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South Asia's poorest city dwellers bear brunt of worsening floods

Each summer, the thousand or so families living in a floodplain informal settlement on the edge of Kathmandu brace themselves for flash flooding as monsoon rains pour in. The close-packed slum homes,...

4 Oct 2022

South Asia's poorest city dwellers bear brunt of worsening floods

Coal power plant, South Korea financial support

News / Policy & Finance

South Korea mulls backpedaling from overseas coal financing freeze

...carbon capture and storage (CCS) technology, and additional transactions for ventures that have already been approved. The announcement comes only a month after President Moon Jae-in said at a climate...

18 May 2021

South Korea mulls backpedaling from overseas coal financing freeze

Opinion / Policy & Finance

War in Ukraine takes toll on East Asian economies

...carbon dioxide emissions have reached a record high. The conflict will significantly impact the global fight — for better or worse — against the climate emergency by driving up energy prices and placi...

16 Jun 2022

War in Ukraine takes toll on East Asian economies

Opinion / Cities

Cities and the climate data gap

...carbon dioxide and nitrogen dioxide) and particulate matter. Technology companies are the first movers in this market. For example, Google’s Environmental Insights Explorer aggregates data on building...

14 Jan 2022

Cities and the climate data gap

Videos / Carbon & Climate

Women in STEM driving sustainability

A just-transition to protect our planet is hinged on innovation, with more countries dedicating resources to build Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) capabilities in their workfor...

22 Feb 2022

Women in STEM driving sustainability

News / Policy & Finance

New investor club pushes Asian electric utilities to slash emissions

...carbon dioxide as Spain in 2019. They include China Resources Power Holdings (China), CLP Holdings (Hong Kong), Chubu Electric Power Co. (Japan), Electric Power Development Co. (J-Power) (Japan) and T...

7 Jun 2021

New investor club pushes Asian electric utilities to slash emissions

Solar farm, Thailand, intermittency challenges

News / Energy

Electricity grids may trip Southeast Asia renewables drive without government intervention

...carbon path.” The CIF currently funds grid modernisation and energy storage initiatives in Ukraine, Fiji, Colombia, Kenya, and Mali. Five other countries, including Indonesia, are on the waitlist. Som...

9 Mar 2022

Electricity grids may trip Southeast Asia renewables drive without government intervention

Opinion / Food & Agriculture

The right way to fight global hunger

The global food system is broken. Although it produces more than enough calories to feed everyone, up to 811 million people – more than 10 per cent of the world’s population – go to bed hungry each ni...

15 Jun 2022

The right way to fight global hunger

Press Releases / Forum for the Future

As social, climate crises intensify, sustainability movement must move beyond ‘short-term and piecemeal fixes’

International sustainability non-profit Forum for the Future has today announced its 2023-2025 strategy outlining three pivotal "transitions" that it will focus on in its efforts to create a "just and...

6 Sep 2022

As social, climate crises intensify, sustainability movement must move beyond ‘short-term and piecemeal fixes’

News / Policy & Finance

Explainer: What is the Global Shield Initiative?

What is the Global Shield? The Global Shield Initiative was formally launched by the G7 and Vulnerable Twenty (V20) countries earlier this Monday at the COP27 in Sharm El-Sheikh, and is expected to st...

18 Nov 2022

Explainer: What is the Global Shield Initiative?

News / Waste

Reuse and refill: A business model turning the tide on single-use plastic

...carbon taxes or other strategies that incentivise decarbonisation and circular economy principles.” Some examples of these strategies could include governments driving awareness on the benefits of a...

18 Nov 2022

Reuse and refill: A business model turning the tide on single-use plastic

News / Policy & Finance

Green groups demand scrapping of US$300 million loan offer for Borneo road project

...carbon-rich soil highly susceptible to fires. In 2015 alone, nearly half of the deforestation recorded in Indonesia, or nearly 8,000 square kilometers (3,100 square miles) of forest loss, occurred her...

22 Oct 2021

Green groups demand scrapping of US$300 million loan offer for Borneo road project

Aerial view of the Amazon Rainforest, Brazil.

News / Carbon & Climate

Are we killing those tropical trees we’re counting on to absorb carbon dioxide?

...carbon will be stocked by 200 years less. So we are accelerating the carbon cycle, and the result is that we have more carbon in the atmosphere.” Trees have always been our main allies in the fight ag...

25 Feb 2021

Are we killing those tropical trees we’re counting on to absorb carbon dioxide?

Press Releases / TPG

TPG announces US$5.4 billion first close of TPG rise climate fund

...carbon aversion in a quantifiable way. TPG Rise Climate will utilise Y Analytics’ methodologies including Carbon Yield – a decision tool that leverages scientific, health, economic, and s...

3 Aug 2021

TPG announces US$5.4 billion first close of TPG rise climate fund

women and children pump water to plastic containers in Orchha, India

News / Carbon & Climate

Fossil fuel use leads to worse and longer droughts

...carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases,” said Felicia Chiang, of the University of California Irvine, and now at Nasa’s Goddard Institute for Space Studies in New York. She and colleagues write in ...

28 May 2021

Fossil fuel use leads to worse and longer droughts

Opinion / Policy & Finance

No place for coal in a green finance hub

...carbon dioxide emissions, or 13 times of Singapore’s carbon dioxide emissions in 2016. While the three major banks in Singapore—DBS, UOB, and OCBC—have pledged not to finance any new coal-fired power ...

6 Jul 2021

No place for coal in a green finance hub

News / Policy & Finance

Plan to shield people from climate disasters unveiled at COP27

Months after torrential rain and fast-melting glaciers submerged a third of Pakistan, parts of the country's southern Sindh and Balochistan provinces still resemble an inland sea. "There are places w...

15 Nov 2022

Plan to shield people from climate disasters unveiled at COP27

News / Waste

Waste plastic deluge could soon prove irreversible

...carbon between the natural world and the atmosphere, and they could heighten biodiversity loss in the already over-fished oceans. “ Reducing emissions requires drastic actions, like capping the produ...

9 Jul 2021

Waste plastic deluge could soon prove irreversible

News / Carbon & Climate

PwC decarbonisation expert Jatin Sarvaiya joins American Bureau of Shipping as sustainability manager

...carbonisation goals, for example through vessel design, low-carbon fuels, digital technologies and carbon disclosure. Sarvaiya will work with Panos Koutsourakis, director of sustainability strategy, w...

22 Mar 2021

PwC decarbonisation expert Jatin Sarvaiya joins American Bureau of Shipping as sustainability manager

News / Water

Explained: How forest fires worsen flash floods in the Himalayas

Wildfires and flash floods are two of the most visible symptoms of climate change across the Himalayas. The two phenomena are more connected than you might think. Experts believe that more intense for...

19 Jan 2023

Explained: How forest fires worsen flash floods in the Himalayas

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