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Coal power plant, Indonesia, Korean-backed

News / Energy

How Indonesia became coal's final frontier

...the fossil fuel. “Indonesia remains one of the biggest challenges for people who would like to shift the world’s dependence on coal,” said Isabella Suarez, Southeast Asia analyst at the Centre for Res...

23 Mar 2021

How Indonesia became coal's final frontier

News / Energy

Can batteries help to limit bushfire horrors?

...the renewable energy world − was to charge the battery packs when excess power was available and the cost of production very low, and then discharge them when the cost of power production rose. The wo...

10 Jan 2020

Can batteries help to limit bushfire horrors?

Wildflowers growing on the lawn outside the National Museum of Singapore, which is currently closed to the public.

News / Cities

In pictures: Nature is thriving in locked-down Singapore—is it time to rethink the city in a garden?

...the air. The taller or bushier the foliage, the more effective it is as a barrier to pollution, which in Singapore is on average almost twice over the limit considered healthy to breathe by the World ...

20 May 2020

In pictures: Nature is thriving in locked-down Singapore—is it time to rethink the city in a garden?

Opinion / Carbon & Climate

Resource depletion is a serious problem, but ‘footprint’ estimates don’t tell us much about it

...the annual arrival of Earth Overshoot Day – the date when humanity’s demands on nature exceed what the network’s analysts estimate the Earth can regenerate over the entire year. This year they peg the...

25 Jul 2019

Resource depletion is a serious problem, but ‘footprint’ estimates don’t tell us much about it

News / Transport

As Asia's aviation sector grows, will its airports gain green wings?

...the system to cut back on the use of artificial lighting when there is sufficient natural daylight. Motion sensors in restrooms also alert the system to switch off lights when there is no need for the...

21 Aug 2019

As Asia's aviation sector grows, will its airports gain green wings?

News / Carbon & Climate

Widespread air quality data gaps threaten global pollution fight, study finds

...the air is safe to breathe, informing critical choices such as whether to wear a protective mask, or whether to stay home or venture outside on smoggy days. To the naked eye, lung-wrecking pollution c...

9 Jul 2020

Widespread air quality data gaps threaten global pollution fight, study finds

A sign seen at the March for Science protest last year

Opinion / Carbon & Climate

We can't let climate communication be another missed opportunity

...they summarized the basic message of the SPM from the latest report. When he checked their summaries, 84 per cent failed to grasp the science the way the SPM’s authors had intended. Seven years later,...

29 Jan 2020

We can't let climate communication be another missed opportunity

News / Lifestyle

What happens to an ecotourism town when the wildlife doesn’t show?

...they regulate one another. And right now, the interaction officers are the ones pulling the tourists closer to see the shark.” Rules are broken more often when the sightings are scarce and the money t...

1 Jul 2019

What happens to an ecotourism town when the wildlife doesn’t show?

News / Food & Agriculture

Efforts to tackle shark fin trade need to focus closer to shore: Study

...they’re still a huge conservation issue, particularly because they’re in danger. But there’s a lot of other species and they’re coming from lots of other places around the world, and in largely coasta...

29 Oct 2020

Efforts to tackle shark fin trade need to focus closer to shore: Study

News / Carbon & Climate

Are China’s new 2030 climate targets ambitious enough?

...these in their NDCs. China has at last published the key steps it will take on the way to carbon neutrality, and the emissions curve for the coming decade is becoming clearer. “ The key is how fast l...

17 Dec 2020

Are China’s new 2030 climate targets ambitious enough?

News / Lifestyle

Do mobile payment games spur green living?

...their energy before it expires, or by “watering” their saplings. For the users, low-carbon lifestyles become about real trees, rather than abstract concepts, while Alipay gets more user activity. The ...

21 Nov 2019

Do mobile payment games spur green living?

News / Corporate Responsibility

Meet the Eco-Business A-Listers: Esther An, CDL's ubiquitous partnership builder

...their mouths are. But I do not think it's happening fast enough. It's like a pyramid. The top 10 per cent are the leaders, driving change fast. Further down are the followers. At the base is the majo...

3 Jan 2020

Meet the Eco-Business A-Listers: Esther An, CDL's ubiquitous partnership builder

Press Releases / CDP

For the first time, Quezon City, Philippines among 88 cities recognised for climate leadership by CDP

...the 2020 CDP Cities A List have received the highest rating for both their efforts to reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and build resilience to the impacts of climate change. Together, they are se...

8 Jan 2021

For the first time, Quezon City, Philippines among 88 cities recognised for climate leadership by CDP

News / Food & Agriculture

How can businesses address biodiversity loss? Start by being less bad for nature

The link between businesses, and the task of protecting the eight million species of plants and animals estimated to share the Earth with humans, is not the most obvious. But fixing supply chains and ...

24 Jan 2020

How can businesses address biodiversity loss? Start by being less bad for nature

News / Carbon & Climate

Analysis: China’s CO2 emissions surged 4 per cent in second half of 2020

...the effect of the economic shock from Covid-19 in the first half of the year and from the heavy industry-led recovery in the second half. The disaggregation to the first and second half of the year is...

15 Mar 2021

Analysis: China’s CO2 emissions surged 4 per cent in second half of 2020

News / Green Buildings

'First line of defense': Covid-19 prompts rethink in role of buildings

...the US Green Building Council, which oversees the system. "These are the questions that tenants will be asking their landlords now." Healthier indoors Months into the pandemic, designers are tracking...

20 Nov 2020

'First line of defense': Covid-19 prompts rethink in role of buildings

News / Energy

Indonesia investigates oil spill in Java Sea by state energy company

...the process of shutting off the damaged well with a cement injection, according to the energy ministry. The government’s priorities are to minimise the impact from the spill and close the damaged well...

1 Aug 2019

Indonesia investigates oil spill in Java Sea by state energy company

News / Corporate Responsibility

Built to scale? Growing pains hit Cambodia's businesses for good

...the past is left at the front door. "When they walk in here, they are stylists - and that's it," said U.S. founder Matthew Fairfax. "I don't even want to know their backstory," he said, focusing inste...

19 Nov 2019

Built to scale? Growing pains hit Cambodia's businesses for good

News / Carbon & Climate

Meet the Asian women driving progressive change across the region

...the growing number of leaders and activists who are defending their land and communities against the incursions of the rich and powerful, while others continue to lead the charge for progress on gende...

7 Mar 2020

Meet the Asian women driving progressive change across the region

News / Water

As students map the weather, an Indian village bests its water woes

...They then write the readings on the colourful weather chart painted on the wall outside the school. Local farmers say the daily bulletins are hugely helpful. "This is very important. We check the rain...

23 Aug 2019

As students map the weather, an Indian village bests its water woes

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