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Dengue in Southeast Asia: How our warming planet will change the future of 'breakbone fever'

As Southeast Asia emerges from the Covid-19 pandemic, it faces yet another deadly disease – dengue fever. Dengue fever is a tropical disease usually spread by female Aedes aegypti mosquitoes. Symptoms...

27 Jun 2022

Dengue in Southeast Asia: How our warming planet will change the future of 'breakbone fever'

Conservation of 12,200 hectares of land in Mexico

News / Policy & Finance

Nature-curious investors await bankable conservation deals

...carbon credits, at 31 per cent. A lack of a globally recognised standard for measuring conservation impacts from biodiversity investments is a barrier to investors, the report said. The public sector ...

9 Sep 2021

Nature-curious investors await bankable conservation deals

News / Policy & Finance

Indian droughts and cyclones fuel trafficking fears for climate migrants

Climate disasters such as droughts are like a "silent poison" in India as a rising number of people end up migrating to survive and risk being trafficked, researchers said on Wednesday. Migration is a...

30 May 2022

Indian droughts and cyclones fuel trafficking fears for climate migrants

News / Carbon & Climate

Are China’s new 2030 climate targets ambitious enough?

...carbon by 2030. Of the climate targets that were updated, the most relevant to peak carbon is the carbon intensity reduction of over 65 per cent on a 2005 baseline by 2030. This is tougher than the 20...

17 Dec 2020

Are China’s new 2030 climate targets ambitious enough?

News / Policy & Finance

Pakistan eyes world’s first ‘nature performance bond’

...carbon emissions but is among the top 10 most climate-vulnerable nations. This reality recently prompted Prime Minister Imran Khan to ask rich nations to give finance to countries vulnerable to climat...

12 Jul 2021

Pakistan eyes world’s first ‘nature performance bond’

News / Manufacturing

Richard Horne moves from Borouge to biodegradable plastics firm Polymateria

Richard Horne, the vice president of packaging and circular economy for petrochemicals firm Borouge, has moved to Polymateria, a chemicals firm that makes biodegradable and compostable plastics. He jo...

30 Aug 2021

Richard Horne moves from Borouge to biodegradable plastics firm Polymateria

News / Food & Agriculture

The foods that reverse climate change

...carbon into the atmosphere. Harmful agricultural techniques have "shifted the global cropping soil from a carbon sink to a carbon source, contributing to the global climate crisis”, says Yichao Rui, a...

29 Jan 2021

The foods that reverse climate change

News / Cities

How can 'sponge cities' use nature to tackle climate-fuelled floods?

As climate change brings increasing flood threats, cities need to be designed like giant sponges that allow water to drain away safely, researchers say. A first-of-its kind study used artificial inte...

29 Mar 2022

How can 'sponge cities' use nature to tackle climate-fuelled floods?

News / Food & Agriculture

Food systems responsible for ‘one third’ of human-caused emissions

...Carbon Brief produced a week-long series of articles, discussing the climate impacts of meat and dairy, outlining how changing diets are expected to affect the climate, and asking how we can change ou...

10 Mar 2021

Food systems responsible for ‘one third’ of human-caused emissions

Access to nature in childhood is associated with a reduced risk of mental illness

Opinion / Cities

Greening the city to prevent mental illness

Children who grow up surrounded by trees, grass and green space have a lower risk of developing a mental illness later in life, according to Danish researchers. Their findings, involving almost one m...

27 May 2022

Greening the city to prevent mental illness

Mundari tribe boy taking care of long horns cows South Sudan

Opinion / Food & Agriculture

Making green energy safe for pastoralists

Pastoral communities live off the land. In northern Kenya, where I grew up, we raised local breeds of cattle, which grazed in the dry rangelands. But our land is more than the basis of our livelihoods...

27 May 2022

Making green energy safe for pastoralists

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Filipino campaigners slam G7’s failure to deliver promised US$100 billion annual funding in climate finance

...carbon capture and storage technology (CCS). CCS technology is designed to strip out carbon dioxide from the exhaust gases of industrial processes, which studies have claimed to be a “safe and effecti...

16 Jun 2021

Filipino campaigners slam G7’s failure to deliver promised US$100 billion annual funding in climate finance

News / Water

Warming seas bring Indonesia's fishermen deadly storms, empty nets

Susanto looked at his catch after four hours of fishing – only four mullet – and shook his head in dismay. Usually on an August afternoon he would be on a fishing boat off the Indonesian coast, catch...

25 Oct 2022

Warming seas bring Indonesia's fishermen deadly storms, empty nets

News / Food & Agriculture

Can marketing wild produce rejuvenate India’s forests?

For generations, Ratna Kumari and her family would comb the forests of Pangi Valley in India's Himachal Pradesh, gathering nuts, wild honey, roots and shrubs to sell to local traders to scrape a subsi...

25 Oct 2022

Can marketing wild produce rejuvenate India’s forests?

News / Energy

Europe ditching Russia gas could price out emerging Asia buyers, spur renewables

...carbon solar and wind energy, many Asian countries have opted to switch between fossil fuels instead, from coal to natural gas. Wind and solar energy could be considered as more stable options, as the...

10 Mar 2022

Europe ditching Russia gas could price out emerging Asia buyers, spur renewables

News / Carbon & Climate

Are net zero data centres in Asia Pacific just a lofty ambition?

...Carbon emissions in Asia Pacific are beginning to rise quickly, but the opportunities [to decarbonise] have yet to mature,” said Bambawale. Across the board, business leaders agreed that scope 3 emiss...

24 Mar 2021

Are net zero data centres in Asia Pacific just a lofty ambition?

The Emerging Threat of Extractives Sector to Intact Forest Landscapes

News / Carbon & Climate

Nearly 1 million square kilometres of intact forests menaced by extractives, study finds

...carbon. Even though only 20 per cent of tropical forests remain undisturbed today, they stash away 40 per cent of the carbon sequestered by tropical forests. Flourishing forests don’t preclude humans ...

29 Jul 2021

Nearly 1 million square kilometres of intact forests menaced by extractives, study finds

Press Releases / British Embassy Manila

Race to Zero: Philippine business leaders commit to accelerating climate action

...carbon recovery that limits future threats, creates decent jobs, and unlocks inclusive and sustainable growth. It aims to build momentum around the shift to a decarbonised economy ahead of COP26, wher...

2 Feb 2021

Race to Zero: Philippine business leaders commit to accelerating climate action

News / Carbon & Climate

How to ‘fairly’ share emissions from goods traded around the world

...carbon-intensive goods and services elsewhere. As production in rich countries is usually less carbon-intensive, this also risks “carbon leakage” – where production is moved to countries with fewer e...

8 Jan 2021

How to ‘fairly’ share emissions from goods traded around the world

News / Food & Agriculture

Severe summer snowfall drove mass livestock death across Kashmir

Every spring, some 40,000 people travel to the pastures of the Neelum valley, along with 300,000 livestock. They ascend to altitudes of up to 10,000 feet (3,048 metres) to graze their animals on the o...

12 Aug 2022

Severe summer snowfall drove mass livestock death across Kashmir

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