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Is planting trees as good for the Earth as everyone says?

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Explainer: Is tree planting as good for the Earth as we believe?

...carbon, about 25 per cent of the carbon human activities have released into the atmosphere to date, the study found. “This highlights global tree restoration as one of the most effective carbon drawdo...

14 May 2021

Explainer: Is tree planting as good for the Earth as we believe?

News / Water

Asia's coral gardener on a quest to save the world's imperilled reefs

Over the past 30 years, more than 50 per cent of reefs have disappeared and more than 75 per cent are damaged. Another 40 per cet of the remaining coral may disappear in the next 30 years, unless ther...

26 Jun 2022

Asia's coral gardener on a quest to save the world's imperilled reefs

Opinion / Policy & Finance

Greening the “Special Relationship”

...carbon neutrality by mid-century poses a much greater challenge. Fortunately, Biden and his climate chief, former Secretary of State John Kerry, recognise that US legitimacy abroad now depends on whet...

9 Mar 2021

Greening the “Special Relationship”

News / Energy

Philippines commits to revival of nuclear energy

...carbon targets cannot be met without it, said Dr Carlo Arcilla, director, Philippine Nuclear Research Institute, the research and development arm of the Department of Science and Technology (DOST). "...

3 Mar 2022

Philippines commits to revival of nuclear energy

News / Carbon & Climate

PropertyGuru co-founder Steve Melhuish joins Eco-Business as strategic investor

...carbon economy, create jobs and increase competitiveness." Yeo is based in Beijing and leads Eco-Business's China and North Asia expansion. It welcomed Ng Wai Mun to its editorial team this week as it...

12 Oct 2021

PropertyGuru co-founder Steve Melhuish joins Eco-Business as strategic investor

News / Policy & Finance

Indigenous leaders call for stronger rights as UN nature summit begins

...carbon-absorbing native tropical forests is a powerful and inexpensive way to combat climate change, forest and indigenous experts say. A report this year from the UN Food and Agriculture Organisation...

12 Oct 2021

Indigenous leaders call for stronger rights as UN nature summit begins

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'Start my life from zero': poor Pakistanis face heavy cost of floods

When the swollen Swat River shifted course in late August and roared into Naeem Ullah's village in northwest Pakistan, it swept away his home and all 13 of his relatives' houses too. His sugarcane cro...

7 Sep 2022

'Start my life from zero': poor Pakistanis face heavy cost of floods

Opinion / Carbon & Climate

China’s path to net zero

...carbon dioxide emissions before 2030 and to achieve carbon neutrality before 2060. If it succeeds, the country will have gone, in less than 40 years, from being the world’s largest CO2 emitter to brin...

7 Dec 2020

China’s path to net zero

News / Policy & Finance

Rich nations urged to pay US$60 billion a year to protect developing-world nature

...carbon storage human societies rely on. UN officials and conservationists told a 2020 UN finance forum that $700 billion a year in extra funding was needed over the next decade, from both governments ...

2 Mar 2022

Rich nations urged to pay US$60 billion a year to protect developing-world nature

News / Carbon & Climate

Erratic monsoons cast long shadow over India’s economic heartlands

Every summer, thousands of Hindu pilgrims trek through miles of snow in Indian Kashmir to pay homage to a natural ice formation believed to be the embodiment of God Shiva called Baba Amarnath, but eve...

20 Jul 2022

Erratic monsoons cast long shadow over India’s economic heartlands

News / Waste

Typhoon Rai leaves trail of plastic trash for residents of Philippine sinking island

Baltazar Mejares, a 52-year-old father of four, scampered in the dark with his family to reach higher ground as the sea swelled to four metres high on the night of 16 December 2021, when the year’s de...

28 Jan 2022

Typhoon Rai leaves trail of plastic trash for residents of Philippine sinking island

News / Policy & Finance

Credit Suisse joins growing list of banks shunning deep-sea mining

Credit Suisse has committed to rule out financing deep-sea mining. The Swiss multinational bank published new lending guidelines for sectors with high environmental, social and governance (ESG) risk o...

29 Apr 2022

Credit Suisse joins growing list of banks shunning deep-sea mining

Opinion / Carbon & Climate

As key stakeholders in higher education, students should have greater say in decision-making

...carbon-intensive companies was the responsibility of National Taiwan University, as one of the most prestigious universities in the country, to fulfill its social responsibilities. “It is important t...

10 Feb 2022

As key stakeholders in higher education, students should have greater say in decision-making

News / Carbon & Climate

Facebook to block illegal sales of protected Amazon rainforest areas

On Friday, embattled social media giant Facebook announced it would crack down on the illegal sales of protected Amazon rainforest land via its platform, according to a blog post by the company. The m...

11 Oct 2021

Facebook to block illegal sales of protected Amazon rainforest areas

worker sprays water over piles of coal as a bulldozer shifts coal at Mundra Port Coal Terminal

News / Carbon & Climate

India's engineering colleges equip students for future beyond coal

...carbon production process. Mallick said the course used to focus on understanding coal and grades of coal, and how thermal power is generated from it. "Now it is also about wind and solar energy," he ...

28 Oct 2021

India's engineering colleges equip students for future beyond coal

News / Carbon & Climate

Humanity’s dysfunctional relationship with Earth can still be fixed: Report

...carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere. This, in turn, has led to 1.2° Celsius (2.2° Fahrenheit) of warming compared to pre-industrial levels, threatening our ability to thrive in the only place we c...

23 Apr 2021

Humanity’s dysfunctional relationship with Earth can still be fixed: Report

News / Carbon & Climate

How Biden's climate agenda aims to trigger a 'good-paying' jobs boom

...carbon emissions from US energy and industry by 2050 - as Biden aims to do—could be achieved by rebuilding energy infrastructure to run primarily on renewables, at a net cost of about $1 per person pe...

1 Feb 2021

How Biden's climate agenda aims to trigger a 'good-paying' jobs boom

News / Energy

War in Ukraine has not increased EU fossil fuel consumption

...carbonisation plans in most EU member states. By June 2022, 19 governments had already announced plans to accelerate the green shift in response to the Covid-19 pandemic and Russia’s threat to their e...

2 Mar 2023

War in Ukraine has not increased EU fossil fuel consumption

Opinion / Carbon & Climate

What’s going on with the Greenland ice sheet?

I’m standing at the edge of the Greenland ice sheet, mesmerised by a mind-blowing scene of natural destruction. A milewide section of glacier front has fractured and is collapsing into the ocean, calv...

2 Sep 2022

What’s going on with the Greenland ice sheet?

News / Carbon & Climate

UN General Assembly sees progress on methane, climate finance and coal

...carbon dioxide. Rapidly cutting emissions of it is regarded by scientists as the single most effective strategy to reduce global warming in the near term, and to keep within reach the Paris Agreement...

7 Oct 2021

UN General Assembly sees progress on methane, climate finance and coal

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