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...told Context. A separate study looking at the Israeli-Hamas war in Gaza estimates the carbon footprint for the first 15 months topped 32 million tons of emissions, when post-conflict reconstruction is...

30 Oct 2025

Beneath warming seas, communities are helping reefs recover

...ts," he says. "Many corals lost their colour, and some didn't survive. It was difficult to witness, but it strengthened our commitment to helping them recover." These restoration efforts matter...

11 Aug 2026

A beach in Balikpapan, Indonesia's "oil city", is covered in plastic trash.

...tic. They don't factor in the amount of money that needs to go into waste management of the plastics. So that's why they often insert chemical additives and other things that make the product essentia...

12 Aug 2025

...that favours the strongest and fittest," Egeland told Context. "This is in no way the kind of work we should perform." But it is not just in Gaza, where the humanitarian system is being severely teste...

7 Oct 2025

Why water and sanitation are women’s rights issues

...The gender data gap leaves water solutions half empty Data doesn’t just show us the extent of the problems. It lights the path to solutions. Disaggregated data and gender statistics can show u...

18 Jul 2026

Taiwan's move comes as governments across Asia increasingly use carbon pricing to finance decarbonisation while maintaining industrial competitiveness

...tion, climate adaptation and industrial transition. Authorities plan to pilot an emissions trading system alongside the carbon fee in 2026 as part of a longer-term transition toward market-based carbo...

1 Jul 2026

...th the Public Environmental Data Partners. "But for me personally, I didn't expect that to be so expansive and for it to be one of the first things that the administration targeted." The EPA did not r...

15 Aug 2025

Here’s the recipe for fixing the planet, according to a landmark new report from UNEP

...that are better for the environment and their bottom lines. Overhaul the incentives that govern the global economy Right now, the global economic system too often rewards practices that harm t...

19 Jan 2026

...top of those to create products and tools. And because they have such good experience around this with all the work they've done in the past around the identity system (and) the payment system that th...

21 Oct 2025

...t told Reuters last week that President Donald Trump's administration expected most of the country's coal-fired power plants to delay retirement to help deliver the vast amount of electricity needed t...

3 Oct 2025

...t.] The latest NDCs are not perfect, but they are much better than the last two cycles. We are trying to quantify that and that we are trying to figure out how much better they are. At Paris they were...

6 Nov 2025

...trated. Of the 163 companies that disclosed electricity consumption, total use reached 494 TWh in 2024 – equivalent to about 1.7 per cent of global electricity consumption. The 10 largest electricity ...

24 Sep 2026

The greenshouting framework guides companies through sustainability comms

...tegrating sustainability into products and operations but have been reluctant to communicate progress. “It shifts the dialogue from future commitments like net zero 2050 to tangible progress,” Wilson ...

20 Apr 2026

...te acute malnutrition and severe acute malnutrition. We do not do in-patient treatment of the most severe patients, but we do see patients that we desperately have to refer to in-patient treatment and...

28 Aug 2025

...to tackle NTDs on the continent over the next two years. Drug treatments are only part of the picture. Preventing diseases requires investment in water and sanitation – another sector hit by aid cuts ...

25 Aug 2025

...tised system of putting bins out, we wouldn't be able to do it. Lastly, when we started to get the attention of certain town councils, NEA also started to support us and pushed the initiative to other...

30 Jul 2025

...terest rather than launching a formal application process, with further details on eligibility requirements, cohort size and selection timelines expected later. "The greatest impact doesn't stop at de...

25 May 2026

...t that has to be offset [with wanting to be more sustainable]. That's probably the hardest part of my job. But if I think about the companies that don't take that attitude of just focusing on profit, ...

25 Jun 2025

...ts to it that it is safe? At that time, there were already parameters needed to see whether the technology is clean or if it is compliant with our standards. But we lacked the capacity, the infrastruc...

15 May 2026

A*STAR has signed a five-year research collaboration with Commonwealth Fusion Systems to help develop technologies for future fusion power plants

...th Fusion Systems and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (SPARC), a fusion demonstration device under construction in Massachusetts that is scheduled to generate more energy from fusion than it...

22 May 2026

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