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...carbon-rich peatlands. Peatland fires are by far Indonesia's biggest source of carbon emissions—even outstripping energy in a country that sources two-thirds of its power from coal. The carbon emissi...

29 Jun 2020

Jiehui Kia has moved on from Forum for the Future after seven years with the sustainability non-profit. Kia joined Forum as the first local hire for its then-new Singapore office in 2013 as a future...

9 Nov 2020

School of tropical fish in Sipadan, Borneo, Malaysia

...Carbon Brief: “One of the critical things that this and other large-scale studies on climate change-related biodiversity impacts show is the positive effect of reducing carbon emissions on future biod...

9 Apr 2020

Jeanne Stampe in an interview with The Nation newspaper in 2019.

After 9 years working with World Wide Fund for Nature's sustainable finance team, latterly as Asia head based in Singapore, Jeanne Stampe has left the conservation group for a job in academe in London...

11 May 2020

...carbon and environmental footprint of many investments, especially infrastructure projects, will be locked in for the next few decades, it is important they are designed to be low-carbon from the star...

29 Jun 2020

CapitaLand launches 2030 Sustainability Master Plan to elevate its commitment to global sustainability

...carbon emissions intensity by 78 per cent[2] CapitaLand has set ambitious carbon reduction targets which include a 78 per cent[1]reduction in carbon emissions intensity by 2030. The new target is mor...

2 Oct 2020

...carbon economy. As such, there’s been little funding for research, and few real-world trials. Harrison’s project – focused on curbing a national ecological disaster – is a notable exception. “It’s ess...

14 Sep 2020

Young people have more faith in algorithms than politicians

More than 2 million young people participated in the Davos Lab Dialogues to share their views on what will become the next normal for society, government and business Overall, they hold more faith ...

12 Aug 2021

When park ranger Allan Daganta travels to work from his home in a village just outside Palawan’s Puerto Princesa Subterranean River National Park (PPSRNP), he’s usually welcomed by a cool forest breez...

26 Jan 2022

palm oil plantation in Batanghari, Jambi province, Sumatra island, Indonesia

...carbon back into the air when they rot or are burned. "The palm oil moratorium was introduced in response to the catastrophic forest fires that occurred in Indonesia's forests and peatlands in 2015," ...

12 Aug 2021

...carbon and hydrogen atoms) emits light when an electric current is applied. OSCs work in essentially the opposite way — the layer of organic molecules generates an electric current when exposed to lig...

26 Mar 2021

Ricoh Eco Action Day Virtual Dialogue Session 2020 brings together government and industry to achieve affordable and clean energy for all

...Carbon Trust, Danfoss and SP Group shared their viewpoints on the opportunities and challenges in corporate decarbonisation, strategies to shrink companies’ carbon footprint, and regulations tha...

19 Jun 2020

Biodiversity loss is one of the greatest existential crises of our time. Current estimates suggest that we are losing more than ten thousand species to extinction per year — a thousand times faster th...

11 Aug 2021

A great white shark off the coast of Sydney, filmed by Jason Iggleden's drone. Image: Drone Shark App

There are few animals that incite fear in people as much as sharks. But a unique service has emerged in Australia that is trying to dispel, or at least lessen, the natural human fear of a predator th...

6 Sep 2021

...carbon price. The logic of his approach, and of the standard carbon-pricing model generally, appears impeccable: quantify the anticipated damages from climate change and then compare those to the cost...

2 Mar 2020

...carbon markets and nature-based projects could help companies meet their net-zero emissions goals, the report said. Governments and corporates alike are increasingly recognising the risks posed by the...

14 Jun 2021

The world’s great ecosystems − moderators of climate, nurseries for evolution − are still being destroyed in the service of global trade, to meet the rich world’s demands. Once again, researchers have...

12 Apr 2021

student activism divestment at tufts university

As we begin to engage with the climate emergency and the impact of carbon dioxide emissions, calls have grown to stop investing in companies engaged in fossil fuel production—a practice known as dives...

7 Jul 2020

The Philippines' newly elected president Ferdinand "Bongbong" Marcos, Jr. has publicly expressed his intention to pursue the mammoth Panay-Guimaras-Negros (PGN) bridges infrastructure project once he ...

17 May 2022

village council member poses for a picture near mine

When N H Malliswamy first heard about a fund to improve the lives of people affected by mining, he wondered why his village in an iron-ore extraction hub in Karnataka had never benefited. For the past...

30 Sep 2021

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