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From Ladakh to Everest, risk of floods from glacial lakes grows

Glacial lakes in the Himalayas are becoming increasingly unstable and at risk of flooding, a trend evident in regions as far apart and different as the Everest area and Ladakh’s arid upland deserts, t...

9 Apr 2021

From Ladakh to Everest, risk of floods from glacial lakes grows

News / Energy

Indian solar ferry flies flag for cleaner, cheaper water transport

...carbon emissions characteristic of diesel engines. Burning fossil fuels for power, transport and industry is the main source of the emissions that are heating up the Earth's climate and fuelling high ...

14 Aug 2020

Indian solar ferry flies flag for cleaner, cheaper water transport

Instant noodles on sale at a supermarket in Shanghai, China

News / Food & Agriculture

Sustainable palm oil seeks breakthrough in China

...carbon. When these forests are cleared, the peat dries out and carbon is released. For years, the peatlands of Indonesia have been releasing as much carbon per year as the entire state of California –...

8 Jul 2020

Sustainable palm oil seeks breakthrough in China

Opinion / Policy & Finance

No time to spare for the Paris Climate promise

...carbon price, and investment in renewable energies – have been fitful, inconsistent, and uncoordinated. But the climate crisis, like Covid-19, observes no borders and is indifferent to national sovere...

14 Jan 2021

No time to spare for the Paris Climate promise

Opinion / Carbon & Climate

Three things to know for designing Indonesia's next steps on climate change

...carbon-intensive than manufacturing. Bengkulu and Riau have the most carbon-intensive economies amongst Indonesia's 34 provinces. Both are driven by high-carbon activities, especially exploitation in ...

31 Oct 2019

Three things to know for designing Indonesia's next steps on climate change

News / Carbon & Climate

Paris climate goals may be beyond reach

...carbon dioxide (CO2) − and it’s not good news. Teams in six countries, using new climate models, say the warming potential of CO2 has been underestimated for years. The new models will be used in revi...

24 Jan 2020

Paris climate goals may be beyond reach

News / Carbon & Climate

Economic development racking up unpayable debt to nature, researchers warn

...carbon dioxide from the atmosphere and help address climate change. Decision-makers are also increasingly concerned, putting "biodiversity loss" as one of the top five risks the world faces, according...

30 Apr 2020

Economic development racking up unpayable debt to nature, researchers warn

Opinion / Policy & Finance

Towards a global biodiversity accord

...carbon tax, without which we will be effectively promoting a market failure. Currently, we not only subsidise fossil fuels; we also fail to provide ample compensation for the carbon sequestration prov...

19 Nov 2019

Towards a global biodiversity accord

News / Carbon & Climate

‘What happens in the Arctic, doesn’t stay in the Arctic’—why the north pole matters to Asia

...carbon-neutral electricity. While the proportion is still “not enough”, starting a conversation about carbon offsets was even tougher three years ago, he said. Under iSwitch’s carbon-neutral electrici...

9 Oct 2019

‘What happens in the Arctic, doesn’t stay in the Arctic’—why the north pole matters to Asia

News / Policy & Finance

Philippine bank RCBC to stop funding coal

The Philippines' eighth-largest commercial bank, Rizal Commercial Banking Corp (RCBC), will cease financing new coal-fired power stations, its president and chief executive announced on Thursday (10 D...

11 Dec 2020

Philippine bank RCBC to stop funding coal

trash collected during the East Coast beach clean up

Opinion / Waste

Five facts about unsustainable waste management in Singapore

...carbon emissions and air pollution, and could potentially pose a health hazard, although experts from the NEA claims that Singapore’s waste-to-energy technology is environmentally and health-friendly....

11 Jan 2021

Five facts about unsustainable waste management in Singapore

Empowering women and girls is crucial to ensure sustainable food security in the aftermath of COVID-19, say UN food agency heads ahead of International Women's Day

News / Food & Agriculture

Empowering women is crucial to ensure food security in the aftermath of Covid-19, says UN

Hunger and famine will persist and there will be unequal recovery from the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic unless more women in rural and urban areas hold leadership positions with increased decision...

9 Mar 2021

Empowering women is crucial to ensure food security in the aftermath of Covid-19, says UN

Press Releases / The Climate Disclosure Standards Board

78% of Europe’s largest companies falling short of adequately reporting environmental and climate-related risks despite EU guidelines

...carbon investment needed to reach net-zero emissions by 2050. As little as one third of companies adequately addressed the environmental and climate-related risks and opportunities faced by their bus...

19 May 2020

78% of Europe’s largest companies falling short of adequately reporting environmental and climate-related risks despite EU guidelines

News / Energy

Can Chinese aid steer Asia toward clean energy?

...carbon policy framework.The 2C Asia initiative is similar to the East Asia Low-Carbon Community proposal put forward in 2016 by another Chinese think-tank, the National Centre for Climate Change Strat...

2 Dec 2019

Can Chinese aid steer Asia toward clean energy?

News / Carbon & Climate

New forests mean permanently lower river flows

New forests are an apparently promising way to tackle global heating: the trees absorb carbon dioxide, the main greenhouse gas from human activities. But there’s a snag, because permanently lower rive...

20 Jan 2020

New forests mean permanently lower river flows

News / Transport

The road to green freight in Southeast Asia

...Carbon Neutral service, where it purchases carbon credits from verified and high-quality projects to offset a shipment’s carbon dioxide emissions. It also works with customers on specific projects. In...

22 Oct 2019

The road to green freight in Southeast Asia

News / Policy & Finance

Global finance must 'align' in climate change fight, says UK minister

...carbon economy," Sharma told a briefing at the United Nations on Friday. "From solar panels to electric vehicles to tree planting, it is often finance that turns good intentions into actions." Sharma ...

9 Mar 2020

Global finance must 'align' in climate change fight, says UK minister

News / Carbon & Climate

Has Covid-19 helped ease air pollution?

...carbon footprint is going to go down by probably 75 per cent this year. Hopefully, we can translate these experiments into more durable changes in how we do things, once (hopefully) the epidemic is un...

23 Mar 2020

Has Covid-19 helped ease air pollution?

Opinion / Food & Agriculture

Indonesia’s new rice cultivation plan will undermine peatland restoration efforts

...carbon-rich peatlands in Indonesia are still degraded due to recurrent fires in 2015 and 2019 that accounted for an estimated USD $20 billion of human and environmental damage. Peatland restoration is...

5 Jun 2020

Indonesia’s new rice cultivation plan will undermine peatland restoration efforts

A solar installation in Singapore by LYS Energy Group. Image: LYS Energy

News / Energy

Fear? Cost? Fame? What’s turning on Asian businesses to renewable energy?

...carbon emissions. It also offers electric vehicle (EV) firms fully decarbonised solutions and is working on a solar-storage solution it hopes to deploy across Southeast Asia. But selling solar isn't a...

24 Feb 2020

Fear? Cost? Fame? What’s turning on Asian businesses to renewable energy?

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