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Global challenge offers more than S$1M of funding and resources to tackle the triple threat facing Asian cities of the future

...carbon emissions in cities located in the world’s tropical belt was launched in Singapore today. The best proposals stand a chance of securing the grand prize of up to S$1 million in funding, as...

14 Jan 2020

Global challenge offers more than S$1M of funding and resources to tackle the triple threat facing Asian cities of the future

Opinion / Carbon & Climate

Amidst despair, enlightenment and hope for the climate in the United States

...carbon emissions and called for putting a price on those emissions to encourage the industry to adopt low-carbon technologies for the majority of the world’s infrastructure, which is yet to be built. ...

11 Nov 2019

Amidst despair, enlightenment and hope for the climate in the United States

News / Lifestyle

Mental health in the sustainability sector: Could eco-anxiety be causing climate inaction?

A growing number of people are becoming overwhelmed by the fear of irreversible environmental damage and ecological disaster. Those in the global south on the frontline of some of the most erratic wea...

11 Jun 2021

Mental health in the sustainability sector: Could eco-anxiety be causing climate inaction?

Opinion / Carbon & Climate

Saved by the pandemic?

...carbons, on an even larger scale than electric power in order to decarbonise shipping, aviation, and industrial processes such as steelmaking. Next-generation nuclear technologies such as advanced mod...

14 Jul 2020

Saved by the pandemic?

News / Energy

China must ‘leap over Oil Age’ to meet climate challenge

The major emitters of greenhouse gases are critical to getting the world on track to manage global warming. In 2014, China announced its carbon emissions would peak around 2030. Despite rising slightl...

13 Feb 2020

China must ‘leap over Oil Age’ to meet climate challenge

News / Carbon & Climate

Climate summit aims to jump-start adaptation and resilience

By 2024, half of all climate finance from donors and multilateral development banks should be allocated to adaptation and resilience, according to UN Secretary-General António Guterres, speaking at th...

1 Feb 2021

Climate summit aims to jump-start adaptation and resilience

News / Policy & Finance

Climate legal cases in Asia have risen by 185% since 2018

...carbon polluters could be held liable for their role in climate-related events in the country and their early knowledge of those impacts. “ The rise in climate litigation in Asia shows that there is ...

1 Mar 2021

Climate legal cases in Asia have risen by 185% since 2018

Opinion / Carbon & Climate

Our profession is letting down humanity, says climate scientist

...carbon dioxide in the atmosphere would warm the planet as early as 1896. The 1979 Charney report raised concerns about an impending climate crisis long before we could directly evidence it. In respons...

22 Oct 2019

Our profession is letting down humanity, says climate scientist

Opinion / Cities

Alignment with the UN Sustainable Development Goals isn’t action. How can businesses execute their strategies?

...carbon from the housing lifecycle by 2050. This meant a shift away from standard approaches to building houses to an almost exclusive focus on “green homes”. “We wanted to be preventative, not just re...

20 Aug 2020

Alignment with the UN Sustainable Development Goals isn’t action. How can businesses execute their strategies?

Mangroves in Kubu Raya, West Kalimantan, Indonesia

Opinion / Carbon & Climate

Why has there been so little funding on natural climate solutions?

...carbon on their own. And if they are protected, restored, and managed sustainably, they can provide one-third of the emissions reductions needed to meet the Paris climate agreement’s goal for 2030. In...

6 Dec 2019

Why has there been so little funding on natural climate solutions?

News / Corporate Responsibility

Shiseido appoints Jiayun Fang as Asia Pacific sustainability manager

...carbon neutrality by 2026, use only sustainably sourced palm oil by 2026, use only sustainable (recycled, non-wood or certified) paper by 2023, and reduce waste from its factories to landfill to zero ...

3 Jun 2020

Shiseido appoints Jiayun Fang as Asia Pacific sustainability manager

News / Cities

As lockdown eases, Manila’s dirty air is back. It doesn’t have to stay

...carbon-neutral transport options should take center stage, and micro-mobility options, like walking and cycling, should be encouraged, the report says. It adds these efforts should be combined with ti...

22 Jun 2020

As lockdown eases, Manila’s dirty air is back. It doesn’t have to stay

Opinion / Policy & Finance

Climate leadership from developing countries

...carbon dioxide emissions while maintaining wood production. Together with The Nature Conservancy, the Central African Forest Initiative (CAFI), and the Forest Carbon Partnership Facility, the governme...

21 Oct 2019

Climate leadership from developing countries

News / Carbon & Climate

Faster global warming may bring much more heat

...carbon dioxide levels rose at least 1000 parts per million (ppm) and perhaps substantially higher. For most of human history, carbon dioxide levels stood at around 285ppm. They have now passed 400ppm....

20 Sep 2019

Faster global warming may bring much more heat

News / Transport

Can electric cars produce as much emissions as fossil-fueled vehicles?

...carbon emissions by as much as 1.5 gigatons, the amount of CO2 emissions the entire country of Russia is responsible for, every year. Electric heat pumps could reduce global CO2 emissions by 0.8 gigat...

26 Mar 2020

Can electric cars produce as much emissions as fossil-fueled vehicles?

News / Carbon & Climate

With rising energy demand for minerals, forests face greater threats

...carbon power generation in the form of solar panels and wind turbines, will require an extensive amount of minerals. An average 3-megawatt wind turbine powering around 1,500 households needs 4 to 7 to...

13 Nov 2020

With rising energy demand for minerals, forests face greater threats

News / Green Buildings

Is industry fragmentation blocking the path to net-zero energy buildings?

...carbon by virtue of the energy grid, said Burrows. “So, the important thing is reducing consumption and upscaling infrastructure and renewable energy to help decarbonise the grid,” she said. The net-...

16 Sep 2019

Is industry fragmentation blocking the path to net-zero energy buildings?

News / Energy

Can batteries help to limit bushfire horrors?

...carbon in the transport sector; almost 60 per cent of new cars sold in Norway during March 2019 were entirely electric-powered. A recent World Economic Forum (WEF) report expects global battery demand...

10 Jan 2020

Can batteries help to limit bushfire horrors?

News / Cities

Using big data to measure environmental inclusivity in cities

The trouble with comparing cities, researchers have found, is you end up comparing apples and oranges—coasts and interiors, seasonal freezes and yearlong tropical humidity, strictly planned communitie...

26 Feb 2021

Using big data to measure environmental inclusivity in cities

News / Policy & Finance

Hopes for EU–China climate deal centre on a green recovery

...carbon-intensity target (a limit on carbon emissions per unit of GDP). It could even introduce an absolute cap on emissions, though that’s seen as less likely, or set a goal of reaching carbon neutral...

19 Jun 2020

Hopes for EU–China climate deal centre on a green recovery

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