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In Asia's space-starved cities, urban planners bring 'dead' land to life

...When the space under the flyovers is the only available space in the city for the homeless, to displace them from those spaces without providing an alternative is cruel," she said. "They have no optio...

17 Jan 2019

In Asia's space-starved cities, urban planners bring 'dead' land to life

News / Energy

China’s plan to electrify the economy

...ther areas of the economy to stop burning fossil fuels. One way China is doing this is by promoting the use of electricity instead.Electrification is hard and takes time. Amongst other things, the gov...

11 Sep 2019

China’s plan to electrify the economy

News / Carbon & Climate

Geo-engineered crops may help – and harm

...The researchers then asked the question: what happens to crops when sunlight is scattered back into space? They analysed the levels of aerosols, all the available data for solar irradiation, and the s...

14 Aug 2018

Geo-engineered crops may help – and harm

News / Policy & Finance

Green promises for India’s polls, but no fresh idea

...The INC promises, “We will work closely with the State Governments concerned to preserve the rich biodiversity of the Himalayan range and the Western Ghats. However, the livelihood opportunities of th...

17 Apr 2019

Green promises for India’s polls, but no fresh idea

News / Corporate Responsibility

From nutty bugs to candied veggies, does food by any other name taste as good?

...the lessons from big brands and actually sell the alternatives in the same way," Attwood said. She pointed to the successful marketing of a low-calorie soda in Europe and Asia as Pepsi Max rather than...

3 May 2019

From nutty bugs to candied veggies, does food by any other name taste as good?

News / Carbon & Climate

24 hours for more sustainable todays and tomorrows

...the 1.5 degree Celsius limit for global warming set in the Paris Agreement on climate change. They will build on work that the IPCC began at the same location in 1997 when global leaders, seized by th...

3 May 2019

24 hours for more sustainable todays and tomorrows

News / Carbon & Climate

Southeast Asia will be hardest hit by melting ice; governments urged to speed up change

...the ice sheets lose mass, the water is repelled from the ice sheets and the maximum change in sea level rise from a melting ice sheet is felt in the tropics.” Speaking at the third Partners for the En...

22 Jul 2019

Southeast Asia will be hardest hit by melting ice; governments urged to speed up change

Opinion / Policy & Finance

Deep clean: How ‘blue finance’ can save our oceans

...the scale of finance needed The key challenge to implementing these far-reaching solutions is financing. Large-scale investments are required to support these projects and the private sector is the on...

3 May 2019

Deep clean: How ‘blue finance’ can save our oceans

News / Transport

VW says climate drives its electric spurt

...The company is also creating electric car plants elsewhere, including two in China – one near Shanghai and the other at Foshan in the south of the country. Several other major car manufacturers have a...

10 Dec 2018

VW says climate drives its electric spurt

News / Food & Agriculture

Blinding consumers to the true cost of soy?

...the way they operate, the premiums are too low to create the incentive to change.” Therefore, the effect of certification is to simply shift sourcing to farmers who can provide deforestation-free soy ...

12 Oct 2018

Blinding consumers to the true cost of soy?

canada trash protests outside embassy in the philippines

News / Waste

The Philippines is not a garbage dump for rich nations, environmentalists warn

...the return of the trash, even threatening last month to dump some of the garbage at the Canadian embassy in Manila. Duterte gave the Canadian government until 15 May to take back the trash, but when i...

29 May 2019

The Philippines is not a garbage dump for rich nations, environmentalists warn

Log barge on Musi River, OKI mill. Image: Eco-Business

News / None

Have APP and APRIL both broken their no-deforestation promises?

...The consultancy added that it advised APP to publicly share the news at the stakeholder workshop. Following the incident, APP has "made stronger commitments" to strengthen the process for evaluating n...

17 Aug 2018

Have APP and APRIL both broken their no-deforestation promises?

Children plant mangrove saplings in the Philippines

Opinion / Carbon & Climate

Climate change and the Philippine seas: Unlocking blue carbon solutions for a cooler planet

...the world are threatened by anthropogenic activities, with over 800,000ha destroyed per year. When these ecosystems are destroyed, they release enormous amounts of CO2 in the atmosphere, further contr...

3 Apr 2018

Climate change and the Philippine seas: Unlocking blue carbon solutions for a cooler planet

News / Transport

Faster, cheaper, greener: Pakistanis turn to car-pooling service

...ther Pakistani cities - by decreasing the number of vehicles on the road, he said. "Our overall vision is to utilise the extra capacity of vehicles, either passenger or goods vehicles, plying the road...

1 Apr 2019

Faster, cheaper, greener: Pakistanis turn to car-pooling service

News / Carbon & Climate

Stories from six Bangladeshi women on the front lines of climate change

...the women we interviewed talked of the independence that their homes and lands provided for them,” Johnson said. “They worked their own land and grew their own food. When they were dispossessed by flo...

9 Mar 2018

Stories from six Bangladeshi women on the front lines of climate change

News / Food & Agriculture

Slow temperature rise deadlier than extreme events in Pakistan

...ther will adversely affect livings tandards. Hotspots are the result of two interrelated factors: (a) the magnitude of predicted changes in average weather at the local level; and (b) the relationship...

30 Apr 2019

Slow temperature rise deadlier than extreme events in Pakistan

Sun seekers bask in the afternoon glow on a man-made beach in Brisbane

Opinion / Lifestyle

Businesses think they're on top of carbon risk, but tourism destinations have barely a clue

...the-ground environmental impact, but that’s not where its greatest threats come from. The indicators suggest that the destinations at most risk are islands, and those “off the beaten track”—the kind o...

11 Jan 2019

Businesses think they're on top of carbon risk, but tourism destinations have barely a clue

News / Cities

Everything we've heard about global urbanisation turns out to be wrong

...when they exceed a population threshold of 2,500. For Egypt, the number is 100,000, according to Dijkstra. "The numbers released by the UN are accurate in that they report what the countries tell them...

17 Jul 2018

Everything we've heard about global urbanisation turns out to be wrong

News / Corporate Responsibility

Facing down witch doctors and Mother Nature to restore Asia's forests

...ther sites were picked because there were community members that could convince the rest of the tribe that us coming in and wanting to pay them to plant trees isn’t a sign from the devil and they’re n...

15 Aug 2018

Facing down witch doctors and Mother Nature to restore Asia's forests

Opinion / Manufacturing

Three ways making a smartphone can harm the environment

...the seabed for the tin-rich sand has destroyed the precious coral ecosystem while the decline of the fishing industry has led to economic and social problems. The most polluted place on the planet? Wh...

29 Aug 2018

Three ways making a smartphone can harm the environment

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