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Houston, you have a problem. Flooding caused by Hurricane Harvey

News / Carbon & Climate

Be afraid—11 scary facts, stats and lies about our planet this Halloween

...renewable energy—because it has a rainy season. Near-equatorial Malaysia has year-round sunshine and, like the rest of Southeast Asia, is twice as sunny as Northern Europe. Yet Southeast Asia is the w...

31 Oct 2018

Be afraid—11 scary facts, stats and lies about our planet this Halloween

News / Energy

Waste-to-energy: A renewable opportunity for Southeast Asia?

Southeast Asia’s urban population is projected to rise to nearly 400 million by 2030, requiring significant investment in waste management to cope with the increase in garbage. The growth in electrici...

22 Feb 2019

Waste-to-energy: A renewable opportunity for Southeast Asia?

News / Food & Agriculture

As fires burn, can Indonesia avoid repeat of 2015 haze crisis?

As another outbreak of forest fires in Indonesia sends harmful smoke drifting across parts of Southeast Asia, researchers and environmental activists have urged Jakarta to step up efforts to prevent a...

6 Aug 2019

As fires burn, can Indonesia avoid repeat of 2015 haze crisis?

News / Policy & Finance

Australian islanders to lodge landmark UN complaint on climate change

...renewable energy technology, and protecting the environment. "We are investing A$3 million ($2.1 million) to deliver against the environmental management component of the Torres Strait Development Pla...

14 May 2019

Australian islanders to lodge landmark UN complaint on climate change

News / Energy

'Consistently cheaper' clean energy set to connect world's poor—power experts

...renewable energy will soon be "consistently cheaper" than electricity from fossil fuels, according to the head of the world's renewable energy agency. By 2020, most wind and solar power technology now...

29 Jan 2018

'Consistently cheaper' clean energy set to connect world's poor—power experts

News / Policy & Finance

Global warming is exacerbating global economic inequality

...renewable energy sources might offer a partial solution to both the climate crisis and global inequality. Diffenbaugh and Burke write: “Given the magnitude of the warming-induced growth penalties that...

13 May 2019

Global warming is exacerbating global economic inequality

Opinion / Carbon & Climate

Here's what could go wrong with the circular economy—and how to keep it on track

The circular economy—one that breaks the link between economic growth and use of limited resources and also cuts waste from the system—is on the minds of corporate sustainability professionals, govern...

30 Aug 2019

Here's what could go wrong with the circular economy—and how to keep it on track

News / Policy & Finance

UN agency seeks to marry 'social good and profit making'

...renewable energy and financial services. In Cambodia, investments will go toward facilities in the Phnom Penh SEZ, including low-cost homes for workers, as well as renewable energy. With younger popul...

24 May 2018

UN agency seeks to marry 'social good and profit making'

News / Waste

Tackling Southeast Asia's plastic waste crisis

...renewable energy and clean water, builds plants that can use plastics, construction debris, food, textiles and other waste to create air-conditioning, electricity and steam. The company's gasification...

28 Aug 2019

Tackling Southeast Asia's plastic waste crisis

Plastic litter washed up on the coasts of Sabah, Malaysia. Image: WWF-Malaysia

News / Waste

Plastic polluters launch US$1.5bn waste collection and recycling fund

A coalition of the world's biggest plastic producers and users has set up a new US$1.5 billion fund to improve waste collection and recycling in developing countries. The fund will focus its spending ...

16 Jan 2019

Plastic polluters launch US$1.5bn waste collection and recycling fund

News / Energy

Hydrogen could see off fossil fuels

Hydrogen is the least talked-about renewable energy but has the greatest potential to replace fossil fuels, both to heat homes and to provide fuel for road transport. The possibility of using hydrogen...

13 Feb 2018

Hydrogen could see off fossil fuels

News / Carbon & Climate

Focus on cities could cut China's emissions by 30%

...renewable energy and outsourcing energy-intensive production to other regions. But manufacturing cities in northern Shanxi province, which rely heavily on coal, saw an annual average increase of more ...

29 Jun 2018

Focus on cities could cut China's emissions by 30%

News / Water

Exploitation of the Earth’s last frontier will leave the world in deep water

...renewable energy do not require industrial expansion into new frontiers for metal or mineral extraction. Operations in the lowest depths of the ocean would undermine efforts to mitigate climate change...

5 Jul 2019

Exploitation of the Earth’s last frontier will leave the world in deep water

News / Waste

Consumer goods giants test reusable packaging with new Loop service

In a joint attempt to phase out plastic packaging, the world’s largest companies have partnered with global recycling firm TerraCycle to introduce a new zero-waste scheme that could change the way peo...

30 Jan 2019

Consumer goods giants test reusable packaging with new Loop service

Opinion / Energy

Electricity in the Philippines does not need to be so expensive—or dirty

...renewable energy and storage, reliance on coal makes less and less sense. Unfortunately, the Philippines’ growing dependence on imported coal is tied directly to regulatory practices that act as impli...

16 May 2018

Electricity in the Philippines does not need to be so expensive—or dirty

Simon Bennett, The China Navigation Company

News / Transport

Meet the Eco-Business A-Listers: Simon Bennett, shipping decarboniser

Simon Bennett's job is complex, but it is also the easiest job in the world, he says. He is general manager of sustainable development for The China Navigation Company (CNCo), the deep sea shipping a...

15 Dec 2019

Meet the Eco-Business A-Listers: Simon Bennett, shipping decarboniser

Videos / Waste

A circular economy could save China five trillion dollars

...renewable energy, taken action to improve waste management by banning 24 categories of foreign waste imports, and introduced a framework for extended producer responsibility (EPR) to drive improvement...

5 Nov 2018

A circular economy could save China five trillion dollars

News / Carbon & Climate

Food webs alter as warmer seas change colour

...renewable energy sources, to discover that wavelengths of light around the blue-green spectrum shifted the fastest. The shifts in colour could tell a story of altered ecosystems. “The nice thing about...

12 Feb 2019

Food webs alter as warmer seas change colour

Opinion / Carbon & Climate

Resource depletion is a serious problem, but ‘footprint’ estimates don’t tell us much about it

...renewable biological resources across six land use types: forests, fishing grounds, croplands, grazing lands, developed lands and the area of forest required to offset human carbon emissions – that is...

25 Jul 2019

Resource depletion is a serious problem, but ‘footprint’ estimates don’t tell us much about it

News / Policy & Finance

Xie Zhenhua: China’s top climate negotiator steps down

...renewable energy and a decisive break from burning coal.Coal consumption in the past two years has rebounded but not returned to the level seen in 2013-2014, which many experts believe was a peak that...

12 Dec 2019

Xie Zhenhua: China’s top climate negotiator steps down

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