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Displacement of Indigenous hamlet shows Nepal’s dire conservation challenge

On the evening of March 27, as residents of the settlement of Kusum Khola, on the fringes of Nepal’s Chitwan National Park, were preparing dinner, they heard footsteps crunch past fallen leaves, distu...

11 Apr 2022

Displacement of Indigenous hamlet shows Nepal’s dire conservation challenge

News / Carbon & Climate

Cities should invest in nature and reap economic benefits from it: World Economic Forum

After a landslide in 2017 killed 1,141 people and left more than 3,000 homeless in Sierra Leone's capital Freetown, the city's recovery plan had included training residents to plant 21,000 native tree...

17 Jan 2022

Cities should invest in nature and reap economic benefits from it: World Economic Forum

Opinion / Corporate Responsibility

Building a sustainable e-commerce ecosystem in Southeast Asia and beyond

...carbon footprint that could, if unchecked, outweigh its benefits over offline commerce. Digital commerce companies can – and should – lead in reducing this environmental impact. During last year’s 12....

28 Jul 2021

Building a sustainable e-commerce ecosystem in Southeast Asia and beyond

Opinion / Carbon & Climate

The anatomy of the net-zero transition

...carbonisation could make existing processes and products more cost-effective, and new markets for low-emissions goods will become increasingly lucrative. Companies can also gain by supporting the prod...

14 Mar 2022

The anatomy of the net-zero transition

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Which countries in Asia Pacific are doing most to protect the environment in 2021?

...carbon dioxide annually, four times more than what Bhutan emits. This makes it the world’s only carbon-negative nation. But as Bhutan’s population burgeons and increasingly strives for the comforts of...

22 Apr 2021

Which countries in Asia Pacific are doing most to protect the environment in 2021?

Research / Conservation International, DBS Bank, National University of Singapore (NUS) and Temasek

The business case for natural climate solutions: Insights and opportunities for Southeast Asia

Nature already mitigates a significant portion of man-made GHG emissions; approximately a quarter of these emissions are absorbed by trees, plants, and soil, while another quarter is absorbed into mar...

17 Dec 2020

The business case for natural climate solutions: Insights and opportunities for Southeast Asia

News / Carbon & Climate

Japan vows to become carbon neutral by 2050

...carbon neutral “as soon as possible” in the second half of the century. Earlier this year, it drew global criticism for failing to ratchet up these targets. The announcement brings Japan on par with t...

26 Oct 2020

Japan vows to become carbon neutral by 2050

News / Energy

New gas development threatens Philippine marine protected area

...carbon dioxide than coal. But experts have flagged methane—a powerful greenhouse gas—that is emitted during its production, transportation and combustion. A landmark report by the United Nations Inte...

8 Oct 2021

New gas development threatens Philippine marine protected area

News / Carbon & Climate

Global warming of 3C could cost US$1.6 trillion a year in lost labour

Global warming of 3 degrees Celsius could cost as much as $1.6 trillion each year in lost labour productivity as even the coolest hours of the day start posing major health risks to workers in parts o...

15 Dec 2021

Global warming of 3C could cost US$1.6 trillion a year in lost labour

News / Cities

Betting on bamboo: Indonesian villages struggle to source safe, green power

...carbon and water back into the ground," he told the Thomson Reuters Foundation. A 2018 paper published in the journal Sustainability showed bamboo has high energy value and can sequester as much, or m...

21 Apr 2021

Betting on bamboo: Indonesian villages struggle to source safe, green power

News / Policy & Finance

China’s climate lead offers the planet new hope

...carbon emissions from gas use should be offset by the reduction from the coal sector.” The report also called for China to cut its carbon intensity – the amount of carbon dioxide emissions per GDP uni...

21 Oct 2020

China’s climate lead offers the planet new hope

News / Policy & Finance

7 countries that shook up the world in 2020

...carbon neutral by 2060. China currently accounts for about 28 per cent of global carbon emissions, and its commitment could put the world within reach of the Paris Agreement target. President Xi Jinpi...

21 Dec 2020

7 countries that shook up the world in 2020

Opinion / Cities

Putting a floor under Asia's sinking cities

The increasing threat from climate change has made coastal cities more vulnerable to floods, which impacts could be further exacerbated by extreme weather events. In the next three decades, rising sea...

11 Mar 2022

Putting a floor under Asia's sinking cities

Releasing aerosols into the stratosphere

News / Carbon & Climate

Has ‘geoengineering’ arrived in China?

...carbon dioxide removal (CDR), the physical removal and permanent sequestration of carbon dioxide from the atmosphere, creating “negative emissions”. One example of CDR is bioenergy with carbon capture...

12 Nov 2020

Has ‘geoengineering’ arrived in China?

News / Food & Agriculture

Economic growth based on forest conversion has ‘no future’

...carbon pricing could pile on US$19 billion in extra costs for global palm oil, beef and soy producers. The first-of-its-kind economic and financial analysis demonstrates that those associated with the...

23 Dec 2020

Economic growth based on forest conversion has ‘no future’

News / Food & Agriculture

Sime Darby Plantation recruits human rights lawyer Justine Nolan

Sime Darby Plantation, one of the world's largest palm oil companies, has appointed human rights lawyer Professor Justine Nolan to its commision on human rights. Nolan joins a commission set up in Mar...

5 Jun 2021

Sime Darby Plantation recruits human rights lawyer Justine Nolan

News / Waste

Thai gold mine set to reopen even as locals reel from heavy metal poisoning

Standing in the house where she has lived since she was born 45 years ago, Premsinee Suntornthammathat points to the temple where her grandparents took her to pray as a child. During festivals, hundre...

12 May 2022

Thai gold mine set to reopen even as locals reel from heavy metal poisoning

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Questions about who gets the billions pledged to Indigenous causes at COP26

...carbon, yet the very communities responsible for this brake on emissions only have legally recognised rights to half of these territories. “Our global forests are absolutely fundamental if we are to l...

24 Nov 2021

Questions about who gets the billions pledged to Indigenous causes at COP26

News / Policy & Finance

Natural disasters cost world US$280 billion in 2021 — a third more than in 2020

Financial losses from natural disasters have increased for the third consecutive year — another sign of the worsening impacts of climate change. The costliest nature-related calamity at US$65 billion ...

11 Jan 2022

Natural disasters cost world US$280 billion in 2021 — a third more than in 2020

News / Carbon & Climate

How to stop global warming? The most controversial solutions explained

...Carbon dioxide removal Many researchers argue the use of carbon removal technologies are now all but essential since the world is so off track to cut emissions enough to avoid dangerous warming. “By ...

1 Oct 2020

How to stop global warming? The most controversial solutions explained

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