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Clarisse Kehler Siebert, Nexus for Development

News / Carbon & Climate

Nexus for Development appoints Clarisse Kehler Siebert as executive director

...carbon tax and trading scheme. Siebert will be partly working remotely as a result of the coronavirus pandemic. Nexus has partially re-opened its office in Phnom Penh, but is limiting the number of pe...

13 May 2020

Nexus for Development appoints Clarisse Kehler Siebert as executive director

Opinion / Water

Envisioning a blue recovery

...carbon dioxide emissions and captures more than 90 per cent of the additional heat they generate. The ocean economy is worth over $2.5 trillion annually. “ To ensure that the ocean can fulfill its ro...

9 Jun 2020

Envisioning a blue recovery

News / Cities

Pollution pushes indigenous people to brink of extinction in India

"The days are not far when we will be confined to the pages of history if the wanton destruction of nature continues in the name of livelihood,” says Reshma Toto. The 22-year-old is a resident of Toto...

28 May 2021

Pollution pushes indigenous people to brink of extinction in India

Plastic trash in a beach in Yemen, Middle East

News / Waste

Waste plastic cascade could triple in 20 years

Without immediate, sustained and concerted action worldwide, the flow of waste plastic into the world’s oceans could triple by 2040. Right now, 11 million tonnes of throwaway bags, cups, bottles, cabl...

5 Aug 2020

Waste plastic cascade could triple in 20 years

Opinion / Corporate Responsibility

What does 'business with purpose' actually mean?

...carbon emitter in the world). They were pilloried for their “green-washing” hypocrisy. And so it is never too soon to warn then against the dangers of “purpose-washing”. My message to business leaders...

29 Jan 2020

What does 'business with purpose' actually mean?

News / Carbon & Climate

Is 2019 the year flying became uncool?

...carbon footprint of their travel is offsetting. Passengers can choose to pay extra that will go towards a project reducing carbon emissions by around the same amount as that generated by their flight....

28 Aug 2019

Is 2019 the year flying became uncool?

News / Carbon & Climate

Fire-scorched Australia’s hottest and driest year on record leaves government unmoved

...carbon emissions, arguing that climate change and the fires are not directly linked. In its Annual Climate Statement 2019 released yesterday, the Australian Bureau of Meteorology shows the nation’s me...

12 Jan 2020

Fire-scorched Australia’s hottest and driest year on record leaves government unmoved

News / Carbon & Climate

Twin 'crises' of climate and Covid hammering millions, Red Cross says

Weather disasters and the Covid-19 pandemic have simultaneously hit tens of millions of people worldwide this year, making them more vulnerable to both threats and hampering emergency response, the Re...

24 Sep 2020

Twin 'crises' of climate and Covid hammering millions, Red Cross says

Opinion / Corporate Responsibility

Asking journalists to see the story before it's published is not fair process

If there is one thing that annoys journalists writing about sustainability issues more than anything right now — besides the usual gripes of gloomy news, the ever-shortening news cycle and shoddy PR p...

21 Jan 2021

Asking journalists to see the story before it's published is not fair process

Opinion / Food & Agriculture

Restoring soil can help address climate change

...carbon from the sky. Rethinking humanity’s relationship to the soil can help on both scores. Soils under stress Healthy, fertile soils are rich in organic matter built of carbon that living plants pul...

14 Aug 2019

Restoring soil can help address climate change

News / Cities

India's tree planting, conservation push sparks land conflicts

...carbon emissions and meet pledges made under the Paris climate accord. Many of India's tree planting programmes are in areas where indigenous communities have traditional land rights, according to a r...

2 Mar 2020

India's tree planting, conservation push sparks land conflicts

News / Carbon & Climate

As Australia’s logging ‘madness’ fuels more fires, will it hasten ecosystem collapse?

...carbon and support tourism, according to David Lindenmayer, professor at the Fenner School of Environment and Society, Australian National University. “All of those uses are actually completely incomp...

14 May 2020

As Australia’s logging ‘madness’ fuels more fires, will it hasten ecosystem collapse?

Opinion / Water

From coal to renewables in China: solving the water stress-power plant mismatch

On the road from coal to renewable energy, China has a complex challenge to face: it must satisfy rising energy demand while reducing carbon emissions and sustainably managing water use without hobbli...

10 Feb 2020

From coal to renewables in China: solving the water stress-power plant mismatch

Children gather by the seawall as strong waves brought by Typhoon Kammuri

News / Policy & Finance

The scramble by poorer nations for unmet climate finance

Sourcing the finance for climate adaption and mitigation efforts will be one of the biggest challenges faced by disaster-prone countries in forging a new agreement at key United Nations climate talks ...

22 Sep 2021

The scramble by poorer nations for unmet climate finance

News / Energy

Carbon capture struggles to accelerate in race to avert climate crash

...carbon capture projects in a bid to spur technology officials see as key to meeting the new climate goal. Around the world, such projects would either put captured carbon dioxide into long-term storag...

16 Sep 2019

Carbon capture struggles to accelerate in race to avert climate crash

Workers on an RSPO-certified plantation in Jambi, Indonesia.

News / Policy & Finance

Certification fails to transform the palm oil industry–what next?

...carbon stock approach. There are different values in different standards.” Currently, Palm Done Right works with 200 independent organic growers in Ecuador, who in total grow oil palm on about 10,000 ...

25 Feb 2021

Certification fails to transform the palm oil industry–what next?

Press Releases / The Economist Intelligence Unit

The Asian economy will be 2.6% smaller by 2050 due to lack of climate resilience

...carbon emissions and adapting to the climate impacts. The Climate Change Resilience Index The Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU)'s climate change modelling framework combines elements of th...

20 Nov 2019

The Asian economy will be 2.6% smaller by 2050 due to lack of climate resilience

China involved in coal projects in BRI countries

News / Policy & Finance

China’s Belt and Road Initiative could lead to 3°C global warming, report warns

...carbonise development projects, a near-3 degree increase in global temperature could result (click to enlarge). Image: Decarbonising the Belt and Road The Decarbonising the Belt and Road: A Green Fin...

2 Sep 2019

China’s Belt and Road Initiative could lead to 3°C global warming, report warns

Beverley Postma takes over from Darrel Webber as chief executive of the Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil.

News / Food & Agriculture

RSPO appoints Food Industry Asia founder Beverley Postma as new CEO

The Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil (RSPO), a not-for-profit sustainable certification standard for the palm oil trade, has appointed Beverley Postma as chief executive officer-designate. Postma wi...

3 Apr 2020

RSPO appoints Food Industry Asia founder Beverley Postma as new CEO

Opinion / Energy

Why don’t CPEC projects factor in the climate crisis?

...carbon concentrations in excess of 400 parts per million. The last time there was so much carbon in the earth’s atmosphere was over 2.5 million years ago. The climate crisis is so bad that global biod...

6 Jan 2020

Why don’t CPEC projects factor in the climate crisis?

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