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Opinion / Corporate Responsibility

CSR practices of Chinese businesses in the global South

...1 below). Only 15 per cent expressed familiarity. A chart showing awareness of Chinese overseas business policies and guidelines among all respondents (Image: IIED) The most important thing is polic...

6 Apr 2016

CSR practices of Chinese businesses in the global South

Press Releases / South Pole Group

Cities take the lead in the fight against climate change

...1 · 8005 Zurich· Switzerland Phone: +41 43 501 35 50Mobile: +66 96 819 47 25n.kahkonen@thesouthpolegroup.com · thesouthpolegroup.com

16 Apr 2015

Cities take the lead in the fight against climate change

Press Releases / Sompo Japan Insurance Inc.

Sompo Japan Nipponkoa continues protecting biodiversity in Japan

...11. 1. Overview of the SAVE JAPAN Project The SAVE JAPAN Project is a program in which Sompo Japan Nipponkoa make donations to environmental NGOs/NPOs and other organizations that correspond with ...

5 Jun 2015

Sompo Japan Nipponkoa continues protecting biodiversity in Japan

News / Corporate Responsibility

UN Global Compact: turning rhetoric into results

...14. She also served as senior vice-president of stakeholder relations from 1999 to 2002 and as director of environmental affairs from 1988 to 1999. She currently serves as the deputy chair of the Dani...

2 Jul 2015

UN Global Compact: turning rhetoric into results

News / Water

Rainfall, hot weather blamed as algae hits major lakes

...170.6 hours from previous years." To ease the situation, authorities for the three lakes have assigned additional workers to collect the algae. About 120,000 tons of it have been collected by dozens o...

12 Aug 2015

Rainfall, hot weather blamed as algae hits major lakes

News / Carbon & Climate

Climate heads for irreversible change

...1 metre, mainly from existing glacier melt and the thermal expansion of seawater. But there is an additional projected rise of 3m-4m from West Antarctica, and 7m from Greenland − “a total of around 10...

10 Dec 2015

Climate heads for irreversible change

Press Releases / WEnergy Global Pte Ltd

WEnergy Global wins bid to light up bicycle track around Bangkok International Airport

...11.5kWp) that charges the clean batteries (in total 1,410 KWh capacity) made by Aquion Energy Inc (http://www.aquionenergy.com), developer and manufacturer of Aqueous Hybrid Ion (AHITM) batteries and ...

16 Sep 2015

WEnergy Global wins bid to light up bicycle track around Bangkok International Airport

Press Releases / EEP Mekong

EEP Mekong grant opportunity for clean energy promotion in the Mekong region

...15: Announcement of the Call-for-Proposals (CfP) August 2015: Concept Note Preparation Workshop for applicants in 5 Mekong countries. 30 September 2015, at 16:00hrs (Vientiane time): Deadline for Co...

22 Jul 2015

EEP Mekong grant opportunity for clean energy promotion in the Mekong region

Opinion / Policy & Finance

Counting the costs of floods in China

...10. It caused 829 deaths and losses of 31.1 billion in 2014. In the 10th place is the flood of June-July 1996 which caused 2,775 deaths and an economic damage of $19 billion in 2014. Flooding has been...

19 Aug 2016

Counting the costs of floods in China

Press Releases / Greenpeace Southeast Asia

Greenpeace and nutrition experts weigh in on the country’s ‘food emergency’ situation

...1 million) consider themselves as food-poor, while 12.7% of families (or an estimated 2.8 million, have experienced involuntary hunger at least once in the past three months [1]. “When we talk ...

10 Aug 2015

Greenpeace and nutrition experts weigh in on the country’s ‘food emergency’ situation

News / Energy

Aboriginal-owned energy company one-upping Tesla

...16. Spokeswoman for AllGrid, Deborah Oberon, said the company expected to be making its first deliveries in the next two to three months. The $11,999 WattGrid unit comprises an aluminium cabinet conta...

8 Jan 2016

Aboriginal-owned energy company one-upping Tesla

News / Policy & Finance

China imposes ivory import ban to evaluate its effects over 1 year

...10 and 2013, about 100,000 African elephants were killed by poachers, according to a study published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. However, official numbers show that the market ...

27 Feb 2015

China imposes ivory import ban to evaluate its effects over 1 year

Press Releases / Greenpeace Southeast Asia

New report estimates coal plant emissions kill 2400 Filipinos per year

...10 megawatts (MW), as well as the potential impacts of plans to build 29 new coal-fired power plants with a total capacity of 11700MW, which could dramatically increase levels of sulfur dioxide (SO2),...

5 Feb 2016

New report estimates coal plant emissions kill 2400 Filipinos per year

News / Manufacturing

Dong Nai to relocate industrial zone to curb pollution

...1 is urgently needed to deal with environmental pollution in the Dong Nai River. Founded in 1963 under the name of Bien Hoa Technological Zone, after 1975 it was renamed Bien Hoa Industrial Zone 1. Th...

3 Nov 2014

Dong Nai to relocate industrial zone to curb pollution

Press Releases / South Pole Group

Global Footprint Network and South Pole Group join forces

...1 510 834 2563ronna.kelly@footprintnetwork.org

20 Nov 2015

Global Footprint Network and South Pole Group join forces

Opinion / Carbon & Climate

Six burning questions for climate science to answer post-Paris

...1998 and 2013. Greenhouse gas concentrations, global temperatures, rainfall and water balance changes, extreme weather events, ocean heat content, sea level and terrestrial and marine carbon sinks are...

2 Mar 2016

Six burning questions for climate science to answer post-Paris

Press Releases / Johnson Controls (S) Pte Ltd

Next step forward in gas turbine power augmentation

...14, Corporate Responsibility Magazine recognized Johnson Controls as the #12 company in its annual “100 Best Corporate Citizens” list. For additional information, please visit http://www.j...

4 May 2015

Next step forward in gas turbine power augmentation

News / Energy

Paris fails to revive the nuclear dream

...17.6 per cent in 1996 to 10.8 per cent in 2014. “Financial distress stalks the industry”, he wrote. Lovins says nuclear power now costs several times more than wind or solar energy and is so far behin...

4 Jan 2016

Paris fails to revive the nuclear dream