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Rich nations are mainly to blame for biodiversity loss — but are reluctant to foot the bill to protect it

After a two-year delay caused by the Covid-19 outbreak, negotiations to create a framework to arrest biodiversity loss — and prevent another pandemic — have rumbled back into life in Geneva at the Uni...

16 Mar 2022

Rich nations are mainly to blame for biodiversity loss — but are reluctant to foot the bill to protect it

Opinion / Policy & Finance

How the Major Economies Forum facilitates ambitious climate action

...carbonisation across various sectors. While the pathways for decarbonising the electricity and transportation sectors have become clearer, with existing technologies other sectors such as steel, cemen...

7 Jan 2022

How the Major Economies Forum facilitates ambitious climate action

News / Transport

Pandemic lessons for India’s electric mobility

...carbon footprint of a greater number of passengers. Source: Society of Indian Automobile Manufacturers “The Covid-19 induced lockdown and restrictions have severely impacted the overall commercial p...

3 Jun 2021

Pandemic lessons for India’s electric mobility

News / Carbon & Climate

As climate 'tipping points' near, scientists plan for the unthinkable

With new evidence that catastrophic climate-change "tipping points" are nearing - from surging sea levels as polar ice melts to spiking temperatures as methane escapes thawing permafrost - scientists ...

19 Sep 2022

As climate 'tipping points' near, scientists plan for the unthinkable

A palm oil plantation owned by PT Agrinusa Persada Mulia

News / Food & Agriculture

Indonesian palm oil firm to 'remedy past mistakes' with forest restoration plan

...carbon value of peat. The liability amounts to 11,900 ha of forest, factoring in peatland clearance. The two years of deforestation prior to 2015 were chalked off, as forest-clearing growers could arg...

15 Jun 2021

Indonesian palm oil firm to 'remedy past mistakes' with forest restoration plan

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Opinion / Energy

#LeaveNoOneBehind: ensuring universal access in Southeast Asia's energy transition

...carbon dioxide. Collecting wood products for fuels has also been linked to deforestation. Moreover, such fuels cause indoor air pollution with serious health effects, including increased risks of resp...

10 Jun 2022

#LeaveNoOneBehind: ensuring universal access in Southeast Asia's energy transition

News / Carbon & Climate

In the race to net zero, which sustainability solutions are most needed?

...carbon-intensive industries,” she said. But even before that, industries should focus on decreasing consumption, cautioned Kim. “A lot of the assumption that we have around the world’s carbon supply i...

18 Jan 2021

In the race to net zero, which sustainability solutions are most needed?

A woman sips from a fresh coconut using a plastic straw outside New Delhi's Jahanpannah forest park.

News / Waste

India's single-use plastic ban faces pushback from industry

Street vendor Shakti Singh hacks out the top of a green coconut, deftly inserts a plastic straw and passes it to a customer, one of many who have gathered around his cart to take a sip after their mor...

6 Jul 2022

India's single-use plastic ban faces pushback from industry

News / Cities

Flash mobs and YouTubers boost India anti-coal mining protest

Vaibhav Bemetariha's wedding card was a conversation starter. The 38-year-old's friends and family were intrigued by his decision to print "save Hasdeo" in support of a protest to protect a major fore...

25 Aug 2022

Flash mobs and YouTubers boost India anti-coal mining protest

Press Releases / The Incubation Network

The Incubation Network launches open call for 'Plastic Waste to Value Southeast Asia' challenge

To tackle plastic waste mismanagement in Southeast Asia, The Incubation Network has partnered up with the Global Plastic Action Partnership and the Alliance to End Plastic Waste to launch the Plastic ...

9 Jun 2022

The Incubation Network launches open call for 'Plastic Waste to Value Southeast Asia' challenge

News / Policy & Finance

UNDP China hires Yali Wang as SDG finance policy analyst

Yali Wang, the Beijing-based director of international cooperation for International Institute of Green Finance (IIGF), has moved to United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) as a sustainable financ...

2 Aug 2021

UNDP China hires Yali Wang as SDG finance policy analyst

Press Releases / MUFG Bank

MUFG Bank signs Sydney Airport as first client for green deposits launch in Australia

...carbon emissions. NZBA currently has over 100 FIs as members. About MUFG Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group, Inc. (MUFG) is one of the world’s leading financial groups. Headquartered in Toky...

12 Apr 2022

MUFG Bank signs Sydney Airport as first client for green deposits launch in Australia

News / Food & Agriculture

China’s growing food needs put pressure on environment beyond its borders

...carbon dioxide emissions annually. “Assessing the impacts of future food demand requires comprehensive analyses of China’s agricultural sector,” said the study’s lead author Hao Zhao who represents t...

21 Oct 2021

China’s growing food needs put pressure on environment beyond its borders

Research / WWF International

Behaviour change—save nature please

...carbon-neutral and nature-positive future. To make the fundamentals of behavioural science as accessible as possible for organisations, teams and individuals seeking to drive positive change, WWF has...

2 Feb 2021

Behaviour change—save nature please

News / Carbon & Climate

‘They’re going to get worse and worse’: marine heat wave prevails off Sydney

When conservation ecologist Rob Harcourt went surfing off the coast of Sydney, Australia, he immediately knew the water was warmer than usual. “We had at least 23 [degrees Celsius, or 73° Fahrenheit] ...

23 Feb 2022

‘They’re going to get worse and worse’: marine heat wave prevails off Sydney

News / Carbon & Climate

Indigenous peoples urge Harvard to scrap solar geoengineering project

...carbon emissions are rebounding this year after a fall in 2020 when the coronavirus pandemic hit economic activity. Need to know In March, the US National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medici...

11 Jun 2021

Indigenous peoples urge Harvard to scrap solar geoengineering project

Opinion / Carbon & Climate

Resisting Brazil's retreat from green

In 2021, deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon reached its highest level since 2006, while illegal mining in the legally protected Yanomami Indigenous lands increased by 46 per cent. Such gold mining...

9 May 2022

Resisting Brazil's retreat from green

News / Corporate Responsibility

Global business survey finds 'little consistency' in how sustainability leadership roles are organised

A study of businesses has found that although environmental, social and governance (ESG) issues have shot up the corporate agenda in recent years, companies have taken a muddled approach to organising...

9 May 2022

Global business survey finds 'little consistency' in how sustainability leadership roles are organised

News / Corporate Responsibility

Covid has hurt the sustainability reporting performance of Asia Pacific's biggest companies

...carbonisation into their operational goals, but more work is needed to disclose specific detail in carbon reduction plans, the report's authors noted. CSRone's sustainability reporting performance ra...

8 Mar 2021

Covid has hurt the sustainability reporting performance of Asia Pacific's biggest companies

News / Carbon & Climate

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

...carbon neutrality by 2060. The new data highlights the significance of China’s new five-year plan targets, due to be released at the annual legislative session starting on Friday. The plan is unlikely...

15 Mar 2021

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

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