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Malaysian shoppers are willing to pay more for environment-friendly, fair trade items

...flooding, also shows more willingness to donate, with 31% saying they would contribute more this year than last year. Among those surveyed, affinity towards social organisations that deal with childre...

13 Mar 2012

Malaysian shoppers are willing to pay more for environment-friendly, fair trade items

News / Carbon & Climate

Scarce resources, climate biggest threats to world health

...floods, enabling disease-carrying water snails to travel to new areas. "Climate change will progressively weaken the Earth's life support mechanism," McMichael said. "Health is not just collateral dam...

17 Oct 2011

Scarce resources, climate biggest threats to world health

News / Water

Desal consortium may seek compensation

...floods damaged construction works, are also seeking compensation. They claim the construction company building pipelines for the desalination plant altered flood levees and did not repair them, exposi...

26 Apr 2011

Desal consortium may seek compensation

Opinion / Policy & Finance

Food security must be on the table at Rio+20: Joint opinion article by the heads of FAO, IFAD, WFP and Bioversity

...floods. They stand quietly in the markets and watch others buy food that has become too expensive for them to afford. Who are they? They are the hundreds of millions of people who strive – and often ...

21 Jun 2012

Food security must be on the table at Rio+20: Joint opinion article by the heads of FAO, IFAD, WFP and Bioversity

News / Energy

Nuclear concerns dominate Taiwan environmental poll

...flooding in Thailand; world population topping 7 billion; and Brazil’s greenlighting of the Belo Monte Dam. “The poll shows that environmental sustainability is apparently the top concern for local in...

2 Jan 2012

Nuclear concerns dominate Taiwan environmental poll

Press Releases / Eco-Business

As world goes urban, new focus on role of trees in cities

...flooding and can help cities save energy by acting as a buffer from hot weather. "The accelerating rate of natural disturbances affecting cities such as storms, droughts, floods and landslides reminds...

3 Oct 2011

As world goes urban, new focus on role of trees in cities

News / Water

Driving change in water use amongst India's cotton farmers

...Flood irrigation is traditionally used in cotton production, but CottonConnect promotes drip irrigation, alternating furrows and rainwater harvesting technologies to help farmers conserve and susta...

18 Jul 2012

Driving change in water use amongst India's cotton farmers

News / Energy

Japan approves renewable subsidies in shift from nuclear power

...flood of cheap foreign panel manufacturers into Japan," said CLSA analyst Penn Bowers. Power cuts push drive for self-sufficiency Near Sendai on Japan's northeast cost, which was devastated by the ear...

17 Jun 2012

Japan approves renewable subsidies in shift from nuclear power

Opinion / Policy & Finance

Ignoring forests won’t bring Rio+20’s ‘future we want’, by Louis Verchot

...flooding to aridity and for catastrophic reductions of water quality. Forests and cities In many developing urban centres, wood charcoal is the fuel of choice. In Dar es Salaam, Tanzania’s capital, th...

14 Feb 2012

Ignoring forests won’t bring Rio+20’s ‘future we want’, by Louis Verchot

News / Food & Agriculture

Carbon credits to benefit farmers

...flooded fields. Most farmers in the country do not have expertise on how to cut emissions during farming procedures. In addition, many of them lack sufficient knowledge about land reparation, water ma...

9 Apr 2012

Carbon credits to benefit farmers

News / Policy & Finance

Science not politics must drive Durban climate talks

...floods, stronger cyclones, landslides and more intense droughts are likely across the globe this century. "I am afraid the way the whole thing is structured loses sight of these realities," Pachauri s...

23 Nov 2011

Science not politics must drive Durban climate talks

News / Carbon & Climate

PNG adopts ancestral practices to lower carbon footprint

...flooding and damaging houses. Tending to mangroves is an ancient PNG custom, he said. He added that the harmful effects of climate change are "a bleak story, however, this is not a doomsday situation....

23 Nov 2011

PNG adopts ancestral practices to lower carbon footprint

News / Carbon & Climate

EU airline carbon law waivers worth eyeing: envoy

...flooding. The airlines carbon tax forms part of measures the bloc says will help it fulfill its pledge to reduce emissions by 20 percent below 1990 levels by 2020. Critics have said that the unilatera...

23 Jan 2012

EU airline carbon law waivers worth eyeing: envoy

News / Waste

Las Piñas deploys 'anti-plastic' police to assist in environmental drive

...floods to avert the spread of diseases. Aguilar also mobilized all environment protection committees in 20 barangays to link up with the city’s Environment and Sanitation Center and Clean and Green Co...

23 Jan 2012

Las Piñas deploys 'anti-plastic' police to assist in environmental drive

News / Carbon & Climate

UN sounds environment alarm ahead of Rio summit

...flooding. There are also economic costs. The annual economic damage from climate change is estimated at 1-2 percent of world GDP by 2100, if temperatures increase by 2.5 degrees Celsius, UNEP says. Cu...

6 Jun 2012

UN sounds environment alarm ahead of Rio summit

News / Food & Agriculture

Researchers focus on drought tolerant rice varieties

The Rice and Cash Crops Research Centre is studying varieties of rice that are resistant to drought after successful research into rice seeds that can withstand flooding. The project, which involves t...

28 Apr 2011

Researchers focus on drought tolerant rice varieties

News / Water

Singapore to meet water target before deadline: Southeast Asia

...floods that added stress to its drainage systems, where parts of the Orchard Road shopping belt were affected over the past two years. PUB is also working on reducing water consumption, he said, with ...

30 Jul 2012

Singapore to meet water target before deadline: Southeast Asia

Press Releases / Empowerment WORKS

International forum brings local solutions into the Olympics spotlight

...floods, fires and temperatures; new approaches to climate and institutional change are in all-time demand. With health and education budgets being cut when services are most needed, sustaining a quali...

28 Jul 2012

International forum brings local solutions into the Olympics spotlight

News / Energy

VND6,000 billion to build Lai Chau hydro-electric power plant

...floods, providing water for the Red River delta region, ensuring national security, and improving people’s living conditions in the northwest.

8 Oct 2011

VND6,000 billion to build Lai Chau hydro-electric power plant

News / Policy & Finance

Construct green buildings to save energy: Narendra Modi

...floods. If we do not take care of environment in the coming years, we may see snowfall in Kutch," said Modi. Talking about government guidelines, Denmark ambassador Freddy Svane said that Centre and s...

29 Nov 2011

Construct green buildings to save energy: Narendra Modi

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