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News / Food & Agriculture

Forest fires threaten Asian Games as hotspots are seen in Sumatra

...the hottest weather in August and September.” Palembang has so far remained free of haze, but the threat is ever-present, as the dry season intensifies through September. The prospect of a repeat of t...

13 Aug 2018

Forest fires threaten Asian Games as hotspots are seen in Sumatra

News / Carbon & Climate

"We are ready": Fijian villagers prepare for climate disasters

...the wife of the village's chief, believes the training from Fiji's Red Cross helped band the community together and was what saved them last year when Cyclone Winston, the most powerful storm to make ...

22 Dec 2017

"We are ready": Fijian villagers prepare for climate disasters

News / Carbon & Climate

Deforestation leads to big hikes in local temperature, says new study

...the most deforested places in North America, Europe and Asia. Forests do things that both increase and decrease the temperature of the air around them. First, they’re dark, and dark things absorb more...

8 May 2018

Deforestation leads to big hikes in local temperature, says new study

News / Policy & Finance

Global science body promises to reach poor regions

...thers at the meeting worried about how it will be perceived outside of its own academic circles. “From the outside, no one knows who they are,” one delegate from the University of Cambridge, in the UK...

12 Jul 2018

Global science body promises to reach poor regions

News / Food & Agriculture

Nestlé suspended by RSPO for failing to pay dues, submit progress reports

...the opportunity for further “engagement” with a company. Robin Averbeck, agribusiness campaign director at the Rainforest Action Network, said Nestle’s suspension was “far from the most critical tests...

12 Jul 2018

Nestlé suspended by RSPO for failing to pay dues, submit progress reports

Opinion / Carbon & Climate

What’s causing so many changes to India’s monsoons?

...the length of the “active periods” when it does rain, while lengthening the break periods. They also indicate that climate change is decreasing the extremes in the active periods while increasing the...

4 Sep 2017

What’s causing so many changes to India’s monsoons?

News / Carbon & Climate

East Antarctica ice sheet may spell trouble

...they do. The ice shelves are the key. “They hold back the flow of Antarctic ice toward the ocean, so we don’t want to lose them. The problem is, they don’t last very long when they are sitting in warm...

19 Dec 2017

East Antarctica ice sheet may spell trouble

Opinion / Cities

Building and living differently in cities

...the barrage of news about climate-related natural disasters and climate change summits, it's important to recognize real inflection points—when there is truly cause to sit up and take note. The IPCC S...

1 Nov 2018

Building and living differently in cities

News / Waste

Plastic bans—the least effective way to solve Southeast Asia's plastic pollution problem, food industry study finds

...the Philippines, the report recommends building more MRFs to have the most impact in solving the archipelago's plastics problem. The report noted a 22 per cent decrease in plastic waste if the governm...

5 Oct 2018

Plastic bans—the least effective way to solve Southeast Asia's plastic pollution problem, food industry study finds

News / Cities

World’s great cities hold key to fossil fuel cuts

...the UK would look like one city; Manhattan and Brooklyn, in the US, or Tokyo and Yokohama in Japan, would fade into each other. The researchers then matched all the information they could find about e...

7 Jun 2018

World’s great cities hold key to fossil fuel cuts

News / Cities

UN urban chief on mission to reform and make cities better for women

...the school, the park, the road but you need to create "inclusive communities" involving the public, public sector and private companies. "When you ask people what they want, you can make good decision...

4 May 2018

UN urban chief on mission to reform and make cities better for women

News / Manufacturing

H&M and Gap to probe violence and sex abuse in Asian factories

...they reported the attacks. The coalition has investigated the factories for several years as efforts mount to push Western brands into improving safety along their supply chains and render them slave-...

6 Jun 2018

H&M and Gap to probe violence and sex abuse in Asian factories

Firefighters battle the blaze in Sweden in the summer of 2018

Opinion / Carbon & Climate

The climate crisis is here - and time to act is running out

...the goals of the Paris Agreement. We must therefore demand that governments not only complete the rulebook for the Paris Agreement by the end of this year, but also increase climate action on the grou...

5 Sep 2018

The climate crisis is here - and time to act is running out

Opinion / Policy & Finance

Rising dragon: China's carbon market exposes Australia's energy paralysis

...the Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme, which then failed in the Senate. Instead, Australia became the first country in the world to dismantle a national carbon price, when Tony Abbott axed Gillard Lab...

19 Oct 2017

Rising dragon: China's carbon market exposes Australia's energy paralysis

News / Carbon & Climate

Six ways to stay cool without air conditioning

...they are coping. -- Spread the word: The Red Cross is active in getting the message out to the public about how to stay safe in hot weather across Europe - whether by making home visits, handing out l...

25 Sep 2017

Six ways to stay cool without air conditioning

Videos / Carbon & Climate

This engineer is using old cell phones to stop illegal logging

...the interior, cutting wide dirt roads into the forest in order to extract the logs by truck,” said White. “These roads then open the otherwise impassible woods to further, even more destructive exploi...

27 Jul 2017

This engineer is using old cell phones to stop illegal logging

News / Carbon & Climate

7 insane ideas to stop climate change

...the sun. Critics say that investing in such technology is treating the symptom rather than the cause of climate change, and offers no incentives to alter the production patterns of the economy. But w...

18 Dec 2018

7 insane ideas to stop climate change

Opinion / Policy & Finance

For sustainable development, put foreign direct investments on the G20 agenda

...the G20 is the most sensible place to start. At the very least, the G20 can offer the appropriate level of guidance to help advance FDI policy. The G20’s members already account for two-thirds of glob...

6 Aug 2018

For sustainable development, put foreign direct investments on the G20 agenda

News / Green Buildings

Green bonds and green buildings—the perfect match?

...ther An, told the audience that the company saves S$1.2 million (US$877,282) annually from reduced water and energy consumption from the retrocommissioning. Its green bond raised funds to refinance t...

2 Oct 2018

Green bonds and green buildings—the perfect match?

News / Cities

Urban greening is good for the environment. Let's make sure it's good for local residents, too

...the High Line, the Atlanta BeltLine, the 606 in Chicago, and many other projects have all documented economic improvement in the surrounding area. However, there’s another side to the story. You’d be ...

14 Dec 2017

Urban greening is good for the environment. Let's make sure it's good for local residents, too

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