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Opinion / Carbon & Climate

Climate change can break the media domination of Covid-19 by recognising their common causes

...the externality of climate change. But corporations are fighting against a carbon tax, like they do with all kinds of taxes. The higher the profit margin, the higher their annual bonuses. To fight ...

1 Apr 2020

Climate change can break the media domination of Covid-19 by recognising their common causes

News / Carbon & Climate

Timber organisation backs ‘peace park’ in Borneo

...the effort have used for years. The SAVE Rivers website notes that the name of the park “will ultimately be determined by the communities involved.” ‘Stop the chop’ In the past year, other hurdles hav...

29 Jan 2021

Timber organisation backs ‘peace park’ in Borneo

Press Releases / The Climate Disclosure Standards Board

78% of Europe’s largest companies falling short of adequately reporting environmental and climate-related risks despite EU guidelines

...the vast majority of companies treating the Directive and the TCFD recommendations as two separate disclosures when these matters should be integrated and connected. To coincide with the release of t...

19 May 2020

78% of Europe’s largest companies falling short of adequately reporting environmental and climate-related risks despite EU guidelines

Typhoon Haiyan in Tacloban City, Philippines

News / Carbon & Climate

Virus-hit Asian nations brace for double disasters as extreme weather looms

...the Palau Red Cross Society. "In the past couple of months, part of the work is encouraging the local communities to wash their hands but... we were asked, 'How do we wash our hands when there is a la...

17 Apr 2020

Virus-hit Asian nations brace for double disasters as extreme weather looms

Opinion / Carbon & Climate

Climate code red: we need a quicker transition to renewables

...the current global response is insufficient. When Guterres first called for the upcoming climate summit back in the spring of 2017, the fear had been that the world’s attention to the issue might wave...

20 Sep 2019

Climate code red: we need a quicker transition to renewables

Opinion / Food & Agriculture

Building forward with digital agriculture

...The Covid-19 pandemic is reshaping societies around the world, in part by accelerating the digital revolution that was already underway at the beginning of the year. Since then, corporations have inst...

17 Jul 2020

Building forward with digital agriculture

News / Policy & Finance

From nannies to helpers, coronavirus spotlights Asia women's job insecurity

...the COVID-19 virus spread. "I was not paid for the month. I had to find some part-time jobs and stopped giving my sons their pocket money," said the mother-of-two, 44. "This is our job, there is no gu...

13 Mar 2020

From nannies to helpers, coronavirus spotlights Asia women's job insecurity

Opinion / Cities

The Covid city

...the brunt of the pandemic’s human and economic costs – and the worst is yet to come – fueling concerns about whether they will survive as the central nodes of the global economy. But while the pandemi...

9 Sep 2020

The Covid city

News / Energy

Where do renewables stand in a Covid-stricken world?

...the biggest challenge for the sector is the blow dealt to the world economy—the heaviest since the financial crisis over a decade ago. Not only is the economic downturn hurting power demand, but also ...

27 Mar 2020

Where do renewables stand in a Covid-stricken world?

Opinion / Policy & Finance

Banks responsible for continuing deforestation in Southeast Asia

...They make little to no use of practical financial interventions, especially on the issue of deforestation, rendering their podium promises worthless. In Southeast Asia — the region that drives the wo...

11 Aug 2020

Banks responsible for continuing deforestation in Southeast Asia

Opinion / Water

China’s great wall of water

...the flood generated enormous political energy just when the global balance of power was shifting. The British Empire, the largest economy in the world, was in the throes of a fiscal crisis, whereas th...

11 Aug 2020

China’s great wall of water

News / Policy & Finance

Oil tanker fire in Sri Lanka’s rich waters underscores need for preparedness

...the coast. MEPA estimated the damage from that spill at more than $5 million. Other spills occurred in 2007 (the Marine Sedna, which spilled more than 4 tonnes of fuel oil), and in 2012 (the MV Thermo...

2 Oct 2020

Oil tanker fire in Sri Lanka’s rich waters underscores need for preparedness

Smallholder cooperatives are breaking new ground

Videos / Food & Agriculture

How do smallholder farmers benefit from sustainable agriculture?

...The cooperative, KUD Barokah Jaya, was awarded for producing the heaviest fresh fruit bunch of oil palm fruit, a year after it set the record for highest productivity in the country. Head of the coope...

16 Oct 2019

How do smallholder farmers benefit from sustainable agriculture?

indonesian ratification of Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty 2012

News / Energy

Indonesia probes suspected nuclear waste dumping at residential area

...the National Nuclear Energy Agency, or Batan. Radiation levels in the empty lot showed 680 millisieverts (mSv) per hour when experts checked at the end of January. That’s about the same as the maximum...

21 Feb 2020

Indonesia probes suspected nuclear waste dumping at residential area

Opinion / Carbon & Climate

Leave ‘em laughing instead of crying: Climate humour can break down barriers and find common ground

...ther than inspiring them to take action. Comics took a different path when the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change released a report in 2018 warning that the world only had until about 2030 to...

1 Oct 2019

Leave ‘em laughing instead of crying: Climate humour can break down barriers and find common ground

News / Energy

Is blockchain an overhyped tool for Asia's energy transition?

...when it was launched in the early 1990s, the Apple Newton MessagePad personal digital assistant turned out to be a disappointment, but helped pave the way for the hugely successful iPhone and iPad. An...

30 Sep 2019

Is blockchain an overhyped tool for Asia's energy transition?

Press Releases / Mighty Earth

Mighty Earth, ArcelorMittal, Lendlease, Daimler, HSBC & others launch ResponsibleSteel™, the World’s first sustainability standard for the steel industry

...The ResponsibleSteel Standard helps the steel industry address these challenges by setting a universal baseline, establishing the fundamental elements and the required levels of implementation for sou...

3 Dec 2019

Mighty Earth, ArcelorMittal, Lendlease, Daimler, HSBC & others launch ResponsibleSteel™, the World’s first sustainability standard for the steel industry

Opinion / Carbon & Climate

8 environment and development stories to watch in the new make-or-break decade

...The outcome of the U.S. presidential election in November will be significant, both for national climate action and for whether the country stays in the Paris Agreement. 2. Financial Markets The finan...

17 Jan 2020

8 environment and development stories to watch in the new make-or-break decade

News / Food & Agriculture

Eating more offal could help cut meat emissions by 14 per cent

...when compared to levels in 2016. The findings show there is “tremendous potential” for reducing emissions from the meat sector, says study author Prof Gang Liu, a researcher at the University of South...

11 Apr 2019

Eating more offal could help cut meat emissions by 14 per cent

Boon Rueang Wetland Forest Conservation Group Thailand

News / Cities

With social media and academics, Thai villagers save ancestral forest

...the forest by boat. But for the past couple of years, the river level is low," he said. "If there is no flooding, there is fewer fish, and the vegetation will begin to die. The forest is like our kitc...

30 Sep 2020

With social media and academics, Thai villagers save ancestral forest

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