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Twin crises of heat and floods expose neglect in India and Bangladesh

...the likelihood of extreme April-May temperature anomalies [in northern India and Pakistan] by a factor of about 100”, and that by the end of the century the likelihood of heatwaves in the region will ...

29 May 2022

Twin crises of heat and floods expose neglect in India and Bangladesh

volunteer firefighter uses a tree branch to extinguish fires in Pulang Pisau

News / Carbon & Climate

Extreme heat linked to rising deaths in tropical forest communities

...the carbon they store when they rot or are burned. The ongoing COP26 climate talks in Glasgow may be the last chance to cap global warming at the 1.5C-2C degrees Celsius upper limit set out in the 201...

12 Nov 2021

Extreme heat linked to rising deaths in tropical forest communities

News / Cities

‘Sharing the air’ proves an obstacle for new Nepal airport in bird paradise

...ther migratory birds, most of them waterbirds, have been recorded in Pokhara during the winter, they’re less likely to hit an aircraft as they mostly remain in the waters of the wetlands during their ...

6 Apr 2022

‘Sharing the air’ proves an obstacle for new Nepal airport in bird paradise

Opinion / Water

Righting the injustice of Africa's water crisis

...ther with the UN Development Programme, UNICEF, the AU Development Agency, the AfDB, the Global Center on Adaptation, and the Global Water Partnership (GWP). At its inaugural meeting last September, t...

10 Feb 2022

Righting the injustice of Africa's water crisis

News / Energy

Brunei banks on technology to preserve its economic lifeline: fossil fuel

...the coming years. Throughout its chairmanship of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (Asean) this year, the sultanate repeatedly called for a larger role for natural gas in the region’s energy ...

21 Oct 2021

Brunei banks on technology to preserve its economic lifeline: fossil fuel

News / Energy

South Korea faces public scrutiny for financing coal plants in Indonesia

...the floor. When they were burning coal there at the plant, my son here would get sick. He said it’s because of the ash.” Nurhasanah lives in the shadow of the oldest and largest coal-fired power plant...

19 Apr 2021

South Korea faces public scrutiny for financing coal plants in Indonesia

News / Food & Agriculture

Climate change hits harvest of one of world’s priciest mushrooms in Himalayas

...the spring sunshine. Sun-dried morel can sell for up to INR 30,000 (USD 392) per kilogram, depending on size and quality. The bigger the mushrooms, the higher the price. “But for the past decade, the ...

27 Apr 2022

Climate change hits harvest of one of world’s priciest mushrooms in Himalayas

Opinion / Waste

Mono-material packaging: A recycler’s wish

...when only one of the players upstream creates a ‘circular product’ without involving the other players downstream to ensure that the loop can truly be closed. Over the centuries, the human-environment...

4 Jan 2021

Mono-material packaging: A recycler’s wish

News / Energy

How the Philippines’ low-carbon plans may fuel a switch to green jobs

...the Covid-19 pandemic. The Southeast Asian nation is projected to have the highest share of coal in the power mix for the region in 2030, and the new policy could choke off about 10GW of coal in the ...

30 Apr 2021

How the Philippines’ low-carbon plans may fuel a switch to green jobs

News / Energy

‘Great mining migration’: power-hungry Bitcoin leaves China

...the equation. Instead of competing against each other, participants who have first made a deposit in Bitcoin are selected at random to verify transactions. The larger the deposit, the greater the chan...

18 Nov 2021

‘Great mining migration’: power-hungry Bitcoin leaves China

Press Releases / ComfortDelGro

ComfortDelGro Bus to operate Singapore's largest electrified private bus fleet

...the shuttle service at the National University of Singapore. • ComfortDelGro’s continued commitment to sustainability is also reflected in thethird consecutive year of inclusion in the Dow...

19 Nov 2021

ComfortDelGro Bus to operate Singapore's largest electrified private bus fleet

News / Energy

Perfectly good solar panels are being dumped, and how New South Wales is putting an end to it

...them. “Most of the time we have these panels that are still perfectly good ending up in the tip as there’s nowhere else for them to go.” While the volumes of renewable waste are still relatively modes...

29 Sep 2021

Perfectly good solar panels are being dumped, and how New South Wales is putting an end to it

queue to receive the AstraZeneca/Oxford vaccine Kenya

News / Policy & Finance

'We are waiting to die': Hope wanes for world's poor after India halts vaccine exports

...the country scrambling for alternatives. "If we had the vaccines, we would have started the second phase of our deployment plan. The reality on the ground is that we don't have the vaccines when we ex...

20 May 2021

'We are waiting to die': Hope wanes for world's poor after India halts vaccine exports

News / Corporate Responsibility

US blacklists more Chinese companies over human rights abuses in Xinjiang

...the erosion of freedoms there, including the forced closure last week of the independent newspaper Apple Daily, the arrests of journalists, the silencing of pro-democracy activists, and the rapid dete...

13 Jul 2021

US blacklists more Chinese companies over human rights abuses in Xinjiang

News / Corporate Responsibility

Sustainable business certifier B Corp is launching in Southeast Asia

...theast Asia with a mission to grow a community of B Corporations, or B Corps, and advance stakeholder capitalism in the region. Since B Lab certified its first batch of businesses in 2007, there are n...

2 Jun 2021

Sustainable business certifier B Corp is launching in Southeast Asia

News / Policy & Finance

Afghan women fear for their jobs and daughters' futures under Taliban

...the mother-of-four. Tuesday was the first time she had been outside since Mazar-e-Sharif fell to the Taliban on Saturday. "The city seems changed. We see fewer women on the streets and the clothes the...

19 Aug 2021

Afghan women fear for their jobs and daughters' futures under Taliban

News / Carbon & Climate

G7 pins hopes on ‘climate club’ as the saviour of 1.5C target

...The current diplomatic outlook may be bleak, but if the EU, China and the US share the same environmental aspirations – the health of the planet – they might find the political will to agree on terms ...

30 Jun 2022

G7 pins hopes on ‘climate club’ as the saviour of 1.5C target

News / Cities

What can the UN do to support India through its deadly Covid-19 surge?

...when the second wave hit. An overwhelming wave Dr Ofrin: The way the virus has spread is similar to what we’ve seen in Europe or the US, but the scale is very different. The density of the population ...

11 May 2021

What can the UN do to support India through its deadly Covid-19 surge?

News / Waste

Palm oil waste declared non-hazardous by Indonesia

...the content of the [SBE] waste and how much is the likelihood of it being discharged into the environment,” said Nur Hidayati, executive director of the Indonesian Forum for the Environment (Walhi), t...

6 Apr 2021

Palm oil waste declared non-hazardous by Indonesia

News / Carbon & Climate

In 'world's most polluted city,' Indian workers unaware of toxic air

...the price you pay for working in this madness," he said, gesturing to a clogged intersection in the northern city of Bhiwadi, found to be the most polluted in the world. Bhiwadi - an industrial hub - ...

19 Apr 2022

In 'world's most polluted city,' Indian workers unaware of toxic air

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