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Industry pushback a major factor behind Japan’s decarbonisation delays

...carbonisation commitments, efforts at carbon taxes, renewable energy promotion measures, energy efficiency standards, and the nation’s Strategic Energy Plan. “ Japan's policymaking process needs to r...

17 Aug 2020

Industry pushback a major factor behind Japan’s decarbonisation delays

logs cut from the Bom Retiro deforestation area

News / Policy & Finance

To stem nature loss, start by ending harmful subsidies, economists say

Raising huge new sums of "nature" finance to better protect the planet's ailing biodiversity will have no significant impact unless the underlying economic rules now driving environmental losses are s...

9 Jun 2021

To stem nature loss, start by ending harmful subsidies, economists say

News / Carbon & Climate

Antarctic melting could bring a much hotter future

...carbon levels in fossil plants to establish that present day carbon levels are higher currently than at any time in the last 23 million years. This means that – unless there are drastic steps to conta...

25 Jun 2020

Antarctic melting could bring a much hotter future

News / Carbon & Climate

Global restoration has a new online meeting point

With all of the environmental problems in the world, it can be easy to forget that there are also many solutions. Across the globe, people are working to restore nature, and good ideas abound. Organis...

27 Jul 2021

Global restoration has a new online meeting point

News / Water

Ecosystem sentinels sound alarm for the oceans

For a tern in the northern hemisphere, life may be about to take a turn for the worse. For murres or guillemots, as the temperature rises, the chance of survival takes a dive. Many of the world’s seab...

8 Jun 2021

Ecosystem sentinels sound alarm for the oceans

News / Carbon & Climate

Ancient coal fires led to prehistoric extinctions

...carbon dioxide ratios in the atmosphere soared, and tropical ocean temperature reached fever pitch at 40°C. “ Our study shows that the Siberian Traps magmas combusted large quantities of coal and org...

2 Jul 2020

Ancient coal fires led to prehistoric extinctions

News / Corporate Responsibility

Southeast Asia PR industry launches working group to curb greenwashing

An industry body for the public relations industry in Southeast Asia has launched a working group to address greenwashing in corporate communications. The Singapore-based Public Relations & Commun...

24 Jun 2021

Southeast Asia PR industry launches working group to curb greenwashing

News / Carbon & Climate

Shrinking world leaves less room for wild creatures

...carbon emissions, the worse it gets for most species in terms of habitat loss.” Researchers have calculated that perhaps a million species could be threatened with extinction as a consequence of the h...

19 Nov 2020

Shrinking world leaves less room for wild creatures

Press Releases / PUB

Top international honours for Singapore’s National Water Agency PUB at Global Water Awards

...carbon The amount of clean energy generated will be sufficient to power PUB’s local water treatment plants, offsetting 7 per cent of PUB’s annual energy needs. Commenced first-phase const...

4 Jun 2021

Top international honours for Singapore’s National Water Agency PUB at Global Water Awards

News / Carbon & Climate

Frustration as Antarctic conservation summit fails to approve marine sanctuaries

The Commission for the Conservation of Antarctic Marine Living Resources (CCAMLR), a governing body of 25 member states and the European Union, missed an opportunity to establish a network of three ma...

10 Nov 2020

Frustration as Antarctic conservation summit fails to approve marine sanctuaries

Lu Xin Yi, green finance lead, The Carbon Trust Southeast Asia

News / Policy & Finance

The Carbon Trust hires Lau Xin Yi as first green finance lead for Southeast Asia

...carbonise their portfolios, assess the impacts of their investments and set science-based targets. The Carbon Trust was set up by the British government in 2001 to accelerate the UK’s move to a low ca...

10 Apr 2020

The Carbon Trust hires Lau Xin Yi as first green finance lead for Southeast Asia

metro station with solar panels installed in New Delhi, India

News / Energy

Solar is now ‘cheapest electricity in history’, confirms IEA

...carbon neutrality” by 2060. [Forthcoming analysis for Carbon Brief will explore the implications of this goal.] Carbon Brief analysis of the last four WEOs shows that these developments – along with t...

19 Oct 2020

Solar is now ‘cheapest electricity in history’, confirms IEA

News / Food & Agriculture

In Indian mining hub, farmers bring polluted land back to life

For years, Indian farmer Chape Hanumaiya struggled to grow anything on his tiny plot of land—it was caked in the thick, red dust drifting from the iron ore mines that surrounded it. But today, Hanumai...

22 Sep 2021

In Indian mining hub, farmers bring polluted land back to life

News / Energy

Boost to clean energy investment could drive 10 million new green jobs

...carbonising, Lord said. "If you have a situation where lower-income countries feel like bigger countries are pulling their weight... then I think you can start to see that kind of positive cycle being...

8 Jul 2021

Boost to clean energy investment could drive 10 million new green jobs

A sugarcane farmer in Talisay, Western Visayas in the Philippines.

News / Food & Agriculture

As climate heat worsens, a hungrier world is likely

Researchers have once again warned that climate change is likely to mean a hungrier world with less food on the table: by 2050, global crop yield could have fallen by 10 per cent. And by the century’s...

21 Jun 2021

As climate heat worsens, a hungrier world is likely

News / Policy & Finance

Reformed trade rules can help to save the climate

...carbon emissions come from fossil fuels and industry. Yet governments continue to subsidise coal, oil and gas, pouring US$500 billion (£367bn) of public money into their production and consumption eve...

22 Jan 2021

Reformed trade rules can help to save the climate

Clearing forrests for the Lumbung Coal Mine, Central Kalimantan, Indonesia.

News / Carbon & Climate

Mining linked again to another severe flood in Indonesian Borneo

Massive deforestation for coal mines may have exacerbated floods that recently inundated the eastern part of Indonesian Borneo, the country’s coal heartland. Fourteen villages in Berau district, East ...

4 Jun 2021

Mining linked again to another severe flood in Indonesian Borneo

Opinion / Policy & Finance

Greening ODA: 50% of development aid should support environment and climate action

“People living in the world's poorest nations do not concern themselves with the environment, or the latest figures on carbon emissions; rather, they wake up each day wondering if they will be able to...

2 Mar 2021

Greening ODA: 50% of development aid should support environment and climate action

News / Carbon & Climate

What will 2021 bring in the world of conservation?

...carbon dioxide from the atmosphere and potentially harmful nutrients running off land and boosts the food supply for other living things in the area. But as the trend continues, it also is likely to a...

7 Dec 2020

What will 2021 bring in the world of conservation?

Opinion / Policy & Finance

Getting to low-carbon high seas

...carbon dioxide that each type of ship may emit per ton of cargo per mile traveled. With these caps in place, shipowners will then decide for themselves how to meet the decarbonisation targets. With a ...

22 Oct 2020

Getting to low-carbon high seas

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