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Emails exposing dubious net-zero claims show Big Oil 'does not deserve' PR counsel: campaigner

...the communications industry, and help them transition their businesses to clean energy. "There's a big opportunity in making them [oil and gas majors] a part of the solution," he said. Meisel said the...

28 Sep 2022

Emails exposing dubious net-zero claims show Big Oil 'does not deserve' PR counsel: campaigner

News / Carbon & Climate

Global warming makes more heatwaves inevitable for East Asia

...They define a heatwave as at least three consecutive days where the daily mean temperature is in the 90th percentile or above (that is, in the highest 10 per cent of temperatures). The researchers the...

31 Aug 2022

Global warming makes more heatwaves inevitable for East Asia

News / Manufacturing

Heads are turning to sustainable fashion in India

...the future for sustainable fashion is all about transparency and accountability. "Where are the clothes produced? Who made them and what are they made of? What impact do they have on the climate?’’ sa...

26 Sep 2022

Heads are turning to sustainable fashion in India

News / Food & Agriculture

Climate change exacerbates food crisis in Nepal’s poorest region

...the current circumstances for a long time. We don’t have any savings to migrate. The only option is either the government arranges water facilities, or relocates the whole settlement to another place,...

17 May 2022

Climate change exacerbates food crisis in Nepal’s poorest region

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Low-cost, low-tech cooling offers hope for Indian slums

...the rise among the communities they work with. “The State’s climate change preparedness plans do not take into account the very poor and the impact on their livelihoods,” she said. “These homegrown so...

13 Feb 2023

Low-cost, low-tech cooling offers hope for Indian slums

Opinion / Energy

Global energy crisis may hinder LNG plans in the Philippines

...the recent success of the Green Energy Auction Program. If held annually, the auction could significantly reduce the country’s need for new LNG capacity over the next decade. As the Philippines accele...

1 Aug 2022

Global energy crisis may hinder LNG plans in the Philippines

News / Policy & Finance

Microfinance turns India's rural women into budding entrepreneurs

...them dodge loan sharks and break debt cycles, but had also equipped them to start small businesses that had eased their cash flow problems, especially during the Covid-19 pandemic. They highlighted th...

7 Dec 2022

Microfinance turns India's rural women into budding entrepreneurs

News / Food & Agriculture

Asian banks are failing women in agribusiness: study

...the sustainability policies of Asian banks. The report said the scores of the policy assessment (of the publicly disclosed policies of the banks) equate to a “significant gap” between what is expected...

8 Mar 2022

Asian banks are failing women in agribusiness: study

Opinion / Policy & Finance

Sarawak communities gather data to challenge claims made by logging company

...the social impact assessment, which says: those with family members in the larger towns “... purchase their household needs and transport them back to the villagers. Hence, the impact of the reduced f...

25 Jun 2021

Sarawak communities gather data to challenge claims made by logging company

News / Carbon & Climate

Analysis: the lack of diversity in climate-science research

...There is the insinuation that if the two people are working closely together, then there must be something going on between the two of them — that kind of thing. The female academics themselves tend t...

7 Oct 2021

Analysis: the lack of diversity in climate-science research

News / Food & Agriculture

Philippine farmers fear crop, river contamination as mining moratorium is lifted

...the biodiversity value of natural forests is far greater than plantations, and the more diverse the ecosystems are, both at the species and habitat level, the more stable they are and have the ability...

4 Feb 2022

Philippine farmers fear crop, river contamination as mining moratorium is lifted

News / Policy & Finance

Floggings to forced marriages—women's freedoms under threat from Taliban

...There is no relevance of their statements to the situation on the ground. In Herat, the female members of parliament, their houses were searched and their cars were taken away (when the Taliban took c...

16 Aug 2021

Floggings to forced marriages—women's freedoms under threat from Taliban

News / Policy & Finance

Women sacrifice their health to shield families from spiking costs

When the pain started in Agnes Wachira's chest almost six months ago, the Kenyan mother-of-three dismissed it as a symptom of the daily grind of working long hours hand-washing clothes in the narrow l...

23 Sep 2022

Women sacrifice their health to shield families from spiking costs

Opinion / Carbon & Climate

Managing energy crises in an age of climate disruption

...the scissors.” As the UN Environment Programme emphasised in two pre-COP26 reports, that means simultaneously closing the huge gaps in climate action on both the demand and the supply side. Despite th...

21 Dec 2021

Managing energy crises in an age of climate disruption

Press Releases / UOB Asset Management

Can sustainable Asian investing pay off?

...the next few months. That said, it is helpful to put on a longer-term lens when thinking about Asian investing. Asia is one of the fastest-growing regions in the world. Already, nearly half of the wo...

18 Oct 2022

Can sustainable Asian investing pay off?

News / Energy

Community reels as Indian hydropower project leaves homes, farms drowned

...the people. He also added that the villagers have been compensated enough for their land. In the 48 hours that the residents were given to evict the village, they had to move all their belongings. The...

13 May 2022

Community reels as Indian hydropower project leaves homes, farms drowned

News / Water

Lahore’s new city plan beset by legal challenges and flood worries

...the agreed deputy commissioner rate and in addition [giving them] a plot in the new Ravi city. Most of them have been compensated over the years.” A ‘plan’ to damage the environment? While the Ravi ar...

28 Dec 2022

Lahore’s new city plan beset by legal challenges and flood worries

News / Policy & Finance

COP27 fossil fuel lobbyists criticised amid Africa energy debate

...They are destroying the environment - and anything that destroys the environment destroys life, and we are dying in masses." "They are the ones delaying (climate) action. They have their own agen...

11 Nov 2022

COP27 fossil fuel lobbyists criticised amid Africa energy debate

News / Food & Agriculture

In Colombia, a seed bank unlocks genetic secrets in climate fight

...the collection. "Some farmers know the seeds they want, the same their grandfathers and those before them used. Or we can suggest which seeds to use according to their local conditions," said Santos, ...

17 Oct 2022

In Colombia, a seed bank unlocks genetic secrets in climate fight

News / Policy & Finance

Divestment a 'short-term' fix that does not decarbonise real economy: net-zero alliance Asia chief

...The energy crisis caused by the sharp industrial rebound after Covid-19 lockdowns, as well as the Russia-Ukraine conflict, has also thrown open the question of whether the financial sector is helping ...

21 Sep 2022

Divestment a 'short-term' fix that does not decarbonise real economy: net-zero alliance Asia chief

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