saved with push for 1.50C climate target

...renewables by 2030. But the high upfront cost of installing renewables is an obstacle.Dereje Senshaw, a Korea-based researcher for the GGGI and co-author of the study, says the best way to find the mo...

5 Apr 2018

Study counts lives saved with push for 1.50C climate target

News / Energy

Bioenergy: A solution to three problems?

Indonesia’s riddle of how to balance environmental responsibility with its rapid development—and the energy and manpower needed to keep up the pace—only seems to raise more conundrums therein. This ‘f...

15 Oct 2018

Bioenergy: A solution to three problems?

Opinion / Policy & Finance

Throwing cash at the Great Barrier Reef won't bring back the corals

...renewables or climate mitigation and adaptation will be forthcoming. The government continues to throw billions of our taxpayer dollars into fossil fuel subsidies while stripping money from effective ...

17 May 2018

Throwing cash at the Great Barrier Reef won't bring back the corals

News / Carbon & Climate

What happens when bad data drives sustainability policies?

Data allows cities to track their progress, highlight areas for improvement, and set ambitious targets for the future, said panellists at the 2018 Asia-Pacific Carbon Forum in Singapore last week. Bu...

20 Jul 2018

What happens when bad data drives sustainability policies?

Opinion / Water

Southeast Asia and the right to safe water

On 6 November, the Mekong River Commission acknowledged that climate change had exacerbated this year’s wildly varying water levels on the Mekong – which saw the mighty river reduced to a trickle in p...

18 Nov 2019

Southeast Asia and the right to safe water

News / Energy

India and China drive global uptick in carbon emissions

...renewables is yet to offset expansion in fossil energy and besides energy, decarbonisation has to happen with transport, buildings and industry as well, it said. “The goal of reaching a decarbonised e...

7 Dec 2018

India and China drive global uptick in carbon emissions

News / Energy

Energy storage’s day in the Singapore sun

Talk about smart grids and renewable energy, and images of gleaming solar panels, spinning wind turbines and roaring hydropower are likely to come to mind. Less so the rows of non-descript batteries w...

11 May 2018

Energy storage’s day in the Singapore sun

News / Transport

The road to green freight in Southeast Asia

Asia’s freight industry is at a tipping point. Between 2018 and 2025, the e-commerce market in Southeast Asia alone is expected to grow fourfold, from US$23.2 billion to US$102 billion, requiring an a...

22 Oct 2019

The road to green freight in Southeast Asia

Opinion / Corporate Responsibility

Why CEOs need to become activists in sustainability

As the world becomes increasingly politically polarised and some governments abandon sustainable initiatives, like US President Donald Trump’s announcement to pull out of the Paris Agreement in 2017, ...

11 Jun 2018

Why CEOs need to become activists in sustainability

News / Cities

Are decentralised communities the way forward for sustainable cities?

To realise the vision of a circular economy that reuses raw materials and minimises emissions and waste, it may be necessary to challenge the oft-cited projection that two-thirds of the world’s people...

30 Aug 2019

Are decentralised communities the way forward for sustainable cities?

News / Carbon & Climate

A ‘jigsaw’ approach to protecting the environment

With interest in sustainability issues growing worldwide, more international events are needed for nations, local governments, companies and non-profit groups to exchange ideas, share technologies and...

4 Jul 2019

A ‘jigsaw’ approach to protecting the environment

News / Policy & Finance

World Bank ups funds to tackle 'existential threat' of climate change

The World Bank will give equal weight to curbing emissions and helping poor countries deal with the "disastrous effects" of a warming world as it steps up investments to tackle climate change in the f...

4 Dec 2018

World Bank ups funds to tackle 'existential threat' of climate change

News / Energy

How to unlock renewables? Cheaper, cleaner, better batteries

...renewables. “Energy storage systems provide the missing link in the renewable energy revolution by storing energy from when it is produced—when the wind blows or the sun shines—to when it is needed on...

23 Apr 2018

How to unlock renewables? Cheaper, cleaner, better batteries

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News / Energy

Australia's untapped 'solar superpower' potential

...renewables costs come down. In the US, for instance, the Carbon Tracker initiative shows that in Colorado, the operating cost of coal is higher than all new projects that combine wind and storage, an...

14 Mar 2018

Australia's untapped 'solar superpower' potential

News / Energy

After carbon capture, conversion offers new energy possibilities

Like many researchers, Phil De Luna finds inspiration in nature — in this case, the way plants use photosynthesis to make food from carbon dioxide, water and sunlight. He envisions a day when science ...

11 Apr 2018

After carbon capture, conversion offers new energy possibilities

News / Carbon & Climate

This small city in the Philippines is taking big steps to curb emissions

San Carlos City in Negros Occidental, the Philippines, was once home to one of the country’s biggest sugar mills. But as the growth of the sugar industry has slowed since the 1980s, the city has sough...

27 Mar 2018

This small city in the Philippines is taking big steps to curb emissions

News / Energy

Listening to women's voices in Vietnam's energy debate

...renewables used. Vietnam is well placed to achieve those aims, "as we have abundant non-hydro renewable energy resources," Khanh said. "There is a great opportunity for our nation to move beyond coal....

8 May 2018

Listening to women's voices in Vietnam's energy debate

Opinion / Green Buildings

Three lessons for the building sector from the Global Climate Action Summit

Reflecting on the Global Climate Action Summit in San Francisco two weeks ago, the World Green Building Council (WorldGBC) team and I were inspired by the range of new commitments by global leaders be...

2 Oct 2018

Three lessons for the building sector from the Global Climate Action Summit

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Opinion / Policy & Finance

Time to step up climate action

Our collective efforts to decarbonise markets are not happening fast enough—at this point in time it seems almost impossible that we’ll meet the goal to limit global temperature increases to well belo...

28 Nov 2018

Time to step up climate action

News / Waste

Will this solar-powered device clean the world's most polluted rivers?

It had rained all morning across Jakarta on the first Tuesday in February. The rivers in the Indonesian capital quickly filled up, carrying all kinds of debris toward the Java Sea. In one of the city’...

18 Mar 2020

Will this solar-powered device clean the world's most polluted rivers?

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