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Human rights protection hangs in balance at UN climate talks

...thered in a corridor to call their ministers and "tell them right now that we need our rights in the text". If the inclusion of human rights in relation to the CDM's successor mechanism remains in the...

13 Dec 2018

Human rights protection hangs in balance at UN climate talks

News / Water

Airborne potable water can banish thirst

...when exposed to even weakened sunlight, they release all the water they hold: just fresh, clean water. “We found that these salts not only work when the sunlight is strongest, at noon or early afterno...

7 Sep 2018

Airborne potable water can banish thirst

Opinion / Policy & Finance

Putting people at the heart of sustainable development

...the right to choose when or whether to get married and when or whether to have children, and how many? How well have we done in strengthening gender equality and women’s empowerment, and upholding the...

27 Nov 2018

Putting people at the heart of sustainable development

Opinion / Policy & Finance

Reflections on achieving the global education goals

...their circumstances, a strong sense of self, as well as confidence in their place in the world and their future prospects. But I have also seen what happens when young people and their communities are...

14 Feb 2019

Reflections on achieving the global education goals

Opinion / Policy & Finance

Climate leadership from developing countries

...ther with The Nature Conservancy, the Central African Forest Initiative (CAFI), and the Forest Carbon Partnership Facility, the government is launching a nationwide initiative to reduce the contributi...

21 Oct 2019

Climate leadership from developing countries

News / Policy & Finance

Educating girls, the only road to achieving the SDGs

...they will become the decision makers of the future. It will be the women who choose how to look after the next generation and if they know how to look after themselves during pregnancy, and when bring...

27 Jul 2018

Educating girls, the only road to achieving the SDGs

News / Food & Agriculture

Abandoned by banks, Indonesia's poor farmers turn to crowdfunding

...they contribute the most labour but often lack access to farming income and assets. At Indonesian startup CROWDE, the initial target is to get 100,000 farmers to join the scheme and then foster their ...

12 Oct 2018

Abandoned by banks, Indonesia's poor farmers turn to crowdfunding

News / Energy

Brazilians reject Bolsonaro’s nuclear plan

...ther to form the Antinuclear Sertão (Semi-arid) movement, supported by the Catholic church, to challenge the planned reactor and denounce the risks it would bring. The alarm was raised when the govern...

8 Jul 2019

Brazilians reject Bolsonaro’s nuclear plan

News / Policy & Finance

Can blue finance save the oceans?

...thening the payback period on the rest. The money “saved” goes into a trust fund that pays for conserving marine protected areas and promoting fisheries and other parts of the nation’s blue economy. T...

3 Jun 2019

Can blue finance save the oceans?

News / Carbon & Climate

Developing Asia’s coal demand helped cancel out rich-world emissions cuts last year

...the United States, Norway and Australia. “While some economies are moving away from emissions increases, for the rest of the world, the trend is still alive,” Melissa Low, a research fellow at the Nat...

19 Feb 2020

Developing Asia’s coal demand helped cancel out rich-world emissions cuts last year

News / Carbon & Climate

China enters a new low-sulphur shipping era

...the fact that one was using fuel with 37 times the permitted quantities of sulphur, and the other only 2.4 times. This reduces the deterrent effect of the restrictions. They therefore called for the u...

13 May 2020

China enters a new low-sulphur shipping era

News / Carbon & Climate

5 trends that will shape sustainability and business in 2020

...the word "crisis" was often and aptly used by the media last year to describe the turmoil of the last decade. Observers wondered if the chaos would make global sustainability goals harder to achieve. ...

2 Jan 2020

5 trends that will shape sustainability and business in 2020

News / Policy & Finance

Pan Borneo Highway development endangers Borneo forests

...the multi-year Pan Borneo Highway project in Sabah. The researchers compared these plans with the locations of intact forests, parks and reserves in the state, and then they modeled the repercussions ...

19 Sep 2019

Pan Borneo Highway development endangers Borneo forests

News / Food & Agriculture

Can WhatsApp and motorbikes protect Africa's food security?

...them will remain ... when access to the capital is easy," he said. "(It's when) the road to access the capital is damaged ... that they're so afraid that once they get to the city, they don't want to ...

13 Jul 2018

Can WhatsApp and motorbikes protect Africa's food security?

News / Food & Agriculture

'We’ve been negligent,’ Indonesia’s president Widodo says as fire crisis deepens

...the fires. He then also claimed that there was a political angle to the arson, linking the burning to the elections that took place in April. Fixing the mistakes In light of these claims, environmenta...

18 Sep 2019

'We’ve been negligent,’ Indonesia’s president Widodo says as fire crisis deepens

News / Carbon & Climate

A ‘life and death matter’: Singapore could spend US$72b on climate adaptation over next century

...ther option is to reclaim a series of offshore islands from Marina East in the city centre, all the way to the eastern tip of Changi where the country’s airport is sited. “We join up the islands, conn...

20 Aug 2019

A ‘life and death matter’: Singapore could spend US$72b on climate adaptation over next century

Press Releases / Building and Construction Authority

BCA launches first one-stop smart portal on green building solutions in the region

...the various systems in one of their buildings. In addition, the Smart Advisor has been able to recommend several technologies for them to explore for an upcoming retrofit project. Moving forward, the...

18 Sep 2019

BCA launches first one-stop smart portal on green building solutions in the region

The array of wind turbines constructed for the Dam Nai Project in Ninh Thuan Province, South Vietnam. Photo by The Blue Circle.

Opinion / Energy

What’s stopping corporates from switching to clean energy in Vietnam?

...the country’s grid by the end of June 2019 when the first feed-in-tariff (FIT) programme expires. The onshore and offshore wind FIT incentive was recently increased, renewing investor interest and lea...

25 Apr 2019

What’s stopping corporates from switching to clean energy in Vietnam?

News / Carbon & Climate

Trading carbon credits from nature sparks fiery debate at UN talks

...the country that is home to the projects and the country that buys the credits counting them towards their national targets. Another point of contention is whether billions of carbon offsets created a...

6 Dec 2019

Trading carbon credits from nature sparks fiery debate at UN talks

Can smart technology make cities better place for the elderly?

News / Green Buildings

How can smart buildings help an ageing Asia?

The technology of the fourth industrial revolution could make cities smarter than ever. But are smarter cities better for the environment and its residents? This was a central theme at the Internation...

2 Oct 2018

How can smart buildings help an ageing Asia?

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