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Research / Carbon-And-More

Reasons for Small and Medium-Size Businesses to implement a CSR program.

...ther, have a massive impact on the environment and society in general. From the type of products and services they offer, to their own social responsibility practices, SMEs may contribute to creating...

27 Jun 2018

Reasons for Small and Medium-Size Businesses to implement a CSR program.

News / Carbon & Climate

How should China respond to melting glaciers and rising sea levels?

...the source of the Yangtze and Yellow Rivers, and many other important international rivers, including the Brahmaputra, the Ganges, the Mekong and the Salween. Glacial melting will therefore affect oth...

30 Sep 2019

How should China respond to melting glaciers and rising sea levels?

Children play with informal waste pickers in Myanmar

News / Lifestyle

7 eco-friendly ways to stir the senses this Earth Day

...The loofah fruit is harvested, the shell removed and its flesh dried in the sun. The loofah's fibres are then fashioned into a mitt, and used to exfoliate the skin. There's loads of choice, but Body S...

24 Apr 2019

7 eco-friendly ways to stir the senses this Earth Day

News / Carbon & Climate

The promise and peril of blockchain

...the origin of their purchased carbon credits and the impact they are having. Image: Poseidon Foundation “The fact that we can transact carbon credits in grams rather than tonnes is rather revolutiona...

11 Sep 2018

The promise and peril of blockchain

News / Carbon & Climate

Biggest animals face extinction for food

...the wild in the past 250 years. But large species numbers everywhere are falling. Their numbers were always fewer, and often their meat more prized. With first the spear and the arrow, and then the gu...

20 Feb 2019

Biggest animals face extinction for food

News / Energy

Radical changes proposed for Indonesia to meet clean energy target

...There are four main barriers to renewable energy growth, but at the heart of the issue is that no single agency in Indonesia is accountable for the development of renewable energy, stated the report, ...

16 Jul 2019

Radical changes proposed for Indonesia to meet clean energy target

A man sells eggs in a tricycle in Bacolod City, the Philippines

Opinion / Policy & Finance

4 ways to rethink social protection for future work in Asia

...the Asia’s elderly remain in the labour market because they can’t afford to retire. The gap in social protection provision, coupled with the growing informality of the labour market and the region’s d...

23 Aug 2018

4 ways to rethink social protection for future work in Asia

News / Policy & Finance

Why does Singapore's $235 billion investment giant care about sustainability?

...the future of the planet at the core of their business that will have a better chance of growth over the long term. If the planet and people are not cared for, there will be "nothing left for us to in...

18 Jun 2019

Why does Singapore's $235 billion investment giant care about sustainability?

News / Cities

Cities may save some species from extinction, but they don’t save species’ ecological functions

...the fruits of 14 species by carrying them in their beaks and consuming them in distant perching trees. They discarded undamaged mature seeds, with the potential to germinate, in 99.5 per cent of cases...

22 Apr 2019

Cities may save some species from extinction, but they don’t save species’ ecological functions

News / Cities

Can bringing young and old under one roof solve the world's housing crisis?

...the 1970s in the United States, according to Homeshare International, which hosted the World Homeshare Congress. The concept spread to Europe in the 1990s and later to Australia, and there are now a g...

22 Mar 2019

Can bringing young and old under one roof solve the world's housing crisis?

News / Cities

As India adds 100 Smart Cities, one tells a cautionary tale

...their land for the city, their very livelihoods are at stake. Many were resettled in pucca, or permanent homes, and found jobs in the newly built houses and businesses. Their children joined the free ...

5 Sep 2018

As India adds 100 Smart Cities, one tells a cautionary tale

Opinion / Policy & Finance

Why impact investing can help solve the world's problems

...the United Nations' framework for driving real, sustainable change, known as the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). However, there are three major factors holding back these endeavours. The first i...

31 Jan 2019

Why impact investing can help solve the world's problems

News / Carbon & Climate

Despite scaling down targets and tripling funds, Indonesia still short of reforestation goal

...the quality of the program itself. In the end, such a high budget could end up as another failure.” Low new target Then there’s the issue of the newly updated goal that the environment ministry has se...

28 Jan 2019

Despite scaling down targets and tripling funds, Indonesia still short of reforestation goal

Opinion / Water

Vital for life, heat and power—what you never knew about salt water

...the sea floor, stirring the ocean and driving these currents. As climate change melts the ice caps, these currents may be disrupted. This will upset the flow of heat and nutrients around the world in ...

18 Sep 2018

Vital for life, heat and power—what you never knew about salt water

Opinion / Policy & Finance

It's time to train accountants in sustainability

...their own only after they’ve received their designation—and at their own cost (or their firm’s). As a consequence of the lack of coverage of sustainability, accountants are ill-prepared to face the gr...

17 Sep 2018

It's time to train accountants in sustainability

Opinion / Lifestyle

Sorry, baristas: instant coffee has the smallest carbon footprint (but don't overfill the kettle)

...the big brands, in countries such as Australia, the Netherlands and the UK. There the beans are roasted and ground, coffee is brewed and then either freeze-dried or spray-dried. The product is then ty...

4 Jul 2018

Sorry, baristas: instant coffee has the smallest carbon footprint (but don't overfill the kettle)

News / Policy & Finance

On the island of Java, a social forestry scheme creates jobs at home

...they noticed an increase in the water table. “We asked to be given a chance for one or two years and if there was any wrongdoing then they could go ahead and revoke the license,” Parjan says. “In the ...

16 May 2019

On the island of Java, a social forestry scheme creates jobs at home

Opinion / Carbon & Climate

How is a carbon dividend better than a carbon tax?

...they lead far more carbon-intensive lifestyles than everyone else, they would contribute far more per capita to the carbon dividend. More to the point, they would pay in much more than they get back, ...

16 May 2019

How is a carbon dividend better than a carbon tax?

News / Carbon & Climate

Growing disaster threats put human survival in doubt, warns UN

...the report launched at the Global Platform for Disaster Risk Reduction in Geneva. "If we continue living in this way, engaging with each other and the planet in the way we do, then our very survival i...

16 May 2019

Growing disaster threats put human survival in doubt, warns UN

News / Manufacturing

Work with suppliers, not against them, to end modern slavery

...they only perform due diligence on their immediate, or tier 1, suppliers. Large companies have “no excuse” for being ignorant of the abuse that goes on in their supply chain because the tools to find ...

14 Nov 2018

Work with suppliers, not against them, to end modern slavery

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