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

With the costs of creating electricity from solar power and wind continuing to fall, electricity from renewable energy will soon be "consistently cheaper" than electricity from fossil fuels, according...

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

New research finds that global warming has exacerbated global economic inequality, making already-wealthy nations even richer while slowing economic growth in poorer countries. According to the study,...

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'

A United Nations body is offering $40,000 for the best designed affordable housing for low-income workers at an industrial zone in Cambodia's capital, as part of its strategy to encourage investment i...

24 May 2018

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

News / Waste

Tackling Southeast Asia's plastic waste crisis

The world’s oceans are awash with plastic, and Southeast Asia is a major culprit. In a 2015 report, the non-profit Ocean Conservancy noted that 55 to 60 percent of plastic waste entering the oceans co...

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

...renewables and have become the focus of many governments with targets for switching away from petrol and diesel, particularly in cities with air pollution problems. But hydrogen has even greater poten...

13 Feb 2018

Hydrogen could see off fossil fuels

News / Carbon & Climate

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

China could slash its climate-changing emissions by 30 per cent if all its cities cleaned up pollution from their dirtiest power plants and factories, researchers said on Wednesday. The world's bigges...

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

The world's largest ecosystem is at risk of toxic pollution, habitat disruption and species extinction as more countries and companies eye the ocean floor for metals and minerals, according to a new r...

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

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

Opinion / Energy

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

It’s time to redesign the Philippine electricity sector. Electricity rates in the country are among the highest in Southeast Asia, due in large part to our dependence on expensive imported diesel, oil...

16 May 2018

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

Videos / Waste

A circular economy could save China five trillion dollars

China could see big improvements in air quality, a reduction in carbon emissions and huge savings for business and households worth 32 trillion yuan (US$5.1 trillion) by 2030 if it moved to a circular...

5 Nov 2018

A circular economy could save China five trillion dollars

News / Carbon & Climate

Food webs alter as warmer seas change colour

The Blue Planet is to get a little bluer as the world warms and climates change. Where the seas turn green, expect an even deeper verdant tint, new research suggests. Since humans began increasing the...

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

Experts widely agree that human activities are harming the global environment. Since the Industrial Revolution, the world economy has grown dramatically. Overall this is a success story, since rising ...

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

As world leaders arrive in Madrid for a second week of climate talks, missing among the familiar faces will be Xie Zhenhua, China’s climate negotiator for over a decade. In his place, Zhao Yingmin, vi...

12 Dec 2019

Xie Zhenhua: China’s top climate negotiator steps down

Press Releases / Blue Planet Environmental Solutions

Blue Planet’s latest acquisition marks entry into industrial waste processing

Singapore and India, 19 August 2019– Blue Planet Environmental Solutions Pte. Ltd. (“Blue Planet”), a Singapore headquartered company, today announced its latest acquisition of Globe...

19 Aug 2019

Blue Planet’s latest acquisition marks entry into industrial waste processing

Eco-Business managing editor Jessica Cheam, Moxie Future founder Jessica Robinson, Standard Chartered Bank executive director, capital solutions, Rahul Sheth, and Georg Kell, chairman, Arabesque, and founding executive director, United Nations Global Compact. Image: Eco-Business

News / Energy

Funding coal in Southeast Asia is 'collective suicide' say experts

...renewables era Kell, who is also on the Eco-Business advisory board, said that while the finance sector is a "laggard" in sustainability, hampered by a traditionally short-term approach to investing,...

14 Feb 2018

Funding coal in Southeast Asia is 'collective suicide' say experts

News / Carbon & Climate

Ireland spurns fossil fuel investments

Other countries talk about it, Ireland is actually doing it: it’s turning its back on fossil fuel investments. In recent days members of the Dáil, the main law-making body in the Irish parliament, hav...

26 Jul 2018

Ireland spurns fossil fuel investments

Opinion / Carbon & Climate

UN Emissions Gap Report: Five things you need to know

Each year, the UN’s Emissions Gap Report takes stock of where global greenhouse gas emissions are headed versus where they need to be if we are to avoid the worst climate impacts. This is our “emissio...

28 Nov 2018

UN Emissions Gap Report: Five things you need to know

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