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Monsoon rainfall increases in Kashmir, raising flood fears

The Kashmir valley suffered a devastating flood in September 2014. After an unusually high level of rainfall, the fact that buildings had been built on flood overflow channels and floodplains led to a...

2 Jun 2022

Monsoon rainfall increases in Kashmir, raising flood fears

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News / Water

Tracking the Malaysia floods: a visual story

Peninsular Malaysia is experiencing one of its worst floods in decades. Authorities say they are dealing with a once-in-a-century downpour that has brought over a month’s worth of torrential rain, res...

28 Dec 2021

Tracking the Malaysia floods: a visual story

News / Energy

Gas has bridge fuel role to play—but it's shrinking, say experts

...carbon economy of the future,” said Kor. “The future energy system needs to be net-zero carbon. Natural gas is the cleanest burning fossil fuel, but it is still a fossil fuel,” he said. While gas' car...

5 Jul 2021

Gas has bridge fuel role to play—but it's shrinking, say experts

Opinion / Cities

Sprawling Kolkata's tall order for a sustainable future

In many ways, Kolkata is a victim of its own success. Such has been population growth in India’s “first city” since colonial times that where to house people has been a perennial problem. It is now vi...

11 Jan 2023

Sprawling Kolkata's tall order for a sustainable future

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News / Cities

Could Nusantara be Indonesia’s new green capital?

...carbon ‘super hub’. However, environmentalists are concerned that the development may increase pollution in East Kalimantan and reduce rainforests that are home to orangutans and sun bears. Hendricu...

4 Apr 2022

Could Nusantara be Indonesia’s new green capital?

News / Water

Dugongs, muse of mermaid legends, declared extinct in China

...carbon could also be reduced, Ma said, at a time when global warming makes such functions increasingly important. The announcement that dugongs have disappeared from China's waters comes a month after...

24 Aug 2022

Dugongs, muse of mermaid legends, declared extinct in China

Opinion / Carbon & Climate

The sting of climate risk is in the tails

Scientists have longed warned that climate change will adversely affect weather patterns and living conditions around the world. These warnings are now turning into a painful reality. Worse, the range...

23 Sep 2022

The sting of climate risk is in the tails

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News / Food & Agriculture

Dietary shift to potatoes could cut staple crop emissions in China by 25%

...Carbon Brief: "[Staples] are not really the foods with the highest impact intensities, but because we consume such vast amounts of staples, that change can still make a significant contribution." And ...

27 Aug 2021

Dietary shift to potatoes could cut staple crop emissions in China by 25%

News / Water

China's Mekong dams turn Thai fishing villages into 'ghost towns'

...carbon electricity generation", with its potential particularly high in emerging and developing economies. China is the world's largest hydropower market, and Chinese firms are behind over half of all...

21 Mar 2023

China's Mekong dams turn Thai fishing villages into 'ghost towns'

News / Food & Agriculture

Got milk? Indian camel herders cash in with solar-powered coolers

...carbon footprints," said Kumawat. He said finding funding to buy more units was the main obstacle to scaling up the project. For-profit companies also seeking to create more sustainable milk supply ch...

2 Feb 2023

Got milk? Indian camel herders cash in with solar-powered coolers

News / Policy & Finance

Mobilising communities trumps penalties in protecting seascapes: study

Conservationists have long recognised the significance of engaging locals in safeguarding the ecosystems they live off, but assessing those relationships can be hard because of time and resource const...

14 Jun 2022

Mobilising communities trumps penalties in protecting seascapes: study

News / Energy

Wind power, while cheap, stutters without government support

...carbon-saving potential, said scientists in the latest report by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. Global carbon emissions need to drop nearly 50 percent by 2030 and reach net-zero by 205...

25 Apr 2022

Wind power, while cheap, stutters without government support

News / Carbon & Climate

Forests are a vital public health solution, says WWF report

...carbon, has lost 17 per cent of its area in the last 50 years. That has a direct impact on the health and well-being of the 1.6 billion people who depend directly on forests for their livelihoods, the...

11 Mar 2022

Forests are a vital public health solution, says WWF report

Opinion / Carbon & Climate

Banks and the green leap forward

...carbon budget, reach interlinked points of no return, and crash through the 1.5º Celsius limit on global warming that governments and scientists warn is essential if our children and grandchildren are...

28 Jan 2022

Banks and the green leap forward

News / Carbon & Climate

Virtual reality games offer visceral taste of a climate-changed future

It's 2040 in Miami, and a powerful hurricane has swamped the low-lying city. You stand alone under a dark, foreboding sky, chest-high waves sloshing around you, an abandoned car floating nearby one o...

12 Dec 2022

Virtual reality games offer visceral taste of a climate-changed future

News / Carbon & Climate

New technologies offer nature more accurate health checks

In the rivers of the Peruvian Amazon, manatees wallow in the murky water, making them very hard to spot. If you're lucky, says British ecologist Kat Bruce, you might see their nostrils poking out abo...

12 Dec 2022

New technologies offer nature more accurate health checks

News / Policy & Finance

Will the EU’s deforestation law keep forests standing?

The EU’s unprecedented effort to eliminate deforestation from its supply chains fails to consider the poorest growers that form the backbone of palm oil production, say businesses and civil society in...

18 Jul 2023

Will the EU’s deforestation law keep forests standing?

Press Releases / Singapore Exchange Limited

SGX first Asian exchange to commit to 1.5°C-aligned science-based emission reduction targets

...carbon intensity of our data processing requirements in line with best practices, introducing energy-efficient equipment, processes and policies, and; purchasing Renewable Energy Certificates that m...

16 Jul 2021

SGX first Asian exchange to commit to 1.5°C-aligned science-based emission reduction targets

Opinion / Policy & Finance

The responsibility of banking: financing a sustainable future

...carbon dioxide emissions fell more than 6 per cent last year to their lowest rate since 2006, based on research from the Global Carbon Project. While emissions have since returned to pre-Covid levels...

23 Aug 2021

The responsibility of banking: financing a sustainable future

News / Transport

Shipping firms caught in fuel dilemma test the waters with 'green corridors'

...carbonisation. In April last year, the World Bank shocked many in the sector when it published a maritime decarbonisation report recommending countries to pull back from investing further in LNG bunk...

15 Feb 2022

Shipping firms caught in fuel dilemma test the waters with 'green corridors'

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