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Opinion / Energy

It’s clean, powerful and available: Are you ready for hydrogen energy?

...The past 10 years have seen the rise (and dramatic cost reduction) of renewable energy such as wind and solar, to the extent that they are no longer considered alternative energy. They have become mai...

14 May 2019

It’s clean, powerful and available: Are you ready for hydrogen energy?

Opinion / Food & Agriculture

A most unlikely hope: How the companies that destroyed the world’s forests can save them

...the process of growing soy makes them feel like they’re on the cutting edge of society. Cargill, Bunge, and their ilk boast about efficiency — but all ignore the barbarity at the root of the entire pr...

2 Jul 2018

A most unlikely hope: How the companies that destroyed the world’s forests can save them

Press Releases / Ricoh Asia Pacific Pte Ltd

Ricoh marks finale of 13th annual Eco Action Day campaign

...themed around caring for the planet. WED has grown to become one of the main vehicles through which the United Nations (UN) encourages positive action for the environment. Through WED, the UN Environ...

24 Jul 2019

Ricoh marks finale of 13th annual Eco Action Day campaign

News / Policy & Finance

Criminalisation and violence used to silence indigenous protest — UN report

...the Seko indigenous peoples of Indonesia rejected a plan to build a hydropower plant on their traditional lands in the province of South Sulawesi, the company behind the plant and the local government...

12 Sep 2018

Criminalisation and violence used to silence indigenous protest — UN report

Opinion / Policy & Finance

The right investments to address the human capital crisis

...they have a chance to fulfil their potential. The children of today deserve this future. The employers of tomorrow will demand it. The leaders of the world owe it to them to act now. Kristalina Georg...

24 Jan 2019

The right investments to address the human capital crisis

News / Food & Agriculture

Biofuel land grab will slash nature’s space

...the biofuel land grab needed could require at least 10 per cent more land than the world uses now to grow green crops, conservationists say. But that’s the good news. They believe the total increase i...

21 Nov 2018

Biofuel land grab will slash nature’s space

News / Policy & Finance

India’s air pollution plan is a disappointment

...the northern parts of the country, there is now a situation in which residents talk about the terrible air pollution, then jump into their diesel SUVs and drive off to buy air purifiers for their home...

11 May 2018

India’s air pollution plan is a disappointment

Opinion / Policy & Finance

Is environment the missing link in humanitarian work?

...The Wretched of the Earth, the photographer highlights the tragic bond between the plight of refugees and the environmental crisis in Cox’s Bazar. Cecconi depicts the refugees’ perilous living conditi...

22 Jul 2019

Is environment the missing link in humanitarian work?

Opinion / Policy & Finance

Limiting women in the workplace is costing us trillions

...ther talent fields and fuels gender bias in the very tools built by the industry. Addressing all of these disparities should be at the top of the agenda at Davos. Here’s what leaders can do: Invest...

22 Jan 2019

Limiting women in the workplace is costing us trillions

News / Food & Agriculture

Indonesia to probe death of journalist being held for defaming palm oil company

...the autopsy report, saying she would have to request it from the police. “They said the family of the victim didn’t have the right [to the report], only the police had the right,” Arvaidah said. She s...

22 Jun 2018

Indonesia to probe death of journalist being held for defaming palm oil company

News / Energy

Can Brazil follow China's lead on energy efficiency?

...the energy intensity of the economy has remained conspicuously unchanged since 1990, when the country used less than four terajoules of energy per US$1 million of GDP. The research group Climate Trans...

22 Jun 2018

Can Brazil follow China's lead on energy efficiency?

News / Carbon & Climate

As wild weather worsens, Philippines migration takes on a female face

...the money, and I could easily find a job in the city," she said. Six months later, she returned home "when the situation improved". In the past two decades, the Philippines has emerged as one of the w...

4 Apr 2018

As wild weather worsens, Philippines migration takes on a female face

Opinion / Policy & Finance

Metros push up land values—so why not create a triple win?

...The answer is they benefit from participation in LVC because they gain more in value added to their property from improved accessibility than the contribution asked of them. Despite the potential for ...

10 May 2019

Metros push up land values—so why not create a triple win?

Opinion / Waste

Enough trash talk, Singapore. It's time to stop passing the buck on plastics

...the plastics they introduce into the market. In countries such as Japan, for instance, there are laws in place to ensure that businesses do their part to recycle. Separating plastic waste at the point...

23 Apr 2018

Enough trash talk, Singapore. It's time to stop passing the buck on plastics

News / Corporate Responsibility

Goldman Sachs pays for working mothers to ship breast milk home

...the initiative—which will see the global firm pick up the bill for breastfeeding employees to chill and ship their milk when travelling for work—will make "the balancing act a little easier" for mothe...

22 Aug 2018

Goldman Sachs pays for working mothers to ship breast milk home

News / Policy & Finance

Murky climate deal lets down poor countries

...the agreed financing framework, developed countries have to report on what they do, but what they report is their choice. "I am also disappointed by the exclusion of any capacity improvement plan,” Gu...

20 Dec 2018

Murky climate deal lets down poor countries

News / Transport

How climate change is altering air travel

...the day or lengthening runways.” Daytime heat is why long-distance flights out of the Middle East already regularly take off in the cool of the night. But the same will soon apply in the US and southe...

20 Feb 2018

How climate change is altering air travel

News / Waste

Everyday plastics emit greenhouse gases

...the potent greenhouse gas methane as well as ethylene as they age, adding to the global tally of planet-warming emissions. The study, published in the journal PLOS ONE, said plastics were "likely to b...

2 Aug 2018

Everyday plastics emit greenhouse gases

Opinion / Policy & Finance

What impact investors can learn from activists

...when it’s hard, if we want to look our grandchildren in the eye and tell them we did our best to save the earth and humanity. These are just a few drops of wisdom from the deep well of knowledge activ...

22 Mar 2018

What impact investors can learn from activists

Opinion / Food & Agriculture

Palm oil—can we enjoy it responsibly?

...the enormous climate impact? What about the forest burning that shrouds large parts of Southeast Asia in a lethal haze? What about the indigenous people forced from their homes and the wildlife lost? ...

17 Feb 2019

Palm oil—can we enjoy it responsibly?

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