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Opinion / Policy & Finance

3 issues to watch as China and India move toward sustainable development

...renewables targets with the acceleration wind and solar installations. China, advancing on its 2030 goals, has shown more than 40 per cent progress toward its emissions intensity, forest stock volume ...

15 Feb 2018

3 issues to watch as China and India move toward sustainable development

News / Energy

Singapore’s 10-year journey in urban solar

Building facades that can generate electricity from the sun, movable solar systems, and floating solar energy plants—if this sounds like a vision of the future, that’s because it is for space-crunched...

11 Oct 2017

Singapore’s 10-year journey in urban solar

News / Carbon & Climate

We're not suggesting developing countries stop using coal immediately, says IPCC co-chair

In 2015, leaders of the world convened to sign the Paris Agreement on climate change amid widespread jubilation, committing to limit global warming to 1.5 degrees. Three years, Donald Trump and Jair B...

8 Dec 2018

We're not suggesting developing countries stop using coal immediately, says IPCC co-chair

News / Carbon & Climate

Forest carbon emissions are set to grow

Accelerating climate change is likely to result in growing forest carbon emissions, with serious consequences both for the creatures that find shelter there, and for the global atmosphere. The world’s...

31 Jul 2018

Forest carbon emissions are set to grow

Opinion / Energy

Let's see financing energy access as an opportunity, not a challenge

* Any views expressed in this article are those of the author and not of Thomson Reuters Foundation. At the heart of efforts to slow climate change and build a more sustainable development future lies...

26 Sep 2017

Let's see financing energy access as an opportunity, not a challenge

Opinion / Carbon & Climate

Evaluating Indonesia’s progress on its climate commitments

As the world’s fifth-largest emitter of greenhouse gases and the largest contributor of forest-based emissions, Indonesia’s success in achieving its national climate pledges will be critical to keepin...

9 Oct 2017

Evaluating Indonesia’s progress on its climate commitments

Opinion / Policy & Finance

Green bonds do more harm than good

These days, green bonds seem to feature prominently in the news, with investors from Europe, the US and Asia flocking to them and banks building brand value from their environmental sheen. Designed ...

6 Mar 2018

Green bonds do more harm than good

Opinion / Energy

How better hydropower planning can avert future disasters on the Mekong

The collapse of the Xepian-Xe Nam hydropower dam in Sanamxay district of Attapeu Province, Lao PDR on July 23 is a major tragedy that took the lives of at least 34 Laotians, with at least 100 more sti...

14 Sep 2018

How better hydropower planning can avert future disasters on the Mekong

Opinion / Policy & Finance

Serious about sustainability? Some progress, but not yet persuaded by BlackRock's efforts

With nearly $6 trillion in assets under management, BlackRock is the largest asset management firm and one of the most powerful investors in the world. The firm manages a sum of capital that exceeds t...

24 Apr 2019

Serious about sustainability? Some progress, but not yet persuaded by BlackRock's efforts

Opinion / Food & Agriculture

Here comes the sun: solar technology for agriculture

Solar energy technology is not new and has been used in a wide variety of ways, from providing energy through microgrids in remote areas, to solar powered cars and cell phone chargers. Solar has also ...

30 Apr 2018

Here comes the sun: solar technology for agriculture

News / Transport

Chinese coal town embraces electric vehicles

...renewables, said Zhao Yongqiang, deputy head of the Renewable Energy Centre at the National Development and Reform Commission’s Energy Research Institute. In China as a whole, coal accounted for 63 pe...

12 Jan 2018

Chinese coal town embraces electric vehicles

News / Carbon & Climate

Do Chinese people care about climate change?

China has had an eventful summer marked by record-setting heatwaves, deadly flash floods, and typhoons. The impacts of climate change have been felt in cities and the countryside alike, and seem to ha...

10 Oct 2018

Do Chinese people care about climate change?

Wind turbines outside of Jaisalmer, Rajasthan, India

Opinion / Energy

What the US can learn from India on climate change and energy access

When India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi meets with President Donald Trump this week in Washington, it will be a telling encounter – not only for the US-India relationship, but for the future of glob...

28 Jun 2017

What the US can learn from India on climate change and energy access

Children in a boat in the Colombian Amazon.

Opinion / Food & Agriculture

Can sustainable bioeconomy be a driver of green growth?

Last week, I attended the second Global Bioeconomy Summit in Berlin. Bioeconomy is currently a hot topic for scientists and policymakers. Rapid advances in molecular biology combined with big data and...

26 Apr 2018

Can sustainable bioeconomy be a driver of green growth?

Opinion / Food & Agriculture

The future of fish farming

...renewables included – still have a way to go to meet energy demand. In the meantime, the aquaculture industry will need to make further investments and develop new innovations to put itself on a path ...

27 Feb 2018

The future of fish farming

News / Energy

Renewable energy faces growing human rights concerns

...renewables companies and their affiliates, a report by a UK-based non-profit group has alleged. The study, by Business & Human Rights Resource Centre (BHRC), documents how renewables firms, partic...

3 May 2017

Renewable energy faces growing human rights concerns

News / Carbon & Climate

Governments leading world to disastrous warming: UN

Governments will not be able to uphold the Paris Climate Agreement, and with business as usual, we are heading for a 3°C warmer world, says UN Environment. The private sector may be the only saviour, ...

29 Nov 2018

Governments leading world to disastrous warming: UN

News / Carbon & Climate

China is building coal power again

Satellite imagery reveals that many coal-fired power projects that were halted by the Chinese government have quietly restarted. Analysis by CoalSwarm estimates that 46.7 gigawatts of new and restarte...

7 Aug 2018

China is building coal power again

Opinion / Energy

Energy efficiency: Why not enough is being invested

Increasing energy efficiency is considered by many experts as low-hanging fruit to reduce a given carbon footprint. So, why is no one picking it yet? Let’s look at the numbers to find out why. Global ...

13 Oct 2017

Energy efficiency: Why not enough is being invested

Opinion / Food & Agriculture

Nexus thinking for a secure and sustainable future

The complex triangular relationship among the three pillars of life is known as the ‘water-energy-food nexus’. It’s an intricate puzzle, in which the increased demand for each limited resource can sig...

15 Sep 2017

Nexus thinking for a secure and sustainable future

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