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

Bank of China has promised to evaluate a hydroelectric project it is helping fund in Indonesia, which activists say threatens the only known habitat of the Tapanuli orangutan, the rarest great ape spe...

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

If you haven’t yet heard of the Green New Deal, chances are that you soon will. To its growing band of supporters, it looks like an idea whose time has come. Just suppose we could see a way to transf...

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

You desperately want to book that flight for the family wedding. But the frightening Fourth National Climate Assessment released by the US Global Change Research Program in November has flipped on the...

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

Leaders from Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa met in Brazil last week to discuss the future of the Brics bloc.They identified loans supporting sustainable development from the New Develop...

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

In 2011, a Boston-based battery startup took a bet on China. The company, Boston Power, was facing a funding setback when Chinese firm Golden Sand River swooped in with a compelling investment offer....

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

An estimated 3,700 dams are either planned or under construction in developing countries around the world — including 147 slated for the Amazon basin region. At face value, dams seem like a good deal ...

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

News / Corporate Responsibility

Amazon.com staff warned over criticising company's climate policy

Amazon.com Inc employees who publicly demanded more aggressive action by the company to combat climate change have been told they violated company policy, with the US e-commerce giant saying further i...

7 Jan 2020

Amazon.com staff warned over criticising company's climate policy

Opinion / Policy & Finance

A new deal for sustainable development

Almost nine decades ago, newly elected US President Franklin Roosevelt introduced the New Deal in 1933 in response to the Great Depression. The New Deal consisted of a number of mutually supportive in...

15 Nov 2019

A new deal for sustainable development

Opinion / Policy & Finance

How did the world do on human rights this year?

As we approach the last days of the decade, it’s important to reflect on the fight for human rights, the setbacks and successes over the past year in Australia and around the world. Our list isn’t ran...

11 Dec 2019

How did the world do on human rights this year?

Opinion / Carbon & Climate

Turning to faiths to save the planet

Young environmental activist Greta Thunberg’s famous quote “listen to the scientists”, during her meeting with the US Congress is a clarion call for policy-makers to take steps to save the planet. T...

14 Nov 2019

Turning to faiths to save the planet

News / Energy

Indonesia neglects renewables in export and domestic-driven coal boon

...renewables as a competitive threat in the Indonesian market. “While speakers at the conference see renewables as a threat because prices for renewables have declined in the past 10 years, it’s not [co...

31 May 2018

Indonesia neglects renewables in export and domestic-driven coal boon

Ramon Grimaldo of Tanggol Kalikasan reiterates the harmful effects that coal plants pose on the environment, particularly to the ocean and the creatures living in it.

News / Energy

How a small parish is leading the fight against coal in the Philippines

...renewables could help keep costs down. In a study, iCSC found out that the country can save up to P10 billion per year if renewable energy is made available to small islands instead of importing diese...

13 Jul 2018

How a small parish is leading the fight against coal in the Philippines

News / Energy

Smarter renewables open up new markets

It’s bad news for Old King Coal, Big Oil and their mates, but smarter renewables are helping to break new ground. The offshore wind industry and concentrated solar power have so far been tried only on...

10 Jul 2018

Smarter renewables open up new markets

News / Carbon & Climate

Junk fossil fuel plants and stay below 1.5°C

British scientists have worked out how to make sure of a better-than-even chance that 195 nations can fulfill a promise made in Paris in 2015 to stop global warming at 1.5°C by the end of the century:...

25 Jan 2019

Junk fossil fuel plants and stay below 1.5°C

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