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In Hong Kong, too much water — and too little — leads to creative solutions

...the other hand, Hong Kong is one of the wettest cities in Asia. The city regularly sees tropical storms drop heavy rains. The runoff rushes down from the mountains into the city’s dense urban core, ca...

10 Oct 2017

In Hong Kong, too much water — and too little — leads to creative solutions

News / Carbon & Climate

Trump border wall puts wildlife at risk, say experts

...the U.S.-Mexico border in 1994, doing research in the expansive grasslands of the Janos Valley in the Mexican state of Chihuahua. Back then, the international boundary was pretty porous there, marked ...

13 Feb 2018

Trump border wall puts wildlife at risk, say experts

Opinion / Green Buildings

Green buildings, Singapore’s natural ally in climate change fight

...these against the long-term savings they can reap. More importantly, the best returns on these investments are realised when environmental considerations are integrated into the process at the start, ...

7 Nov 2017

Green buildings, Singapore’s natural ally in climate change fight

News / Food & Agriculture

Can technology keep farmers in farms?

...the sector will still employ 21 per cent of the workforce in Bangladesh, 43 per cent in the Laos, and 28 per cent in Myanmar, even at the current rate the youth are leaving the industry. The 368-page...

9 May 2018

Can technology keep farmers in farms?

Adapting migratory pastoralists to climate change in Rajasthan, India

News / Carbon & Climate

More variable climate means a less just world

...the poorest are the most vulnerable. The thermometer will swing most wildly where the gross domestic product is lowest. That is: the people who emitted the lowest levels of greenhouse gases because th...

9 May 2018

More variable climate means a less just world

Subrata Barman (far left) of International Finance Corporation fields a heated question from the audience about the criteria for awarding loans at Unlocking Solar Capital Asia. Image: Eco-Business

News / Policy & Finance

Frustration at 'opaque' development banks boils over at solar energy event

...they cared. But they got so bogged down by fancy conferences, endless meetings and crappy coffee that they forgot about the urgency." "There are 1.2 billion people in the world without electricity. T...

9 Oct 2017

Frustration at 'opaque' development banks boils over at solar energy event

Opinion / Waste

We can’t recycle our way to ‘zero waste’

...the other hand, if we could reduce the amount of material that needs to be recycled, or better yet, the amount that needs to be produced in the first place, these costs would disappear altogether. Bet...

6 Jun 2017

We can’t recycle our way to ‘zero waste’

Opinion / Transport

EV or not, Malaysia does not need another national car project

...the end of the decade, which was first introduced in the early 1990s. But it’s now 2018 and time to look at development through a more sustainable lens. The rejection of the idea by the people of Mala...

30 Aug 2018

EV or not, Malaysia does not need another national car project

News / Energy

India hastens hydropower projects in Jammu and Kashmir

...their concerns regarding the “deeply flawed” EIA report for the Sawalkote project. One of the major concerns expressed by the environmentalists was regarding the run-of-the-river status of the Sawalko...

26 Jul 2017

India hastens hydropower projects in Jammu and Kashmir

Opinion / Carbon & Climate

Trump's suggestion to renegotiate Paris is a red herring

...they would not renegotiate the Agreement. At both the G7 and the G20, the remaining members of each group made clear in the summit communiques that they view the Paris Agreement as irreversible. It's ...

7 Aug 2017

Trump's suggestion to renegotiate Paris is a red herring

News / Carbon & Climate

Study counts lives saved with push for 1.50C climate target

...their own fate when it comes to air pollution,” says Shindell. “They'd have to make big changes to get off fossil fuels but they'd reap enormous benefits locally via air quality if they did so.” “ Th...

5 Apr 2018

Study counts lives saved with push for 1.50C climate target

Opinion / Corporate Responsibility

Could the crypto-rich be the next wave of billionaire philanthropists?

...their companies in South Sudan, the Gambia, and Tanzania on the best ways to give back to the communities where their businesses operated. These investors—nearly all of whom had profited handsomely fr...

7 May 2018

Could the crypto-rich be the next wave of billionaire philanthropists?

News / Food & Agriculture

How the rise of gourmet chocolate can lift the fortunes of small farmers

...the cocoa. The farmers said they’d give it a try if UC would come to them to buy rather than asking them to haul their product to market. Fifty-two families joined the program, and their plots were so...

4 Jan 2018

How the rise of gourmet chocolate can lift the fortunes of small farmers

Opinion / Carbon & Climate

Tech accelerators help nonprofits fast-track technology aimed at solving environmental challenges

...these generally drive innovation says Winston. “The large companies are good for taking the technologies and spreading them wide, but there’s at least a couple of stages in the early funding and culli...

5 Apr 2019

Tech accelerators help nonprofits fast-track technology aimed at solving environmental challenges

A blue recycling bin in the district of Tiong Bahru, Singapore. The city-state's recycling rate has been stagnant since 2012. Image: Eco-Business

News / Waste

Campaign asks Singaporeans to limit plastic bag habit to two a day

...they were not fully aware which types of plastic are recyclable, 41 per cent cited inconvenience as the reason they don't recycle, and 21 per cent said they did not know the location of the nearest re...

1 Aug 2018

Campaign asks Singaporeans to limit plastic bag habit to two a day

News / Energy

Look to the sky for SE Asia's energy future, says Thai solar pioneer

...the country and too risky, they said. Back then in her early 50s, they also told her she was too old. "The more people say, 'You should not try it, you should not take a risk,' the more I want to do i...

11 Jul 2017

Look to the sky for SE Asia's energy future, says Thai solar pioneer

Opinion / Policy & Finance

Why the 'invisible hand' of the market can’t cool the planet

...The Wealth of Nations, “It is not from the benevolence of the butcher, the brewer, or the baker that we expect our dinner, but from their regard to their own interest.” In other words, the best way to...

19 Apr 2018

Why the 'invisible hand' of the market can’t cool the planet

Opinion / Water

Why smart policies are key to solving the world’s clean water problems

...ther incidents, in cities ranging from Sydney in Australia to Hong Kong, have made people increasingly sceptical of the quality of water they get at home. To be on the safe side, consumers all over th...

31 Jul 2018

Why smart policies are key to solving the world’s clean water problems

News / Carbon & Climate

What's behind this summer's extreme weather?

...the weather. Dr Marie Ekström, research fellow in climate change impacts at Cardiff University, attributes the changes in Europe’s weather to a weakened jet stream, which influences the weather on th...

31 Jul 2018

What's behind this summer's extreme weather?

News / Food & Agriculture

Tailor climate insurance to needs of poorest - experts

...the U.N. agency said. But, as yet, there have been very few studies on the impact of insurance on small-scale farmers and their families - those most vulnerable to wild weather and with the fewest res...

4 May 2018

Tailor climate insurance to needs of poorest - experts

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