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Philippine environment secretary Antonia Loyzaga at COP28

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Explainer: Why the Philippines does not have a net zero target

...trial areas. The regulation text contains a loophole: coal-fired plants are prohibited except for those that “meet the requirements, including being integrated with industry that is built oriented to...

13 Sep 2024

Explainer: Why the Philippines does not have a net zero target

News / Cities

Rise of delivery robots leaves drivers fearful of job losses

...they want to get rid of the workers, but they can't. They need the workers. Matthew Cole, researcher, Oxford Internet Institute "Delivery companies already treat their workers like robots so it's not...

18 Oct 2022

Rise of delivery robots leaves drivers fearful of job losses

News / Policy & Finance

Merger with reporting standards body ISSB desirable but 'impossible', says GRI boss

...ths after two other standards, Sustainability Accounting Standards Board (SASB) and the International Integrated Reporting Council (IIRC), merged to bring more "clarity and simplicity to the corporate...

8 Mar 2023

Merger with reporting standards body ISSB desirable but 'impossible', says GRI boss

News / Carbon & Climate

What are chief sustainability officers prioritising in 2024?

...t seem that important. It’s not one of those round numbers – it’s not 2030, it’s not 2020. But it is quite critical. This is the year where you’ve got to plan so that you can create measurable impact ...

28 Feb 2024

What are chief sustainability officers prioritising in 2024?

News / Policy & Finance

Poor nations seek to go green with debt swaps

...t finance institutions or private banks - either by giving states more time to repay loans or reducing interest rates and the amounts they must pay back. With the agreement of creditors, debt swaps ca...

20 Feb 2023

Poor nations seek to go green with debt swaps

News / Carbon & Climate

Scientists warn a third of people face life in climate hotspots

...to inject that urgency into UN climate negotiations that started this week in the Red Sea resort of Sharm el-Sheikh. “ You can't negotiate with the planet, you can't negotiate with the atmosphere. Yo...

11 Nov 2022

Scientists warn a third of people face life in climate hotspots

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Q&A: What could a US-China trade war mean for the energy transition?

...tical term used to describe those that play a role in strategically important sectors, with each country setting their own parameters for strategic importance. The US lists 50 minerals as critical, w...

12 Dec 2024

Q&A: What could a US-China trade war mean for the energy transition?

News / Food & Agriculture

From India to Lagos, can 'superfood' millet make climate comeback?

...t served to them as part of the millet project's outreach work. "This is the first time probably that we're attempting to go back to old food habits. Now that is an uphill task with millets trying to ...

15 Aug 2023

From India to Lagos, can 'superfood' millet make climate comeback?

News / Lifestyle

Four in 10 people don't want to have children as climate anxiety reaches record levels

...ty Southeast Asian nation are the least likely to be deterred from starting a family because of climate calamity. Almost a third (32 per cent) of people globally strongly disagree that the impacts of ...

16 Sep 2022

Four in 10 people don't want to have children as climate anxiety reaches record levels

News / Manufacturing

How to fix the carbon crisis in fast fashion

...tton shirt, it added. The stats have only got worse as the global appetite for fast fashion grows, with ever more consumers chasing the latest catwalk-to-high street trends. Industry also knows that a...

20 Dec 2023

How to fix the carbon crisis in fast fashion

News / Cities

Indigenous groups in NZ, US fear colonisation as AI learns their languages

...th these large AI models is that data is being scraped from the internet with little regard for any bias that could be present in the data, let alone any associated intellectual property rights," he s...

6 Apr 2023

Indigenous groups in NZ, US fear colonisation as AI learns their languages

News / Policy & Finance

'Second-party opinions’: a greenwash safeguard or just for show?

...tructure. It is a picture of the intention set in the financing framework at the start." Ultimately, SPOs help institutional investors to communicate to regulators and their own clients that they have...

28 Aug 2024

'Second-party opinions’: a greenwash safeguard or just for show?

News / Cities

Malaysian conservationist takes hotel training into the rainforest

...tarting to think and talk about it as well?' That's hard. We have an economy that's very much about pulling your attention into social media, into this, that and the other - and grabbing that attentio...

11 May 2023

Malaysian conservationist takes hotel training into the rainforest

News / Carbon & Climate

Shell abandons 2035 emissions target and weakens 2030 goal

...ts by consumers – the company set itself “net carbon intensity” targets on its path to net-zero. This allows Shell to bring down its carbon intensity and hit its targets through means other than cutt...

20 Mar 2024

Shell abandons 2035 emissions target and weakens 2030 goal

News / Carbon & Climate

Does COP28 signal the beginning of an end to the fossil fuel era? It depends on who you ask.

...tatives from small island states, which appeared to have been left out of the event's conclusion. “We didn’t want to interrupt the standing ovation, but we are confused. It seems you just gavelled the...

14 Dec 2023

Does COP28 signal the beginning of an end to the fossil fuel era? It depends on who you ask.

Podcasts / Food & Agriculture

Selling the taste of sustainability

...the functionality of the product, the texture of it, or the taste of it is less than what they're used to getting. That's why we take an integrated solutions approach. Being able to balance the total ...

21 Sep 2022

Selling the taste of sustainability

Artist impression of Jurong Lake District

News / Green Buildings

Singapore's new AI utility to tap national green building data for combatting greenwash concerns on financing

...trict that the city state is planning for to consider using the AI platform to obtain green financing. The Jurong Lake District – located outside Singapore's city centre and in the western part of the...

17 Nov 2023

Singapore's new AI utility to tap national green building data for combatting greenwash concerns on financing

News / Policy & Finance

How hot is too hot to work? Heatwaves renew workers' rights push

...t. In a statement, UPS spokesperson Matthew O’Connor said staff health and safety was "our highest priority," citing the heat-resistant uniforms and cooling towels it distributed, and the fans it inst...

10 Oct 2022

How hot is too hot to work? Heatwaves renew workers' rights push

Podcasts / Policy & Finance

How did Covid change sustainability events?

...the event, and they're part of the attempt to market the event rather than to get to the truth. So if one starts a sustainability event, or any event from the proposition that we are here to make an i...

24 Aug 2022

How did Covid change sustainability events?

News / Policy & Finance

Macron finance summit tackles global debt and climate reforms

...to the global financial system. "There's a broad coming together around the fact that debt has to be dealt with in a serious way," said Rachel Kyte, dean of The Fletcher School at Tufts University. ...

28 Jun 2023

Macron finance summit tackles global debt and climate reforms

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